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Yoast SEO 28.4 Released

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What’s new in Yoast SEO 28.4

Released: 2026-09-01

Active installations: 10,000,000

Tested up to WordPress 7.1

Requires PHP 7.4

Adds an option to access the Yoast SEO Bulk editor from the Bulk actions menu in the Posts and Pages sections of the WordPress dashboard.
Fixes a bug where the AI generator’s tip to write more content was not shown for posts whose content consisted mostly of block markup, because the markup was counted as content.

28.3

Adds a schemamap.xml file at the site root that exposes the aggregated schema map.
Adds the failing object’s type and ID to the SEO data optimization error report when an indexable cannot be built.
Improves performance when running the SEO optimization by warming post and term caches in bulk.
Improves the performance of generating XML sitemaps by warming post, term and featured-image caches in bulk.
Fixes a bug where the AI Content Planner inserted an empty paragraph block before the template blocks when a post type had a block template registered.