Description
The Yoast News SEO plugin is an essential extension of the Yoast SEO plugin, specifically designed to optimize websites for Google News. Seamlessly integrating with Yoast SEO, it offers key features to boost a site’s visibility in Google News and universal search results. The plugin excels in creating XML News Sitemaps, generating editors’ picks RSS feeds, and supporting the standout tag.
Key Features:
- Seamless Integration: Works with Yoast SEO for easy optimization.
- XML News Sitemaps: Creates sitemaps to enhance visibility.
- Editors’ Picks RSS Feeds: Generates RSS feeds for curated content promotion.
- Standout Tag Support: Highlights important news articles.
- Advanced Sitemap Options: Optimizes XML News sitemaps with features like stock tickers.
- Improved Search Appearance: Focuses on better visibility in Google News and universal search results.
- Site Structure and Content Optimization: Empowers users to refine their site for maximum visibility.
- Frequent and Effective Google News Appearance: Ensures the site appears frequently and effectively in Google News.
- Enhanced Universal Search Results: Improves chances of favorable appearance in search results.
Plugin Details:
- Name: Yoast News SEO
- Type: WordPress Plugin
- Version: 13.2
- File Name: wpseo-news
- File Type: Zip (Installable Archive)
- File Host: Mediafire.com | Mirror
- Updated On: 4 months ago
What’s New (Changelog) in Yoast News SEO v13.2
Yoast News SEO 13.2 – March 5, 2024
Enhancements
- Adds a wpseo_news_sitemap_content filter to append custom content to the XML sitemap. Props to @wccoder.
- This PR introduces a new way of retrieving translations for Yoast News SEO, by utilizing the TranslationPress service. Instead of having to ship all translations with every release, we can now load the translations on a per-install basis, tailored to the user’s setup. This means smaller plugin releases and less bloat on the user’s server.
Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug where a warning would be thrown on activation.
- Fixes a bug where using the & character in the publication name would break the XML sitemap.
Other
- Drops compatibility with PHP 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1.
- Improves discoverability of security policy.
- Sets the minimum required Yoast SEO version to 22.2.
- Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.3.
- Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.4.
- The plugin has no known incompatibilities with PHP 8.3.
- Users requiring this package via [WP]Packagist can now use the composer/installers v2.
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