Yoast SEO for Shopify changelog

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where requesting existing Shopify permissions would not work for certain staff members.

Other​

• Fixes an issue where the llms.txt file would not be updated for all shops in case we reach a critical level of adoption.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where new installs would not be redirected to our subscription page when accessing the app.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where CSV import never received the uploaded file.
• Fixes a bug where Yoast AI was unable to connect.

Other​

• Migrate app navigation to more read-friendly structure.

Enhancements​

• llms.txt is now generated as a theme file that stays in sync with your active theme.

Enhancements​

• Limits the amount of values shown for schema attributes inside the app to provide understanding without overloading on information.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue when we were displaying a collection that was not published to any channel.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where certain blogs and pages could no longer be updated via Yoast SEO for Shopify when the app had been completely uninstalled and then re-installed.

Enhancements​

• Adds webinar promotion banner on overview page.

Other​

• Fixes Optimize/Account spacing between content and navigation bar slightly reduced compared to Settings spacing.
• Translates the "Optimize with Yoast SEO" extension.

Enhancements​

• Adds support for generating and managing an llms.txt file to help large language models better understand online stores.

Enhancements​

• Adds star rating schema visibility.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where exporting new items to CSV did not including title and URL handle.

Enhancements​

• Enables product rating in snippet preview.

Enhancements​

• Refreshes the site features settings page.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the theme modifications banner was displayed after modifications were already applied.

Enhancements​

• Adds sale pricing markup.

Enhancements​

• Adjusts the keyphrase distribution assessment's scoring criteria for texts that are shorter than 15 sentences.
• Adjusts the scoring criteria for the keyphrase density assessment for texts shorter than 100 words.
• Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the keyphrase distribution assessment.
• Makes the keyphrase distribution assessment available when no content or keyphrase has been added.

Enhancements​

• Adds search and sorting to the "Pages" content type.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where importing CSV files would show an error when any field contains new line in content.

Enhancements​

• Adds integration with Shopify contextual bar for better user experience.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the renewal date was calculated wrongly on the Subscription page.

Enhancements​

• Adds option to be notified about initial overview ready by email notification.

Enhancements​

• Updates the way how we display discounts in checkout and subscription page.

Enhancements​

• Introduces new Account section with extended subscription insights and management options.

Other​

• Improves the app performance for an improved user experience.

Enhancements​

• Improves the error handling messages for the AI Generate integration.
• Improves the handling of RTL languages for the positioning of the favicon in the Search snippet preview.
• Improves the handling of RTL languages for the tooltips in the related keyphrase suggestions modal.
• Improves the tooltips accessibility in the related keyphrase suggestions modal.
• Removes the breadcrumbs from the Search snippet preview in Mobile mode.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug that caused a timeout when exporting a large volume of data.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where discounts would not show when using the mobile checkout page.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where development subscription would cause issues after migrating to a paid subscription.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with wrongly detected delimiters during CSV data import.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with welcome page not displaying after app install.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where customers was not redirected to welcome page after app installation.

Enhancements​

• Introduces new checkout page.

Enhancements​

• Introduces a new warning to explain that a duplicate slug is used in the product editor.

Enhancements​

• Changes welcome page limitation to display it for every user.

Enhancements​

• Fixes a bug when theme modifications was not applied fully due to Shopify API limitations.

Enhancements​

• Modifies theme modification progress component to adjust to new design.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where uninstall page would not update correctly after removing theme modifications.

Enhancements​

• Changes one of the feedback texts for the text length assessment to be consistent with the others.
• Improves the feedback of the competing links assessment by making it clearer.
• Makes the assessments single title and competing links available from the get-go in the SEO analysis.
• Renames the link keyphrase assessment to competing links.

Other​

• Improves the translatability of the feedback strings for the text length assessment.

Enhancements​

• Adds option to sort blog posts list.
• Adds option to sort blogs list.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where Page number string would not be correctly translated.
• Fixes an bug where metafields and data would not be removed when following any of the uninstallation processes.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where some navigation items would not be clickable when the FTC banner was visible.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the theme modifications banner would not disappear when the theme modifications have just been applied.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the theme modifications would run into the rate limits of some Shopify APIs.

Enhancements​

• Adds first time configuration wizard to help merchants walk through the essential app settings.
• Improves welcome dialog to guide merchants showcasing app pinning option and premium support.

Enhancements​

• Adds a feedback string for the image alt attributes and image keyphrase assessments for when no content and/or image has been added.
• Makes the keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment available when no content has been added.
• Renames image keyphrase assessment to keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment.
• Renames the image alt tags assessment to image alt attributes assessment.

Enhancements​

• Adds a feedback string for the image alt attributes and image keyphrase assessments for when no content and/or image has been added.
• Renames the image alt tags assessment to image alt attributes assessment.

Bugfixes​

• Improves the guidance on using the Shopify SEO title variable in our Full SEO title.

Other​

• Removes the "new" badge from the schema section for products.

Enhancements​

• Adds more phrases regarding disability to the inclusive language assessment.
• Improves the feedback for "lame" in the inclusive language assessment.
• Makes the following SEO assessments available in the analysis by default, even when no content has been added: keyphrase in introduction, keyphrase in meta description, keyphrase in SEO title, keyphrase in slug.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the template suffix of pages would be reset to the default when saving optimizations.

Enhancements​

• Improves the feedback texts for the passive voice and consecutive sentences assessments in case there is nothing to report.
• Makes the images, internal links, and external links assessments available when no content has been added.

Other​

• Improves the translatability of feedback strings for the keyphrase length assessment.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes issue with theme modifications apply in some stores due to Shopify API limits.

Enhancements​

• Adds a learn more link in the schema section of the product editor.
• Changes the applicability criteria of readability assessments so that they are shown even if there is little or no text.
• Improves recognition of function words for Farsi. Props to nshayanfar.
• Improves the recognition of transition words for Farsi.
• Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the consecutive sentences assessment.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where function words with spaces were not recognised in Farsi.

Enhancements​

• Adds search feature to blogs list.

Enhancements​

• Adds pregnant women to the potentially non-inclusive phrases targeted by the inclusive language analysis.
• Improved our Product structured data by specifying the Offer.priceSpecification more specifically with the type UnitPriceSpecification.
• Improves the inclusive language analysis feedback for the potentially non-inclusive word exotic, and prevents the feedback from appearing when exotic is followed by words common in scientific contexts.