Yoast Local SEO changelog

Bugfixes​

• Fixed fatal error when (de)activating Yoast SEO: Local when Yoast SEO is not *yet) activated.
• Fixed an issue with publish date of imported locations.

Enhancements​

• Added second address to import/exort of locations.

Bugfixes​

• Moved textdomain call to make sure that if a user chooses a different backend language, everything is translated correctly.

Enhancements​

• Added schema.org to infoWindow poup when showing a map
• Removed redundant title attributes from buttons in admin
• Added filters to admin labels so they can be altered to the users desire.
• Add a notification to shortcodes when multiple locations are used and no locations are added yet.
• Added gesture handling to Google Maps

Bugfixes​

• Fixes fatal error due to yoast_i18n class
• Fixes notice in geo-sitemap

Enhancements​

• Added marker clustering as an option. If enabled markers within close proximity will be clustered. Marker clustering can be enabled or disabled by a specific setting in shortcodes (for map and store locator) and the map widget.
• Added a new filter for using custom cluster images wpseo_local_marker_cluster_image_path.
• To prevent a repeating world map (in most cases), the minimal zoom level for maps is now set at 1.
• Added price range fields for schema.org markup.

Bugfixes​

• Resolved issue where only published locations were shown in the map for logged in users.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Store Locator map to show up for non logged in users.
• Added missing datetime property for opening hours.
• Fixed wrong output from wpseo_local_show_address() when a logo was shown.

• Fixes a bug where a PHP notice was shown when a map was embedded for a site with only one location.

Enhancements​

• Refactoring of the settings page.
• Added filtering for location categories to the map and store locator.

Bugfixes​

• Selecting 'all locations' caused the map not to show up in the widget. It does now.
• Fixed undefined index notice for a location country on a fresh install.

Enhancements​

• Added sanitation for WPSEO Local options
• Added a second business address line that can be used for example for room numbers or floors.
• Times in the Local SEO settings are now updated in realtime when switching between 12 and 24h notation
• We did a massive overhaul for the import function and also added an export for Yoast Local SEO locations. For developers: functionality is moved from the WPSEOLocalAdmin class to new classes.

Enhancements​

• Changed warning text about the required Yoast SEO installation
• Removed location detection checkbox if not on HTTPS

Enhancements​

• In order to preserve consistency, London is changed as city in favor of New York in the address format examples.
• Added option to hide the business address in address shortcode and widget.
• Added a new widget to show locations by category

Bugfixes​

• Fixed a bug that caused a map not to show up when all locations were selected.

Enhancements​

• Added option to automatically detect a users location for use in the route calculation or store locator. Note: HTTPS is required for this option!
• Added translator comments throughout the plugin, explaining the contextual meanings of %s and %d.
• Removed Chosen in favor of Select2 JS library
• Added an option in the map shortcode and widget to show the info window by default if you select a single location.
• From now on, on the init action, Yoast Local SEO default options are checked. If they are not set, they will be.

Bugfixes​

• When showing the address on one line and there is nog logo, the business name now gets a trailing comma and space

Enhancements​

• UX: We no longer tell users they can drag the location marker unless they have set coordinates.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a bug where the address widget didn't correctly show the address if the address was displayed on one line and the company logo is shown.

Enhancements​

• Added Local SEO to admin menu onder SEO Settings
• Location category slug is now filterable using wpseo_locations_category_label filter

Bugfixes​

• Remove redundant comma when address is displayed in 1 line and business logo is shown.
• Default country was set too late, which caused notifications.

Enhancements​

• Introduced Browser API key in settings because Google now requires this to embed maps on your site.
• Introduced Help Center on settings tabs.
• Introduced notification for empty API key settings.
• Refactored the address format code, and introduced a class for it.
• Deprecated the wpseo_local_get_address_format() function. Use the new WPSEO_Local_Address_Format class now.
• Location taxonomy names are now based on post type singular name.

Bugfixes​

• Zoomlevels 0 and 1 now work as intended in the WPSEO Show Map widget
• Flush rewrite rules after changing the location category slug to prevent a 404 on category pages

Enhancements​

• Better explanation for search radius for store locator in widget
• Removed translations of "Local SEO" since it's a brand name
• Hide links to locations and locations category admin pages, when options aren't saved yet (caused 404 errors)
• Make translation possible for upload button
• Added translation promo box

Bugfixes​

• Location Category Custom Map Marker wasn't displayed.
• Company Logo didn't appear in Address Widget.
• Show address in one line showed comma when not needed.
• Error with localTitle and localURL assessments in page analysis fixed.
• Fixed the links to the location post type and taxonomy in admin, before saving themin the options.

