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Thread Starter
Ryan
(@godsgood33)
All of your questions are answered in my OP, but since you didn’t actually read it for understanding, I will explain it further. It is a plugin conflict…thus the title. I am the developer for the plugin and I’m attempting to figure out why Yoast is causing my plugin to crash. My plugin is https://wordpress.org/plugins/point-tracker. I’ll set the stage for you so you can duplicate.
Yoast SEO installed and active
Point Tracker installed
Attempt to activate PT
Creates first page “Challenge” then crashes. An init function in the Point_Tracker class checks for the presents of a URL parameter, since the parameter doesn’t exist since the plugin is inactive it crashes.
PT will activate fine if Yoast is inactive.
What this tells me is that after the activator method creates the first page, Yoast attempts to crawl that page for some reason. So what I need is a way to at least temporarily bypass Yoast from crawling the pages.
Thread Starter
Ryan
(@godsgood33)
Got it fixed. For others out there, the problem was with the WPSEO_Link_Watcher::save_post method and action hook. Doing a remove_all_actions('save_post') fixed the problem I was having. I’m only doing it during activation and deactivation of my plugin, so it’s not a problem for other plugins.
