sandywp / plugins / yoast-test-helper

Yoast Test Helper

4.9 out of 5 stars. 4.9 12 reviews

This plugin makes testing Yoast SEO, Yoast SEO add-ons and integrations and resetting the different features a lot easier.

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v1.19 60,000+ installs WP 6.8+ PHP 7.4+

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What you get inside

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  • Screenshot of the Yoast test helper admin page.

About this plugin

This plugin makes testing Yoast SEO, Yoast SEO add-ons and integrations and resetting the different features a lot easier. It also makes testing database migrations a lot easier as it allows you to set the database version and see if the upgrade process runs smoothly.

Features

This test helper plugin has several features:

  • Easily enable Yoast SEO development mode.
  • Saving and restoring Yoast SEO and Yoast SEO extension options, to test upgrade paths.
  • Add options debug info to Yoast SEO admin pages.
  • Reset the internal link counter, prominent words calculation and other features.
  • Add two post types (Books and Movies) with two taxonomies (Category and Genre) each and optionally disable the block editor for them.
  • Easily add an inline script after a selected script.
  • Replace your .test TLD with example.com in your Schema output, so you can easily copy paste to Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool.
  • Change the number of URLs shown in an XML Sitemap.
  • Easily change your MyYoast URL.

If you find bugs or would like to contribute, see our GitHub repo.

4.9

12 reviews

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