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27.4

Release date: 2026-04-14

Yoast SEO 27.4 adds new tasks to the Task List, improves navigation within the editor, and fixes a bug where tasks were displaying in the wrong language. Read the full release post here.

Enhancements

• Adds a “Yoast” tab to the WordPress Plugins screen that groups all installed Yoast plugins when two or more are present. Requires WordPress 7.0+.
• Enhances the task list with a task about customizing meta descriptions in recent content.
• Enhances the task list with a task about deleting the “Sample Page”.
• Improves the UX of completing tasks that require users to go to specific part of the post editor, by redirecting them to the exact spot they need to be.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where alt text changes made via the inline image editor in How-to and FAQ blocks were not being reflected on the frontend. Props to @param-chandarana.
• Fixes a bug where the task list copies were displayed in the site language instead of the user language.

27.3

Release date: 2026-03-31

Yoast SEO 27.3 brings more enhancements and bugfixes. Find more information about our software releases and updates here.

Enhancements

• Adds the highlighting feature to keyphrase in subheadings assessment. Now users can highlight the headings that include the keyphrase or synonyms.
• Introduces a more robust HTML processing approach for the keyphrase in subheadings assessment.

Bugfixes

• Fixes a bug where Deprecated: strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated notices appeared on certain actions, like when activating the plugin, or saving a Yoast setting. Props to @sabernhardt.
• Fixes a bug where the installation success redirect was incorrectly fired during AJAX, cron, REST API, or JSON requests, breaking integrations such as the Bluehost SSO.
• Fixes a console error in the editor related to AI Generate feature that occurred when the “Enable SEO controls and assessments” option was disabled for a content type.

Other

• Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 7.0.
• Improves security of format_json_encode() by removing JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES, which could allow a user to control tags in the schema JSON-LD output. Props to @rob006.
• Updates the completion message and changes the call-to-action button text of the First-time configuration.

Earlier versions

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