I’m having issues adding third party premium plugins. I’ll use the Yoast premium plugin as an example. Here’s their instructions: How to install Yoast SEO plugins for Wordpress using Composer • Yoast The instructions say to setup the auth token, then add the repository: composer config repositori…

I do have the auth setup in auth.json. The plugin was installing just fine, just not activating. Turns out my deploy script was ignoring anything in .gitignore which included the vendors folders. Working now that I’ve included those folders in the deploy- all good, thanks everyone!

I don’t use this plugin, but since you’re paying for it, I’d recommend reaching out to their support team for answers

Totally get that, but this isn’t specific to this one plugin. I haven’t been able to install any other premium plugins through the same process, so wanted some input on if I’m missing something in the process. My best guess is that there needs to be an install of the dependencies for the plugin, bu…

What other premium plugins have you tried, and what exact process did you use?

This may be helpful: [image] [Tips&Tricks] Installing Yoast SEO premium plugin via composer (Trellis) trellis Installing the Yoast SEO premium plugin via composer is very easy with Trellis. Just add the My Yoast token to the composer authentications variable …

If this helps, I am using that plugin with Bedrock and wp plugin activate wordpress-seo-premium works as expected after composer install. Not using Trellis, but have (manually) added an auth.json in the project root directory with the following stucture: { "http-basic": { "my.yoast.com": { …

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strarsis February 17, 2026, 6:26am 5

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