Seems that Yoast SEO last version is back supporting WP 4.9.
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I noticed that too, guess they got some backlash, or saw their numbers drop as people looked for an alternative.
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Youād never know that from the changelog, though!
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Could be. I know I shared some stuff on Twitter about itā¦ 
New announcement from Yoast:
All support for WP versions other than 5.2 and 5.3 will be dropped.
Time to fork the plugin.
Or time to use Rank Math.
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Hereās all the older versions of Yoast if youāre interested in taking on a fork.
Easierā¦I havenāt updated Yoast in months and itās working fine. I donāt have the latest schema improvements, but, Iām still ranking on the first page for my targeted queries. I bumped the version number to 100 to keep it from nagging me to update. Works for me. ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
āā¦ If you held off updating to 5.0ā¦ā is the culprit.
They are targeting this specific segment.
For WP real danger comes from the people not updating to Gutenberg. They were aware a big slice of their market would go away, so they coped with that. They were also aware they needed people to validate their choice. That is not happening, so they are forcing validation.
The above, like I said on slack, is a menace. From a linguistic point of view it can be reduced to the nuclear sentence āupgrade, or elseā.
As a user, it scares me. As a user I would immediately migrate to something else.
I can understand they want real supporters on board, but their approach is IMHO leading WP to decline.
WP was born with freedom in mindā¦
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Hi Everyone
I run a website (Businessdumped) on Wordpress and i am using Yoast from 1 year.
But now after a recent update in Yoast SEO plugin. I canāt add Meta Description in my blogs.
Can anyone help me out to solve this problem?
Sarah
Are you running your site on WordPress or ClassicPress?
As far as I know, Joost was against Mattās recent actions, and he left Slack, and maybe he will add more CP support in the future and make those Dashboard notifications more friendly.
@ginmi Forking and updating/maintaining the plugin would be a full-time job.
I have created my own SEO plugin with only what I need, with no additional resources, no React, no JavaScript, no traffic system checks for readability, insights and so on. I only tackled the technical side, which is enough for most users.
The traffic system rating of posts and pages is not perfect, itās mostly flawed, it includes lots of language rules (when most users only need ONE). Itās placebo.
In other news, still related, I have just released version 1.8.2 of my W3P SEO plugin, along with a very detailed documentation section.