Disable the new update notification and the badges

  • Resolved doffine

    (@doffine)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hello Yoast team, hello all,

    in the current changelog we find…

    Enhancements: Adds an update notification for major and minor releases.

    Well, this isn’t an enhancement for us. It is getting on our nerves. We maintain several dozens of WordPress installations with Yoast and don’t want to click these notifications away in every single installation after every single Yoast update in the future.

    So we want to disable them, and especially the annoying red update badges showing in the admin backends topbar and left side menu.

    We only want a red badge in WordPress dashboard if something important happens. If Yoast got an update this is not important or new for us, since we triggered this update ourselves before. If every plugin would be this “chatty”, we had much to do every day to check up the many badges, what they could mean and click them away.

    So there must be a possibility to switch off these annoying new Yoast badges – if not a switch then at least a filter or something like this.

    What can we do here?

    Many thanks in advance,
    -doffine

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  • Hi @doffine,

    Thanks for the feedback about notifications about updates. From what you’ve described, the plugin is working as intended, but we understand if that’s not what you expected. The eye icon hides the notification, but this doesn’t remove the notification completely.

    Since there isn’t a feature to stop the notifications from appearing, we suggest creating a new feature request in the GitHub repository.

    Thread Starter doffine

    (@doffine)

    @priscillamc, thanks for coming back to us.

    If a click on the eye would stop further new notifications all would be fine. But in the way like it is now, you will have to click it away every single time a new Yoast update came in to get a clean WordPress backend without red alarming notifications that only should show up when really something needs the admin’s attention.

    This more than ever is simply annoying if you maintain many WordPress installations and not only one.

    We will create a GitHub feature request as suggested by you.

    Greetings,
    -doffine

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    @doffine Thanks for your reply. Since you’re create a feature request we are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved. But please let us know if you require any further assistance.

    Thread Starter doffine

    (@doffine)

    Just for this thread to be complete – perhaps it is useful for someone else. As I learned in GitHub there already is a perfectly working filter to get rid of these notifications:

    add_filter('wpseo_update_notice_content','__return_null');

    -doffine

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