Delete data completely

We are afraid to say that Yoast SEO has no feature implemented that would allow you to remove everything from the database that are related to Yoast SEO. So, the best option would be to take a backup of your database first and manually go through the database to find out anything related to the yoast, yst, and wpseo to delete them.

Hello,

In that case, there must be something I didn’t understand.

If Yoast SEO does not implement anything in the database, why is there a post on the plugin’s official website explaining how to perform complete data removal?

Now I was confused.

Before requesting support, I did the steps recommended in the article, but it didn’t work.

See the post:

https://yoast.com/help/how-can-i-uninstall-my-plugin/#database

When entering, go to the end of the post until Complete Data Removal.

Thank you!

Thanks for pointing us to the relevant article. What we meant in our prior response was that Yoast SEO has no built-in feature that will let you automatically remove all the data from the database for you. We didn’t mean that Yoast SEO doesn’t implement any data into the database.

That said, the article you’re referring to here actually mentioning the same thing that we suggested in the first place. You’ll need to manually go through the database of your website and removing anything related to the wpseo and wp_yoast. In addition, you will need to remove the following database tables as well:

wp_yoast_indexable
wp_yoast_indexable_hierarchy
wp_yoast_migrations
wp_yoast_primary_term
wp_yoast_prominent_words
wp_yoast_seo_links
wp_yoast_seo_meta

We hope this clarifies your query better now!