Title: Does Deactivate Plugin Deactivate SEO? Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Does Deactivate Plugin Deactivate SEO? * Resolved [ideasandbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ideasandbox/) * (@ideasandbox) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-deactivate-plugin-deactivate-seo/) * I’m having a conflict with WordPress SEO and a theme-customized version of Visual Composer. To make Visual Composer work, I have to deactivate WordPress SEO. * When I do this, do I lose all the SEO goodness or is it still built into the posts? Does WordPress SEO only provide SEO resources on previously SEO’d posts and pages only if it is an active plugin? * Thank you. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Kitty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellafitz/) * (@ellafitz) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-deactivate-plugin-deactivate-seo/#post-5813739) * I have a similar question, I had to deactivate WordPress SEO because it caused a Fatal Error on my homepage * Fatal error: __clone method called on non-object in ../wp-content/plugins/wp- views/embedded/inc/wpv.class.php on line 788 * it seems there is a conflict between the two plugins. * But do I lose all the features of SEO if I deactivate it over the weekend to sort this out? * [Taco Verdonschot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tacoverdo/) * (@tacoverdo) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-deactivate-plugin-deactivate-seo/#post-5813942) * When deactivating WordPress SEO: - you will not lose the content of the posts that you optimized. - you will lose the extras WordPress SEO adds to your page. * [saintandrews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saintandrews/) * (@saintandrews) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-deactivate-plugin-deactivate-seo/#post-5813946) * _When deactivating WordPress SEO: you will not lose the content of the posts that you optimized. you will lose the extras WordPress SEO adds to your page. * Let me make sure I understand this clearly, because I had a similar question. * Let’s say I install WordPress SEO and optimize 1,000 pages/posts. When I deactivate it, I * – keep all of the original content in all of those 1,000 pages/posts that was there prior to installing WordPress SEO * – lose all meta tags, descriptions, focus keywords, etc. I added to those 1,000 pages/posts between the time I installed WordPress SEO and the time I deactivated it; that is, nothing that WordPress SEO adds is hard-coded into any of those 1,000 pages/posts I used it on. * – so, after reactivating WordPress SEO, I would then have to repeat my operations on my 1,000 pages/posts * Is this correct? If not, please clarify what is correct and what is not. * [Taco Verdonschot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tacoverdo/) * (@tacoverdo) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-deactivate-plugin-deactivate-seo/#post-5813998) * That is not entirely correct. * If you deactivate WordPress SEO the descriptions, focus keywords, etc are unavailable as long as the plugin is deactivated. When you reactivate the plugin, all the information is immediately available again, so you will not have to add them again. * Does that answer your question? * Thread Starter [ideasandbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ideasandbox/) * (@ideasandbox) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-deactivate-plugin-deactivate-seo/#post-5813999) * That answers my question TacoVerdo… * I figured all that goodness goes away when deactivated. Wanted to make sure. * Thank you! * [saintandrews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saintandrews/) * (@saintandrews) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-deactivate-plugin-deactivate-seo/#post-5814000) * _Does that answer your question?_ * Thanks. Yes and no. * Is the information still available if the plugin is uninstalled, deleted, and re-installed? I wouldn’t want to lose a lot of work by uninstalling it without a serious reason for doing so. * [DHCooks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dhcooks/) * (@dhcooks) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-deactivate-plugin-deactivate-seo/#post-5814143) * Saintandrews, I have the same question. I don’t want to lose all the keywords and meta data I entered when I delete the plugin. TacoVerdo, will that happen? * [saintandrews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saintandrews/) * (@saintandrews) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-deactivate-plugin-deactivate-seo/#post-5814144) * DHCooks, the response I received 11 months ago left me assuming that, while one’s Yoast SEO settings remain in the database if the plugin is merely deactivated, one’s Yoast-generated data gets wiped if the plugin is fully deleted. * Before risking that, one should probably find a new home for that data as well as a means to get it there. This recent post here * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-happens-next-is-it-time-to-look-for-an-alternative?replies=34](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-happens-next-is-it-time-to-look-for-an-alternative?replies=34) * offers some alternatives to those ends. 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