I was in the same situation as Andy Leppard and removed line 18 which allowed Yoast SEO to appear in the Publish panel. I was also having trouble getting the “Edit” links for Status, Visibility, and Published to work.
Now that Line 18 is gone, there’s an issue with the date picker. When I set the expiration, the calendar comes up and I can select a date (November 17, 2016), but this is what gets input in the box.
20162016-11-17
If I leave it and “Update” the post, after the edit screen reloads I see that the expiration time is the exact date and time when I updated the post which causes it to become instantly expired. I can go and Edit the expiration date and time and manually change the values to the date and time I really wanted, press Ok, and update and the values stay. So that’s good at least.
If I didn’t have multiple authors writing on my site, I would just give them the work around, but I don’t want to do that because some are NOT tech savvy and this will cause more work for the rest of my team. I hope you can find a way to fix the issue. Thanks!