No longer functionally viable

  • robbielokeoys

    (@robbielokeoys)


    3 months ago

    I used to enjoy Yoast SEO and have used it for many years on several sites. Since the latest WordPress update Yoast is almost completely unusable. It used to take me an hour to complete a post, now it takes two because the input fields are mostly unresponsive. Everything slows down to a crawl, comparable to working with dial up in the mid 90s.

    The only “solution” offered seems to be to deactivate numerous other plugins or themes, which is not practical. If Yoast is causing so many conflicts with other popular plugins or themes the solution isn’t to demand we abandon all those plugins, the solution is to improve your plugin to make it compatible and usable again.

    I am on the cusp of removing Yoast from all my sites in favor of something that doesn’t slow everything down to a snail’s pace. I am not prepared to remove half a dozen other necessary plugins just to appease one, nor am I prepared to change the entire theme and appearance of my sites just to make Yoast functional.

    If you’re happy to spend all day just trying to write a post while waiting for Yoast to get its act together and populate meta fields, you might find this plugin useful. If your time is more valuable than the minor benefit this plugin might offer, I would say try something else and save yourself the hassle.

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  • Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Hi @robbielokeoys

    Thank you for taking the time to write about your experience with the Yoast SEO plugin.

    We understand that it takes an hour to two hours to update a post or page, which is definitely unacceptable. However, we do try to make sure that Yoast SEO is compatible with a wide range of plugins, themes, and of course, the latest versions of WordPress. Each setup is different, so we usually advocate for a conflict check, to identify if there is indeed a plugin or theme that is conflicting with Yoast SEO so we can address it. If you have the free version of Yoast SEO, please feel free to open a new forum topic and provide all of the information (like visible error messages when trying to update a post or page) and why it would take two hours before finally updating, so we can try and troubleshoot it further. If you have an active premium subscription, please feel free to reach out to the support team directly so we can check on it.

    Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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