Title: Uninstall Yoast SEO
Author: Ralph83
Published: <strong>27. März 2016</strong>
Last modified: 27. März 2016

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Search plugins

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Uninstall Yoast SEO

 By [Ralph83](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ralph83/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/uninstall-yoast-seo.zip)

 * [Details](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/uninstall-yoast-seo/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/uninstall-yoast-seo/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/uninstall-yoast-seo/#installation)
 * [Development](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/uninstall-yoast-seo/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/uninstall-yoast-seo/)

## Description

When you deactivate Yoast SEO via the WordPress admin plugins page, it does not 
clean up your WordPress database. In case you like to keep your database nice and
tidy, Uninstall Yoast SEO is the plugin you need!

Uninstall Yoast SEO deactivates Yoast SEO, in case you haven’t deactivated Yoast
SEO already, and then it deletes all database entries related to Yoast SEO. Which
leaves you with a clean database.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `uninstall-yoast-seo` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the Uninstall Yoast SEO plugin through the ‚Plugins‘ menu in WordPress
 3. Delete the Yoast SEO & Uninstall Yoast SEO plugin files from your server

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[The best and simple](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-best-and-simple-3/)󠁿

 [creondai](https://profiles.wordpress.org/creondai/) 25. August 2025

Does the work correctly then disable himself. Thank you a lot. Perfect

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### 󠀁[Excellent plugin — took 10 seconds to remove all of Yoast’s left behind garbage](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-plugin-took-10-seconds-to-remove-all-of-yoasts-left-behind-garbage/)󠁿

 [Rachel S](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rachel-s/) 1. November 2019

I noticed a few days ago, there were pieces of code all over my site left by the
terrible SEO plugin Yoast. Code that was damaging my site's Google SERPs. Tried 
to hand delete the code but, when you uninstall Yoast, it leaves the code everywhere.
Finally installed this plugin. Took 10 seconds to remove all of Yoast's garbage 
code. Tested it. My site is now completely clean of Yoast's junk code. Thanks so
much. An excellent plugin.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[just awesome](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-awesome-201/)󠁿

 [nepalpyramids](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nepalpyramids/) 4. September 2018

this plugin is simply awesome specially for someone like me who have no clue to 
code and manual removal from cpanal thank you so much – it simply deleted every 
leftovers of yoast – came to know from my designer though thank you once again and
will be recommending to people who are switching from yoast to something else

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### 󠀁[Does exactly what it says](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-exactly-what-it-says-144/)󠁿

 [SocialSparkMedia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/socialsparkmedia/) 6. September
2017

This cleans up all of the Yoast entries in the database and deactivates immediately
so you can delete it. In fact, it was so fast, I didn't think it worked, because
it kept showing up as deactivated. That's just how good it is at doing it's job 
and then getting out of the way.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works like a charm](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-like-a-charm-892/)󠁿

 [mailcatala](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mailcatala/) 14. November 2016

Yoast SEO breaks the standard WP installation by increasing the CPU usage way beyond
necessary, leaving behind lot of useless information when deactivated. This plugin
has proven to be **the** solution to such behavior. Thanks for making this available
to the community.

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### 󠀁[breaks the site on installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaks-the-site-on-installation/)󠁿

 [Johnny Black](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnnyrc/) 21. September 2016

maybe an update should be in order ?

 [ Read all 13 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/uninstall-yoast-seo/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Uninstall Yoast SEO” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ralph83 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ralph83/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/uninstall-yoast-seo/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/uninstall-yoast-seo/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/uninstall-yoast-seo/)
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## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **11 Jahren ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.4.34**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/uninstall-yoast-seo/)
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## Ratings

 4.4 von 5 Sternen.

 *  [  11 5-Sterne-Rezensionen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/uninstall-yoast-seo/reviews/?filter=5)
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 *  [  2 1-Sterne-Rezensionen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/uninstall-yoast-seo/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ralph83 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ralph83/)

## Support

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