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Yoast Test Helper · Version history

Yoast Test Helper changelog and version history

Latest version
1.19
Oct 6, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
15
since 2020
In the last year
2
about one every 141 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20207 releases
  • 20213 releases
  • 20222 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20262 releases

20262 releases

  1. Yoast Test Helper 1.19Latest

    • Release date: 2026-05-26
    • Enhancements:
    • Adds a Logger panel to the Yoast Test Helper (Tools → Yoast Test) that replaces Yoast SEO’s NullLogger via the wpseo_logger filter and persists captured entries to either a custom DB table or a JSONL file.
    • Adds a “MyYoast OAuth overrides” card that swaps Yoast SEO’s MyYoast OAuth issuer + software statement + initial access token at runtime, fetched from {issuer}/api/oauth/software-statements using a developer-supplied PAT. Lets you point Yoast SEO at a non-production MyYoast environment (staging, lo…
    • Updates the list of available domains in the Domain dropdown section.
    • Adds a custom domain option in the Domain dropdown section.
    • Other:
    • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 7.0.
    • Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.8.
    • The plugin has no known incompatibilities with PHP up to 8.5.
    • Drops compatibility with PHP 7.2 and 7.3.
    • Improves discoverability of security policy.

  2. Yoast Test Helper 1.18

    • Release date: February 1st, 2024
    • Enhancements:
    • Adds a schema endpoint to any URL. Suffix the URL with /schema/ or ?schema and you’ll get only the Schema for that URL, pretty printed.
    • Bugfixes:
    • Fixes a bug where the DB versions for Local SEO and News SEO would not be updated correctly.
    • Fixes some small bugs that could result in PHP notices/warnings/errors.
    • Other:
    • Adds a checkbox to use the AI staging API.
    • Removes the checkbox to enable the feature flag for the structured data blocks.
    • Sets the WordPress tested up to version to 6.4.
    • Sets minimum WordPress version to 6.3.
    • Drops compatibility with PHP 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1.
    • Improves translation handling for post types registration and indexation reset. Props to @alexclassroom.

20231 release

  1. Yoast Test Helper 1.17

    • Release date: May 17th, 2022
    • Enhancements:
    • Improves compatibility with the First-time configuration released with Yoast SEO 18.9.
    • Other:
    • Removes the obsolete Reset Configuration Wizard button.

20222 releases

  1. Yoast Test Helper 1.16

    • Release date: April 19th, 2022
    • Enhancements:
    • Adds a new tool to safely downgrade Yoast SEO, including reverting all run migrations and resetting the version number. The tool currently works only for the free version of the plugin, without Premium enabled.
    • Other:
    • Removes the Support Session feature.
    • Introduces buttons to reset the options and the cornerstone flags.
    • Introduces buttons to reset the first-time configuration and the premium workouts.
    • Adds buttons to reset the Free and Premium installation success screens, such that on reactivating the plugins, the corresponding installation success screen is shown again.
    • Set minimum WordPress version to 5.8 and tested up to version to 5.9.
    • Widen PHP version constraints.

  2. Yoast Test Helper 1.15

    • Release date: October 19th, 2021
    • Enhancements:
    • Add Indexable data to Query Monitor.
    • Bugfix:
    • Fixes a bug where not all the transients that hold unindexed counts were deleted when users hit the “Reset Indexables & Migrations” button.

20213 releases

  1. Yoast Test Helper 1.14

    • Release Date: April 28th, 2021
    • Enhancements:
    • Adds the option to reset SEO roles & capabilities.

  2. Yoast Test Helper 1.13

    • Release Date: March 18th, 2021
    • Bugfixes:
    • Fixes a bug where all MyYoast requests would go to live my.yoast.com instead of the selected value of the domain dropdown.

  3. Yoast Test Helper 1.12

    • Release Date: December 24th, 2020
    • Enhancements:
    • Adds an “enable support session” box to the top of the Yoast Test helper screen. Enabling the checkbox on that box will load a HelpScout beacon and a CoBrowse script on both front and backend of the site, for the current user only, for the duration of 4 hours. This allows the user to co-browse with…

20207 releases

  1. Yoast Test Helper 1.11

    • Release Date: December 2nd, 2020
    • Bugfixes:
    • Fixes a bug where a deprecated jQuery function was used.

  2. Yoast Test Helper 1.10

    • Release Date: November 17th, 2020
    • Bugfixes:
    • Fixes a bug where the Start SEO Data optimization button was not shown after resetting the indexables tables and migrations.
    • Fixes a bug where no notification was shown to reindex your site when resetting the indexables tables and migrations, the prominent words table, and the internal link count.
    • Fixes a bug where the Reset indexables tables & migrations functionality did not reset the internal link count transients.
    • Other:
    • Makes the plugin translatable.

  3. Yoast Test Helper 1.9

    • Release Date: October 6th, 2020
    • Bugfixes:
    • Fixes a bug where the link columns could not be emptied due to an incorrect table name.
    • Fixes a bug where links could be attached to the wrong indexables when resetting the indexable tables and migrations.

  4. Yoast Test Helper 1.8

    • Release Date: July 8th, 2020
    • Enhancements:
    • Added resets for indexables related options when using the Yoast Test Helper to reset the indexables and migrations.
    • Added resets for prominent word related functionality when using the Yoast Test Helper to reset the prominent words calculation.
    • Bugfixes:
    • Fixes the database versions keys the plugin checks for Video SEO and WooCommerce SEO as they’ve been changed in these plugins.

  5. Yoast Test Helper 1.7

    • Release Date: June 2nd, 2020
    • Enhancements:
    • Drops the table for prominent words (used by our internal linking functionality, among others) when you hit reset indexables.
    • Some minor code style fixes.

  6. Yoast Test Helper 1.6

    • Release Date: April 9th, 2020
    • Enhancements:
    • Removed the feature toggle for internal linking as it’s no longer in use.
    • Changed the order of admin boxes to be more logical.
    • Bugfixes:
    • Fix fatal error with debug panel.
    • Under the hood:
    • If an integration returns an empty string for its form controls, don’t output the admin block.
    • Several QA fixes and CS fixes.
    • Travis now builds for PRs.
    • Added a .gitattributes for more easy exporting.

  7. Yoast Test Helper 1.5

    • Release Date: April 3rd, 2020
    • Enhancements:
    • Added a button to reset your database to pre-Indexables state. When running an indexables branch this causes all migrations to re-run and thus all tables to be created cleanly.
    • Added a button to reset the configuration wizard state.
    • Permalinks now reset after enabling custom post types.
    • Bugfixes:
    • Fixes a bug where saving the Influence schema setting wouldn’t work.
    • General:
    • Switched to YoastCS 2.0 and changed the auto-loading process.

Questions about Yoast Test Helper’s releases

What is the latest version of Yoast Test Helper?

1.19, released on Oct 6, 2026 (1 month ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Yoast Test Helper updated?

2 releases in the last year, about one every 141 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from April 2020.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Yoast Test Helper’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.