• Resolved powcom

    (@powcom)


    I’ve been using Yoast for many, many years (thank you!).

    I’m trying to clear some of the now-unused rows out of wp_postmeta and, for the oldest posts, I’m finding rows named things like:

    _yoast_wpseo_title
    _yoast_wpseo_metadesc
    _yoast_wpseo_content_score
    _yoast_wpseo_primary_category
    _yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-adv
    _yoast_wpseo_sitemap-html-include
    _yoast_wpseo_redirect
    _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-include
    _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-genre

    The most recent entries only seem to have rows like:

    _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-genre
    _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-exclude
    _yoast_wpseo_primary_category
    _yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes
    _yoast_wpseo_content_score

    Hey, I understand that needs and the way of tackling problems changes over the years, so it’s all understandable that they’re there. The only thing is that not only are there quite a few entries but some of them are taking up quite a bit of storage too.

    Could you please let me have a list of previously used Yoast meta_key entries that it would be safe for me to delete, so I can tidy up the postmeta table safely.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Hi,

    With Yoast SEO 14.0, we made a big change and moved a lot of the metadata from wp_postmeta to our own custom tables for more efficient querying, which are called the indexables. You can learn more about it here.

    You may want to refer to this article for database entries that are being used by the Yoast SEO plugin here – https://yoast.com/help/how-can-i-uninstall-my-plugin/#database

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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