v2.4.0

• Enhancement: Adds a new Automation configuration to set sections, themes, and other metadata based on taxonomic association for a selected term in the selected taxonomy. This system replaces the Sections configuration previously in use and Sections settings will auto-migrate to the new system.
• Enhancement: Adds UI controls to set options for whether posts should be deleted from Apple News when unpublished in WordPress.
• Enhancement: Adds support for Apple Podcast embeds.
• Enhancement: Adds support for TikTok embeds.
• Enhancement: Makes layout width a configurable property in the theme editor.
• Enhancement: Includes the original article ID in the duplicate article error message.
• Enhancement: Allows publishers to opt out of automatically adding video metadata on posts that contain videos on a per-post basis.
• Enhancement: Disables dropcap when the first paragraph is under a certain character limit and when it starts with punctuation. Adds theme settings to configure this behavior.
• Enhancement: Updates the link button style for all themes to match the Apple standard button style.
• Enhancement: Allows publishers to configure whether images should use the Image or Photo component on a per-post basis. (Photos are tap-to-enlarge whereas Images are not.)
• Bugfix: Capitalizes the word "By" in the default byline and author components.
• Bugfix: Fixes the display of the table component in dark mode to properly apply selected dark mode colors.
• Bugfix: Fixes an issue where posts duplicated by Yoast Duplicate Post are associated with the same article ID in Apple News and updates overwrite the original post.
• Deprecation: Removes official support for PHP 5.6 and 7.0.