Changing taxonomy Breaks Yoast SEO meta

Ideally this would be integrated into the plugin, but given it hasn’t been updated for 3 years, I thought I’d post this here anyway so that even if the fix isn’t put in the plugin, if someone else experiences it they know what to do.

Changing a taxonomy with this plugin deletes all information added to the Yoast title + meta description fields.

This is because that information is stored in the options table under wpseo_taxonomy_meta, and is keyed by taxonomy name.

If you’ve done this and are searching for how to fix automatically without retyping them all, just fetch this option via the database via php, shift the values over from the old taxonomy to the new, and update it.