Yoast Plugin totally disappeared!

  • Resolved magdigit

    (@magdigit)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    Dear Yoast Plugin Authors!

    When I upgraded my free YOAST plugin today the whole plugin disappeared from my WP dashboard! When I wanted to install the plugin again, but that failed. They said that it is already there. It was there during six years, but today it is NOT there anymore!

    The extra Yoast Search index plugin gives this notice: “Please upgrade the Yoast SEO plugin to the latest version to allow the Yoast SEO: Search Index Purge plugin to work.”

    What went wrong? I did not touch anything in the plugin editor!!
    Under all my pages the Yoast blocks also are gone!

    Please help me.

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  • Something interrupted your plugin update leaving it partially installed at least with the folder if not some of the other files. You’ll need to access the file system and delete the Yoast folder from the plugins folder and then reinstall.

    Thread Starter magdigit

    (@magdigit)

    Dear @endymion00

    Something terrible happened!!
    I looked for the Yoast plugin in my FTP plugin folders, but Yoast was not there. Only the Yoast Index Search plugin.

    So I went one by one deactivating the other plugins to see whether Yoast re-appeared.
    When I came to the Peter-404 plugin, my whole WP dashboard disappeared, and I cannot enter my site anymore!!!
    Please help me!!

    Thread Starter magdigit

    (@magdigit)

    Dear @endymion00

    Thanks to my host I can enter the WP dashboard again. I deleted the Peter-404 plugin in the FTPfolder. But still Yoast SEO is GONE…

    Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    As the plugin folder is not visible via FTP, please reinstall Yoast SEO. Your settings are stored in the database so we would not expect any lose of data.

    https://kb.yoast.com/kb/installation-guide-for-wordpress-seo/

    Thread Starter magdigit

    (@magdigit)

    Dear @amboutwe

    As I mentioned above: WP dashboard refuses to install Yoast, saying that it’s already there. But in the FTP plugin folder it is GONE. I tried for about 10 times.

    I think I better delete all Yoast plugins and install a totally different SEO plugin!

    For just now I see that the Google Analytics shows that there still are about 300 wrong URL’s due to Yoast mistake last year. The special Yoast Index Search plugin (which still exists in my WP dashboard) seems not to work at all.

    Quite a mess with Yoast, so suddenly after six years of satisfactional use of it…

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    If you are receiving an error when trying to reinstall the plugin that the directory already exists, and you are not able to see the folder via FTP this may be due to a permission or ownership issue with the directory. We would recommend having your hosting provider and have them check for any issues that would cause the folder to not appear in FTP.

    Thread Starter magdigit

    (@magdigit)

    Dear @devnihil

    I had free eccess to my FTP folder, says my provider.
    But in the end the manual FTPupload did the trick! Yoast is back again in my WP dashboard. That were some awful days to find out, due to a WP-flaw whilst upgrading.

    Thanx for thinking with me!

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