Remove Yoast WordPress SEO on a page

Question

I am trying to remove the Yoast WordPress SEO on a certain page because it is conflicting with another plugin.

I tried adding the code below to my functions.php but it does not seem to work, any help is appreciated.

Thank You

function remove_wpseo(){
if ( is_page(944)) {
global $wpseo_front;
remove_action( 'wp_head', array($wpseo_front, 'head'), 2 );
}
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts','remove_wpseo');

Answer 1

Enqueing is not the right moment to remove an action, use template_redirect instead:

add_action('template_redirect','remove_wpseo');

function remove_wpseo(){
    if ( is_page(944)) {
        global $wpseo_front;
        remove_action( 'wp_head', array($wpseo_front, 'head'), 2 ); // <-- check priority
    }
}

Check the priority that the plugin uses to add the wp_head action as the removal has to be the same and none if empty.

Answer 2

Just in case someone still needs this. This worked for me. Change 'page' to 'post' if it's a blog post. Instead of trying to throw out Yoast completely, just hide the meta box.

add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'remove_post_meta_boxes', 11 );

function remove_post_meta_boxes() {
    if( isset( $_GET['post'] ) && $_GET['post'] == '22' ) {
        remove_meta_box( 'wpseo_meta', 'page', 'normal' );
    }
}