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thanks!

it also works with 3.8.8.

Good to know! Thanks.

Thankfully, 3.8.8 is still working great!

err, 3.8.8 I meant:)

THanks for sending that, I was looking trying to find it!

Wow, I assumed with as long as the beta testing period lasted, it would be more ready for primetime.

Guess waiting another week would be a smart move as the 3.8.8 version is still working fine.

Thanks for that update.

Thanks, when I saw the ones about it slowing down website loading time, I thought it would be wise to wait!

Yeah, it’s so bizarre how things have gone so awry.

Now, I have to use this version of the plugin over the premium one since the premium one causes our news site to slow to a crawl. Older versions work great of this. We had our host server (Liquid Web) spend literally over 20 hours figuring out what was going on and it’s the plugin.

First time this has ever happened with this one, and usually Yoast is real quick with fixes that last. Hopefully this doesn’t get like that W3 Total Cache where it became so popular, it got too unwieldy for many users.

for a Premium plugin it seems we’re having to do some weird extra work for it now. we did the Permalinks and rank the Optimize but still after each article published the slowdown begins.

we did notice that if we uncheck the show links and prominent keywords, the problems go away, but that is actually the only reason why we bought the upgrade.

it’s just odd that the free version works perfectly and I keep explaining to their support team that after 8 hours investigating we pinpointed exactly where the problem is. It’s just the last 2 updates in the premium stuff.

The fact that its happening to others in exactly the same way should tell them something. Never had any issues with the plugin either and we’ve had it since it was called WordPress SEO back in 2010 or 2011.

There’s definitely something up with the update as we’ve noticed that every time we publish a news article, our backend slows down and then our front end begins to do the same.

We have the Premium version which has been really buggy with last 2 updates but when we downgrade to the free version, everything works amazing. It seems to making a lot of calls somewhere but we just can’t figure out where.

if you go back to the freebie 4.3 version, it should go back to normal.

I don’t know what they’re doing, but I tried the beta they sent which crashed our site and the latest 4.3.1 is dragging the backend of the site down to be very very very slow.

Funny, as I had the premium version but the free version is the one that works.

Found the fix and it’s the ironic one.

Installing the free Yoast Seo plugin does the trick. Guess that $69 Premium doesn’t cover the problem updates can cause. So the $69 premium plugin is deactivated while the free one is activated and working.

did that and still having the slowdown problem which is causing our site to crash out too. Have now sent 3 emails to premium support with no answer.

sad when I get an answer on the free plugin section and not the premium when we paid for that.

only thing that’s working for our site is when we deactivate the Yoast SEO (Premium) and News plugins. Then our site is back to normal and works perfectly.

Hopefully someone over there gets the message something’s up with the latest update.

I’ve sent 2 to premium support (as having both of them) but no answers.

Thanks!

We had to install the Raven Google News plugin since as a news site, we need that plugin.

Did you have a slowdown on the backend after the update today too? Ours has come to a crawl after update and Liquid Web trying to figure this out.