Toasty Purge

by Butiá Labs

Description

Note: This plugin is a fork of the original Hide SEO Bloat plugin (also known as “SO Clean Up Yoast SEO”) created by Pieter Bos.

Toasty Purge hides (sidebar) ads and premium version buttons of Yoast SEO from their settings pages and your website’s dashboard (and frontend).

Features

Hide Problems/Notifications boxes from Yoast SEO Dashboard
Hide ads and premium upsells across Yoast SEO Settings pages
Hide Premium, Workouts, and Redirects submenus
Remove SEO columns from Posts/Pages admin screens
Remove SEO/Readability score dropdown filters
Hide featured image warning nag
Hide content/keyword score from Publish metabox
Hide premium features in Yoast metabox
Hide advertisement after trashing content
Remove Yoast SEO from admin bar
Remove Yoast dashboard widget
Remove permalinks warning notice
Hide SEO settings on profile page
Remove HTML comments from frontend
Hide Support submenu
Hide AI Brand Insights submenu
Disable AI & LLMs.txt features

Multisite Compatible

Yes, Toasty Purge works on WordPress Multisite installations.

Why use this plugin?

Since version 20.0 of Yoast SEO, the Settings page has received a complete overhaul, but still contains many elements that clutter your WordPress admin. Toasty Purge provides a single settings page where you can control what gets hidden.

Credits

This plugin is maintained by Butiá Labs and is a fork of the original work by Pieter Bos.

Installation

Automatic Installation

Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress admin
Search for “Toasty Purge”
Click “Install Now” and then “Activate”
Navigate to SEO > Toasty Purge to configure settings

Manual Installation

Download the plugin zip file
Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/toasty-purge directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
Navigate to SEO > Toasty Purge to configure your preferred settings

Requirements

Yoast SEO plugin must be installed and activated
WordPress 4.9 or higher
PHP 8.2 or higher

Screenshots

Toasty Purge settings page - Yoast SEO Settings section
Toasty Purge settings page - Posts, Pages, Custom post types section
Toasty Purge settings page - Miscellaneous section
Toasty Purge settings page - AI section

Faq

Where is the settings page?

The link to the page has been added to the Yoast SEO menu and of course there is also a link to it from the Plugins page.

Can I use Toasty Purge on Multisite?

Yes, you can. The plugin is fully compatible with WordPress Multisite installations.

The name of the plugin is confusing, it hides bloat of which SEO plugin?

The name refers to removing the bloat added by Yoast. There is only one SEO plugin that adds a lot of bloat to the WordPress Dashboard and that is the Yoast SEO plugin.

The plugin doesn’t do anything!

Do you have the Yoast SEO plugin installed? Toasty Purge hides the bloat from that plugin only. If you have Yoast SEO installed and the plugin still doesn’t do anything, please open a support ticket.

What happens to database entries on uninstall?

The plugin writes its settings to the database. The included uninstall.php file removes all the plugin-related entries from the database once you remove the plugin via the WordPress Plugins page (not on deactivation).

I have an issue with this plugin, where can I get support?

Please open an issue on Github

Reviews

Changelog

1.0.1

Add Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) translation
Load plugin textdomain so bundled translations are applied

1.0.0

Release date: July 19, 2026