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Asked: 2024-10-06T05:58:51+05:30 In:

How to disbale Yoast schema output for Q&A website?

Suppose, I have 500+ pages on my Q&A website example.com on WordPress and I have the Yoast premium plugin installed and Activated on my WordPress site. I am noticing a drop in the SERP ranking of my questions post. Earlier the ranking for most of the posts was on 1st page and now it’s no more in the top 100. May be 100+ or unknown to me now.

I was researching it for quite some days and noticed that the Q&A theme Discy has its own QA schema on my website itself for each question page which gets created when someone asks any questions on the site user interface. Now, the worst thing here is the Yoast premium plugin installed on my WordPress site is also generating the Webpage Article type schema as well for each page on my site making each page have two schemas one is Article type and another is QA type which is causing conflict and Google finds it hard to prioritize which schema.
Due to this reason, I want to disable the Yoast article schema output for Q&A website pages and want to keep the original QA page schema generated by the Discy theme itself.

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  1. Admin

    When you use the Yoast SEO plugin with a theme like Discy that has its own QA schema, there can be some conflicts occur in the schema:

    If both the Yoast SEO plugin and Discy theme are adding article and QA schema data respectively to the same question pages, it could lead to conflict and duplication and make it even worse. Google might find it harder to find which schema data to prioritize whether Article or QA schema which can hurt your page’s ranking on SERP.
    You have to disable Yoast schema and retain Discy’s theme schema since the Discy theme has the native QA schema which is specifically designed for Q&A websites, and its schema should be optimal for those purposes.

    To disable Yoast schema, You can follow the below steps:

    • Add a new plugin Customization for WP SEO on the WordPress site. Install and Activate it.
    • Once activated, Goto Settings in the left menu panel in WordPress and select Customization for WP SEO.
    • There you will see the option Disable Schema Output. Check this option to disable all Yoast SEO’s schema output and click Save Changes.
    • You are all done and now Yoast schema output is disabled on your WordPress site. You can again validate any of your site’s existing page schema using the Schema Markup Validator tool.
  2. Admin

    In Yoast, there is no way to disable the schema on a specific page, however, if you want to disable the Yoast SEO plugin’s schema output, you need to add the following code snippet in your theme’s functions.php file:

    add_filter( 'wpseo_json_ld_output', '__return_false' );

    You can also see additional information on this in the Yoast developer documentation located here Schema – API documentation.

    Before adding custom code or filters, You must take a backup of your site and database for your site’s health and safety. To back up your WordPress site and database you can use UpdraftPlus -Backup/Restore plugin. This is especially important because it provides you with a safety net in case something were to go wrong.