As we don’t want to drown these release notes in the bigger security news, we’ve made it into a separate post. WordPress SEO 2.1 (both free and premium have the same version number now) contains a series of bugfixes but also some enhancements I’d like to highlight in this post.
These changes come on top of the (arguably bigger) changes I mentioned in my post last Friday, be sure to read that if you haven’t yet.
WordPress 4.2 ready
This release makes sure that WordPress SEO behaves well with WordPress 4.2, of which the release is imminent. Most importantly it makes sure the taxonomy metadata is carried over well.
Twitter cards enabled by default
Recently, Twitter removed the need to validate your site before Twitter cards worked. This made it possible for us to enable Twitter cards by default, which we’ve done in this release. Now, if you’re installing WordPress SEO on a new site, you’ll get Twitter Cards as soon as you’ve activated the plugin.
We’ve also removed the use of the twitter:url meta tag, as Twitter no longer uses it and uses the canonical instead.
Update the Facebook API to its latest version
Changes like these are the kind of under the hood changes that nobody notices but are important nonetheless: Facebook has updated its API to a new version and is deprecating the old one. This leads to us being required to update the code in our plugin. You’ll notice some minor interface changes, but most of the stuff is under the hood.
Plugin conflict notices
Some plugins don’t really work together. For instance if two plugins add Facebook OpenGraph code to a page, Facebooks output becomes uncontrollable. For this reason we’re showing conflict notices when you install a plugin that does something our plugin does too. You can ignore them if you want to, but it should help prevent the “huh why isn’t this working” type issues.
Validation messages everywhere!
If you’re using a featured image for your social meta data, and that image is too small to work with Facebook, we’ll now show you an error. Also, if you’re editing title and description templates on the SEO → Titles & Metas page and you use a variable that isn’t available for that template, we’ll give you a helpful warning.
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72 Responses to WordPress SEO 2.1: release notes
JAYAQ • 9 years ago
For meta description template, should be filled with what variables?
William Charles • 9 years ago
Breadcrumbs not working:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare yoast_breadcrumb() (previously declared in /home/doctorof/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/inc/wpseo-functions.php:43) in /home/doctorof/public_html/wp-content/plugins/breadcrumbs/yoast-breadcrumbs.php on line 311
Couldn’t see anything about breadcrumbs in the SEO dashboard – do I need to update the previous code or something?
Geoff Morris • 9 years ago
Since the upgrade I’ve noticed that Facebook doesn’t take the facebook description I add to a blog post and simply posts the title and graphic.
Very interesting for WordPress SEO 2.1, with SEO features it will be easier to optimize the website, but I still have not tried, whether the many changes that arise or not so,.
Kevin • 9 years ago
YOAST on the Bridge theme. I added SEO into bottom of page and it wipes out the page settings for Bridge. Wipes out the slider shortcode, wipes out the ‘hide title’ config and wipes out the sidebar selection. Reverts it to 1/4 sidebar.
Ryan Walker • 9 years ago
We have the same issue.
Nick Clack • 9 years ago
Hi Joost,
Any timetable on a fix for Yoast with Bridge theme and WP Bakery as it seems I am not the only one struggling with this and my Yoast plug in is still currently disabled.
Thanks
Nick
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Hi Nick,
did you or anyone else file a bug on our GitHub repo? I don’t think I’ve seen this issue mentioned anywhere that we look.
We have also had issues since 2.1. When text is in any of the three fields within the Yoast SEO settings of an individual page, WP Bakery Visual Composer won’t stay in Front End mode and Bridge Title Bar won’t stay off. Yoast SEO works on some pages, doesn’t work on others. While we don’t have page transitions enabled it seems the pages with the issues have js animations within them.
Book of Love • 9 years ago
I’m having the same issue on my Bridge theme. Would love to be able to use both the SEO Plugin as well as the ajax/page transitions feature in Bridge. Thanks in advance!
Kick Start • 9 years ago
When we updated Yoast on Sat 25 April 2015, the plugin completely disappeared along with all the data we entered. I read online that you just need to re-install it and everything comes back, but when we tried we got this message: Destination folder already exists.
