Thank you for updating WordPress SEO by Yoast? Why do I see this 10 times a day?

Same problem here. Every time I update another plugin I see this

Same here. All links in my admin panel redirect to this URL:

https://mysite.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_dashboard&intro=1

It’s REALLY IRRITATING! I am managing 40+ sites and have been seeing it constantly. I just got notice of an automatic update to 4.1.4 with this message:

For more on version 4.1.4, see the About WordPress screen:
https://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/about.php

When I clicked on the link, did I learn about 4.1.4? No, I was congratulated for having updated WP SEO last week! It took several minutes to manage to get back to the screen I wanted.

Yoast evidently thinks that WP SEO is more important than WP Core.

I just invited Yoast to the thread.

Looking at the code… In wordpress-seo/admin/class-admin-init.php there is an action hook:

add_action( 'admin_init', array( $this, 'redirect_to_about_page' ), 15 );

I’m thinking it wouldn’t be hard to unhook that… ?? Let me know if you get to it before I do.

+1

Why Yoast thinks it’s OK to hijack the main WP Dashboard is beyond me. Unprecedentedly obnoxious.

+1 as this hijacks ANY action after update, even if you’re trying to access another settings page.

I have good news and bad news. Normally it would be easy to unhook the function, but Yoast is using a method in an instantiated class. Since I’m not inside that instance, I can’t just:

remove_action( 'admin_init', array( $this, 'redirect_to_about_page' ), 15 );

I looked to see if there is a global variable attached to the instance, but there is not. The instance is created inside wp-seo-main.php, and the action is added as part of the instance creation:

function wpseo_admin_init() {
	new WPSEO_Admin_Init();
}

So remove_action is out. I then found remove_all_actions https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/remove_all_actions, which has more power. ?? You can remove all actions that are hooked at a specified priority on a specified hook. The WP SEO action is hooked at priority 15. I searched all of WordPress and the plugins I have installed and found no others at priority 15. So I tested the following code, and it works:

add_action( 'admin_init', 'cool_down_wpseo', 14 );
function cool_down_wpseo () {
	remove_all_actions( 'admin_init', 15 );
}

But of course this is a Bad Idea, as we don’t know when someone might hook another action onto admin_init at priority 15.

So I’m stumped. Anyone have another suggestion?

Donna

Thanks for the distraction guys ?? Honestly I am not a fan of this either, I wouldn’t mind if the updates weren’t so frequent.

Let me know if there are any questions.

https://gist.github.com/kevinpmiller/1c1fbb8b781764aa4fff

Nice! Thanks, @kevin!

I built a plugin with Kevin’s code. Let us know if it works for you!
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-seo-humility/

Good news! The new plugin is already going obsolete. Yoast just released WP SEO 2.2, which includes the following:

Redirect to about
Quite a few people complained about the redirect to our about page after an update. We’ve heard you and changed how it works. You’ll now get a dismissible notice with a link to the release notes, we’ll no longer redirect you.

https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-2-2/