Yoast telling me the permalinks structure has changed

  • Resolved maslakovic

    (@maslakovic)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hi – a few weeks ago Yoast told me my permalinks structure has changed. And that “To build your index, Yoast SEO needs to process all of your content.
    We estimate this could take a long time, due to the size of your site. As an alternative to waiting, you could:
    Wait for a week or so, until Yoast SEO automatically processes most of your content in the background. Remind me in a week.”

    The thing is the permalinks structure has not changed – and soon the message dissapeared. However, this morning it gave me that message again. I checked the permalinks structure in WordPress settings and it is the same. I saved it again to flush the settings just in case. But the Yoast message is still there saying the permalinks structure has changed.

    Is this something to be worried about?

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  • Yep, same here, the problem has been around on one of our sites for over 1 month now. It’s not an issue because i understand its just a warning so can be ignored but i’m sure its unsettling for more inexperienced users.

    Nothing seems to get rid of the message so i hope Yoast will update their plugin soon and fix this.

    @easylifespain When the message is present in your admin console, open your site and view source. Is all the information still correct in your yoast SEO? On ours it shows the wrong domain *OR* our server IP instead of the correct domain.

    I thought I’d add a note here: I could not confirm in the code itself, but it looks like this warning is triggered by changes in any rewrite rule, not just the actual permalink structure? I saw the warning fire anomalously for a client and when I dug into it, it appeared to be triggered by a hack that added a rewrite rule to compromise the user’s front-end presentation. I’m not sure if this was merely a coincidence or the cause of the warning, but something to look out for if you got this warning.

    It is very possible this has to do with our re-write rules and wordfence combined with CDN. But all of this is very much on purpose and not a “hack” We do have complicated rules managing the traffic in-bound and some of it is proxied by a CDN.

    murryg81

    (@murryg81)

    I am also having this issue. I tried the solutions listed above, but it won’t disappear.

    This issue just popped up for me on my site after upgrading to Yoast 17.9. Like those above, I haven’t changed my permalink structure, so this is concerning. Any update on how to resolve this?

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