• Fixes a fatal error.

• Synchronized plugin version with all other Yoast SEO plugins for WordPress.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes deprecation warnings for filters that have been removed in Yoast SEO 3.0
• Fixes content error for Local admin page (iframe of lseo.com).
• Fixed mixed content issue for XSL.

Enhancements​

• Makes sure location specific content analysis checks work well with the Real Time content analysis tool in Yoast SEO 3.0.

• Bugfix:

• Fixed bug where widgets no longer showed up when using a single location

Bugfixes​

• Replaced all shorthand PHP tags that were being used.<!--?php. Yep, really...
• Resolved some PHP 5.2 and 5.3 compatibilty issues
• Fixed the url for locations in locations.kml
• Added the + in url's for phone numbers
• Added map styles to the storelocator

Enhancements​

• Added support for Jetpack's Omnisearch
• Added support for Publicize and Markdown
• Added label fields. You can now determine your own labels for locations.

Bugfixes​

• Fixes a JS bug that was caused by a merge conflict

Bugfixes​

• Wrong opening hours were added to meta-data when location is closed.
• Category sitemap was created when there were no location categories.
• Accept both "value" and "nice name" for Business Type in import.

Enhancements​

• Added option for hiding (not using) opening hours.
• Added option for entering a Google Maps API key (useful when you have hundreds or more locations).
• We added a tab in the Options section, where we've listed some great Local SEO tools.

Enhancements​

• Updated translations for 10 languages.

Bugfixes​

• When selecting quarters in opening hours, it isn't displayed as "closed" anymore
• Copying data from an existing location now works properly

Enhancements​

• Custom markers for Google Maps, like this:
  
• Custom markers per category (when using multiple locations)
• In the locations post edit screen, you can now drag the Google Maps pin to a different location
• Added an option to the store locator to show the nearest location if no locations are found in the search radius
• Removed the current location from the 'copy data from another location' drop down
• Expanded the importer with opening hours
• Added Business Type and URL to CSV import
• Added a nonce check to import
• Caching for sitemaps

Bugfixes​

• 24-h format for opening hours works again
• Fixes sitemap URLs for servers which needs index.php in permalink structure
• Option added for hiding business name
• Hide "Show route" when not selected from popup.

Enhancements​

• Properly minify admin CSS scripts.

• i18n

• Updated es_ES, nl_NL and ru_RU

• Added de_DE, fr_FR and tr_TK

Bugfixes​

• Fix error that prevented properly recognizing current version.

Bugfixes​

• Fixed fatal error when saving single location
• Fixed "Non-static method" notice

Bugfixes​

• Mismatched itemprop="email" for URLs now changed to itemprop="url"
• Manually changing lat/long coordinates is working again

Enhancements​

• Add {zipcode} {city}, {state} address format

• Added html elements to address lines

• Added possibility to change author of location

• Added "all locations" option to Address button in edit-pages to show all locations

• Code changes

• Classes and instances of classes renamed to be more consistent with WP SEO

• Separated some functionality in different classes

Bugfixes​

• Video sitemap was breaking after update 1.2.2.1. Fixed.

Bugfixes​

• Due to changes in sitemaps to be more in line with other WordPress SEO sitemaps, geo_sitemap.xml was not working anymore. Added now a redirect to redirect geo_sitemap.xml to geo-sitemap.xml

Bugfixes​

• Fixes fatal error in metabox when having no internet connection.
• Updates lat.long coordinates after changing address of location.
• Force slug for locations CPT, even when blank in admin bug.
• Notice fix in widget when location has no lat/long coordinates.

Enhancements​

• Possibility to add default country to improve searches from store locator (it adds the country to the search query).
• Show message when route cannot be calculated.
• Pre-select location when adding short codes via popup.
• Add filter to time-frame in Opening Hours.
• Added parameter to shortcode that prevents mouse scrolling.

