Yoast auto-draft issue after updating to 15.8

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Hello,

Below are links to the screenshots:

1. Before saving a draft:
– You can see there are 246 words, SEO analysis is not available:
https://snipboard.io/oqbcy5.jpg
– Yoast shows post has 0 words:
https://snipboard.io/waqg5c.jpg

2. After saving the draft:
Yoast see the words in the post content and SEO analysis is available.
https://snipboard.io/Decgdm.jpg

3. After saving in menu readability is not available.
https://snipboard.io/FymBvi.jpg

I need to see the SEO analysis, information about the content of my post (check whether it is correct or not) while writing a post (before saving).

Can you help me? Yoast SEO is the most important plugin for my website.

Best regards,
Paulina

Hi Paulina,

Thanks for the screenshots!

First of all, can you please make sure you’re running the latest version of WordPress (5.6.1) as well as the latest version of your theme and all other plugins?

If everything’s updated on your end, we need you to clear all your cache from your theme, caching plugin, server, CDN like Cloudflare, and browser. If you are not sure how to clear cache from theme/plugin, please speak to their developers. If you want to clear the cache from the server, please speak to your host provider. To clear the cache from your browser, please use this guide: https://yoast.com/help/how-to-clear-my-browsers-cache/

Let us know the result.

Hi Paulina!

Thanks for sending us those images. They are helpful in trying to reproduce the issue.

We can see it appears you are using the classic editor. We did a test with WordPress v5.6.1 with Yoast SEO v15.8 using 2019 v1.9 and are not able to reproduce the issue.

We added some text into the editing area. See image: https://ibb.co/VSddBHD.

Yosat was able to count the text correctly. See image: https://ibb.co/vsVvfxF.

As a result, what you are experiencing sounds like a plugin or theme conflict. Can you try and gather as much information for us as possible? Please perform the following:

1. Are all your non-Yoast plugins and themes also updated?

2. If they are updated, please Check for conflicts. Install the Healthcheck plugin and enable troubleshooting. Then switch to a standard theme like 2020. Does the issue resolve? NOTE: This will not affect how users see your site.

If there is a conflict with a plugin or a theme, you can create a new GitHub issue?for our developers. Please report the issue to a third party developer as well.

If you didn’t find any conflicts or errors, we think the issue is specific to your site. We’d need to investigate further but are unable to do so on these forums. You can purchase Yoast SEO Premium?and receive our Premium email support and we can help you further.`

Thanks for the suggestions! The problem caused a conflict with the new version of my theme. I’m fixing the problem. Yoast SEO works fine!

Hi Paulina!

We are glad Yoast is working fine on your site. As a result we will go ahead and close this in order to keep the overview.

If you have any more questions please feel free to create a new topic!