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Yoast SEO 28.6 Released

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What’s new in Yoast SEO 28.6

Released: 2026-09-29

Active installations: 10,000,000

Tested up to WordPress 7.1.2

Requires PHP 7.4

Don’t show a post type in the Bulk editor if Enable SEO controls and assessments is turned off for that post type.
Introduces 2 new Yoast Abilities, to allow agents to get and update SEO data for given posts.
Adds a notice to the bulk editor explaining that no content types are available when Enable SEO controls and assessments is disabled for all post types, with a link to the settings page.
Fixes a bug where a rest_invalid_content_type error would be logged in the browser console when opening the bulk editor while Enable SEO controls and assessments was disabled for all post types.
Adds two new cards for the Schema aggregator and the WordPress abilities API features.
Adjust the name and description of the setting’s toggle controlling the breadcrumbs’ rendering to state clearly its intended behaviour.
Re-groups the integrations’ cards in the Integrations page.

28.5

Fixes a bug where the SEO data optimization would loop endlessly when an indexing batch was repeatedly returned without being processed.
Adds a link with more information about social previews to the social appearance sections of the editor.
Updates the plugin’s app URL and logo that are used when initiating the MyYoast connection.