Yoast WordPress SEO totally disappeared from dashboard side even though active

I recently de-activated the bad behavior plugin, so I suspect this may have something to do with it? Any ideas?

I am having the same problem. The fields below the posts to enter keyword data is gone.

I unticked the box and it was back at
wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_titles#top#post_types

Unchecked what box? My whole control panel for WordPress SEO is missing on the left hand side, even though the plugin is switched on and active.

Anyone have any idea how to get the plugin to show up on the left hand side dashboard again so I can use it? This is very frustrating!

Try uninstall and re-install. Then de-activate all plugins but this one and see.

Will my yoast settings still be there if I uninstall the plugin and reinstall it? I don’t want to delete what I already have set up. Where is the Yoast data saved?

I don’t know. Sorry. Take a backup. And ask your host to assist. Then delete and re-activate to see if it works.

Have you de-activated all your plugins but Yoast?

What happens if I deactivate my plugins? Do I lose all my settings in them? Or are they just turned off?

Maybe the next Yoast update will fix the issue when I upgrade?

I am experiencing the same thing SEO has vanished from admin left side bar it is however at the top admin bar BUT without the import/export field etc!

Clearly an issue with a number of us here going on…that needs sorting hope the developer comes up with a solution as frankly reluctant to deactivate, re install etc if all previous yoast seo work to pages and their snippets gets deleted!

Please someone help us here…
Corina

This happened to me too – I checked my Google rank for my top few key phrases tonight and found I’d slipped to the second page. When I logged in I got a message that WordPress SEO had been deactivated because the plugin folder was missing. It was fine last Friday when I last was on the site, and no one else has touched it since then.

To answer some of the questions asked here:
* If you deactivate, your settings will still be saved.
* If you uninstall through the WP Admin interface, they will be removed.
* If you uninstall by deleting the directory through FTP, your settings will remain.

If you want to use the WP Admin uninstall & re-install, but want to keep your settings: use phpMyAdmin to export the rows starting with “wpseo_” from the options table in your database. After uninstalling, these rows will be gone and you can import them again through phpMyAdmin to get your settings back.

The most likely cause of the menu not showing up is an error preventing the PHP script from finishing. Yoast’s menu items normally appear quite low on the list and an error before that bit is printed to the screen could prevent them from ever being printed.

Could you tell me what – if any – error you see in your error log ? or on the screen/in the page source if you have WP_DEBUG enabled ?

If you are currently not logging PHP errors, have a look at this code which you can add to your wp-config.php file.
It will log any and all php errors to a file, independently of whether you have WP_DEBUG set to true. That way you can keep track of PHP issues on a live website.

I’d be very interested to hear if any errors relating to this issue show up in the log.

Be aware: logging errors will generally scare the living daylights out of most people as they suddenly start realising how many plugins are throwing errors….

Hope this helps!

Smile,
Juliette

I had the same thing happen to me except that the WordPress SEO plugin was also not showing up on the plugins page. The problem turned out to be some missing files in the WordPress SEO folder. I don’t know how the files were deleted — probably something I did wrong. Anyway, if some files are missing from that folder, the plugin may not show up anymore although still installed. Since checking that folder for missing files is easy, it can’t hurt to take a quick look. Just a thought.

Ron