How to add custom fields to Yoast SEO Premium plugin settings

It is possible to scan custom fields with Yoast SEO. You will need Yoast SEO Premium plugin and it only works on posts, products, custom post types, pages etc. It is not available on media attachment pages, taxonomies, archives, 404 pages, search pages, or author pages. In this post, we give you a step-by-step guide on how to add custom fields to Yoast SEO Premium.

To be able to add the custom fields to Yoast SEO, you need to know their names. If you are not sure what the names of the custom fields are, follow the steps in our find the correct custom field name article.

How to add custom fields to Yoast SEO Premium
How to use Advanced Custom Fields

How to add custom fields to Yoast SEO Premium

Log in to your WordPress website
When you’re logged in, you will be in your Dashboard.
Go to Yoast SEO
The menu expands with additional menu items.
Click Settings
In the menu that expands when you click Yoast SEO, click Settings.
Under Content types, select the content type you want to add custom fields to
Scroll down to Additional settings
Add the custom field name under Add custom fields to page analysis in the Additional settings
You can add multiple custom fields in a comma-separated list, like this: customfield,customfield2,customfield3
Click Save changes

How to use Advanced Custom Fields

Yoast SEO (free or Premium)

If you want Yoast SEO to scan fields from Advanced Custom Fields plugin, please install and activate the ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO plugin. You can learn more about this plugin on the plugin compatibility page.