Yoast SEO Premium 23.9

Enhancements:

• Makes sure all URL fields show an unencoded URL after saving, even when the user input was encoded.
• Requires all URLs in URL input fields to begin with either ‘/’ or ‘http(s)’.
• Adds a potentialAction entity to the WebPage and Article Schema pieces.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where social URLs containing international characters could not be saved.
• Fixes a bug where encoded characters would be stripped from canonical URLs.

Other:

• Changes the cURL Health Check category from recommended to critical.

Enhancements:

• Adds the capability to view Site Health to the SEO Manager role.
• Adds a cURL minimal version check to Site Health.
• Moves the “The postname is present in your permalink”-notification from the SEO Dashboard to Site Health.
• Moves the “You are using the default WordPress tagline”-notification from the SEO Dashboard to Site Health.
• Moves the “Your site is indexable”-notification and widget from the SEO dashboard to Site Health.
• Improves the usability of the “Your site is indexable” Site Health check.
• Adds error handling for the “Your site is indexable” status request.
• Adds an ID to the FAQ sections in the Schema output.

Bugfixes:

• Removes the “Check headers”-tool from the Yoast Admin bar menu, as it is no longer available.

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the HowTo schema name was incorrectly set to the page title.
• Fixes a bug where the “force rewrite titles” option would remove the title tag in svg tags. Props to stodorovic

Enhancements:

• Sets the Schema HowTo name and Article headline to the post title with a fallback to “No title”.
• Adds the inLanguage property to the schema CreativeWork pieces.
• Removes a duplicate directory from the composer autoload classmap configuration. Props to szepeviktor
• Improves the copy for the paginated comments Site Health check.

Other:

• Removes the Search Console item from the admin menu and the toolbar menu.