I wish I had seen this post & thread before the censorship. Unfortunately I have been very busy troubleshooting and eventually rolling back a certain SEO plugin.

I am fine with hearing polite comments about alternatives, even if they come from the authors. After all, we have been very tolerant of the irritating dashboard ads from Yoast.

Although the Yoast SEO plugins, free and premium, have some great features, we have long wondered if it is worth the problems caused by poor testing and excessive dashboard promotions.

We have decided it is not. For now 2.3.5 is an adequate temporary solution. Longer term, we are going to look at all the competition and decide what other solution(s) best fit our many clients and students.