proposal: settings option to remove Focus Keyword, color dot and more noob stuff

[chuckreynolds]

So I wrote this filter in to hide the "All SEO Scores" dropdown on posts page... and realized I just wanted an option to do this and more.

if (defined('WPSEO_VERSION')) {
    add_filter( 'wpseo_use_page_analysis', '__return_false' );
}

I'd like to propose that we give everybody a real advanced feature (perhaps related to unchecking the "Disable the Advanced part of the WordPress SEO meta box" option) that removes the following:

• "All SEO Scores" dropdown select on posts page
• "Focus Keyword" column on posts page
• "SEO" dot column on posts page
• "Focus Keyword" stuff in the posts metabox
• "Page Analysis" tab in posts metabox
• "SEO: (dot) Check" in Publish metabox

I know this may be an unpopular proposal but I'd at least like to throw it out there. I typically teach clients how to fill out the title and description boxes properly and the focus keyword thing always confuses them. They think that's the title sometimes and it just gets in the way. And for sites that I manage and run - I never use it and it's just more crap in the way.

edit: Also I forgot about the dashboard widget

remove_meta_box('yoast_db_widget', 'dashboard', 'core');

Who's with me?
Thoughts?

[barrykooij]

I like the idea of removing stuff that will not be used, I'm not sure we want to create an option for this. Won't this be a thing that developers will always do for their clients? If so, won't a filter for above just do?

[chuckreynolds]

yeah @barrykooij maybe just a more powerful filter that will remove all the above is fine.

[chuckreynolds]

remove completely these w/ filter:

Also just threw up the code I've had for a while - should've been in a repo months back but... here it is.. better late than never. https://github.com/chuckreynolds/wpseo-nuke-noob-stuff

[chuckreynolds]

well that exists now -> http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpseo-nuke-noob-stuff/
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[chuckreynolds]

Also guys... for notes... I'd like to keep the admin posts/page title/desc columns (not the focus kwd or seo dot) as an option in the "Screen Options". Those are useful and since there are already options there. Currently this filter removes those columns completely.

[robneu]

It seems like the easiest way to handle this would be to add a constant that could be defined in wp-config that would disable all the extra bells and whistles in WordPress SEO. The hardest part would probably be deciding what constitutes "bells and whistles"...

[jdevalk]

@chuckreynolds I'll look at your pull request if you want to build a constant for this, but closing this issue for now, as I'm not going to spend my devs time on it :)