Bug with “advanced” tab

  • Resolved Kevin McClellan

    (@crazywpgeek)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    As administrator I’m supposed to be able to see the “advanced” tab all the time regardless of the setting under “SEO > General > Features > Security: no advanced settings for authors”

    The description for that setting:
    “The advanced section of the Yoast SEO meta box allows a user to remove posts from the search results or change the canonical. These are things you might not want any author to do. That’s why, by default, only editors and administrators can do this. Setting to “Off” allows all users to change these settings.”

    To me, that means if the setting is turned “on” then Admins should still be able to see this.

    Unfortunately that is not the case. On 3 sites (even with default theme activated) I’m only able to see that when the setting is turned off.

    All cache purged, all plugins other than Yoast SEO deactivated, browser cache purged, tried in both firefox and chrome. Same issue also on different computer where I have never signed into that site before.

    Just thought I would report this bug. I don’t need help with it but I only noticed this issue after trying to help a client of mine change their index options in the advanced tab and noticed this was not behaving the way it should.

    Just posting this as a courtesy to let you know about the bug. I do not need any followup.

    Thanks

    Kevin

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  • Hey @crazywpgeek,

    Thanks for letting us know. We will investigate this further.

    Thread Starter Kevin McClellan

    (@crazywpgeek)

    @tacoverdo sure no problem. Let me know if you need further details.

    Hey @crazywpgeek,

    So far I’ve been unable to reproduce that behavior, so if you have additional information it’d be most welcome!

    Thanks a million!

    same issue here

    I am unable to see the advanced tab which contains the area to configure the canonical URL as administrator with the update to 14.1

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by mddsharp.

    @njwp & @mddsharp, I’m sorry to hear that Yoast SEO doesn’t let you see/use the advanced tab anymore. Would you be able to share more details on your configuration, so that I can reproduce the problem?

    For example by sharing the information in Tools -> Site health -> Info -> Copy to clipboard.

    Thank you!

    Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    @njwp could you open a new forum topic or thread and provide specific information on how the issue occurs on your site? The different set-ups could cause an entirely different cause for this issue. Thank you!

    @mikes41720, @tacoverdo
    I commented here as my issue is the SAME as the original poster

    If I set:
    “Security: no advanced settings for authors” to ‘off’ then I can’t see the ‘advanced’ tab and I am an admin.

    If I set “Security: no advanced settings for authors” to ‘on’, then I (as admin) can see the advanced tab. (I have not checked the situation for authors)

    I have tried this with all other plugins disabled – the problem remains

    I found this post as I was trying to work out why I couldn’t see the advanced tab.
    I do not need the setting of “off” , so I am happy to have it ‘on’ and this solves it for me but obviously doesn’t remove the bug.

    This is on my local test site.
    I have now just updated the Yoast plugin on my remote dev site and it now has the same issue.

    Thanks all for your help!

    We’ve been able to replicate this problem and created a bug report for it. Our developers are now working to fix it and it should be in the next release of Yoast SEO.

    Meanwhile, what you can do to give your admins control over the advanced settings is ENABLE the security feature. That way authors won’t have access, but admins will.

    Thread Starter Kevin McClellan

    (@crazywpgeek)

    @tacoverdo & everyone else here. That is great to know that you guys can replicate it now. Sorry for my late reply as I was not in the office till just now. Glad this will be fixed. ??

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