Constant spam notice when deleting post

Hi @ypraise,

Thanks for your comment.

When you move a post to trash, the URL of the deleted post can still receive traffic. Search engines and your visitors will see a 404 when trying to visit the deleted post. That’s why Yoast SEO advises you to create a redirect (using Yoast SEO Premium) for the non-existing URL.

We understand that you don’t want to see this type of warnings, however, it’s not possible to disable them. You may want to submit a feature request to our plugin repository. Our developers will review it and make a decision when planning updates.

Thanks!

I second this. Some of us use other redirection plugins and this Yoast notice is becoming annoying since it even occupies other custom pages such as those by page builders.

yep,

Just had to pop into my permalinks setting page and noticed Yoast is spamming there as well.

Hi @ypraise,

If you change your permalink settings, Yoast SEO will throw a notice (see screenshot) warning you that your search engine visibility can be affected and recommending making this type of changes on a staging site. The aim of Yoast is to help you improve your SEO and make you aware of any possible SEO implications that changes to the WP backend may bring to your website, so we don’t think this notice can be considered as spam.

Someone already made a request on this issue on Github but it has not been answered https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/11520

They said it loud and clear in the GitHub issue that @politicske is refering to:

We understand the notices can be a bit annoying but we are not going to remove them.

If you really want them gone, you can dig into our code and unhook the hooks that trigger them.

If anyone wanna take the time to locate the hook. Please share the code if you locate it.

I understand that since it is a free plugin, they try to encourage users to purchase the “pro” version. But still, i think the way they are doing it is a little bit overkill.

If users didn’t already purchase it first time, they are unlikely to purchase it at all. At that point it works only as an annoying notice that tries to “force” users to purchase it just to avoid that notice lol.

Check this file @ypraise : wordpress-seo/admin/watchers/class-slug-change-watcher.php

@boutzamat thanks for that! I am in the process of disposing of Yoast SEO anyway.

@politicske You’re welcome. I don’t blame you. I’m seriously considering too.
When someone gets too popular, it gets over their head ??

Be on the radar for Rank Math.

Settled for the SEO Framework. The best choice I have made.