28.4-RC1

Changes compared to: 28.3

Enhancements:

• Adds the Yoast bulk editor to the WordPress admin bulk-actions menu, with needs-improvement filtering, smart selection, and AI-powered SEO title and description generation. #23552

Bugfixes:

• Fixes a bug where the AI generator's tip to write more content was not shown for posts whose content consisted mostly of block markup, because the markup was counted as content. #23507

Non user facing:

• Adds shift+click range selection to the bulk editor, animate the AI notices banner slide-in, and wire shiftKey through the row-toggle seam. #23511
• Fixes a bug where the bulk editor showed empty SEO title, meta description, social title, and social description columns for posts whose values were never explicitly saved, even when the post type had a configured default template. #23538
• Fixes a bug where the search query and filters persisted when switching between content types in the Bulk Editor. #23514
• Clears an active "needs improvement" filter in the bulk editor when switching between the Search appearance and Social appearance tabs. #23540
• Shortens some file names as they can cause issues in Windows-based development environments. #23531
• Adds "needs improvement" filter options to the bulk editor filter dropdown, matching posts with an empty or weakly-scored SEO title or meta description. #23438
• Adds an error modal to update Yoast SEO Premium version on the bulk editor page when premium version in not supported. #23546
• Adds the my yoast connection data to the bulk editor redux store. #23461
• Fixes a bug where dismissing a bulk editor notice triggered a browser aria-hidden warning because focus remained inside the AnimateHeight wrapper during collapse. #23554
• Adds quality-based options to the bulk editor's Select menu that select posts whose SEO title or meta description need improvement. #23470
• Fixes a bug where the AI generator's tip to write more content was not shown for posts whose content consisted mostly of block markup, because the markup was counted as content. #23507
• Adds a Bulk edit feature to overview pages related to each supported post type. #23488
• Adds a Bulk edit feature to overview pages related to each supported post type. #23488
• Deprecates the legacy src/ai-* AI modules and the Old_Premium_AI_Conditional / New_Premium_Or_Free_AI_Conditional gating helpers in favour of the reorganized src/ai/ modules. #23227
• Adds input validation warnings and backend sync to the bulk editor focus keyphrase field. #23534
• Updated dev dependencies #23542