Description
Note: This plugin is a fork of the original Hide SEO Bloat plugin (also known as “SO Clean Up Yoast SEO”) created by Pieter Bos.
Toasty Purge hides (sidebar) ads and premium version buttons of Yoast SEO from their settings pages and your website’s dashboard (and frontend).
Features
- Hide Problems/Notifications boxes from Yoast SEO Dashboard
- Hide ads and premium upsells across Yoast SEO Settings pages
- Hide Premium, Workouts, and Redirects submenus
- Remove SEO columns from Posts/Pages admin screens
- Remove SEO/Readability score dropdown filters
- Hide featured image warning nag
- Hide content/keyword score from Publish metabox
- Hide premium features in Yoast metabox
- Hide advertisement after trashing content
- Remove Yoast SEO from admin bar
- Remove Yoast dashboard widget
- Remove permalinks warning notice
- Hide SEO settings on profile page
- Remove HTML comments from frontend
- Hide Support submenu
- Hide AI Brand Insights submenu
- Disable AI & LLMs.txt features
Multisite Compatible
Yes, Toasty Purge works on WordPress Multisite installations.
Why use this plugin?
Since version 20.0 of Yoast SEO, the Settings page has received a complete overhaul, but still contains many elements that clutter your WordPress admin. Toasty Purge provides a single settings page where you can control what gets hidden.
Credits
This plugin is maintained by Butiá Labs and is a fork of the original work by Pieter Bos.
Screenshots
Installation
Automatic Installation
- Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress admin
- Search for “Toasty Purge”
- Click “Install Now” and then “Activate”
- Navigate to SEO > Toasty Purge to configure settings
Manual Installation
- Download the plugin zip file
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/toasty-purgedirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- Navigate to SEO > Toasty Purge to configure your preferred settings
Requirements
- Yoast SEO plugin must be installed and activated
- WordPress 4.9 or higher
- PHP 8.2 or higher
FAQ
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Where is the settings page?
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The link to the page has been added to the Yoast SEO menu and of course there is also a link to it from the Plugins page.
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Can I use Toasty Purge on Multisite?
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Yes, you can. The plugin is fully compatible with WordPress Multisite installations.
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The name of the plugin is confusing, it hides bloat of which SEO plugin?
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The name refers to removing the bloat added by Yoast. There is only one SEO plugin that adds a lot of bloat to the WordPress Dashboard and that is the Yoast SEO plugin.
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The plugin doesn’t do anything!
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Do you have the Yoast SEO plugin installed? Toasty Purge hides the bloat from that plugin only. If you have Yoast SEO installed and the plugin still doesn’t do anything, please open a support ticket.
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What happens to database entries on uninstall?
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The plugin writes its settings to the database. The included
uninstall.phpfile removes all the plugin-related entries from the database once you remove the plugin via the WordPress Plugins page (not on deactivation). -
I have an issue with this plugin, where can I get support?
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Please open an issue on Github
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Contributors & Developers
“Toasty Purge” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.0.1
- Add Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) translation
- Load plugin textdomain so bundled translations are applied
1.0.0
- Release date: July 19, 2026