“Upgrade WordPress to the most recent version” warning

Could you please check if you are using the most updated version of WordPress 5.4.1 and if not, then update accordingly?

If you temporarily deactivate the Yoast SEO plugin and then reactivate it, does the notification go away?

It didn’t go away.

Hi @bokis75 ,

If the warning does not go away even after disabling Yoast and clearing your site cache, then the issue is not caused by Yoast. Can you please go to Dashboard > Updates and check if the message is shown there as well?

Let me clarify. It went away after I disabled the plugin. Why? Because the error message shows up in Yoast dashboard. Then it got back again in Yoast dashboard after I activated it. This was a problem om a single install that was fixed: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/updated-wordpress-version-but-yoast-still-showing-warning/

It also only show on the subsites on my multisite.

Screenshot: https://ibb.co/ggqsNn7

Using the built-in WordPress Site Health tool, please check what version of WordPress you are running under the ‘Info’ tab.

If you do have have the Site Health option, you are running an older WordPress version. You can check the exact version by clicking on the WordPress logo in the upper right corner or under Admin > My Sites > Network Admin > Dashboard > Updates

Please let us know which WordPress version is installed on your site? As for the multisite, are you using a subdirectory or subdomain install? What was the Yoast version you had installed prior to updating to Yoast SEO 14.0.4?

Hi,

as mentioned before, everything is updated. I’m so sorry for being unclear.

I’m using subdirectories for the subsites.

Unfortunately I can’t remember what version I had before updating to 14.0.4.

I had a look in my backups and it looks like it was 13.3.

@bokis75

We understand you had v14.0.4 of Yoast and were getting a notification asking you to update your WordPress. We understand you have v5.3.x OR v5.4.1 of WordPress on your site.

In this manner, we if you have the most recent Yoast plugin (v14.0.4) and a recent WordPress we would not expect that notification to appear.

We are not able to reproduce this issue on our staging sites. Does clearing your caching from your theme, plugin, server, CDN like CloudFlare or browser resolve the issue? If you are not sure how to clear caching from theme/plugin please speak to those authors. If you want to clear cache from the server, please speak to your host provider. To clear the cache from a browser use this guide: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-clear-my-browsers-cache/.

If clearing the cache still fails to resolve the issue and everything (WordPress, Yoast and all your non-Yoast plugins) are updated and the issue continues, based on the information you provided, we expect this to be a bug.

We’re actively using the bug tracking on our GitHub repository so your best next step would be to create a new issue for our developers at https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/new. You will need an account to create a new issue.

If this is your first bug report, please check out: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-write-a-good-bug-report/.

We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.