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Overview

Dirigible SEO adds a Yoast migration tool on Dirigible → Tools. (The llms.txt editor that used to be here is now the generated file on SEO → AI & llms.txt.)

Where to find the tool

  1. In the WordPress admin, go to Dirigible → Tools
  2. Use Migrate Yoast Data

You need an Administrator account.

Migrate Yoast Data

Copies your Yoast SEO settings onto Dirigible SEO for posts, pages, categories, tags and authors. Yoast must be active while it runs.

  • Copies SEO titles, meta descriptions, No Index, canonical URLs and each post's primary category. Posts keep the same address when it includes the category.
  • Follows Yoast's site-wide choices: post types and taxonomies Yoast kept out of search are marked No Index, and so are author archives Yoast switched off. The title separator, a latest-posts home page's title and description, and Yoast's attachment-page redirect carry over too (into SEO → Settings).
  • Converts Yoast's variables: the title, site name, separator and current year stay live (the title, site and separator pills, plus {year}). Others, like the primary category or excerpt, are copied as text.
  • Replaces any Dirigible SEO values already on those items. Yoast's own data isn't changed, so you can run it again or switch Yoast back on.
  • Ends with a list of what didn't carry over on this site, such as nofollow, separate Facebook or X titles and images, or a customised home page title.

After you migrate:

  1. Deactivate Yoast. Dirigible SEO starts printing its tags straight away.
  2. Clear the site cache, so visitors stop getting pages with Yoast's tags.
  3. In Google Search Console, submit wp-sitemap.xml. Yoast's sitemap addresses redirect there.

To go back to Yoast, reactivate it and clear the site cache: the cache may keep serving the sitemap redirect until you do.

Tips

  • While both plugins are on, Dirigible SEO’s tags stay switched off, so turn Yoast off once the migration is done.
  • A file the old LLMs.txt Manager wrote keeps being served; SEO → AI & llms.txt shows it and can move its text into the generated file.

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