/websites/123reg/LinuxPackage22/ki/ck/st/kickstartenterprise.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/
It’s mixing up 2 hosts: our old 123reg host followed by the directory with our new host starting public_html.
Sorry if this enquiry is hard to follow, but we’re pretty new to WordPress. Any advice on what we can do?
Yours, Kick Start Enterprise
dony @france-voyage • 9 years ago
Yoast seo is indexing the subpages of Archives.
Even if i check the option : “Noindex subpages of Archives”
I don’t have a problem before I update.
I think it’s a bug in the 2.1.1 release.
Thanks
Kathryn Aragon • 9 years ago
I updated the plugin today, and since then, a post freezes if I try to add a link from the text editor. I can do it as html, but not the wysiwyg side. Also, the SEO character count wasn’t working, and the title didn’t show in the Google preview.
??? ????? • 9 years ago
really i use Yoast SEOs is very nice
thank you dear
Christian • 9 years ago
I’m currently trying to use the Yoast SEOs sitemap feature to include my nextgen gallery pictures. However the plugin only seems to add 2 images per posts page. I have Nextgen setup to show 35 thumbnails per page. Is there any way to fix this and include all the pictures? Im on the latest WordPress, 2.1.1. WordPress SEO and 2.0.79 on nextgen galleries. I’ve been searching through the internet but only older articles show up which didnt help.
Eme • 9 years ago
Hi there! Same problem with the 2.1.1 version: my website doesn’t load with your plugin activated. When I deactivate your plugin, my site works perfectly. I haven’t update the plugin in other website and it works too. Any help? Is there any updating coming soon?
On the other hand, same problem with the sitemap. In WebMasterTools, appears “Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.”
Thank you so much!
Lisette • 9 years ago
I have WP ver 4.2 and after installing WP SEO plugin ver 2.1.1, the pages appear to “lose” their data (content disappears / white page). Disabling the plugin fixes the issue. Should I wait for another update or is there another way around this?
Thanks for a great plugin – who can be without it :)
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Are you running an old version of one of our premium plugins?
Lisette • 9 years ago
Hi.
Thanks for the quick response.
The plugin has been installed from the WordPress directory – not a premium version.
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
I’m asking whether you’re running one of our premium plugins on the side of it, or other plugins? We’d need a debug message to be able to see what’s going wrong.
Lisette • 9 years ago
I will check this and get back to you. Thanks
Lisette • 9 years ago
There is no other copy on the site, which has been built recently.
The theme used has a built-in SEO feature, but we don’t use it. Yoast SEO has worked successfully on other sites using the same theme – until this morning after I performed WordPress and SEO updates.
Alex • 9 years ago
After updating to version 2.1.1 my sitemaps are now showing errors in GWT.
Errors Received:
1. Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.
2. We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit. Error 404
Alex Tudor • 9 years ago
I installed the new version, and all work fine for me.
thanks for your work here ;)
Boris Mahovac RGD • 9 years ago
I started having issues in the back end of my WP site with your plugin ver. 2.01.
The issue was with the post editor, if I wanted to edit any existing posts, when I open the post in the editor I couldn’t see any windows other than the content window. Even there I couldn’t switch between the visual and HTML editor.
If I want to start a new post, everything in the editor window looks fine, WP SEO is visible, etc. As soon as I save the draft, and the editor realoads all the windows/boxes are gone.
Updating to WP SEO 2.1.1. didn’t help.
Disabling WP SEO makes the back end work fine again. Luckily the front end seems to operate fine with your plugin activated.
Here’s a screen shot of how my post editor looks like with WP SEO disabled
We are on a WordPress platform and when I tried to include the familiar elements of keyword, SEO title and meta description, I don’t see the usual fields. Have they been replaced and where can I get instructions about filling those out? Thanks
Michelle Moore • 9 years ago
I have multiplule sites on Azure Server with clear database. Those with auto update the plugin has just removed itself. I had one site that was not on auto update for plugins, wp had already updated. When I updated the plugin files removed themselves from wp-content/plugins. It seems that the data is still in the database as I did have a client re install plugin without issue.
Jaasiel Cruz • 9 years ago
Ok, i don’t know if anyone else is having this issue, but 2.1.1 update messed up my social sharing, i only get garble text when i try to share anything! That was the only plugin update i made to my site today and i’m stuck now.
