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  • WordPress SEO

    2.0.1

    Release Date: April 1st, 2015

    * Bugfixes:
    * Fixes an issue where (in rare cases) people upgrading to 2.0 got stuck in a redirect loop on their admin.
    * Fixes a broken link in the Dutch translation, causing the Pinterest tab on the Social settings page to overflow into the Google+ tab.
    * Fixes a small typo on the about page.

    2.0

    Release Date: March 26th, 2015

    * Features:
    * Simplified and revised Admin menu's:
    * Moved all advanced functionality to one "Advanced" submenu page.
    * Moved the bulk editor, the export functionality and the file editor to one "Tools" submenu page.
    * Improved consistency and usability of settings pages by having them use exactly the same, tab-based, styling.
    * Made it easy to output structured data for social profiles, person and company profiles, for use in Google Knowledge Graph.

    * Enhancements:
    * Makes sure the user is redirected to the last active settings tab after saving.

    * Bugfixes:
    * Fixes a bug where custom field variables were no longer working in the snippet preview.
    * Fixes a bug where the $post global was emptied by our Frontend class, causing conflicts with other plugins.
    * Fixes a bug where variables weren't replaced in the og:description meta tag.
    * Fixes a bug where the breadcrumbs caused an undefined variable notice.

    * Under the hood:
    * Contains an incredible amount of code style improvements, making the code cleaner and more readable.
    * Makes sure every function in the plugin is documented using PHPDoc by having it checked automatically by the Codesniffer.
    * Refactored a lot of legacy code in the admin, mainly with regard to the way output is rendered. Provides for a better separation of concerns, making the code more comprehensible and re-usable.
    * Deprecated a large amount of form methods and moved them to the `Yoast_Form` class. Click [here](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/add975664d1f160eed262b02327a93bda5488f8b/admin/class-config.php#L172) for the list of deprecated methods.
    * Deprecated a large amount of utility functions and moved them to the `WPSEO_Utils` class. Click [here](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/add975664d1f160eed262b02327a93bda5488f8b/inc/wpseo-functions.php#L496) for the list of deprecated functions.