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Welcome to the Disable-Yoast-SEO-Redirects wiki!

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About this plugin

The Disable Yoast SEO Redirects plugin is a WordPress plugin developed by UCF Web Communications, intended for use by anyone that also uses Yoast SEO Premium and does not want/need its redirection manager features. For instance, sites that already use plugins such as Redirection or Simple 301 Redirects for managing redirects may find Yoast's redirect manager redundant. Yoast's automatic generation of redirects upon post/term deletion may also be confusing when an alternate redirection tool is already in place.

This plugin has no special frills or added checkboxes--it simply provides the filters documented in this article: https://yoast.com/help/how-to-disable-automatic-redirects. Just activate the plugin, and Yoast's redirection features will be disabled.

Installation requirements

This plugin is developed and tested against WordPress 5.3+ and PHP 7.3+. This plugin may work against older versions of WordPress and/or PHP, but support is not guaranteed.

While this plugin should work against any server running the minimum requirements for WordPress installations, we cannot guarantee compatibility with, or provide support for, installations on non-LAMP stacks (e.g. Windows installations).

Installation instructions

Before getting started: make sure you've satisfied all the installation requirements.

  1. Install the plugin:**

    • via Github Updater

      This plugin supports installation and updates via the Github Updater plugin. See their documentation for more information on setup and usage. (Requires PHP 5.6.0+)

    • via standard (manual) installation

      Download the plugin .zip file here: https://github.com/UCF/Disable-Yoast-SEO-Redirects/archive/master.zip

      Unzip and upload the plugin files to your WordPress instance's wp-content/plugins/ directory.

      Alternatively, upload the .zip file using the WordPress plugins interface directly:

      • On single sites: navigate to Plugins > Add New.
      • On multisite instances: navigate to Network Admin > Plugins > Add New.

    • via WP-CLI

      $ wp plugin install https://github.com/UCF/Disable-Yoast-SEO-Redirects/archive/master.zip

      See the WP-CLI docs for more information.

  2. Activate the plugin: from your site's admin, click "Plugins" in the admin menu, find Disable Yoast SEO Redirects in the list of plugins, and click "Activate".

That's it! Once this plugin is activated, Yoast's redirection features will be completely disabled.

To re-enable Yoast's redirection features, simply deactivate this plugin.

** Note that this plugin is not deployed to the WordPress plugin directory, and therefore will not notify you of plugin updates, unless you are using Github Updater. You are responsible for keeping your copy of this plugin up-to-date with bugfixes and other new releases.

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