Hi wpForo Team,
I am reaching out regarding a compatibility issue between wpForo and the Yoast SEO plugin. While wpForo states that it is compatible with Yoast, I am seeing conflicting SEO data being generated on my forum topic pages, which is causing issues with duplicate meta tags and broken social media previews.
When I inspect the page source of a community forum post, both wpForo and Yoast are actively injecting data into the <head>, rather than wpForo overriding Yoast.
Here is what is currently outputting on a single topic page:
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wpForo's Output: wpForo correctly generates its SEO block (``), including the canonical URL, description, Open Graph tags (
og:title,og:description,og:url,og:locale, etc.), and Twitter cards. -
Yoast's Output: Immediately below that, Yoast tries to output its own data (
). Because it cannot read the dynamic forum content, it outputs an admin warning (), but it still injects duplicate tags likeog:locale,article:publisher, and Twitter tags.
The Impact: Because both plugins are outputting Open Graph and Twitter card data, social media platforms (Facebook, X, LinkedIn) are getting confused by the duplicate tags. This results in link previews pulling incorrect formatting or failing to pull the wpForo-generated data.
My Question: Is the built-in Yoast compatibility supposed to automatically disable Yoast's meta output on wpForo pages? If so, it appears to be failing. As a temporary workaround, I have to manually go into Yoast and disable it for the forum's custom post types.
Could your development team look into why Yoast is not cleanly yielding to wpForo's SEO data on topic pages?
Thank you for your time and help!
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