[Feature Request] Provide a way to completely disable access to the Yoast Metabox for certain users

[rmarcano]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

There is no way to prevent certain users from editing the Yoast Metabox settings.

Describe the solution you'd like

Provide a way to disable the Metabox for certain users, perhaps using User Roles. The Metabox could be completely hidden and/or access to editing any of the settings could be disabled.

why you think the feature request is something we should consider for the Yoast SEO plugins?

Some site admins might want certain users to be able to add and edit content to the site. However, they might not want these users to change any of the Yoast SEO settings in the meta box (post title, description, etc).

The plugin already has a way to limit access to certain settings with User Roles.

[rmarcano]

Please inform the customer of conversation # 398815 when this conversation has been closed.

[jonoalderson]

This makes sense; we should probably add capabilities for wpseo_edit_meta, which shows/hides the whole meta box conditionally.

[rmarcano]

Please inform the customer of conversation # 438775 when this conversation has been closed.

[rmarcano]

Related: #5672

[rumejan]

Please inform the customer of conversation # 784341 when this conversation has been closed.