First time SEO configuration?

since support hasn’t responded yet, this happened to me as well v17.7 on all sites i’ve checked too. just did maintenance on 12 sites and everyone needed a re-indexing… (faster running it via wp-cli)

but it appears this “first time config” gets triggered if there is any value other than 0 in these 2 tables.

_transient_wpseo_unindexed_post_link_count
_transient_wpseo_unindexed_term_link_count

why? no clue… but i’m assuming this is to probably fix a previous error w/ indexing possibly hanging. that or they adjusted some DB schema again, but it doesn’t appear to be any changes to the DB since v14… https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2630776%40wordpress-seo&old=2630555%40wordpress-seo&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

quality has really gone down hill in the plugin department this year.

actually bad information here…
was trying to test with Yoast Test Helper and those notices are user specific and wasn’t thinking. but setting those table rows to 0 will mitigate the long intensive process of indexing… not sure the consequence, but better than crawling a heavy trafficked server… took over 12 minutes to complete running this from the admin locally on one site…

will wait for what yoast has to say about this in a couple days.

Hello @sean-h,

Thanks for reaching out regarding the configuration workout. We are sorry that the configuration workout is jarring. Since you are satisfied with how your sites using Yoast SEO have been configured, you may skip the configuration workout.

@scotttrsar We are sorry you’re having a seemingly similar issue. Please open a new request. That way it’s easier to track issues and provide assistance. Thanks!

Hi @maybellyne

The thing is, the ‘workout’ (can you not find a better term? Workouts are something you do in a gym) page still says 0/5 steps completed. Can the plugin not detect that all steps have already been completed prior to the latest update and show 5/5? Or, will the latest update un-configure my sites? I have in fact updated only 1 so far and I did the ‘workout’, yet I am very hesitant to update the rest until I get some clarity. I really don’t feel like re-configuring the others.

Suppose I update any plugin or WP core and the update page still says updates are needed? Do I just ignore that? No. Same with this Yoast Workout. Either my site is configured or not and the Yoast plugin must reflect that accordingly.

Thanks for the feedback, Sean.

Our developers are investigating the issue. There will be a patch that will remove the notification if your site isn’t a first-time or if you have performed a couple of steps in the workout.

Thanks for your patience.

Fixed.