Title: Emtpy fields in database
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Emtpy fields in database

 *  [Igor Yavych](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flyerua/)
 * (@flyerua)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emtpy-fields-in-database/)
 * Hello, I noticed that your plugin adds empty fields to database. I mean, wouldn’t
   it be wiser to check meta field and don’t add if it’s empty? Isn’t it’s just 
   cluttering of database with empty fields?
    I mean fields like _yoast_wpseo_redirect,
   _yoast_wpseo_canonical, _yoast_wpseo_bctitle, _yoast_wpseo_metadesc, _yoast_wpseo_title,
   _yoast_wpseo_focuskw. Is
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Igor Yavych](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flyerua/)
 * (@flyerua)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emtpy-fields-in-database/#post-3289854)
 * why would you ignore my question?

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emtpy-fields-in-database/#post-3289854)
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