Title: EMPTY Yoast box on posts
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# EMPTY Yoast box on posts

 *  [Julie Be](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pguerriere/)
 * (@pguerriere)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-yoast-box-on-posts/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I have a problem. I’ve just done the transfer All in SEO => WordPress SEO and
   since, the Yoast box on OLD posts (posts I wrote before transfer) is EMPTY.
 * Is there someone who has ever met this issue ?
 * Have a nice day, thank you for reading.
    Julie
 * Here is an screenshot of what I have:
 * [url=http://postimg.org/image/f8u6j0rkb/][img=http://s17.postimg.org/f8u6j0rkb/
   yoast_Empty_Box.jpg][/url]
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  [westerdaled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westerdaled/)
 * (@westerdaled)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-yoast-box-on-posts/#post-5912387)
 * Hi
 * I had a look at your screens and it is similar to something I blogged about a
   while pack. Note I haven’t touched my much neglected blog and in the process 
   of fixing a few issues .
 * [http://westerdale.biz/wordpress/fix-yoast-wordpress-seo-plugin-missing-post-settings](http://westerdale.biz/wordpress/fix-yoast-wordpress-seo-plugin-missing-post-settings)
 * My post is really temporary but I am now looking at something more permenant 
   by overriding metabox-tabs.min.css .
 *  [westerdaled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westerdaled/)
 * (@westerdaled)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-yoast-box-on-posts/#post-5912397)
 * I had another looks at this.
 * The Yoast plugin dir has metabox-tabs.css
 *     ```
       .wpseotab {
       	display: none;
       }
       ul.wpseo-metabox-tabs {
       	display: none;
       	margin-top: 12px;
       	margin-bottom: 3px;
       }
       ```
   
 * Hence, for a more permanent fix we need to override the display property in both
   classes. I guess these are some of the options
 * – edit the above file directly
    – override using another plugin – override in
   a child theme.
 * I am currently seeing if this is possible in the child theme.
 *  [jadesjems](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jadesjems/)
 * (@jadesjems)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-yoast-box-on-posts/#post-5912400)
 * Hi! Where would I put this could to have the meta box back? I’m using Mystile
   child theme.
 * Thanks!
 * [http://www.jadesjems.com](http://www.jadesjems.com)
 *  [westerdaled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westerdaled/)
 * (@westerdaled)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-yoast-box-on-posts/#post-5912429)
 * Hi
 * Hopefully
 * This proving quite tricky. I have written a plugin the loads my yOAST METABOX
   CSS fix and any other css files I want. I see it on my home page n FireBug lite.
   However this has no affect as metabox-tabs-min.css gets loaded only on a page
   or post edit options. So once I can add my hook there we’ll get this resolved.
   In the short term I can hack the plugin code and let you know what i have done
   but this would only be be temporary fix
 *  [westerdaled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westerdaled/)
 * (@westerdaled)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-yoast-box-on-posts/#post-5912458)
 * All
 * I have fixed this but this did involved hacking the plugin code which I wouldn’t
   do lightly. I also wonder why this bug hasn’t been fixed which makes me think
   there are commercial implications.
 * Anyway briefly:
    1. backup your site completely so ( files and db)
    2.  fire up your fave ftp tool and download a local copy of
        of wp-content/plugins/
       wordpress-seo . I do my work locally in NotePad++ and ftp changes
    3.  ftp to /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css and create a copy of metab-box.
       css and called it meta-box-fixed.min.css ( yes i know it is not strictly mimified!)
    4. Make the changes to the classes I have described above
    5. Navigate to /plugins/wordpress-seo/admin and open class-metabox.php
    6.  ` replace the line I have shown commented out with this// DAN: I have replaced
       the .css with one that has .wpseotab and ul.wpseo-metabox-tabs classes with 
       with the display property removed.
        wp_enqueue_style( ‘metabox-tabs’, plugins_url(‘
       css/metabox-tabs-fixed’ . WPSEO_CSSJS_SUFFIX . ‘.css’, WPSEO_FILE ), array(),
       WPSEO_VERSION ); // DAN: orginal – wp_enqueue_style( ‘metabox-tabs’, plugins_url(‘
       css/metabox-tabs’ . WPSEO_CSSJS_SUFFIX . ‘.css’, WPSEO_FILE ), array(), WPSEO_VERSION);`
    7.  Save your work and refresh your post or page to reveal your metabox options.

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