Yoast SEO 20.3 is out and comes with several enhancements, fixes, and improvements. With an improved highlighting feature and enhanced support for the Portuguese language, Yoast SEO 20.3 helps you find where you need to make SEO edits quickly and easily. Upgrade now and take your website's SEO to the next level! Find out more about what's new in Yoast SEO 20.3 in our release post!
Enhancements
- Allows the highlighting feature to highlight content in captions of Audio, Embed, Gallery, Image, Table, and Video blocks in the Block editor.
- Allows the highlighting feature to highlight content in FAQ and How-to blocks in the Block editor.
- Improves the detection of participles in the passive voice assessment for Portuguese.
- Improves the transition words assessment for Portuguese by adding new transition words. Props to mathiasribeiro.
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where a fatal error would appear in oEmbed pages for media pages when those were disabled from Yoast settings.
- Fixes a bug where editing text in Classic editor while the highlighting feature is enabled would make the text unfocused and the cursor jump to the beginning of the text.
- Fixes a bug where self-closing break tags (
</br>) would not be removed when analyzing content. - Fixes a bug where shortcodes in the Block editor would be treated as words when analyzing content.
- Fixes a bug where the color and line height in the Google preview modal would be shown incorrectly when editing in Elementor.
- Fixes a bug where the
fetchpriorityattribute of the rating stars image was mistyped. Props to fellyph. - Fixes a bug where the
get_headREST endpoint would return wrong values for some meta tags when called with the homepage URL as an argument. - Fixes a bug where the query parameters would be added in the middle of canonical and previous and next links in paginated pages. Props to andreas-pa.
Other
- Avoids issuing a PHP warning because of a wrong variable type.
- Removes the beta badge for the inclusive language assessment.