Jonathan Hirshon • 9 years ago
I’m having the same problem – ever since the update, I get garbled CSS text underneath the photos in blog post shared to Facebook. They are not visible on the blog, which is http://www.thefooddictator.com but they are definitely there on Facebook.
Hope this gets fixed soon and many thanks for a great plugin!
Jonathan • 9 years ago
Joost nice work man. Always impressed how you continue to stay ahead of the curve. Implementation of Knowledge Graph is simple and easy. (as it should be) Lets hope Google cooperates with it now. Keep up the good work and Long Live The Internet.
Dylan • 9 years ago
WooCommerce is broken when Yoast plugins are enabled. If I disable WordPress SEO it all works, but obviously the important metas go with it.
With WP SEO enabled, I can’t edit product variations, also descriptions and variations from other products are being pulled into the description area.
Getting this in log:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method WPSEO_OpenGraph::image_output() in /wp-content/plugins/wpseo-woocommerce/wpseo-woocommerce.php on line 630
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Upgrading to 2.1.1 will fix that.
Jaime • 9 years ago
Hey guys I’m getting this on most of my posts:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method WPSEO_OpenGraph::image_output() in /www/palebluedot.tv/www.palebluedot.tv/www_root/wp-content/plugins/wpseo-video/video-seo.php on line 2444
Raj • 9 years ago
Hey ,
thanx for the update ……
PS Website Design • 9 years ago
This new update will certainly make a big difference particularly with regards to Twitter cards now being enabled by default. I also think the error message which shows if the image is too small for Facebook is really valuable.
Great tool thanks for all your hard work Joost! We love this plugin!
John • 9 years ago
As much as I appreciate WordPress SEO, I’d like to please request that it not insist on throwing up the “new features” splash screen after every update. I manage over 90 WP sites, most of which use WP SEO. I manage many of them remotely and when WP SEO updates, the next time I log into the admin dashboard of a site, I’m greeted with the WP SEO “Hey look what’s new!” screen instead of the site dashboard. If I am logged in to a site and update WP SEO from the dashboard, after the update completes and I try to navigate somewhere else in the dashboard, it goes to the WP SEO splash screen and I have to navigate away from that to get to where I wanted to go in the first place. Please stop it. I understand it’s just one extra click, but it’s really annoying to click on a link and be taken to somewhere else. Thanks for listening.
Brian Jackson • 9 years ago
Biggest fan of Yoast SEO plugin but I do have to agree with John’s comment above! Thanks guys, keep up the great work.
Once again, your quality control absolutely sucks.
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
That’s absolute nonsense. Don’t comment about stuff you have absolutely no idea about Ted. Our vendor folder contains the auto loader used to load our PHP Classes. It’s a core part of the plugin.
Babak • 9 years ago
Thanks for update for this nice plugin :X
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
To all: we’ve pushed WordPress SEO 2.1.1, which fixes the issues some of you were having.
Wolfgang • 9 years ago
I still have to disable your plugin with 2.1.1. Otherwise my website doesnt load
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Hey Wolfgang,
ouch. sad to hear that. Do you get an error you can give me?
Wolfgang • 9 years ago
no i dont get an error code. my frontpage starts like every start, but if I click a link in the menu the site will not load anymore. only the sticky header and footer menu remains.
the site only works when I insert the url by hand.
Wolfgang • 9 years ago
still nothing new? It also doesnt work with WP 4.2…
So I have to change the seo plugin
Wolfgang • 9 years ago
No, i dont use any premium plugins of you. And I tried it as I said with your version 2.1.1 with wordpress 4.1.x and 4.2
If I downgrade to 2.0.x it works fine as it should
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Did you update to the latest version? Are you running any of our premium plugins or any other plugins on the side that interact with ours?
Nick Clack • 9 years ago
New update stopped all our pages working, love, love, loved this plug in before. Has this update got some issues, if so will there be a fix for the issues as it seems others have too. I really want to continue using and was very much thinking of upgrading, but this mornings update kinda freaked me, until I disabled and site working fine.
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Fix coming in a few minutes. It’s an integration issue between our WP SEO plugin and some of our paid addons.
