Yoast Video SEO Premium 14.9

4.1
January 17th, 2017

• Bugfixes
  • Fixes link to google article about video sitemaps.
  • Fixes a bug where the video-seo menu would overwrite the go premium menu item.
  • Fixes: If a post uses a custom title/description template with variables, the variables were not being replaced correctly for the Video sitemap.
  • Minor spelling & grammar fixes.
  • If a video was previously detected, but the post type has since been excluded from VideoSEO, the video opengraph and schema tags would still be added to the front-end page. This has been fixed now.
  • Fix case-sensitivity issues with video object meta tags.
  • Minor XHTML syntax fix.
• Enhancements
  • Improves styling for notices.
  • Minor improvements for compatibility with Yoast SEO.
  • Minor UI improvements for buttons and translations.
  • Add the video:duration tag to video page headers.
  • Clarify what effect the option to allow videos to be embedded by other sites has.
  • Clarify the description of the “Family Friendly” option used in the metabox.
  • Improve support for the Yandex search engine by adding some Yandex specific tags. This can be turned off using the new wpseovideoyandex_support filter (return false to turn it off).
  • Allow for adding additional schema meta tags – such as transcript to a video object using the new wpseovideoobjectmetacontent filter.
  • Clarify the description for the family friendly checkbox.

4.0
December 13th, 2016

• Fixes the YouTube video player URL to always use a protocol. This solves issues where the Google invalidates the sitemap and where Facebook does not recognize the player. (needs force re-index for existing posts)

• Enhancements
  • Added support for the additional Wistia video urls and embed codes. If you use the Wistia video service, re-indexing your videos is highly recommended.
  • Added fallback for the detail retrieval of private Vimeo videos. This will allow these to be recognized. (needs force re-index for existing posts).
  • Added recognition of //player.vimeo.com/… type URLs. (needs force re-index for existing posts).
  • Change the ‘og:type’ meta value to the more accurate ‘video.other’.
  • Change the ‘og:video:type’ meta value HTML5 which is now more accurate than Flash in most cases.
  • Minor improvements in behaviour when installed on WP multi-site.
• Bugfixes
  • Fixed the YouTube video player URL. This should solve black screens and/or “Unable to resolve DNS” errors when embedding videos on Facebook and other sites. (needs force re-index for existing posts)
  • Updated the Vimeo video player URL to the new HTML5 player format (with Flash fallback). This should solve black screens and/or “Unable to resolve DNS” errors when embedding these videos on Facebook and other sites. (needs force re-index for existing posts).