Hello Chargeup,
I am sorry to learn about the issue you are experiencing when using Elementor, Astra and Yoast SEO. Can you please confirm what versions those plugins are?
Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty.
Please test this on your development or staging site if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.
If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts
If you feel uncomfortable doing this yourself or if this does not solve your issue, our Yoast SEO Premium plugin comes with one year of (technical) support.
Hey did you read my original message?
These are 2 different issues. The first is a general issue with your plugin conflicting with Elementor. I was a step ahead of you and deactivated every plugin and switched to the 2022 theme. See below from my original message:
I have have turned off all plugins except Elementor and Yoast and switched to the 2022 theme. When I deactivate Yoast the issue goes away.
The 2nd issue is specific to Astra. I even landed you exactly on the error that is being returned from within your plugin with it locks up the Elementor editor. See below from my original message:
PHP Warning: Attempt to read property “post_author” on null in /home/customer/www/….com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/presenters/meta-author-presenter.php on line 38
All of these issues are solved by turning off Yoast. However, Yoast is great for SEO and I need it activated. Just wish it didn’t cause SO many conflicts. I’d say 98% of the time a site has an issue regardless of theme or other plugins it is usually rooted in the Yoast SEO plugin.
Can you please have your team look into the Elementor issue? I don’t think it should require a paid subscription to be compatible with another major plugin that has 5 million users.
All plugins and themes are up-to-date.
Hi @chargeup
Thanks for your patience and sorry for the delay caused in replying to your concern.
Regarding the error you have noticed, we would like to let you know that this debug warning occurred due to a bug at our end within the previous version (v19.2) when no user data was available when editing the page via the Elementor or builders.
We would like to let you know that our development team found a fix for that issue and the bug fix was rolled out on within our last release (Yoast SEO version 19.3). So can you please update the Yoast SEO plugin to the latest version (v19.3) if you haven’t yet? Also, can you please try to clear the cache and log in with another browser to check and confirm whether the issue persists or not?
We also won’t recommend using WP_DEBUG or the other debug tools on live sites; as they are meant for local testing and staging installs.
This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always welcome to re-open the topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.