Nick Clack • 9 years ago
Sorry Joost, I applied the update but still getting a white page load with a spinning loader we have preceding the page load.
It loads and load and loads……
I have added nothing else since or before SEO update so I can only think to disable your great plug in until I find an update which works.
Thanks for reaching out previously, much appreciated
Nick
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Hey Nick,
can you enable debug mode and see if you see any specific errors?
Nick Clack • 9 years ago
Hi Joost,
I have not debugged, I really don’t know how to enable that. All I know, everything is working sweet as a nut, until I enable your plug in and the page hangs forever not loading.
I simply cannot continue with it, which is a real pain as I loved it, we set up all our 300 pages with it, it is a crying shame we have to bail on it ;-(
Thanks
Nick
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Well, debugging might take you less time than switching over. Email our support department and we’ll be glad to help.
Richard Hilton • 9 years ago
There are errors.
Warning: the variable %%category_description%% cannot be used in this template
Warning: the variable %%tag%% cannot be used in this template.
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Yeah those are intentional: you’re using variables that wouldn’t result in something meaningful in that template.
Neil Gee • 9 years ago
Why wouldn’t they result in something meaningful in that template – as long as the category or tag description is filled out, then it will use that description, which would be meaningful, wouldn’t it.
Rich Senior • 9 years ago
Nice update thank you! What is the recommended size for the Company Logo in WordPress SEO: General Settings?
Frank Eskelund • 9 years ago
The same here. The update broke my woocommerce. But if I deactivated yoast woocommrce SEO and not WordPress SEO then it works and vice versa.
It seems like it can’t run both (yoast woocommerce SEO and wordpress SEO).
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
If you update to the latest version of WP SEO (2.1.1) that’s fixed.
Sam Torres • 9 years ago
Thank you for the update, but most importantly thanks you for being so prompt with every WordPress release. I’ve been using your plugin for a while now and all I can say is that it’s definitely the best one out there.
Shajjadul Islam • 9 years ago
Thanks for update. I already change all of my website.
Paul • 9 years ago
Deactivating the plugin allowed site to work.
Paul • 9 years ago
Same as above, Latest update broke woocommerce.
Fatal error: Call to undefined method WPSEO_OpenGraph::image_output() ***************wp-content/plugins/wpseo-woocommerce/wpseo-woocommerce.php on line 630
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Hey Paul,
We’ve fixed the issue, a release is forthcoming. We’re very sorry about this.
Jackson • 9 years ago
Thanks for the updates. After updating, we are getting white screens for all front-end and back-end pages associated with The Events Calendar. When WP SEO is deactivated, the pages are accessible. From the error log:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method WPSEO_OpenGraph::image_output() in /nas/wp/www/cluster-10353/aquaponic/wp-content/plugins/wpseo-woocommerce/wpseo-woocommerce.php on line 612
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Hey Jackson,
We’ve fixed the issue, a release is forthcoming. We’re very sorry about this.
Will • 9 years ago
On one of my clients sites, update gives me white screen of death!
Greg B • 9 years ago
Just an FYI, this new update breaks WooCommerce permalinks for many products. Not sure specifically what the issue is but it began occurring after installing your latest update and WooCommerce 2.3.8. Clicking on certain SKUs results in a blank page – Debug mode points to a PHP error from your plugin. Disabling WP SEO resolves the issue.
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 9 years ago
Hey Greg,
we’ve found and fixed the issue, a release is coming.
Paco • 9 years ago
Thank you for your work, I love this plugin.
The breadcrumbs in the Google SERPs got broken, I hope that with this release this is fixed. I have checked this page in Rich snippets testing tool and it gives 1 error missing url, is this ok? This same page (https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-2-1-release-notes/)
For meta description template, should be filled with what variables?
Breadcrumbs not working:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare yoast_breadcrumb() (previously declared in /home/doctorof/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/inc/wpseo-functions.php:43) in /home/doctorof/public_html/wp-content/plugins/breadcrumbs/yoast-breadcrumbs.php on line 311
Couldn’t see anything about breadcrumbs in the SEO dashboard – do I need to update the previous code or something?
