When you deactivate Yoast SEO via WordPress admin plugins page, it does not clean up your WordPress database.
In case you like to keep your nice and tidy, Uninstall Yoast SEO is the plugin you need..
Activate the Uninstall Yoast SEO plugin through 'Plugins WordPress.
This cleans up all of Yoast entries in the database and deactivates so you can delete it.
In fact, it was so fast, I didn't think it worked, because it kept showing up as deactivated.
Yoast SEO breaks WP installation by increasing CPU usage way beyond necessary, leaving behind lot of information when deactivated..
This plugin helped me fix I had for ages on client's site Yoast SEO versions after 3.1.2 would conflict with Visual Composer, preventing VC editor from loading..
This plugin didn't seem to deactivate or remove Yoast SEO, but I could do that myself the important part was removing Yoast from the database.
I had to remove the plugin via FTP and the website work again..
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