Allows developers to edit and customize SEO options like keywords, titles, descriptions, sitemap, feed, etc..
Installation:
Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
Here are some key features of "WordPress SEO by Yoast":
· Post titles and meta descriptions
· Robots Meta configuration
· Canonical
· Breadcrumbs
· Permalink clean up
· XML sitemaps
· RSS enhancements
· Edit the robots.txt and .htaccess files
· Clean up head section
Requirements:
· WordPress 3 or higher
· PHP 5.2 or higher
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixes %%page%% variable to work in title & description template on paginated singular post(type)s.
· Allow - in focus keyword.
· Removed the option to use a Facebook page as an admin in the Facebook OpenGraph, as Facebook deprecated that.
· Force OpenGraph locale to lowercase.
· Catch some weird locales and convert them to proper Facebook supported iso_country versions.
· Now adding all the images in a post with an og:image tag, so people can more easily share the right image.
· Allow regex specific characters in the focus keyword for the Page Analysis checks.
· Add proper (and i18n compatible) stop word removal.
· Removed code to add noindex to login page as that's now in core for long enough.
· Fixed several notices.
· When a static homepage has no SEO title, default to the site's name + description.
· Only show images once in OpenGraph tags.
· Prevent a timeout on retrieving term meta.
· Don't do next / prev links on the homepage for Genesis based themes as that leads to trouble.