Yoast Test Helper
This plugin makes testing Yoast SEO, Yoast SEO add-ons and integrations and resetting the different features a lot easier.
4.9(12 reviews)
·60K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Yoast Test Helper is a WordPress Yoast plugin with 60K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 772K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.4+ and PHP 7.2.5+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO.
4.9/512 reviews
60K+active installs
772K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
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
.testTLD with…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Resolve problem with Canonical URLs
by npittet·1 year ago
After migration, I had a problem with canonical URLs still pointing to the staging site.
A quick ‘Reset Indexables & Migrations’ and everything was back to normal! Thank you for this indispensable tool.
Worked like a charm!
by cXD4931·2 years ago
One week trying to find how to solve 404’s around content translated with WPML that Yoast was messing around with till I found that. Installed this plugin, made a reset on Yoast tables and plugins, made a new onboarding and a new optimization of the plugin (same process like when you install it for the first time) and everything solved in 15 minutes. And without losing any canonicals, titles, or descriptions. Thanks for this little plugin team Yoast!
The the data optimization tool got stuck – Fixed
by pretobrazza·3 years ago
Hi all,
My the data optimization tool got stuck. After following the instructions from Jose V. @ Yoast, this plugin solved the problem instantly.
Wonderfull tool! Thank you!
Fixed breadcrumbs URLs after migration
by erniecom·3 years ago
In order to automate things in a script the wp-cli support is missing
Fixed yoast breadcrumb issue
by hawbsl·4 years ago
Fixed yoast breadcrumb issue
Download Trends
Today: 399Yesterday: 600This week: 3KPeriod total: 184K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2.5+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.18
89.0%
v1.17
7.5%
Other
3.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.18
Release date: February 1st, 2024
Enhancements:
- Adds a
schemaendpoint to any URL. Suffix the URL with/schema/or?schemaand you’ll get only the Schema for that URL, pretty printed.
Bugfixes:
- Fixes a bug where the DB versions for Local SEO and News SEO would not be updated correctly.
- Fixes some small bugs that could result in PHP notices/warnings/errors.
Other:
- Adds a checkbox to use the AI staging API.
- Removes the checkbox to enable the feature flag for the structured data blocks.
…and 4 more changes
Contributors
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