How To Change Redirect From Old Version of Yoast

@davry21 What sort of redirect are you referring to? The free version of Yoast SEO doesn’t offer a redirect manager, that is a feature of the premium version of Yoast SEO. You can read more about this feature here: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/redirect-manager/

Thanks for your reply! When I installed the original Yoast SEO plugin to this site many years ago the Free Version had a space at the bottom of each page where you could enter a link url to redirect the page too.

Now many years later the page is still redirecting to the same link I put in the old version of the plugin….but the redirect url doesn’t show up anywhere on the page editor in the WordPress admin now to be able to change the link or even delete to stop the page from redirecting.

So I need to stop the redirect but I can’t find where or how to do it now that it does not show up in the new version of Free Yoast (I know you can’t do redirects now in the new free version of Yoast).

Here is a video explaining my issue in further detail: https://share.getcloudapp.com/L1uQZ2Og

It saved as post meta field _yoast_wpseo_redirect and it’s possible that’s removed in latest versions from the meta-box (it was under Advanced).

Related that you use GutenBerg, you need to enable custom fields (With edit screen open, click the 3 dots in upper right, then click “options”, then under the “Advanced Panels” section, check the “Custom Fields” box).

Because meta_key begins with _, it’ll be probably hidden. There is simple PHP filter which can show this field:

add_filter( 'is_protected_meta', function( $protected, $meta_key, $meta_type
) {
        if ( $meta_key === '_yoast_wpseo_redirect' ) {
                return false;
        }

        return $protected;
}, 10, 3 );

Hi @davry21

Way back in the older Yoast SEO free version there was a post level redirect option. The post level 301 redirect feature has been removed from the free plugin in favor of the more robust premium redirect manager. This article explains more.

Although you can no longer add new post level redirects, previously entered post level redirects may appear under the advanced tab of the Yoast SEO free.

Can you confirm you’re using the latest Yoast SEO free version? In some cases, you may need to remove the redirect from the database table.

@stodorovic Thank you so much, that worked!!! You’re awesome.

Thank you for helping me with this.