BuddyPress.org

It’s quite probable it just won’t work. BuddyPress intentionally interferes with the page that WordPress thinks its loading (when it’s a BuddyPress URL), and I suspect Yoast SEO will look at this page object, and because we’ve messed with it and because it doesn’t map to a real WordPress Page, it won’t work.

Sorry!

If you like to keep using Yoast for WordPress pages and exclude BuddyPress from using Yoast, you may try this.

function wpseo_fix_title_buddypress($title) {
    // Check if we are in a buddypress page 
    if ( function_exists( 'buddypress') && ( !empty( buddypress()->displayed_user->id ) || !empty( buddypress()->current_component ) ) ) {
        $bp_title_parts = bp_modify_document_title_parts();

        // let's rebuild the title here
        $title = $bp_title_parts['title'] . ' ' . $title;
    }
    return $title;
}
add_filter( 'wpseo_title', 'wpseo_fix_title_buddypress');

Thanks @mairaj
Your suggestion is working perfectly

This doesn’t seem to be working for me. Is it still a good fix for everyone else? The setting for title, meta description, open graph, etc. from Yoast settings are still bbeing ignored and the metas are not being outputted in the source.

I just implemented this approach.

I’m still reviewing the impact but so far so good I guess. Took out the part referencing buddyblog since I’m not using that plugin.