In this tutorial you'll memorize how to import posts into WordPress along with their settings for Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. You can complete this import automatically, below, or you can use Yoast Add-On for WP All Import https wordpress org plugins yoast-seo-settings-xml-csv-import. The settings for Yoast are storeed in Custom Fields attached to every post. Watch the video tutorial below to see how not hard it's to import these settings. Just like importing other Custom Fields, you can enter the field name into WP All Import or you can choose to have WP All Import auto detect all of Custom Fields attached to the post type you're importing to. Remember, in order for WP All Import to detect these Custom Fields there must be at least one post on your page using them.. Yoast uses thirteen different Custom Fields to store settings for your posts. If you do not import value to Custom Field then Yoast WordPress SEO will only assign your post the default for that field... Blank for default, 1 for noindex, or 2 for index. Blank for default, none, noodp, noydir, noimageindex, noarchive, or nosnippet.
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