Yoast has moved to right hand column

Hello @aerta,

Thanks for reaching out. Since v23.4, we have improved the look of the Yoast SEO meta box in the block editor by centering it and using a background color to make it stand out more. We haven’t received reports of this obscuring content so you may be referring to something else. Please provide us with screenshots that highlight the issue you are experiencing. You can use any image-sharing service like https://pasteboard.co/, https://snag.gy/, https://imgur.com/, https://snipboard.io/, or even upload the screenshot to your own website. Once you upload it to an image-sharing service, please share the link to the image here.

Thanks for responding.

Here’s the link to the screenshot:

https://aerta.co.uk/yoast-screenshot/

The Yoast SEO has moved to the dashboard right-hand column – over the top of the usual content. I’ve tried deactivating all the plugins, changing the theme, changing the PHP to a previous version, and I’ve tried dragging the Yoast panel to under the edit window – and none of this has worked.

This isn’t a problem with Gutenberg but I prefer to use Classic.

@aerta I solved with this thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/yoast-seo-back-from-sidebar-to-bottom/

The screenshot is very helpful, @aerta! This isn’t related to the v23.4 update or your PHP version but WordPress bugging you. Click screen options in the top right and ensure the Yoast SEO box is checked. See screenshot.

Hi Bosendorfer,
I’m afraid your thread doesn’t solve my problem, for the following reasons:

1. Go to the add new post screen.
2. If the sidebar?DOES NOT?show ‘Post’ and ‘Block’, click on the gear icon next to the ‘Publish button’.

I am using the Classic editor. There is no gear icon next to the Publish button

1. Click the kebab three-dot menu.

There is no three-dot menu

1. Click on ‘Preferences’.

There are no ‘Preferences’

1. Under ‘Panels’, check ‘Custom fields’ and ‘Yoast SEO’.

There are no Panels

Maybelline: when editing a page or post I have ensured that the Yoast SEO box is ticked in Screen Options. When I untick it, Yoast disappears from the right-hand column and the usual Publish, Format, Categories etc boxes are revealed and I can save my edits. When I tick the Yoast SEO box in Screen Options, Yoast SEO appears once again over the top of the usual content on the right-hand column, rendering the update button, page attributes box, Featured image box etc. unreachable.

I guess if there’s no solution to this issue I will need to untick Yoast SEO, save my edits and then tick Yoast SEO, making any SEO changes in the right-hand column – where it appears to have migrated from its previous position under the page/post editing window.

Please share a full screenshot of what your screen options look like

https://aerta.co.uk/yoast-screenshot/

PDF of entire WP dashboard here:

https://aerta.co.uk/yoast-pdf/

Hi @aerta

When you see the Yoast sidebar on the right side, can you minimize it using the triangle icon? From this screenshot, it is not clear whether the triangle icon appears like this screenshot?

From my local end, I can drag and drop the Yoast SEO metabox from bottom to right. So can you kindly confirm if you can minimize Yoast SEO and then do you see the publish button?

Yes, I can see the triangle and arrow icons if I scroll all the way to the right. I can minimise the Yoast box:

https://aerta.co.uk/yoast-screenshot/

Have you tried dragging the meta box from the sidebar to the bottom of the editor?

I can drag Yoast to the bottom of the right-hand column – but I can’t drag it under the editor, which is really where I’d like it to be.

The problem with the Yoast meta box being at the top of the right-hand column is that it obscures the Publish box. I can of course resolve this by going to Yoast settings and disabling the ‘Enable SEO controls and assessments’ box. This makes the meta box disappear completely from the editing window – which is good for my clients when they’re publishing new posts or editing static pages – but a bit of a bind for me because I have to enable SEO controls every time I want to edit Yoast. Is there any way to disable Yoast for different types of user?

OK – I think I may have solved this problem. The Classic Editor plugin updated and the problem disappeared. There seems to have been a problem with Classic Editor and the latest version of Yoast. The same with the Disable Gutenberg plugin – but that hasn’t been updated so I’ve replaced all my installations of DG with the latest version of Classic Editor and all seems well so far.