Yoast SEO for Shopify changelog - page 2

Enhancements​

• Enables free testing for affiliate stores.
• Introduces more details for development stores about the subscription.
• Updates the Schema output screen to clarify the enabling/disabling behavior.

Other​

• Removes the beta badge label for inclusive language analysis collapsible and feature toggle.

Enhancements​

• Improves the positioning of the "Skip" link in the welcome app so it aligns with the help button.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with removed "excerpt" during blog post optimization.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes styling of the arrow for the "add related keyphrase"-button in the Optimize module.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a security issue in the editor.

Bugfixes​

• Removes "keywords" Schema element for Product and Blog page, which used the tags from that content in the wrong context.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a button to discard unsaved data would not show clearly as such an impactful button.
• Fixes a bug where the deactivation button would not show clearly as an impactful button that removes functionality.
• Fixes a bug where the loading animation would not show up during the deactivation process.

Enhancements​

• Adds extra information on upgrade page about date of first charge after Trial.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where merchants with a long myshopify.com domain would not be able to install and use our app.
• Fixes a bug where parts of the content would disappear in the editor when user writes it fast inside content editor.
• Fixes a bug where the AggregateRating piece would be added to the schema graph when there was no rating data.
• Fixes a bug where the default analysis was previously used to analyze content in a language that we support when a variant of that language is used in the store. Now, when the store language is set to e.g. British English or Portuguese (Brazil), the content will be analyzed using the main variant's language-specific analysis.

Enhancements​

• Adds a new tab with additional insights about the content.

Bugfixes​

• Adjust styling of Inclusive Language analysis to fit other analysis sections.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where highlighting would not be removed from the text after the analysis is updated and the present highlighting has become irrelevant.
• Only marks the subheading when a subheading text is too long in subheading distribution assessment.

Enhancements​

• Adds an Inclusive language analysis for products, blog posts, blogs, collections and pages.
• Improves the subheading distribution assessment by adding highlighting and also targeting long content before the first subheading.
• Improves the transition words assessment for Arabic by removing some transition words.

Other​

• Removes the beta badge from the word complexity assessment.

Enhancements​

• Adds support for Shopify standard review metafield to the aggregateRating schema output.

Enhancements​

• Adds "seller" property to "offer" schema.
• Add support for "checkoutPageURLTemplate" in "offers" schema.
• Removed support for BlackFriday code.

Enhancements​

• Adds the included trial days on the subscription offer when a merchant is still eligible for a trial.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the discount code form with translated feedback.
• Informs all free users about the removal of our free plan and provides the means to continue using the app.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the SKU variable would not be replaced in the Google Preview.

Enhancements​

• Introduces a new page to show an order summary before Shopify’s subscription page.

Enhancements​

• Introduced integration with generic Shopify APIs so that integration with third-party apps is easier, like translation apps.
• Adds support for Shopify’s automatically generated page description as the meta description.
• Adds the possibility to have page descriptions translated.

Enhancements​

• Adds support for "Website name", "Alternate website name" and "Alternate organization name" settings for Schema generation.

Enhancements​

• Enhanced the Shopify search engine preview by adding warnings when the title or description are not being used in the SEO output because of a missing (or removed) variable, which is set by default.

• Removes the free payment plan for Yoast SEO for Shopify, which means there’s only a paid plan available for users.

Enhancements​

• Updated to the latest Shopify App Bridge version.
• Adds support for the new Shopify admin domain admin.shopify.com .
• Adds support for visiting and sharing the app url to go to specific pages inside the app.

Bugfixes​

• Adds support of <br/> tags in content optimization editor.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where blog posts would no longer be loaded in the overview for a specific blog.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the assessments for related keyphrases did not take the replacements of variables into account.

Enhancements​

• Improved the loading times of the app pages.

Enhancements​

• Adds the word complexity assessment for Spanish, German and French.
• Enables full metatag and Schema.org output for Shopify's Policy pages.
• Enables the SKU and Barcode assessments.
• Improves sentence recognition for German by disregarding ordinal numbers as potential sentence boundaries.
• Improves the readability analysis for English by adding a word complexity assessment.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the desktop preview would show a truncated title, while the title length progress bar and title width assessment would indicate that the title length was still within the limits.

Enhancements​

• Improves Offers / priceSpecification Schema output to match Google’s recent changes to their guidelines.

Bugfixes​

• Fixs a bug where after cancelling the App subscription, the page would not show that this succeeded correctly, although the subscription was cancelled succesfully.

Enhancements​

• Improved the loading time of the pages of the app.

Enhancements​

• Adds the "review" property to product schema when provided by Loox.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the SEO output by adding a og:price:standard_amount for discounted products. This is something that Pinterest could use to enhance their product pins.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the app would continuously reload.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a text starting with a double quotation mark followed by a space(s) broke the analysis.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a non-breaking space in a sentence breaks the keyword density marking.

Enhancements​

• Introduces a free plan which can be used to try out the full experience of Yoast SEO for Shopify on 5 content pages.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where style tags with a type attribute in the content would result in an empty content editor in the Optimize module.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the Yoast theme modifications would remove site verification codes that are already present in the theme.

Enhancements​

• Adds the word complexity assessment for Spanish, German and French.
• Improves the text analysis by adding curly (“”) and angular quotation marks.
• Improves the text analysis by filtering out all versions of the ampersand.

Enhancements​

• Improves sentence recognition for German by disregarding ordinal numbers as potential sentence boundaries.
• Improves the readability analysis for English by adding a word complexity assessment.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the desktop preview would show a truncated title, while the title length progress bar and title width assessment would indicate that the title length was still within the limits.
• Fixes a bug where the keyphrase density and keyphrase distribution assessments error, or fails to mark the found keyphrases in the text, when using keyphrases that include some regular expression control characters, for example brackets.

Enhancements​

• Introduces a bulk editor feature which makes it easier to improve the SEO data (e.g. SEO title & meta description) of multiple content pages at once. Users can make improvements by exporting and importing their content through a CSV file.

Enhancements​

• Introduces the SEO data migration (beta) feature to let you easily import your SEO data (e.g., SEO title & meta description). With this, you're no longer bound to a specific SEO app on Shopify and it's easier to switch to Yoast SEO.

Enhancements​

• Removes the date shown in the Google preview for products, collections and blogs.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the Schema.org graph by adding the gtin property to the Offer piece to provide the product (variant) barcode.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where notifications about errors in the theme modifications would show multiple times and could not be dismissed.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug in our theme SEO improvement service by ignoring Liquid code in between {% raw %} and {% endraw %} tags.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes inaccurate values being output for the Offer schema of a product without variants