Remove Yoast SEO Social Profiles From All Users

yoast_seo_admin_user_remove_social.php

/* Remove Yoast SEO Social Profiles From All Users
 * Credit: Yoast Developers
 * Last Tested: Nov 01 2023 using Yoast SEO 21.5 on WordPress 6.3.2
 *********
 * Use this code to hide the fields shown under Admin > Users > Edit user
 * Previously entered profiles will be included in schema
 * To limit or remove user schema, use 'wpseo_schema_person_social_profiles' filter
 * Link: https://developer.yoast.com/features/schema/pieces/person/#social-profiles
 */

add_filter('user_contactmethods', 'yoast_seo_admin_user_remove_social', 99);

function yoast_seo_admin_user_remove_social ( $contactmethods ) {
  unset( $contactmethods['facebook'] );
  unset( $contactmethods['instagram'] );
  unset( $contactmethods['linkedin'] );
  unset( $contactmethods['myspace'] );
  unset( $contactmethods['pinterest'] );
  unset( $contactmethods['soundcloud'] );
  unset( $contactmethods['tumblr'] );
  unset( $contactmethods['twitter'] );
  unset( $contactmethods['youtube'] );
  unset( $contactmethods['wikipedia'] );
  unset( $contactmethods['mastodon'] ); // Premium feature

  //Do not remove the lines below
  return $contactmethods;
}

Under WordPress 5.2.2 and Yoast SEO 11.9, I had to add the priority to the filter. Otherwise the user contacts array hadn't been populated by Yoast Plugin yet.

add_filter('user_contactmethods', 'yoast_seo_admin_user_remove_social', 99);

Also, I have to +1 that this should be an option in Yoast Admin, especially for subscribers.

@fearlex This is not the proper place to request changes for Yoast SEO features. Instead, please create a request here: https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/

@amboutwe Not trying to request anything, just letting anyone who reach this gist trying to fix the same issue I was trying to fix that is still not fixed in 2021 and there is no setting for it. I removed my comment.

@bwalker541 Thank you for the priority tweak, can you guys from Yoast include this in your code on top? Otherwise not working at all. Thanks

@soulshakepower Thanks for the feedback. I updated the code snippet with the priority option.

WoW @amboutwe thanks for light-fast update :) And cheers to all the team for your great SEO solutions!

By the time I found this thread (Dec 2021) there were a bunch more still! It's easiest to just make your filter function return an empty array, instead of removing one at a time and then having Yoast just add more of the darned things. Here is my filter function which just gets rid of all of them, present and future.

	/**
	 * Remove annoying Yoast social fields from user profile forms.
	 * @see https://gist.github.com/amboutwe/36a08f9d369860aec99500726065bd3f
	 */
	public function yoast_seo_admin_user_remove_social($contactmethods)
	{
		// we want none of them now or in the future!  
                // return an empty array rather than remove one by one:
		return array();
	}

How to remove Mastodon field?

unset( $contactmethods['mastodon'] ); - not works for me ((

@factoryofit I tested and updated the code snippet to remove the Mastodon field. Please note that the fields are only removed from the User Profile screen under Admin > Users > Edit user.

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