Software releases and updates archives

Elementor recently introduced a new way to build pages, called the atomic editor. If you’d switched to it, you may have noticed something annoying: Yoast SEO couldn’t see your content. Your text length, keyphrase checks, and readability results came back empty, even on a page full of content. We’ve fixed that. Yoast SEO now reads …

With our latest 27.8 release, we introduced performance optimizations that should reduce loading times throughout the plugin’s functionalities, especially noticeable in large sites with lots of posts and users. Note: This post contains technical content and implementation details. Offering well-tuned software with minimal overhead in servers and fast loading times is always at the forefront …

Yoast AI Brand Insights, part of the Yoast SEO AI+ plan now lets you scan how your brand appears in answers generated by Claude. You can see your Claude data alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, all in one dashboard.  Why Claude is worth paying attention to Think about how your own customers are making decisions …

Yoast SEO Premium 27.6.1 is out now. This release contains a security fix affecting the Redirect Manager in Yoast SEO Premium. The good news: the vast majority of users are not impacted. If you’re a customer of Yoast SEO Premium, Yoast WooCommerce SEO, or Yoast SEO AI+, please read on.  Are you affected?  The vast majority of customers are not impacted. Your site is only potentially …

If you’ve ever opened a new post and immediately closed it again because you had no idea what to write, this one’s for you.  Yoast AI Content Planner is now available for Yoast SEO Premium users. Open a new post in your WordPress editor and you’ll find five relevant post ideas waiting for you, built from your existing site content. Pick one and …

From today, your AI tools, dashboards, and automated workflows can now talk directly to Yoast SEO, thanks to a new connector to the WordPress Abilities API, built to work hand in hand with WordPress 6.9. As WordPress evolves, we evolve with it, and the release of the Yoast SEO Abilities is an extension of these new capabilities.  …

We launched the Yoast SEO Task List in December to give you a clear, actionable to-do list for your site’s SEO. In this update, we’ve added two new tasks, improved how you navigate to fixes, and resolved a bug that was showing tasks in the wrong language.  A quick recap: what does the Task List do?  The …

Eligible Yoast customers can now run a free Yoast AI Brand Insights scan and get a personalized report showing how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini see your brand. Your brand is part of the AI conversation whether you’re monitoring it or not. Yoast AI Brand Insights, part of the Yoast SEO AI+ plan gives you visibility into what AI tools say about you, how often you appear, and whether the …

You’ve worked hard to build your product catalog. The last thing you want is AI tools like ChatGPT or Google Gemini describing your products inaccurately to potential customers.  AI tools don’t browse your whole store the way a search engine does. They grab what they can find, quickly, and fill in the gaps. For a store with a large catalog, …

Version 4.6 of Yoast Duplicate Post is here, and it’s all about making your editing experience feel more natural in WordPress’s Block Editor, and making sure “Rewrite & Republish” works reliably every time you need it. A more modern editing experience Everything where you’d expect it. The Duplicate Post controls now sit in the Block …