Error message when widget blog feed can't be loaded

[hedgefield]

If a user has an ad/tracker blocker installed (like Privacy Badger), the blogpost feed in our dashboard widget won't be loaded. That is technically the intended behavior, but we give no indication that there should even be a feed, so many people might not even know they're blocking parts of our plugin (including me).

When our blog feed gets blocked, show this message in its place:

We could not establish a connection to yoast.com to retrieve the blog feed. Are you using an ad blocker?

[IreneStr]

Change of plans: remove the Latest blogposts on Yoast.com heading (+ the introduced text) entirely when the blog posts cannot be loaded.

[BINDUVANI]

I want to contribute , May i ?

[jeroenrotty]

Hey @BINDUVANI,
Sure thing, you are free to send in a community PR - see more info here https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/trunk/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

[YATHARTH-Sriv]

is this is issue still open I would like to contribute

[josevarghese]

Hi @YATHARTH-Sriv

Thanks for the comment and for your interest in contributing to our plugin. Upon checking this issue at my end to reproduce it, I noticed that the heading "Latest blog posts on Yoast.com" is no longer showing when the requests to the feed widget from Yoast.com are blocked based on the change of plans mentioned over here.

To confirm this, are you noticing the same result at your end or messages like "We could not establish a connection to yoast.com to retrieve the blog feed? Are you using an ad blocker?" when it's blocked via any other way?

We look forward to hearing from you.