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Yoast SEO 25.4

Does Yoast SEO work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-07-01 09:07:13 UTC.

Summary

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‹ Test site — WordPress

Yoast SEO

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Yoast SEO → Academy

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Yoast SEO → Redirects

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Yoast SEO → Support

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Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.424 s	0.765 s	+0.341 s	3.51 MiB	4.53 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.222 s	0.347 s	+0.125 s	3.57 MiB	4.72 MiB	+ 1.15 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.912 s	1.938 s	+1.026 s	6.06 MiB	7.65 MiB	+ 1.59 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.579 s	0.665 s	+0.086 s	3.52 MiB	4.51 MiB	+ 1006.09 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.225 s	0.309 s	+0.084 s	3.5 MiB	4.43 MiB	+ 946.8 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.281 s	0.257 s	-0.024 s	3.49 MiB	4.43 MiB	+ 956.41 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.179 s	0.242 s	+0.063 s	3.5 MiB	4.52 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.177 s	1.192 s	+0.015 s	6.05 MiB	7.63 MiB	+ 1.58 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.463 s	0.389 s	-0.074 s	3.5 MiB	4.42 MiB	+ 942.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.237 s	0.292 s	+0.055 s	3.52 MiB	4.5 MiB	+ 1005.15 KiB
/	0.347 s	0.249 s	-0.098 s	3.5 MiB	4.36 MiB	+ 882.19 KiB
Average	0.459 s	0.604 s	+0.145 s	3.98 MiB	5.06 MiB	+ 1.09 MiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	99.1%	70,430	62,099	1,138
	SVG	0.4%	288	1	52
	JSON	0.2%	145	0	3
	XSLT	0.2%	145	0	1
	XML	0.1%	44	0	1
	Markdown	0.0%	24	0	1
Total			71,076	62,100	1,196

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Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Database Tables 5

• wp_yoast_indexable
• wp_yoast_indexable_hierarchy
• wp_yoast_migrations
• wp_yoast_primary_term
• wp_yoast_seo_links

Options wp_options 4

• wpseo
• wpseo_social
• wpseo_titles
• yoast_migrations_free

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

• wp_yoast_notifications

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "wpseo-dashboard-overview": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO Posts Overview",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "wpseo-wincher-dashboard-overview": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO / Wincher: Top Keyphrases",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "post": {
        "wpseo_meta": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "wpseo_meta": {
            "title": "Yoast SEO",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Roles 2

ID	Name
wpseo_manager	SEO Manager
wpseo_editor	SEO Editor

Capabilities 4

• wpseo_manage_options
• wpseo_bulk_edit
• wpseo_edit_advanced_metadata
• view_site_health_checks

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[01-Jul-2025 09:07:39 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41

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