lazymanandmoney

Good enough. I remember the thread above having several responses of people pleading for help as recently as last week, but it seems like the posts were moved, deleted, or maybe I was remembering a different thread that I can’t find now.

Well the immediate problem is fixed. I should have checked the Yoast entry for that page. I had simply deleted the plugin to narrow it down and change my theme to remove those conflicts.

So the core problem is that somewhere, some time the Yoast SEO database got the data munged and replaced it with nonsense values. It’s not every post. In fact, I only found it on this one so far.

So what would really help is a way to easily search the Yoast SEO database for titles where the value is “false”. I’d prefer not to dig into MySQL and do straight queries against it since it’s been a while and that learning curve and set-up would be several hours or a day. I can almost use the “Existing Yoast SEO Title” column to sort by in the bulk edit of the Tools, but that column isn’t sortable.

My theme is a Genesis theme and I have 38 plugins installed. The blog is 14 years old originally built on WordPress 2.3, so it’s got a ton of legacy stuff in it. I don’t want to put you through the nightmare of trying to figure out which of any of these could have caused it to get munged in the first place. I’m not a monster ;-).

Thank you for the “Existing Yoast SEO Title” information. I’m rebuilding the SEO now.

It appears that the Yoast title got pre-filled with “false” somewhere along the line. Also, the SEO keyphrase was set to just “90”, which was something that I would have done. Once I fixed it, this post was fixed.

So something happened in the past to corrupt the Yoast database. As reported, in the other thread other people are having this issue as well. Since I have over 2500 posts, what is the best way to search for which of them have been corrupted like this?

FWIW:
– I have the latest versions of WordPress and
– I have switched to another completely different theme and the problem still occurs.

I have noticed that this bug appears to be similar or the same as the bugs reported at:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/page-title-and-meta-description-replaced-with-number-false/

However, there seems to be no resolution and people are asking for the topic to be reopened.

I understand that I can report a bug report to GitHub, but I don’t have a GitHub account or experience with it. I’m hoping that with multiple people reporting the same bug, it’s already triaged to the correct priority level for the engineers.