How to Delete Yoast SEO Completely (With No Leftovers)

First, deactivate and delete the plugin from the WordPress dashboard normally.

Then:

Step #1: Delete all tables from the database that have the word “yoast” in the name.

You can do that with this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-database-cleaner

Step #2: Remove all the other database entries created by Yoast SEO.

You can do that with phpMyAdmin. Just run these SQL commands:

DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE '%wpseo%'
DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE '%yoast%'

That’s it!

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