I updated to 14 a few days ago. This caused all of my images to index in google as separate pages. This caused Google to penalize my site so I lost rankings and revenue.
Ugh, sorry to hear that. Looks like the best option is to go to a different SEO plugin, since this apparently isn’t going to be addressed by Yoast. They seem silent. Too bad….
For years I never automatically update versions of Yoast when they come out because they have proven themselves unreliable and often break people’s sites or ruin their google results, etc. They seriously need to do something about their development process instead of relying on the public site as basically an open beta. Perhaps implementing smaller sets of changes in stages rather than big updates because they show every time that they’re incapable of pulling that often. It’s not like they don’t normally put out releases every few weeks anyway.
@illingco @endymion00 @alexs464 We apologize for any issues or mishaps when there is a new release and things don’t go as planned. Joost, our founder, actually provided more information on this release and provided a timeline of events from v14.0 up to the current v14.0.4 patch — https://developer.yoast.com/blog/yoast-seo-14-0-x/
As mentioned, the vast majority of websites were able to update without any issues or concerns. But if you have any issue or concern with the new release, such as the indexables feature not working as expected or some other error, please feel free to open a topic or thread here and we’ll try our best to help get the issue resolved.
Thank you Michael. But given the recent influx of bad reviews and support tickets, it seems it needs to be updated yet again to something stable. Or your new indexing simply does not function properly. Seems the best thing to do, if Yoast won’t fix this, is to move on to a more stable SEO tool like RankMath.
@illingco
We apologize for the difficulties the plugin is causing for you. We would be happy to address the issues you are currently having with it.
Can you elaborate more on what the issue are? What is happening? What are you expecting to happen? Can you describe it or take screenshots? If you are not sure how to take screenshots this guide can help: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/. Links to where the issue is happening can also be helpful.
You can use a tool like: https://pasteboard.co/ to share the image.
I don’t have any issues, because I remain on 13.5 while investigating other SEO plugins. I see you released 14.1 today. As I suspected, you would not admit to 14.0.5 STILL being buggy, but it clearly was, since you released 14.1 today.
Anyone upgrade to this version yet and have problems persist?
@illingco You are correct in that the 14.1 release did correct many bugs that were still affecting the plugin. You can view which bugs were fixed by the release in the changelog here; https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/change-log-wordpress-seo/
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Hi @illingco ,
We’re closing this thread because we haven’t heard back from you in a while. Should you have further questions, please open a new thread.
