Bearius SEO Light

Run the checks on the Audit screen: it fetches your pages and shows exactly which tags appear twice. Where the duplicate comes from this plugin, a one click fix switches ours off. The plugin cannot see SEO code added by the theme or a snippet manager, so in that case remove the other code or switch off the matching option under Meta and schema.

A theme can tell the plugin which parts it handles itself. Add this to the theme's after_setup_theme callback and list only what the theme really does: add_theme_support( 'bearius-seo', array( 'meta', 'schema' ) ); Available parts: meta, schema, terms, breadcrumbs, verification, sitemap, news, robots, feeds, tags, comments and archives. Those parts stay off whatever the settings say, and the settings show that the theme handles them.

Yes. Add a second declaration: add_theme_support( 'bearius-seo-fields' ); The SEO box in the post editor and the SEO fields on category and tag screens then stay on, even though the theme handles meta and terms. The plugin saves the fields and prints nothing; the theme reads them from post and term meta (_bearius_seo_title, _bearius_seo_desc, _bearius_seo_social, _bearius_seo_image and _bearius_seo_noindex). Pass array( 'meta' ) or array( 'terms' ) to keep only one of the two.

The theme or a small plugin registers its fields with the bearius_seo_import_sources filter, and the source appears on the Import screen next to Yoast SEO, Rank Math and All in One SEO. Images stored as attachment IDs are turned into addresses. Nothing is deleted from the original fields.

Yes, while the XML sitemap module is on. The new sitemap lives at /sitemap.xml and the old /wp-sitemap.xml address redirects to it. Switch the module off to go back to the WordPress sitemap.

Browsers are removing XSLT, the only way to turn an XML file into a page with links, so the sitemap files are styled with CSS. A list with clickable links is available on the Sitemaps screen. Search engines read the XML and are not affected.

Bearius Multilingual, Polylang, WPML and TranslatePress. Each language gets its own sitemap files and its own Google News file. For TranslatePress the translated addresses are added even without its paid SEO add-on.

That is your decision, and the plugin changes nothing until you make it. Blocking training keeps your texts out of new AI models but still lets assistants quote and link your pages. Blocking AI search means assistants cannot quote or link you. Google Search, including its AI Overviews, is not affected by either choice. The AI visibility screen explains every option.

It sends data to an outside service, and WordPress.org asks plugins to do that only after the site owner agrees. Switching it on is that consent. Google does not use IndexNow; it reads your sitemaps.

Yes. By default they follow the language of your user profile. On the Overview screen, under Language of these screens, you can pick English, Polish, German, Spanish or French just for yourself.

The plugin uses the mail function of your server. Many hosts limit or block it, and messages may land in spam. Send a test e-mail from the Notifications screen first; an SMTP plugin makes delivery reliable. Critical problems are always shown in the dashboard as well.

A simple measure of the problems found: twenty points off per critical problem, six per warning and two per suggestion. It is not a Google or PageSpeed score.

No. Visitors never trigger it. The full check runs once a day in the background or when you start it, and the content audit runs only when you open it.

Only if you actually publish news. NewsArticle is meant for reporting on current events.

Open the Import screen and pick the plugin. SEO titles, descriptions, noindex flags and social titles and images are copied, template variables become plain text, and nothing is deleted from the other plugin. Deactivate the other plugin afterwards and the paused modules start on their own.

Yes. Clear the page cache after changing settings, so visitors get pages with the new tags. The audit tells you when visitors still get an old cached copy, and it warns when the server answers the IndexNow key file itself instead of passing it to WordPress.

Deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen removes its settings and the SEO fields it stored for posts and archives. Deactivating keeps everything. To move to another SEO plugin, run its importer first if it has one.

Yes. The graph passes through the bearius_seo_schema_graph filter before it is printed, and the post types that get the editor box can be changed with bearius_seo_post_types.