I am using Yoast plugin in my WordPress website for SEO. If I uninstall it after implementing SEO, will its features be removed from my website? Features like title, meta descriptions etc. I want to uninstall to make my website faster to load.
I am using Yoast plugin in my WordPress website for SEO. If I uninstall it after implementing SEO, will its features be removed from my website? Features like title, meta descriptions etc. I want to uninstall to make my website faster to load.
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Yes, those features wil be removed (or rather: not be present anymore): They are added dynamically by the plugin when a page is loaded. So if the plugin is gone, that won’t happen anymore.
If your website is static, you could copy the relevant HTML meta tags for SEO from the header while the plugin is active, insert them in your code (i.e. in the
header.php
file) and then deactivate the plugin. But you’d have to do that for every page seperately (which works against the concept of having oneheader.php
file for all pages). But all that is rather mere theory for a WordPress site (I wouldn’t bother trying that).First be sure that it is the Yoast plugin that is making your website slow.
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Deactivating Yoast SEO would remove all optimization done on the site as they are all loaded dynamically on page load.