Since the upgrade I’ve noticed that Facebook doesn’t take the facebook description I add to a blog post and simply posts the title and graphic.
Is this a glitch?
It could be… Running it through the Facebook debug tool should fix that.
Very interesting for WordPress SEO 2.1, with SEO features it will be easier to optimize the website, but I still have not tried, whether the many changes that arise or not so,.
YOAST on the Bridge theme. I added SEO into bottom of page and it wipes out the page settings for Bridge. Wipes out the slider shortcode, wipes out the ‘hide title’ config and wipes out the sidebar selection. Reverts it to 1/4 sidebar.
We have the same issue.
Hi Joost,
Any timetable on a fix for Yoast with Bridge theme and WP Bakery as it seems I am not the only one struggling with this and my Yoast plug in is still currently disabled.
Thanks
Nick
Hi Nick,
did you or anyone else file a bug on our GitHub repo? I don’t think I’ve seen this issue mentioned anywhere that we look.
Joost,
Yes one of your guys asked me to add my problems to this post https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/2314 which I did.
We have also had issues since 2.1. When text is in any of the three fields within the Yoast SEO settings of an individual page, WP Bakery Visual Composer won’t stay in Front End mode and Bridge Title Bar won’t stay off. Yoast SEO works on some pages, doesn’t work on others. While we don’t have page transitions enabled it seems the pages with the issues have js animations within them.
I’m having the same issue on my Bridge theme. Would love to be able to use both the SEO Plugin as well as the ajax/page transitions feature in Bridge. Thanks in advance!
When we updated Yoast on Sat 25 April 2015, the plugin completely disappeared along with all the data we entered. I read online that you just need to re-install it and everything comes back, but when we tried we got this message: Destination folder already exists.
/websites/123reg/LinuxPackage22/ki/ck/st/kickstartenterprise.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/
It’s mixing up 2 hosts: our old 123reg host followed by the directory with our new host starting public_html.
Sorry if this enquiry is hard to follow, but we’re pretty new to WordPress. Any advice on what we can do?
Yours, Kick Start Enterprise
Yoast seo is indexing the subpages of Archives.
Even if i check the option : “Noindex subpages of Archives”
I don’t have a problem before I update.
I think it’s a bug in the 2.1.1 release.
Thanks
I updated the plugin today, and since then, a post freezes if I try to add a link from the text editor. I can do it as html, but not the wysiwyg side. Also, the SEO character count wasn’t working, and the title didn’t show in the Google preview.
really i use Yoast SEOs is very nice
thank you dear
I’m currently trying to use the Yoast SEOs sitemap feature to include my nextgen gallery pictures. However the plugin only seems to add 2 images per posts page. I have Nextgen setup to show 35 thumbnails per page. Is there any way to fix this and include all the pictures? Im on the latest WordPress, 2.1.1. WordPress SEO and 2.0.79 on nextgen galleries. I’ve been searching through the internet but only older articles show up which didnt help.
Hi there! Same problem with the 2.1.1 version: my website doesn’t load with your plugin activated. When I deactivate your plugin, my site works perfectly. I haven’t update the plugin in other website and it works too. Any help? Is there any updating coming soon?
On the other hand, same problem with the sitemap. In WebMasterTools, appears “Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.”
Thank you so much!
I have WP ver 4.2 and after installing WP SEO plugin ver 2.1.1, the pages appear to “lose” their data (content disappears / white page). Disabling the plugin fixes the issue. Should I wait for another update or is there another way around this?
Thanks for a great plugin – who can be without it :)
Are you running an old version of one of our premium plugins?
Hi.
Thanks for the quick response.
The plugin has been installed from the WordPress directory – not a premium version.
I’m asking whether you’re running one of our premium plugins on the side of it, or other plugins? We’d need a debug message to be able to see what’s going wrong.
I will check this and get back to you. Thanks
There is no other copy on the site, which has been built recently.
The theme used has a built-in SEO feature, but we don’t use it. Yoast SEO has worked successfully on other sites using the same theme – until this morning after I performed WordPress and SEO updates.
After updating to version 2.1.1 my sitemaps are now showing errors in GWT.
Errors Received:
1. Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.
