Deactivate Yoast without losing any settings?

If you want to perform the conflict check manually, you can certainly do so by following the steps in this article — https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-check-for-plugin-conflicts/

If you deactivate the Yoast SEO plugin for only a brief time, this shouldn’t affect your rankings or traffic. However, please do note that the metadata (such as open graph tags) or the other features like the content and keyword analysis will not work while the plugin is deactivated.

We recommend you perform a plugin conflict check on a staging site so you do not affect your production website. Some popular web hosts offer quick setups for a staging site so please contact your web host for assistance.

If your web host does not offer staging sites, this article will help you create a staging site — https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-staging-environment-for-a-wordpress-site/

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