Can you stop with your annoying notifications?

Hi @kingmanu,

Thanks for your comment.

We are sorry to hear you find the Yoast notifications annoying. Can you please let us know which notifications annoy you especially?

Did you refer to the “Make sure you don’t miss out on traffic!” notification that appears after deleting a post? When you move a post to trash, Yoast SEO shows a notification suggesting you create a redirect to avoid a 404 error on the deleted URL. This notification shouldn’t prevent you from using the plugin normally and you can close it by just clicking the X icon in the upper right-hand corner.

Hey @monbauza,

I am talking about the notification about

New in Yoast SEO 14.9: We now have Hebrew keyphrase recognition and some great performance improvements! Read all about version 14.9 here

I have 5 websites, do I really have to see this thing on my admin panel on all of them? Then click on each one of them to hide this notification?

What if all plugins did this at every update?

You have my email, you can send an update there if you consider it that important, not spam every WordPress website that has your plugin with your “new and important updates”.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by kingmanu.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by kingmanu.

Hi @kingmanu,

Thanks for the clarification.

We can imagine that you don’t need to see the same notification on all your websites and how this can be annoying. We’ve recently submitted a feature request to our developers to make the notification fully dismissable. We can’t guarantee that the feature will be added to the plugin but at least our developers will review the request and take it into consideration when planning for updates.

Thanks!

Ok, thanks for your reply. I hope it gets fixed because I like this plugin otherwise.

Yes please stop these notifications. It stresses me out to and are 100% pointless. Please remove this or at least make it optional.Thanks a bunch in advance.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Kenneth R.N.

I Googled “how to clear Yoast notifications” and found this thread. I have over 50 WordPress sites, so you can imagine how annoying it is for me! And even if I go to the Yoast General page and click through to https://yoa.st/yoast14-9, the notification persists. It should at LEAST disappear after I’ve looked at it!!

@loudfan Wow, that’s have to be pretty annoying on 50 websites. I hope they listen to reason and stop being a pain for its users.

There are tons of other plugins that can still exist without being a nuisance.

Hi @kennethrimm and @loudfan,

Thanks for your feedback.

We’ve already let our developers know about your interest in making this type of notifications fully dismissable. In the meantime, you should be able to hide the notification clicking on the strikethrough eye icon that appears next to the notification. We understand that this solution may not be ideal for you though.

Hi @monbauza

Thanks for the feedback.

Yes — PLEASE stop this annoying notification.

PLEASE make these annoying notifications go away. There is no excuse for not having an easy way to dismiss these or opt out entirely. This shouldn’t even be an issue in a well-designed plugin

In the meanwhile, I get another notification from Yoast, because they want to advertise their blog posts.

@monbauza,

We are affected as well.

Can you provide a status on this? What Yoast SEO plugin revision will this be incorporated into?

Thank you!

Hi @jetxpert,

Thanks for your comment.

The request is still open so it’s not decided yet whether the feature to fully dismiss notifications will be built in our plugin.

We’ve added all the users that have commented on this thread to the feature request. This lets our developers know the number of people that would like to see this feature incorporated into Yoast SEO.

Hey @kennethrimm @loudfan @tcloud @thetravelgal @jetxpert

Until they release an update on this, you can add this to your functions.php to make it go away.

Tested it out myself and it works!

add_filter( 'wpseo_update_notice_content', '__return_null' );

Someone called Taco from Yoast told me this after I complained on their FB page.

This is a fix we don’t have to do ourselves! I’m going to keep my low rating on their plugin until they fix this.