2. We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit. Error 404
I installed the new version, and all work fine for me.
thanks for your work here ;)
I started having issues in the back end of my WP site with your plugin ver. 2.01.
The issue was with the post editor, if I wanted to edit any existing posts, when I open the post in the editor I couldn’t see any windows other than the content window. Even there I couldn’t switch between the visual and HTML editor.
If I want to start a new post, everything in the editor window looks fine, WP SEO is visible, etc. As soon as I save the draft, and the editor realoads all the windows/boxes are gone.
Updating to WP SEO 2.1.1. didn’t help.
Disabling WP SEO makes the back end work fine again. Luckily the front end seems to operate fine with your plugin activated.
Here’s a screen shot of how my post editor looks like with WP SEO disabled
Here’s how it looks with WP SEO active
We are on a WordPress platform and when I tried to include the familiar elements of keyword, SEO title and meta description, I don’t see the usual fields. Have they been replaced and where can I get instructions about filling those out? Thanks
I have multiplule sites on Azure Server with clear database. Those with auto update the plugin has just removed itself. I had one site that was not on auto update for plugins, wp had already updated. When I updated the plugin files removed themselves from wp-content/plugins. It seems that the data is still in the database as I did have a client re install plugin without issue.
Ok, i don’t know if anyone else is having this issue, but 2.1.1 update messed up my social sharing, i only get garble text when i try to share anything! That was the only plugin update i made to my site today and i’m stuck now.
I’m having the same problem – ever since the update, I get garbled CSS text underneath the photos in blog post shared to Facebook. They are not visible on the blog, which is http://www.thefooddictator.com but they are definitely there on Facebook.
Hope this gets fixed soon and many thanks for a great plugin!
Joost nice work man. Always impressed how you continue to stay ahead of the curve. Implementation of Knowledge Graph is simple and easy. (as it should be) Lets hope Google cooperates with it now. Keep up the good work and Long Live The Internet.
WooCommerce is broken when Yoast plugins are enabled. If I disable WordPress SEO it all works, but obviously the important metas go with it.
With WP SEO enabled, I can’t edit product variations, also descriptions and variations from other products are being pulled into the description area.
Getting this in log:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method WPSEO_OpenGraph::image_output() in /wp-content/plugins/wpseo-woocommerce/wpseo-woocommerce.php on line 630
Upgrading to 2.1.1 will fix that.
Hey guys I’m getting this on most of my posts:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method WPSEO_OpenGraph::image_output() in /www/palebluedot.tv/www.palebluedot.tv/www_root/wp-content/plugins/wpseo-video/video-seo.php on line 2444
Hey ,
thanx for the update ……
This new update will certainly make a big difference particularly with regards to Twitter cards now being enabled by default. I also think the error message which shows if the image is too small for Facebook is really valuable.
Great tool thanks for all your hard work Joost! We love this plugin!
As much as I appreciate WordPress SEO, I’d like to please request that it not insist on throwing up the “new features” splash screen after every update. I manage over 90 WP sites, most of which use WP SEO. I manage many of them remotely and when WP SEO updates, the next time I log into the admin dashboard of a site, I’m greeted with the WP SEO “Hey look what’s new!” screen instead of the site dashboard. If I am logged in to a site and update WP SEO from the dashboard, after the update completes and I try to navigate somewhere else in the dashboard, it goes to the WP SEO splash screen and I have to navigate away from that to get to where I wanted to go in the first place. Please stop it. I understand it’s just one extra click, but it’s really annoying to click on a link and be taken to somewhere else. Thanks for listening.
Biggest fan of Yoast SEO plugin but I do have to agree with John’s comment above! Thanks guys, keep up the great work.
Looks like your latest plugin included spyware/bloatware/hackercode: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-issue-with-latest-wordpress-seo
Once again, your quality control absolutely sucks.
That’s absolute nonsense. Don’t comment about stuff you have absolutely no idea about Ted. Our vendor folder contains the auto loader used to load our PHP Classes. It’s a core part of the plugin.
Thanks for update for this nice plugin :X
To all: we’ve pushed WordPress SEO 2.1.1, which fixes the issues some of you were having.
