WooCommerce vs Yoast SEO: WooCommerce
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| Feature | WooCommerce v11.2.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.5/5 Visit Details | Yoast SEO: WooCommerce v16.9 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 7M+ | — |
| Last updated | October 9, 2026 | — |
| Editions | WooCommerce | Yoast SEO: WooCommerce |
| Pros | Simple and variable products, cart, checkout and coupons; Built-in payment, shipping zone, tax and email tools; REST API and WP-CLI commands for store management | Adds Product schema and product social tags; Puts product images into the XML sitemap; Works with Yoast SEO's existing settings screens |
| Cons | Payments, shipping and tax all need setup before selling; Many advanced features come from paid marketplace add-ons; Contacts Woo and WordPress services for some optional features | Needs both Yoast SEO and WooCommerce active; Only covers SEO output, not product content or layout; Pinterest and Slack data are limited to what the templates expose |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Simple and variable products, Cart and checkout, Built-in offline payment methods and gateway API, Shipping zones and methods, Tax rates and calculation, Coupons, Order query API, REST API for products and orders, WP-CLI commands, Analytics reports | Product schema for WooCommerce products, Open Graph tags for products, Twitter card tags for products, Pinterest product availability data, Product images in the XML sitemap, Enhanced Slack link previews for products |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | PayPal | — |
| Analytics | WooCommerce usage tracking service | — |
| Social | — | |
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | WooCommerce.com | Yoast SEO |
| Other | — | Slack |
| Requires WordPress | 7.0 | 6.9 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | — |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | Only if you agree |
| External services | public-api.wordpress.com, woocommerce.com, api.webflow.com, tracking.woocommerce.com, www.paypal.com, www.sandbox.paypal.com, api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com, api-3t.paypal.com, dzv365zjfbd8v.cloudfront.net, api.wordpress.org, plugins.svn.wordpress.org, translate.wordpress.com, api64.ipify.org, ipecho.net, ident.me, tnedi.me, ipinfo.io, api.country.is | — |
| Blocks | 60 | — |
| Shortcodes | 7 | — |
| Custom tables | 31 | — |