// Remove Yoast Date Meta Tags From Header
add_filter( 'wpseo_og_article_published_time', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'wpseo_og_article_modified_time', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'wpseo_og_og_updated_time', '__return_false' );add_filter( 'wpseo_json_ld_output', '__return_false' );
The keyword frequency is the only thing that I don’t follow. Every post is apparently under optimised according to RankMath, even though the keyword is in the post 3 or 4 times. It would be interesting to increase it to the meet the guidelines to see if it helps rankings, although I don’t want to risk over optimising.
// Removes All Yoast Schema from <head>
add_filter( 'wpseo_json_ld_output', '__return_false' );unset($data['dateModified']); line from the function below.// Remove datePublished from the Yoast Schema
add_filter( 'wpseo_schema_article', 'ryu_yoast_modify_schema_graph_pieces' );
add_filter( 'wpseo_schema_webpage', 'ryu_yoast_modify_schema_graph_pieces' );
function ryu_yoast_modify_schema_graph_pieces( $data ) {
unset($data['datePublished']);
unset($data['dateModified']);
return $data;
}// Remove Yoast Date Meta Tags From Header
add_filter('wpseo_og_article_published_time', '__return_false');
add_filter('wpseo_og_article_modified_time', '__return_false');
add_filter('wpseo_og_og_updated_time', '__return_false');// Remove All Yoast HTML Comments
function ryu_remove_yoast_comments() {
// Conditional in case future versions break this class
if ( !class_exists('WPSEO_Frontend') ) { return; }
// Get the class so we can manipulate it
$instance = WPSEO_Frontend::get_instance();
// Conditional in case we cannot get the WPSEO_Frontend class
if ( !method_exists( $instance, 'debug_mark' ) ) { return; }
// Removes Yoast comments from HTML head
remove_action( 'wpseo_head', array( $instance, 'debug_mark' ), 2 );
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'ryu_remove_yoast_comments', 9999);• wordpress-seo/css/main-sitemap.xsl
Have to get this one through FTP
Change the XML Sitemaps page to get rid of Yoast stuff and can add your brand to the title.
Lines 73-76 - Delete paragraph
Line 72 - H1 tag
• wordpress-seo/inc/sitemaps/class-sitemaps-renderer.php
Gets rid of Yoast comment in Sitemap HTML
Line 136 - Yoast stuffThanks, I was trialling it on one small site and saw no improvement. Together with that article gonna go back to Yoast. No need for me to be running two different SEO plugins across my network.
<div style="display:none;"> instead of <script> tags.add_filter('wpseo_og_article_published_time', '__return_false');
add_filter('wpseo_og_article_modified_time', '__return_false');
add_filter('wpseo_og_og_updated_time', '__return_false');add_filter(
‘wpseo_frontend_presenter_classes’,
function ( $filter ) {
if (($key = array_search(‘Yoast\WP\SEO\Presenters\Open_Graph\Article_Modified_Time_Presenter’, $filter)) !== false) {
unset($filter[$key]);
}
return $filter;
}
);
add_filter(
‘wpseo_frontend_presenter_classes’,
function ( $filter ) {
if (($key = array_search(‘Yoast\WP\SEO\Presenters\Open_Graph\Article_Published_Time_Presenter’, $filter)) !== false) {
unset($filter[$key]);
}
return $filter;
}
);