Author: Butiá Labs
Original Author: Pieter Bos
Free addon for the Yoast SEO plugin to hide the bloat it adds to your WordPress backend. See changelog for what's new in this release.
Note: This plugin is a fork of the original Hide SEO Bloat plugin (also known as "SO Clean Up Yoast SEO") created by Pieter Bos.
Hides (sidebar) ads and premium version buttons of Yoast SEO from their settings pages and your website's dashboard (and frontend).
The first version of the UnYoast plugin was released in April 2015 and ever since team Yoast and I have been playing a game of cat and mouse.
Since version 20.0 of Yoast SEO however, the Settings page has received a complete overhaul, which made the UnYoast plugin almost obsolete!
Things have become much, much more trickier to remove/hide now and some things simply can no longer be hidden (believe me, I have tried).
Why are there still people using Yoast SEO one might ask? There are so many great alternatives that come without screaming ads and hiding features behind a paywall!
And the only reason that I have to keep Yoast SEO installed (on a sandbox that is) is because of the mere 10K installs where UnYoast is running. Compare that with my popular Classic Editor + plugin, which has more than 30,000 active installs!
For everyone to become much more productive and happier, my proposal therefore is to switch to any of the other SEO plugins, such as SEOPress, The SEO Framework, Rankmath, or any other one out there! Did you know that most SEO plugins come with easy one-click migration tools?
If you like the UnYoast plugin, please consider leaving a review. You can also help a great deal by translating the plugin into your own language. Alternatively you are welcome to make a donation. Thanks!
The link to the page has been added to the Yoast SEO menu and of course there is also a link to it from the Plugins page.
Yes, you can.
Yes, you are right, the name is a bit vague (see Changelog v1.8.0). On the other hand there is only one SEO plugin that adds a lot of bloat to the WordPress Dashboard and that is the Yoast SEO plugin.
Do you have the Yoast SEO plugin installed? It hides the bloat from that plugin only. If you have and the plugin still doesn't do anything, then please open a support ticket.
Great question!
Indeed the UnYoast plugin writes its settings to the database. The included uninstall.php file removes all the plugin-related entries from the database once you remove the plugin via the WordPress Plugins page (not on deactivation).
Please open an issue here on Github
I welcome your contributions very much! PR's will be considered and of course bug reports and feature requests can also be seen as contributions!
- License: GNU Version 3 or Any Later Version
- License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
- release date January 28, 2025
- added option to remove AI bloat
- added option to remove support screen
- release date January 27, 2025
- rename to UnYoast