Dmytro Verzhykovskyi

<p><strong>SEO Fields API Support</strong> is a lightweight plugin that enhances the WordPress REST API by making Yoast SEO fields – such as SEO titles and meta descriptions -available for programmatic updates. This plugin is perfect for developers and site owners who need to automate or manage SEO metadata efficiently via the REST API.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Yoast SEO Integration</strong>: Exposes <code>_yoast_wpseo_title</code> and <code>_yoast_wpseo_metadesc</code> fields in the REST API.</li>
<li><strong>Wide Compatibility</strong>: Supports all public post types, including posts, pages, and custom post types.</li>
<li><strong>Secure</strong>: Includes authentication checks and data sanitization to ensure safe updates.</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight</strong>: Only activates its features when Yoast SEO is installed, minimizing overhead.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<ul>
<li>Requires WordPress 6.2 or higher.</li>
<li>Requires Yoast SEO to be installed and activated.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>After activation, you can update SEO fields using the WordPress REST API. Below is an example:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Updating a Post</strong>: Send a <code>PUT</code> request to <code>/wp/v2/posts/<post-id></code> with this JSON body:<br />
  `json<br />
{<br />
“meta”: {<br />
  “_yoast_wpseo_title”: “Custom SEO Title”,<br />
  “_yoast_wpseo_metadesc”: “Custom meta description for SEO.”<br />
}<br />
}</li>
</ul>


SEO Fields API Support

Exposes SEO fields managed by Yoast SEO to the WordPress REST API for programmatic updates.

Joost de Valk

Irene Strikkers

Jimmy Comack

<h3>Yoast SEO Research</h3>
<p>At Yoast we always want to improve our products. But sometimes we cannot do that all by ourselves, therefore we need your help! To refinine the SEO & content analysis of our Yoast SEO plugin we are looking for some site owners that want to help us out by providing some posts and/or pages from their sites as reference material.</p>
<h3>How can you help?</h3>
<p>We’d like to ask you to download the following plugin. This plugin retrieves 10 posts or pages, and 5 taxonomies for us to analyze. We are going to take a look at the keyword, content, meta description, title, generated SEO title, and URL, in order to recalibrate the content analysis. Your site’s data will only be used for research purposes by Yoast and will not be sold or made public.</p>
<h3>Who can help?</h3>
<p>Anyone who uses <a href="https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Yoast SEO</a> or <a href="https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Yoast SEO Premium</a> on a WordPress website.</p>
<p>Thanks for your contribution!</p>


Yoast SEO Research

Aid the Yoast SEO research team in their SEO research.

SEO Fields API Support vs Yoast SEO Research