While the documentation for the Yoast SEO plugin can be found on Yoast.com, here you can browse the source of the project, find and discuss open issues and even contribute yourself.
Here's a guide on how to install Yoast SEO in your WordPress site.
At Yoast, we make use a specific toolset to develop our code. Please ensure you have the following tools installed before contributing.
After installing the aforementioned tools, you can use the steps below to acquire a development version of Yoast SEO. Please note that this will download the latest development version of Yoast SEO. While this version is usually stable, it is not recommended for use in a production environment.
Within your WordPress installation, navigate to wp-content/plugins
and run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo.git
cd wordpress-seo
To install all the necessary dependencies, run the following commands:
composer install
yarn
grunt build
Please note that if you change anything in the JavaScript or CSS, you'll have to run grunt build:js
or grunt build:css
, respectively.
This is a developer's portal for Yoast SEO and should not be used for support. Please visit the support forums.
We try to fix as many bugs we can, this is a graph of our recent activity:
If you find an issue, let us know here! Please follow how to write a good bug report? guidelines.
It may help us a lot if you can provide a backtrace of the error encountered. You can use code in this gist to enable the backtrace in your website's configuration.
Anyone is welcome to contribute to Yoast SEO. Please read the guidelines for contributing to this repository.
There are various ways you can contribute:
- Raise an issue on GitHub.
- Send us a Pull Request with your bug fixes and/or new features.
- Translate Yoast SEO into different languages.
- Provide feedback and suggestions on enhancements.