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Setting up Twitter Cards in Yoast SEO

With Twitter Cards, you can add rich content, like images, when your content is shared on Twitter.

In Yoast SEO Premium, you get full control of your Twitter (and Facebook) shares! There is no guesswork with the social preview feature. By seeing exactly what your posts look like when you share them, you get the chance to improve your social media presence.

Table of contents

Activate Twitter Cards
Using Twitter Cards in Yoast SEO 
Available Card Types

Related articles

Custom Twitter meta tags
Troubleshooting

How to activate Twitter Cards in Yoast SEO

You can set up or change Twitter Cards in Yoast SEO by going to SEO → Social. Apart from enabling 『Add Twitter card meta data』, you』ll need to add few pieces of information so the plugin can generate the appropriate card data. Log in to your WordPress website. When you』re logged in, you will be in your 『Dashboard』. Click on 『SEO』. The SEO menu item is located in the WordPress admin menu, on the left side of the screen. Click on the SEO menu item and select 『Social』. The 『SEO』 settings will expand providing you additional options. Click on 『Social』. Under 『Accounts』, add your site wide Twitter username. Enter your site wide Twitter username if it』s not already entered. Click on the 『Twitter』 tab. Enable 『Add Twitter card meta data』 and select your preferred card type. Click 『Save Changes』.

Using Twitter Cards in Yoast SEO 

You can preview and edit your Twitter cards in the Social Tab of the Yoast SEO meta box. 

Note: Previews are available only in Yoast SEO Premium.

Twitter in the Social tab of Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO automatically fills in the Twitter card with some of the information you add when optimizing your posts. For example, the SEO title, the meta description, or a featured image.

You are free to edit the image, title, and description of the Twitter Card. To do that, open the Social tab of the Yoast SEO meta box and expand the Twitter header. Use the appropriate fields to make the desired edits. With this Yoast SEO feature, you get maximum control over how your post appears when you share it on Twitter.

What card types are available?

Summary or summary with large image cards

Summary cards are included for all Yoast SEO users and are the default for all posts and pages. As of Yoast SEO (Premium) version 5.8, you get a summary with large image cards by default when you first install the Yoast SEO (Premium) plugin.

Gallery, product, photo cards

Twitter no longer supports gallery, product, and photo cards. They will be automatically mapped to an appropriate card type. Learn more directly from Twitter here.

Player or app cards

We do not support player or app cards, at this moment.

Want to learn more about Twitter Cards? Visit the Twitter developer page.

Troubleshooting connection issue with Query Monitor Plugin

In rare cases, you may experience an issue where your Yoast SEO Premium subscription shows as not activated on your site, even though the subscription is active in MyYoast. In those cases, your plugin will still work, despite the 『Not Activated』 status. You just won』t be able to use all the features.

How to troubleshoot the Yoast SEO Premium connection issue

To help you solve the issue, we will need you to install the Query Monitor Plugin. With the plugin, you will be able to provide us with some information on the calls your site is making to our subscription server. For example, with the plugin, we can get information that can help is determine: – What domain does the plugin check?– Is that domain listed in MyYoast?– Does that domain have an active subscription?– Does Query Monitor show something other than a 200 OK?Follow the steps below, to get the information. Install the and activate the Query Monitor plugin You can find the plugin in the WordPress plugin repository. Click on the SEO menu item in the admin menu, and then select Premium. The Yoast SEO Premium screen opens. Hover your mouse over the numbers that appear in the top toolbar. A dropdown menu appears. Select the menu item HTTP API Calls. A popup appears at the bottom of your screen. Click on the Expand (+) sign under the Status column to expand the Status message. Take a screenshot of the popup window, together with the full status message and send it to our support team. On this page, you can find the best ways to contact Premium support.

How to change to search label for the store locator

The store locator』s first field, by default, is labelled with: Enter your postal code, city and / or state 

As of version 7.5 of Yoast SEO: Local, this label can be customized using the developer filter: yoast-local-seo-search-label.

add_filter( 'yoast-local-seo-search-label', function( $search_label ) {
$search_label = 'Your new search label';

return $search_label;
} );

How to set or change your MyYoast account password

MyYoast is the customer portal where you can find and manage all the Yoast SEO products you own.

If you know your current password, you can go to Account > Profile and change your password. If you do not know your current password, please use these steps instead.

Log in to MyYoastClick on 『Account』 in the sidebar (desktop) or across the bottom (mobile).Click on the 『Profile』 tabEnter your current password, new password and confirm the new password.Click 『Save changes』

I do not know my current password

To create or reset a lost MyYoast password, please follow these steps: Go to https://my.yoast.com/forgot-password Enter the account email address The account email is the same email address you entered during checkout. Click 『Send password reset email』. Check your email and click the password reset link Enter a new password in the 『New password』 field. Enter a strong and secure password in the 『New password』 field. Save it, you』ll need it later. Click 『Reset Password』 button. Login following these steps.

Do I need to disable PHP redirects?

The short answer for most users is:
No. You do not need to disable PHP redirects.

Please let us explain.

The default setting for Yoast SEO Premium is that PHP handles your redirects. This requires no work on your end, except for entering the redirects. If you only have few redirects your server will be able to handle them quickly using PHP redirections.

