Yoast SEO 17.8 is out now and ready for you to download. In this release, we fix a number of bugs and added a few enhancements for you to enjoy! Read more about what’s new in Yoast SEO 17.8 in our release post in English or our release post in Spanish!
Enhancements:
Improves the user direction in the configuration workout.
Adds a sleep interval to the WP CLI index command to limit server load while this command is running. Props to roborourke.
Bugfixes:
Fixes a bug where on small screens the advanced setting’s search engine follow checkbox would have a misplaced center.
Fixes a bug where the styling of the introduction dialog in Elementor would be broken due to changes in Elementor.
Fixes a bug where the reading time functionality for languages other than English would incorrectly output English reading speed values.
Fixes a bug where certain text strings in the Google, Facebook and Twitter previews would not be translated.
Fixes a bug where the state of indexation was not persisted when switching between workouts and the workouts page.
Fixes a bug where the Workouts page wouldn’t display translations.
Other:
Fixes some styling issues in the configuration workout.
Prevents SEO managers from changing the site description in the configuration workout.
Optimizes and compresses several .png images to reduce their size. Props to lowwebtech.