Access your server via FTP/ SFTP , or a file manager in your hosting account’s control panel (consult your hosting provider’s documentation for specifics on these), navigate to /wp-content/plugins/ and delete wordpress-seo plugins.
You can use the wpseo_robots filter (yoast documentation) to override that. Add something like add_filter(“wpseo_robots”, function() { return “index, follow”; }); before calling get_header() to overwrite what wpseo sets. Don’t put it in the functions.php of your theme, though, or it will be used on everything in WP.
An easier way to check what is happening is to check the source code of your pages where the meta description is added through Yoast <meta name=”description” <meta property=”og:description” content=” Check what the above values say and if there is any conflict. If the text in the above meta fields are not as entered through … Read more
Add a filter conditionally based on frontpage
Remove: add_filter( ‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘replace_post_excerpt_filter’ ); function replace_post_excerpt_filter($output) { return $output; } from your code, and you should find it works. The trouble with nested functions, as you have here, is that once the parent function is called the first time, it defines the inner function, but when the parent function is called the second time … Read more
Looks like one of those is the canonical URL, can you take a look at the page source and check if is there a canonical tag? <link rel=”canonical”… Also there is a setting in yoast for the sitemap https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-customize-the-sitemap-index/ and you can add your own sitemap too: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/add-external-sitemap-to-index/ Note: Duplicate content will harm your SEO … Read more
Seriously, I don’t know why this thing keeps popping up but: it just works with single quotes, no need to change anything. Need proof? Ok, here we go: Search for “WordPress SEO plugin”. Find my site, yoast.com, it’ll be #1 in most cases. See the meta description showing? Click on the “Cached” link, then open … Read more
bbPress caused a jQuery Conflict. I have delete it, also because I haven’t install it. Verified the options on phpMyAdmin database. Empty all caches with W3 Total Cache. Now works all again.
It is facebook social graph cache. I’ve cleared it on debug linter and everything fine now. https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ You can clear cache automatically via Facebook Graph Api: POST /?id={object-instance-id or object-url}&scrape=true More info here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/opengraph/using-objects
I think I solved. It seems that iThemes Security plugin was causing the problems. After disabling and enabling iThemes Security, the problems with Yoast SEO seems to be solved.