Bugfixes​

• Fixed: Store locator gave unexpected results with a lot of locations.
• Store locator popup checkboxes didn't work correctly. Now they do. The scrollbar is gone too.
• Fixed: When some locations don't have geo locations, map with all locations fails.
• Fixed: Map failed when some locations don't have lat/long coordinates.

Enhancements​

• Added documentation for CSV import

• i18n

• Updated .pot file

• Updated ru_RU translation

Bugfixes​

• Checkbox 'Hide closed days' in widget-admin now works.
• Added filter 'wpseo_local_location_route_title_name' for title 'route' of widget and shortcode
• Added esc_html to filter 'wpseo_local_location_title_tag_name'
• Replaced WPSEO_LOCAL_URL constants by using plugins_url() so that it can be filtered (where needed)

Enhancements​

• Added a store locator. Gives you the possibility to let people search for the neirest store/office
• Added a custom taxonomy for categorizing your locations
• You can enter custom URLs for your locations now
• Better icons for adding shortcodes
• Better UI for selecting the map style when adding a map shortcode
• Added possibility to add comma separated ID's to wpseo_map shortcode for selectively showing locations on a map
• Added a second field for a phone number (office, mobile etc.)
• Allow HTML in the "Extra comment" field in the Address and Opening Hours widgets

i18n​

• Updated .pot file

Bugfixes​

• When outputting opening hours on its own, don't add schema.org
• When using the "insert address" button it inserts the entire address with phone, country, fax, ect whether or not it's checked.
• When "hide closing days" isn't checked it still hides them.
• Added page layout options for Genesis themes
• Added quarters for the opening hours
• Added shortcode ( [wpseo_all_locations] ) to display all your locations at once.

Enhancements​

• Added icons to shortcode buttons

• Added opening hours shortcode button

• Allow license key to be set by constant WPSEO_LOCAL_LICENSE. Key will be hidden if valid.

• Created option to show URL in address detail and in info-box in Google Map

• Deleted unnecessary files

i18n​

• Updated hu_HU & ru_RU
• Updated .pot file

Bugfixes​

• Apostrophe in company name created issues. Not anymore
• Setting Unit system works again
• When specifying a business type and saving, the chosen business type is now selected.
• Opening hours now display correctly if the opening hours are set to two sets, and only one set is used

Enhancements​

• Shortcodes can now be inserted visually (button opens popup with settings)
• Google Maps is now responsive (fluid width)
• Hide link in popup box (Google Map) when there's just one location
• Added comment box in the address and opening hours widgets, for extra (optional) comments.

Bugfixes​

• Make sure maps work on https.
• Improve JS output.
• Fix several widget bugs.

Enhancements​

• Remove jQuery dependency.
• Move JS to external file.

i18n​

• Updated ru_RU translation.
• Added Swedish and Polish.

Bugfixes​

• Allow more values in shortcodes to set stuff to false.
• Fix bounds for Maps.

Enhancements​

• Make maps output search engine indexable links too.

i18n​

• Added ru_RU translation.

Bugfixes​

• Fix activation hook to work on add_option instead of just update_option, so activation works immediately.
• Multiple maps embedded on one page now work properly.
• Dropdowns with chosen script now line out properly.
• Google Maps geocoder script + maps embed scripts now properly enqueued and outputted in footer instead of within content.
• Maps shortcode output bug fixed.

Documentation​

• Added link to FAQ entry about schema.org business types.

Enhancements​

• Added back LocalBusiness business type to top of business type select.
• You can now use "Current location" for widgets, so you can use them on the locations pages. They'll output nothing outside of locations.

• i18n

• Added da_DK, hu_HU, it_IT and nl_NL translations.

Bugfixes​

• Fix class_exists check to actually check for the right class (props Ryan McCue).
• Make both front and backend classes global so methods can be used outside the plugin (props Ryan McCue).
• Fix overwriting of $args variable which broke widgets.

• Fix the update functionality.

• Initial release.

Enhancements​

• Added hide_closed option to opening hours shortcode and widgets.
• Added option to show fax number and email address in both shortcode and widget.
• Improved UI for opening hours.
• Switched to a better endpoint for Google Maps Geocode API.
• Added state to KML file output.

Bugfixes​

• "undefined" URL in maps shortcode and widgets.
• Fixed several notices.
• Values "off" and "no" now properly work for shortcodes.