taxonomies/clear-term-seo removes every Yoast SEO field from one term, returning it to the site-wide defaults. It refuses without confirm: true.
The term itself is untouched. Only its SEO overrides are cleared.
Before you run it
Every SEO override on the term goes at once: title, description, keyphrase, canonical, breadcrumb title, noindex and cornerstone. The term reverts to the taxonomy’s templates, which on most sites produces a generic description shared with every other term. Read the current values first with taxonomies/get-term-seo — there is no undo and nothing records what was there.
At a glance
| Ability | taxonomies/clear-term-seo |
| Toolset | Yoast SEO — toolset/yoast-seo |
| Group | Yoast SEO › Term SEO |
| Requires | Yoast SEO, active on the site |
| Capability | manage_options |
| Safety | Destructive — deletes stored values, and refuses to run without confirm: true |
| Repeatable | Idempotent — running it twice leaves the same result |
| Ships in | AcrossAI Abilities Manager 0.0.34 and later |
How it works
Clearing is not the same as blanking. A term with an empty SEO title falls back to the taxonomy template, which is exactly what a cleared term does — so the visible result is the same and the stored state is different.
The difference matters when the template changes later: a cleared term follows the new template, and a term with an empty-string override may not.
The legitimate use is undoing a bulk write that went somewhere it should not have, or resetting a term whose accumulated overrides no longer make sense.
Noindex is worth singling out. Clearing removes it, which means a term deliberately kept out of search comes back into it — a change that is invisible on the site and visible to search engines.
Idempotent: clearing a term with no overrides is a no-op.
Input
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
taxonomy | string | Yes | The taxonomy. |
term_id | integer | Yes | The term. |
confirm | boolean | Yes — must be true | The irreversibility gate. Without it the call is refused before anything is touched. |
What comes back
| Name | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|
cleared | boolean | Whether anything was removed. |
success | boolean | Whether the call completed. |
message | string | A one-line summary of what happened, suitable for showing a human. |
error_code | string | Present only on failure — a stable machine-readable reason, such as a missing field, a wrong field type or an unmet confirmation. |
Example
Ask your assistant:
Reset the SEO on this category back to the defaults.
It resolves to one call:
{
"ability": "taxonomies/clear-term-seo",
"parameters": {
"taxonomy": "category",
"term_id": 87,
"confirm": true
}
}Worth knowing
- Clearing removes the noindex flag too. A hidden term becomes visible to search.
- Read the values first — nothing records what was there.
- The term and its posts are untouched.
- Idempotent.
Related abilities
- Get Term SEO — read before clearing
- Update Term SEO — change one field instead
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