Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI

26.6

Release date: 2025-12-15

Yoast SEO 26.6 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements

• Introduces a task list for reminding site admins about relevant SEO tasks.
• Improves the llms.txt structure by moving the sitemap mention into an option section at the end of the llms.txt file.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where the Show more list for categories and content types would collapse when clicking on menu items in the settings sidebar navigation.
• Fixes a bug where translations for the content analysis were not displayed on WordPress 6.9.
• Fixes a security bug that would allow users with limited capabilities to read metadata of posts that they should not have access to.

Other

• Highlights the Google Docs & Yoast Duplicate post add-ons on the Plans page.
• Improves the behavior of the upgrade button in the Yoast sidebar and admin menus.
• Improves the focus behavior for some buttons and links in the Yoast SEO admin pages.
• Redesigns the AI Brand Insights button in the Yoast sidebar and admin menus.

26.5

Release date: 2025-12-02

New: Yoast SEO includes the necessary updates to support the Site Kit by Google integration for all Premium users, with Yoast SEO (free) support following soon. Read the full release post here.

Enhancements

• Integrates the Yoast SEO tab into the Elementor Editor’s Elements panel sidebar to provide enhanced access to SEO settings.
• Makes the keyphrase density assessment and keyphrase in subheadings assessment available when no content has been added.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where table backgrounds in the RSS settings and Semrush related keyphrases tables would expand beyond the rounded corners in Firefox.

Other

• Relocates the introduction notification to point to the Yoast SEO tab within the Elements panel sidebar of the Elementor Editor for better user guidance.
• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.9.

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on yoast.com.