Yoast News SEO for Yoast SEO

Requires at least: 6.0 Tested up to: 6.1 Stable tag: 13.1 Requires PHP: 5.6.20 Depends: Yoast SEO

Yoast News SEO module for the Yoast SEO plugin.

This repository uses the Yoast grunt tasks plugin.

Installation

1. Go to Plugins -> Add New.
2. Click "Upload" right underneath "Install Plugins".
3. Upload the zip file that this readme was contained in.
4. Activate the plugin.
5. Go to SEO -> Extensions -> Licenses, enter your license key and Save.
6. Your license key will be validated.
7. You can now use Yoast News SEO. See also https://kb.yoast.com/kb/configuration-guide-for-news-seo/

Frequently Asked Questions

You can find the Yoast News SEO FAQ in our knowledge base.

Changelog

13.1

Release date: 2021-11-16

Enhancements

• Huge performance improvement: moves the XML News sitemap to be based on our Indexables architecture.
• Removes images from the XML News sitemap as they serve no purpose here and this further improves performance.

Other

• Excludes attachments and non-indexed post types from the possible post types to include in the News Sitemap.

13.0

Release date: 2021-10-19

Enhancements

• Adds Schema Article News subtypes: ReviewNewsArticle, AnalysisNewsArticle, AskPublicNewsArticle, BackgroundNewsArticle, OpinionNewsArticle, and ReportageNewsArticle.

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on yoast.com.