Disable Yoast on pages with particular string in URL

Hello Stephen,

Thanks for reaching out about disabling Yoast SEO for custom pages.

Is places a custom post type? You can disable the feature on specific post types without adding code to your theme’s functions.php file. Please take a look at https://yoast.com/help/how-to-enable-disable-the-keyword-analysis/

Thanks Maybellyne – no it’s not a custom post type – it’s built with a plugin that creates a url structure to combine 2 taxonomies, so it’s an unusual situation – for example in rankmath i was able to add code to the functions file like this, but i wonder is there something similar for yoast

<?php
add_action( 'wp_head', 'rankmath_disable_features',1);
function rankmath_disable_features() {
  if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "/places/") !== false){
	remove_all_actions( 'rank_math/head');
	 }
}
?>

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by stephenoconnor.

Any feedback?

i suppose it will be

<?php
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'remove_wpseo' );

/**
 * Removes output from Yoast SEO on the frontend for a specific post, page or custom post type.
 */
function remove_wpseo() {
    if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "/places/") !== false){
        $front_end = YoastSEO()->classes->get( Yoast\WP\SEO\Integrations\Front_End_Integration::class );

        remove_action( 'wpseo_head', [ $front_end, 'present_head' ], -9999 );
    }
}
?>

thanks anyway