- Released
- October 21, 2026
- Channel
- Stable
- Tested with WordPress
- 7.1
- Product
- WPML SEO
Changelog
Support for Yoast SEO Schema Aggregation, SEO heads per language over REST, and 25 fixes for Yoast SEO and Rank Math.
What's new
- Yoast SEO 27.1 Schema Aggregation is fully supported on multilingual sites.
- REST requests for a page's SEO head return it in that page's language.
- Yoast SEO's readability analysis runs in the language of the content, not the admin language.
- Rank Math sitemaps include the translated archive pages of custom post types.
- Changes made in Yoast SEO's bulk editor update the translation status of the post.
Performance
- Faster pages: WPML and WPML SEO take far fewer call-stack traces, including on every read of Yoast SEO term data in the admin.
Fixes
- With Yoast SEO's category-base stripping and No Category Base (WPML), /favicon.ico no longer redirects to itself endlessly.
- Rank Math XML sitemap pages no longer repeat some posts and drop others when posts share a modified time, with a domain per language.
- Sitemap pagination is correct.
- Rank Math Shop sitemap hreflang alternates use each language's own slug on every domain.
- Yoast SEO Shop sitemap hreflang alternates use each language's own slug on every domain.
- Yoast SEO Premium redirects with a domain or parameter per language no longer capture the other language's URL or point to the default domain.
- Rank Math primary terms of other taxonomies are copied and mapped to translations.
- The Rank Math breadcrumb Home link points to the home page in the current language.
- IndexNow accepts the URLs of every language, because the IndexNow plugin no longer places its key location in a language directory.
- Rank Math with IndexNow submits second-language URLs when the default language uses a directory.
- Rank Math's Instant Indexing submits the correct URL for translated content automatically.
- The text values of every Rank Math schema type can be translated.
- Rank Math accepts a translated URL on its own language domain when building the page head.
- Approving translation reviews works with Rank Math SEO PRO and customized permalinks.
- With Rank Math's Remove Base setting on, REST requests are no longer redirected to a product whose slug matches the endpoint.
- Rank Math's custom author base slug is translated.
- Product category archive URLs work in secondary languages after upgrading WooCommerce Multilingual to 5.6.x, also on sites that had the base translated.
- Yoast SEO meta fields set to Copy are synchronized to translations.
- Yoast SEO's primary category syncs to translations for custom taxonomies.
- Yoast SEO meta descriptions show on duplicated pages.
- The "Hreflang tags moved to your sitemap" notice reaches admins in every admin language.
- Search results pages no longer show a PHP 8.1+ "ltrim(): Passing null" deprecation notice when Yoast SEO breadcrumbs are enabled.
- Calendar embeds no longer cause "urlencode(): Passing null" deprecation warnings.
- When a headless site asks Yoast SEO for the home page's head over REST, the social title and description now match the page in that language.
- Built and released together with WPML 5.2.0, with the same shared library version.
Read the release announcement for WPML 5.2 for the full story behind this version.
Update or download
The update is available to all WPML clients with an active subscription — it appears on the Plugins page in your WordPress admin within 24 hours of release. You can also check for it right away under Plugins → Add New Plugin → Commercial. To download and install manually, go to Downloads in your wpml.org account (see the installation instructions) and remember to update all components together without mixing versions.
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