M3

All, please chime in here since they are talking about to remove this filter since it’s not working anymore in the 3.x version!

add_filter( ‘wpseo_use_page_analysis’, ‘__return_false’ );

https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/3464

@tacoverdo
Thanx for your quick reply. I’ll do that.

@tacoverdo
Is this filter supposed to work in the new 3.x version?
https://kb.yoast.com/article/285-can-i-disable-the-page-analysis

@nick Any updates on this issue? The awkward Twitter symbol is annoying clients. We need a uniform appearance and function for all social buttons. What about my suggestions above?

Anyone else having problem with this? It might be a problem related to W3 Total Cache. I can see that the XML declaration in the created Yoast sitemap is displayed as HTML comments in the cached sitemap and the “X-Robots-Tag: noindex, follow” is also removed in the cached sitemap. So this is probably the reason to why sitemaps now are displayed in Google search results. Any suggestion how to fix this problem?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="//website.com/main-sitemap.xsl"?>

<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?-->
<!--?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="//website.com/main-sitemap.xsl"?-->

The wpseo_use_page_analysis filter is still there but the code is different. Please see the class-metabox.php and class-meta-columns.php files.

public function setup_page_analysis() {
  if ( apply_filters( 'wpseo_use_page_analysis', true ) === true ) {
    add_action( 'post_submitbox_start', array( $this, 'publish_box' ) );
  }
}

public function __construct() {
  if ( apply_filters( 'wpseo_use_page_analysis', true ) === true ) {
    add_action( 'admin_init', array( $this, 'setup_hooks' ) );
  }
}

Anyone have any idea? Yoast still has this filter in the knowledge base.

https://kb.yoast.com/article/285-can-i-disable-the-page-analysis

Thanx Nick! ??

@nick

Thanx for the suggestion but having social buttons with different design and function are unfortunately not acceptable.

Having an option to disabling counts for all buttons won’t solve the original problem since social precense is necessary.

I stand by my suggestion above that you need a uniform appearance and function for all social buttons.

And the only alternative right now is to display a “n/a” or “-” instead of the counter for the Twitter button.

So do you have any suggestions how to fix this if I would like to modify the plugin myself?

@nick Sorry for the short and bad explanation. The Twitter button is working as it should when you click. But there is no visual response when you move the pointer over the button before clicking. The other social buttons extend out to the right as a visual confirmation and the action text (share, tweet, pin, etc) is displayed. But the new Twitter button dosen’t behave as the others and look misplaced among the other buttons. Having one solid button where the logo and action text is displayed and no visual response is just wrong. Almost all my clients have asked for a fix or they want to change to another sharing plugin. I would suggest to keep the old Twitter button design and function but display a “n/a” or “-” instead of the counter. Any suggestions how to fix this if I would like to modify the plugin?

Why are the sitemaps included in search results? This behaviour started with version 2.3.4. Any comments from the Yoast developers?

Any comments from the Yoast people?

Anyone else with the same problem? The site maps sitemap_index.xml, page-sitemap.xml and post-sitemap.xml are now indexed as normal pages.