Other plugins can cause a Yoast SEO Meta Box error

byLNamadhila

189 followers

5 years ago

I am writing to celebrate and share information which may help, should you encounter a similar problem.

I struggled for 5 days to have the Yoast SEO plugin work properly on my site. After reading ‘Yoast - Polishing Content for SEO’ by Aussiemso, I went ahead and installed the Yoast SEO plugin right away. I believed I had set up the plugin correctly, however, when in edit mode, the Meta Box could only show the titles without the analysis report and the editable field to enter the focus keyphrase as reflected in the screenshot below.

I requested for help from Aussiemuso, which she offered wholeheartedly but, we just could not get it right. I performed google searches for the error multiple times but, all suggested solutions did not help.

Surely, when you seek you will find. Today, I decided to cheat on my employer time (hope I am safe :) ) and tried to fix this problem. I went on google again and searched. After several results, I found this page.

I performed the two actions as indicated in the screenshot above. I then went to all the posts, hit the Edit button on one of the posts and I got it right!

This meant that one of the Plugins was causing the error. One by one, I went back to activate the plugins and back forth, I went in edit mode to see if the Yoast SEO analysis were still showing after activating every plugin. I found out the NISO Carousel Slider plugin was the culprit.

I do not remember how I installed the Niso Carousel Slider plugin but, I deactivated it. Things are looking great right now and I am off to BETTER OPTIMIZATION!

Blessed Weekend!

Linda