Title: YOAST SEO PLUGIN PROBLEM
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# YOAST SEO PLUGIN PROBLEM

 *  [Michael Liberty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael-liberty/)
 * (@michael-liberty)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-seo-plugin-problem-3/)
 * Thank you all for reading my comment.
    I am new to WordPress and basically I 
   work for a company where part of my job is to update web content on a WordPress
   Site.
 * The company that was given the contract to design the website wants to rip me
   off because they wanted us to pay for SEO and I told my company that I can handle
   it after I’ve through Andrew Williams tutorials on wordpress.
 * On January 2nd, I installed Yoast Plugin and edited the settings for XML Site
   Map because it sitemap wasn’t working.
 * Below code is the current .htaccess file of WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin file
   Editor. I got the code that stated from line # BEGIN WordPress from a website
   that advice I edit the file editor if my site map is not working.
 * # BEGIN iThemes Security – Do not modify or remove this line
    # iThemes Security
   Config Details: 2 # Enable the hide backend feature – Security > Settings > Hide
   Login Area > Hide Backend RewriteRule ^(/)?backgateaccess/?$ /wp-login.php [QSA,
   L] # END iThemes Security – Do not modify or remove this line
 * # BEGIN WordPress
 * > RewriteEngine On
   >  RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^sitemap_index.xml$ /index.php?
   > sitemap=1 [L] RewriteRule ^locations.kml$ /index.php?sitemap=wpseo_local_kml[
   > L] RewriteRule ^geo_sitemap.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=geo [L] RewriteRule ^([
   > ^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 [L] RewriteRule
   > ^([a-z]+)?-?sitemap.xsl$ /index.php?xsl=$1 [L]
   > # END WordPress
   > The reason I edited this was to save our company from paying so much on SEO.
   > I have uninstalled Yoast Plugin but my problem still there. The website is 
   > heightsaccess.ng and when you open it, the website opens the home page but 
   > other pages doesn’t open anymore.
   > I will appreciate it if someone can help me resolve this issue since our site
   > has been down now for a long period.
   > Thank you once again for your consideration.

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 *  [Nic Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nic-master/)
 * (@nic-master)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-seo-plugin-problem-3/#post-6934044)
 * Hi,
    Website looks OK, do you still have problem ?
 *  Thread Starter [Michael Liberty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael-liberty/)
 * (@michael-liberty)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-seo-plugin-problem-3/#post-6934045)
 * Hi Nic, I was able to resolve it after watching a video on YOUTUBE. Just had 
   to toggle Permalink settings and the site was back. I also uninstalled Yoast,
   edited .htaccess with new code and it worded.
 * Thank you very much for reading my comment.
 *  [Nic Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nic-master/)
 * (@nic-master)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-seo-plugin-problem-3/#post-6934046)
 * Your welcome,
    I’m glad that you solve your problem; Good luck .

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Nic Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nic-master/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-seo-plugin-problem-3/#post-6934046)
 * Status: not resolved

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