Yoast SEO for Shopify changelog

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug in our theme SEO improvement service by ignoring Liquid code in between {% raw %} and {% endraw %} tags.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes inaccurate values being output for the Offer schema of a product without variants

Enhancements​

• Ensures the storage of our metafield data uses the new metafield type system for Online Store 2.0.

Enhancements​

• Updates the retrieval of our metafield data in theme files, to support the new metafield type system for Online Store 2.0.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the Yandex webmaster tool verification code would be considered invalid as it expected at least 20 characters instead of 16.

Enhancements​

• Improves the Schema detection by adding subtype detection of Article and WebPage.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the wrong formatting would be used for Twitter metatags.
• Fixes a bug where the wrong formatting would be used for webmaster verification metatags.

Bugfixes​

• Adds support for product variants without SKU defined, inside Offers Schema.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where Offers Schema would be generated for variants when no SKU value was available.
• Fixes a bug where Offers Schema would contain invalid names when the product or variant title included quotes.

Enhancements​

• Removes penalising for H1 that is not at the beginning of the text body.

Enhancements​

• Improves replacement variable naming to better reflect the Shopify fields we're sourcing the data from for Shopify page title and Shopify meta description.
• Improves the Product Schema output, creating a list of offers instead of one aggregateOffer entry.

Enhancements​

• Places the SEO analysis right below the focus keyphrase input field in the Optimize sidebar.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the editor to allow for JavaScript attributes to be present on HTML elements.

Enhancements​

• Changed the filtering for Collections to read "Availability" instead of "Visibility" to better match the Shopify UI.

Enhancements​

• Adds information about the review app that is used as source of data inside AggregateRating section of our Product schema piece.
• Adds integration with Judge.me Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.
• Adds integration with Loox Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.
• Adds integration with Ali Reviews to improve rich snippets.
• Adds integration with Opinew Product Reviews to improve rich snippets.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the Google Preview to show the URL of the item in the shop.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the content for online store pages would be stored in an undesired format when saving from the Optimize module.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the text markers were unable to mark text containing special characters.

Enhancements​

• Changes the price for Yoast SEO for Shopify subscriptions from $29 dollars per month to $19 dollars per month. Why? In our short endeavors in Shopify-land, we came to the conclusion that our pricing was on the higher end of the spectrum of the existing apps. While we think we provide a great product, we’ve decided to lower the price and give you in effect more bang for your buck.
• Improves error handling related to the maximum length of input fields.

Enhancements​

• Adds an app-wide banner telling that the theme modifications have been removed, with the option to reapply them easily.

Enhancements​

• Adds Price: Maximum (%%price_max%%) replacement variable to products.
• Adds Price: Minimum (%%price_min%%) replacement variable to products.
• Adds Price (%%price%%) replacement variable to products.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where we're stripping script and style tags from the HTML of the content.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the Webmaster validation code checks to catch more invalid codes from being entered.

Enhancements​

• Enhances the file upload by providing clearer feedback when an unusable file is attempted to be used.

Enhancements​

• Relocates the toast notifications from the right top corner to the top center.
• Improves feedback strings for the Keyphrase Length assessment by making it explicit that we only count content words for languages with function word support.

Enhancements​

• Adds a welcome back screen to enable returning users to remove theme modifications without needing a subscription.

Enhancements​

• Adds a new replacement variable for the product barcode.
• Improves the meta robots tags of product variants to now behave as per the main product.
• Adds a new replacement variable for the product availability.
• Adds a new replacement variable for the product SKU.

Enhancements​

• The Facebook and Twitter Preview now uses image instead of a background image.

Enhancements​

• Adds more detailed comments inside modified theme files, about the way of reverting automated changes.
• Enhances the App by adding logic which will disable all Yoast SEO frontend output automatically when the App is uninstalled - this functionality requires an additional scope to be accepted on for the App: write_script_tags .

Enhancements​

• Changes the default for showing collection and product archives in search results to be enabled, so they are shown in the search results.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the link to learn more about the no-index setting would not redirect to the correct Yoast.com help page.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where a primary domain other than the myshopify domain would not be displayed in the Social previews.

Enhancements​

• Improves the text of the Uninstall settings to make the buttons and text more understandable.
• Adds a theme modification page to the advanced settings to reapply and remove theme modifications.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the Yoast-markings would be persisted to the item in Shopify.

Enhancements​

• The Yoast SEO breadcrumbs on the default product view no longer show the default variant.
• Improves the %%title%% replacement on the default product view to no longer include the default variant.
• Allows the WebPage and Website schema parts to be managed by Yoast even if the Organization part is not being managed by Yoast.

Enhancements​

• Introduces a new uninstall page.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where relative URLs would be stripped of their starting slash in the Optimize content editor.
• Fixes a bug where the Image Keyphrase assessment would only analyze the first word in image alt-attributes.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the Google Preview was not showing "In stock" when Inventory Tracking was disabled for a product

Enhancements​

• Introduce new replacement variables for the SEO title and description configured in the search engine listing preview inside Shopify.
• Introduce new replacement variable for the product vendor.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the myshopify domain instead of the primary domain was used in the internal links assessment and the Google preview.
• Excludes URLs from the characters count in Japanese.
• Improves stemming of Turkish word forms with an apostrophe.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes our template control structure to not use the "include" method from Liquid as this was causing problems on specific theme implementations.

Enhancements​

• Makes the editor in the Optimize module use your theme language when you are working on optimizing a content item.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes the problem when disabling Schema parts in the Yoast SEO settings, the Schema defined for these parts in the theme is not being output on the page.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes the replacement of the "Title" variable by preferring the existing SEO title that was already filled within the Shopify admin.

Enhancements​

• Fixes performance issues regarding the SEO and Readability filters on the Products and Collections optimize overview pages.
• Adds a view source (HTML) button to the content editor.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where fetching the list of products filtered by scores would exceed the Shopify API limits, when only few products have been indexed for a shop.
• Ensures that WebSite and WebPage schema pieces will always be output (providing that they're valid).