I still have to disable your plugin with 2.1.1. Otherwise my website doesnt load
Hey Wolfgang,
ouch. sad to hear that. Do you get an error you can give me?
no i dont get an error code. my frontpage starts like every start, but if I click a link in the menu the site will not load anymore. only the sticky header and footer menu remains.
the site only works when I insert the url by hand.
still nothing new? It also doesnt work with WP 4.2…
So I have to change the seo plugin
No, i dont use any premium plugins of you. And I tried it as I said with your version 2.1.1 with wordpress 4.1.x and 4.2
If I downgrade to 2.0.x it works fine as it should
Did you update to the latest version? Are you running any of our premium plugins or any other plugins on the side that interact with ours?
New update stopped all our pages working, love, love, loved this plug in before. Has this update got some issues, if so will there be a fix for the issues as it seems others have too. I really want to continue using and was very much thinking of upgrading, but this mornings update kinda freaked me, until I disabled and site working fine.
Fix coming in a few minutes. It’s an integration issue between our WP SEO plugin and some of our paid addons.
Sorry Joost, I applied the update but still getting a white page load with a spinning loader we have preceding the page load.
It loads and load and loads……
I have added nothing else since or before SEO update so I can only think to disable your great plug in until I find an update which works.
Thanks for reaching out previously, much appreciated
Nick
Hey Nick,
can you enable debug mode and see if you see any specific errors?
Hi Joost,
I have not debugged, I really don’t know how to enable that. All I know, everything is working sweet as a nut, until I enable your plug in and the page hangs forever not loading.
I simply cannot continue with it, which is a real pain as I loved it, we set up all our 300 pages with it, it is a crying shame we have to bail on it ;-(
Thanks
Nick
Well, debugging might take you less time than switching over. Email our support department and we’ll be glad to help.
There are errors.
Warning: the variable %%category_description%% cannot be used in this template
Warning: the variable %%tag%% cannot be used in this template.
Yeah those are intentional: you’re using variables that wouldn’t result in something meaningful in that template.
Why wouldn’t they result in something meaningful in that template – as long as the category or tag description is filled out, then it will use that description, which would be meaningful, wouldn’t it.
Nice update thank you! What is the recommended size for the Company Logo in WordPress SEO: General Settings?
The same here. The update broke my woocommerce. But if I deactivated yoast woocommrce SEO and not WordPress SEO then it works and vice versa.
It seems like it can’t run both (yoast woocommerce SEO and wordpress SEO).
If you update to the latest version of WP SEO (2.1.1) that’s fixed.
Thank you for the update, but most importantly thanks you for being so prompt with every WordPress release. I’ve been using your plugin for a while now and all I can say is that it’s definitely the best one out there.
Thanks for update. I already change all of my website.
Deactivating the plugin allowed site to work.
Same as above, Latest update broke woocommerce.
Fatal error: Call to undefined method WPSEO_OpenGraph::image_output() ***************wp-content/plugins/wpseo-woocommerce/wpseo-woocommerce.php on line 630
Hey Paul,
We’ve fixed the issue, a release is forthcoming. We’re very sorry about this.
Thanks for the updates. After updating, we are getting white screens for all front-end and back-end pages associated with The Events Calendar. When WP SEO is deactivated, the pages are accessible. From the error log:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method WPSEO_OpenGraph::image_output() in /nas/wp/www/cluster-10353/aquaponic/wp-content/plugins/wpseo-woocommerce/wpseo-woocommerce.php on line 612
Hey Jackson,
We’ve fixed the issue, a release is forthcoming. We’re very sorry about this.
On one of my clients sites, update gives me white screen of death!
Just an FYI, this new update breaks WooCommerce permalinks for many products. Not sure specifically what the issue is but it began occurring after installing your latest update and WooCommerce 2.3.8. Clicking on certain SKUs results in a blank page – Debug mode points to a PHP error from your plugin. Disabling WP SEO resolves the issue.
Hey Greg,
we’ve found and fixed the issue, a release is coming.
Thank you for your work, I love this plugin.
The breadcrumbs in the Google SERPs got broken, I hope that with this release this is fixed. I have checked this page in Rich snippets testing tool and it gives 1 error missing url, is this ok? This same page (https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-2-1-release-notes/)
Kind regards.