WordPress SEO Premium 1.0
We’re very proud to bring this release to you today: WordPress SEO premium 1.0 is here. This premium version adds a redirect module to the WordPress SEO plugin that allows you to manage your redirects from within your WordPress installation. It also allows you to retrieve your site’s crawl errors from Google Search Console and fix those immediately with that redirect functionality.
If you’d already bought the premium plugin, you’ll receive an email soon with a download link.
Fix your site’s crawl errors easily
The combination of being able to retrieve Google’s crawl errors and the tool to fix them is something I’ve long wanted to combine into one. I’ve been annoyed for ages with the need to log into Google Search Console, look at the errors and then write redirects which went into my servers config file. It can be a tedious process and writing redirects is not everybody’s forte.
I’ve used several plugins to do redirects but none of them really worked, especially as, when your site gets older and bigger, you’ll end up with more and more redirects. Which is why we came up with a scalable redirection solution. Look how easy it is:

Scalable redirect solution
You have two options when using the WordPress SEO Premium plugins redirect module: you can have it do the redirects for you, or you can have it write a file that you can then include in your server config files or even your .htaccess. Doing the latter means that the redirects will be faster, which is especially useful if you have a lot of them, while still allowing you to maintain them in an easy, WordPress like interface:

More is to come!
We’ve got a lot more plans for the WordPress SEO Premium plugin (and for the core WordPress SEO plugin for that matter), so more is definitely to come. Those of you who’ve followed our WordPress SEO github will have noticed that Barry, our new senior developer, has been going all over the place fixing errors, which has lead to a number of releases of the last few weeks.
I’m very excited about this new release, I hope you will be to!
Want to buy the WordPress SEO Premium plugin? Well you can! For as little as $89 for a single site, you’ll get 1 year of upgrades (and new features) and access to our support team:
Let us know what you think!
Discussion (69)
Ok, thanks for getting back to me!
I await this update many thanks! For now we have to edit the .htaccess directly, but would love to use the plugin for this purpose.
Cheers,
Natacha
** Is it possible to use wildcards in the URL redirects?
We have purchased your Premium SEO plugin but cannot work out how. If it is possible can you provide an example? I am assuming it is not possible which renders the premium version not all that ultimately useful.
Also, If you are selling plugins now, it would be helpful to have a support forum, or an idea on how to contact you with support requests.
This post is the only place I could find and it’s probably not all that suitable!
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Hi Natacha,
that’s not possible now but will be soon, we’re working on it.
You can, of course, reach us for support, if you read the purchase email there’s all the contact info you need to know. Just replying to that purchase email will land in our support box too :)
Dear Yoast, I’m an old wordpress seo user and now a fresh one wordpress seo premium user.
I have 2 problem, I cant activate my license key and since I’m using wp seo premium I have some issue on xml sitemap about category and tags URL, now they are displayed like http://www.mattiaboero.net/?cat=306 and not by name and the tags are displayed http://www.mattiaboero.net/?tag=andreas-gursky.
There is any advice for my problems (I have already sent you some emails, I do not want to put you under pressure because I think you’re overworked, I just want to know if it is something fixable)?
Thanks, M.
Hi Joost,
Will the single site licence let me use the plugin on my local.* and staging.* versions of my client’s site?
It’s important that I can style up breadcrumbs and test the plugin before I add it to the live site.
You can deactivate the license on one site and move it to another, so that shouldn’t be a problem :)
Is there any benefit in me using the premium version on development or staging servers? Or would I be just as well to install the standard version on those and keep the premium on live?
Does the premium version overwrite the standard one or does it sit alongside it? (Thinking about git repo and deployment).
The premium version goes in place of the standard one and uses the same options.