Options to hide post columns and/or meta boxes would be nice

You can actually hide all of it, if you want. On the individual post/page/post type editor screens, click the “Screen Options” tab at the top and uncheck “WordPress SEO by Yoast”. Same method on the posts listing screens. Click the Screen options tab and uncheck the columns you don’t want shown.

Yeah, as I mentioned in my question, I know about screen options settings. The problem with those is that they are per user settings, so my screen options settings have no effect on those of other users, for example my clients.

I think the larger issue is a plugin making so many changes to the admin area with no easy way to globally disable/enable them.

Also you can hide it in the preferences of the plug-in

Go to:SEO Menu > Titles & Meta > Post Type Tab > WordPress SEO Meta Box:and check the HIde.

I hope this help

@fstop – I have 2 functions for you which you can add to your functions.php file (or separate functionality.php file or plugin, whichever has your preference).

// get rid of irritating WordPress SEO Columns - https://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/api/#filters
add_filter( 'wpseo_use_page_analysis', '__return_false' );

// get rid of WordPress SEO metabox - https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/91184/2015
if ( ! is_super_admin() ) {
	function so_remove_wp_seo_meta_box() {
	    remove_meta_box( 'wpseo_meta', 'page', 'normal' );
	}
    add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'so_remove_wp_seo_meta_box', 100000 );
}

Please note that I use this code on a Multisite and therefore the condition is on is_super_admin(), you should change this according to your wishes.

Piet, I tried your function on one of my plugins, now my site shows this error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user() in /home1/felishag/public_html/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 1511

Can’t access or edit my site further. How do I fix?

Nevermind, i deleted the whole plugin on my cpanel and its working now

wp_get_current_user() is not even part of the filter above, are you sure it’s not related to something completely different?

It is good practice to start your own thread on the www.remarpro.com forums as opposed to hijacking someone else’s thread with something completely unrelated!