Move to Another SEO Plugin | WP Visibility Docs

Deactivating WP Visibility leaves every title, description, canonical, indexing choice and redirect rule in your database. What you need to do before you switch is about the next plugin: check what it can import, copy what it cannot, and expect the sitemap address to change. Deleting the plugin also keeps the data unless you turn on Delete all plugin data on uninstall first.

Where WP Visibility keeps your data

Data	Where
Per-post SEO (search title, description, canonical, indexing, social fields, schema choice, per-post redirect)	One post meta row, `_wpvis`, holding a serialized array. Only values that differ from the defaults are stored, so a post with nothing custom has no row.
The noindex flag	A second post meta row, `_wpvis_noindex`, present only on noindexed posts.
Per-term SEO	One term meta row, `_wpvis`.
Settings (templates, separator, verification codes, social defaults, schema identity, crawler policy)	The `wpvis_settings` option.
Redirect rules and hit counts	The `wpvis_redirects` table.

Check what the next plugin imports

An importer has to know these keys. Look at the other plugin’s import options before you count on them, and if WP Visibility is not on its list, plan to re-enter values or copy them with a script. The keys inside _wpvis are title, description, canonical, noindex (1 noindex, -1 index, absent inherit), nofollow, og_title, og_description, og_image_id, tw_title, tw_description, schema_type, schema_json and redirect.

There is no bulk export in the plugin. WP-CLI prints one post’s resolved values, and a shell loop turns that into a file:

wp visibility get 123 --format=json
for id in $(wp post list --post_type=post,page --post_status=publish --format=ids); do
  wp visibility get "$id" --format=json
done > wpvis-export.jsonl

To list the posts you have noindexed:

wp post list --post_type=any --post_status=any --meta_key=_wpvis_noindex --meta_value=1 --fields=ID,post_title,url

Copy the redirects

No SEO importer we know of reads the wpvis_redirects table, and there is no CSV export. Before deactivating:

Open WP Visibility → Redirects and copy the rules into a spreadsheet as source,target,status; the table is searchable and pages 20 at a time. Or fetch them all in one request per hundred: GET /wp-json/wpvis/v1/redirects?per_page=100&page=1 with an administrator’s credentials.
Note the rules with a regex tag; the next plugin may write patterns differently.
Recreate them in the new plugin, then test the ten most visited from the Hits column.

The moment WP Visibility is deactivated the rules stop firing, and so does every per-post Redirect (301) to field. Have the replacements in place first.

Copy the settings

Screenshot or note the following, because none of it travels: the title separator and templates, the homepage title and description, the Google and Bing verification codes, the default social image and X handle, the organization or person identity in the Schema section, the AI crawler policy, the IndexNow key if the module is on, and the noindex choices in the Indexing section. Re-enter them in the new plugin before you switch it on, and compare the head of a post, a category and the homepage before and after.

The sitemap moves

WP Visibility serves /sitemap.xml and turns off WordPress’s own /wp-sitemap.xml. When you deactivate, the WordPress sitemap comes back at its own address and the new plugin will publish its own. Submit the new address in Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, and remove the old one, once the new plugin is live: Submit Your Sitemap explains where.

Deactivate

Activate the new plugin and finish its setup while WP Visibility is still active, or on staging. Two SEO plugins active together print two sets of head tags, so keep that window short.
Deactivate WP Visibility on the Plugins screen. The menu disappears; the data stays.
Check ten URLs in a private window: title, description, canonical, robots line, and the redirects you recreated.

Uninstall

Deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen keeps every option, meta row and table by default, so an accidental removal destroys nothing and a reinstall picks up where it left off.

To remove the data as well, turn on Delete all plugin data on uninstall in the Advanced section of the settings screen before deleting the plugin. That removes the settings, the SEO meta on posts and terms, the redirect table, the review queue’s proposals and the activity log, on every site of a network that opted in. There is no undo; take a database backup first. A network administrator can force the same for every site with the WPVIS_DELETE_DATA_ON_UNINSTALL constant in wp-config.php.

If you come back

Reactivate the plugin. Everything is where you left it unless you chose to delete it, and your license key still works: the license covers updates for any number of sites, and deactivating a site does not use anything up.