However, if you have a lot of redirects (exact number depends on your server), they may slow PHP down. In that case it can be useful to let your webserver take care of the redirects.

When you go to Admin -> SEO -> Redirects -> Settings you』ll see a toggle to select the type of redirect method you want to use. The default recommend option is 『PHP』 but you can change to .htaccess (Apache) or 『Web server』 (NGINX). Log in to your WordPress website. When you』re logged in, you will be in your 『Dashboard』. Click on 『SEO』. On the left-hand side, you will see a menu. In that menu, click on 『SEO』. Click on 『Redirects』. The 『SEO』 settings will expand providing you additional options. Click on 『Redirects』. Click on the 『Settings』 tab. Select the redirect method of your choice. PHP: This is the default option and works with most server configuration..htaccess: This option writes directly to your server. On some Apache servers, your webhost may recommend writing directly to this file. Optionally, you can write to a separate .htaccess file.Web Server: This option primarily appears for non-Apache servers like NGINX. Click 『Save Changes』.

In some cases, you will receive a notification regarding changes that need to be applied to your server to use the selection redirect method. Please make the requested changes to ensure redirects are handled correctly.

How to sign up for translating Yoast plugins?

Signing up to be able to contribute to any of our translations, is free and easy. Please let us guide you through.

Requirements

Before signing up for Yoast, please check if you meet the following requirements:

You』re fluent in reading English (US)You』re fluent in writing any other languageYou have a WordPress Slack account (if not, please create one at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ and join #polyglots)

Signing up

Go to https://yoa.st/translate-yoast Fill out the entire form Click 『Register』

You』re now a translator at Yoast! When you now log into your account, you can then click through any plugin and start suggesting translations for your locale. Thank you for any contribution you do!

Orphaned content filter

In Yoast SEO Premium, you』ll find our orphaned content filter. This filter allows you to get a quick overview of the pages on your website that have no links to them. This means that both search engines and visitors won』t be able to find these pages. More information about orphaned content can be found here.

Where is the filter located?

You can find the orphaned content filter on the overview page of your pages, posts or custom post types:

Simply click that link and we』ll show you an overview of all pages without any links to them. Make sure to link these pages from related posts or pages, or insert them while writing other posts using the internal linking tool.

Notification for orphaned content

Besides the filter, Yoast SEO will actively tell you that you have orphaned content in our notifications on your Yoast SEO dashboard:

Switching Single Site Subscriptions

Switching From Development Server To Live ServerWill Switching Subscriptions Affect the SEO?

Switching From Development Server To Live Server

If you have a subscription for a single site and want to do development on a test server before you move the server to a live environment: you can!

A single site subscription can be connected to only one site at a time. However, you can add both your live and staging site in My Yoast and connect/disconnect to switch between the live and development site.

An active subscription connection to your site is required to check for updates so we recommend connecting the subscription to the WordPress installation you use to test version updates.

​If you decide that you need to connect multiple WordPress installations or multiple domains, please purchase additional subscriptions.

Will Switching Subscriptions Affect the SEO?

No, switching subscriptions is not expected to affect the SEO of the site which no longer has it. However, an active subscription is required to get updates and use the WordForms feature.

Sites without an active subscription are unable to get plugin updates and will see a Yellow Banner on posts/pages alerting you to the fact you do not have WordForms.

What to do if your organization is tax exempt

If your organization is tax exempt and you haven』t bought from Yoast before, please follow the steps below: Create a MyYoast account Please create an account for your organization. This is the account you』ll be using to buy your plugin subscription. Email our support team Please email us, with the email address you used to create an account in step 1, at [email protected] and make sure to mention 「tax exemption」 in your subject line. Please make sure to provide us with all the data we need to validate your tax exemption, like an EIN number and your organization』s legal name. We will validate your tax exempt status and email you once we』ve done that. At that point we』ll add a flag to your account, which will automatically make sure all your purchases from now on are tax exempt. Make your purchase Once we』ve validated your tax exempt status you can then always buy from us tax free!

If you』re already a customer

If you have already purchased from us, please go into your MyYoast account and click the help button in the lower right corner to contact our support team. Please make sure to provide us with all the data we need to validate your tax exemption, like an EIN number and your organization』s legal name. We will validate your tax exempt status and email you once we』ve done that. If we did successfully establish your tax exempt status we will also refund any sales tax that you』ve inadvertently paid.

Can I contribute to the translation of the plugin?

The short answer; yes, you can.

The longer version:

Yoast SEO free

You can help translate our free Yoast SEO plugin by going to WordPress.org. There you can see how many strings are already translated in your language. You can click your language to start contributing. You can also use the WordPress.org translation handbook as a guideline.

Premium plugins

After 10 years of translating on translate.yoast.com, we』ve decided to move the translations for all our Premium plugins to TranslationsPress. This service allows us to use language packs for our premium plugins, and it helps you translate faster because it offers Translation Memory. Of course, we hope you』ll keep translating our Yoast plugins.

To sign up for an account, please go to translationspress.com/app/yoast. Once you』ve created your account, you』ll automatically be added to Team Yoast where you can translate all our premium plugins. Once you』re logged in, you』ll be able to add your translations. Once they』re approved, we will include them in an upcoming version of the plugin.