FLEX SMM & SEO

FLEX SMM & SEO is part of the FLEX plugin suite from FLEX LLC (https://flexible.am/). The display name leads with SMM, not “Flex SEO”. It is not affiliated with third-party plugins such as Flex SEO Meta Updater. It covers everyday SEO and social sharing without a bulky suite:

• Overview dashboard with missing titles/descriptions and a setup checklist
• Per-post Google / Facebook / X preview, color length meters, and on-page checks
• Category, tag, and custom taxonomy SEO fields
• Title templates (%%title%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% and related tokens)
• Open Graph, Twitter/X cards, Facebook App ID, and social profile URLs (schema sameAs)
• XML sitemap with selectable post types and taxonomy archives
• Organization, Article/WebPage, BreadcrumbList, and WooCommerce Product JSON-LD
• Optional Insights (Search Console + GA4) via your Google Cloud OAuth client
• Tools: on-page audit, bulk titles, IndexNow, validators
• Webmaster verification tags (Google, Bing, Pinterest, Yandex)
• Breadcrumbs shortcode [flex_seo_breadcrumb]

Use Flex Redirects for URL redirects. Admin CSS and JavaScript ship with the plugin. There is no telemetry and no remote update checker. Google APIs and IndexNow run only after you save credentials or turn those options on. Privacy Titles, descriptions, robots, social settings, and webmaster codes are stored in your WordPress database (site options plus per-post and per-term meta). Only administrators can edit them. Google Insights (off until you connect): Client ID, Client Secret, and optional GA4 property ID are stored in site options. Access and refresh tokens are stored in a non-autoloaded option. When you click Connect Google, this site sends you to Google to authorize read-only Search Console and Analytics access, then stores tokens locally. Report requests go to Google’s APIs. Disconnect revokes the tokens. FLEX SMM & SEO does not send this data to FLEX. IndexNow (off by default): when enabled, published or updated public URLs are posted to IndexNow so Bing and Yandex can recrawl them. A key file is served at /{key}.txt on your site. Per-post and per-term SEO meta is left in the database if you delete the plugin, so you do not lose editor work on reinstall. See Third-party services for URLs, terms, and privacy policies.

1.2.5

• Keep the plugin folder and Text Domain header on the WordPress.org slug flex-smm-seo.

1.2.4

• Set the gettext text domain to flex-smm-seo so it matches the WordPress.org plugin slug.

1.2.3

• Rename the display name to FLEX SMM & SEO so it does not lead with “Flex SEO”.

1.2.2

• Encode JSON-LD with JSON_HEX_TAG and related flags so user content cannot break out of the script element.
• Clarify FLEX LLC suite ownership in the description.

1.2.1

• WordPress.org review readiness: complete readme (privacy, installation, FAQ, service terms).
• Disable the core WordPress sitemap so /flex-seo-sitemap.xml is the single sitemap.
• Rename the plugin display name to FLEX SMM & SEO.
• Tested up to WordPress 7.1.

1.2.0

• Add Insights with Search Console (totals, queries, pages, improvement list) and GA4 reports. Google OAuth credentials live on Insights, not Settings.
• Editor: pixel-aware SERP truncation, color length bars, character/word counts, Google/Facebook/X previews, richer on-page checks.
• Tools: on-page audit, bulk title/description editor, IndexNow pings, validator links.

1.1.0

• Add Overview and Tools screens (health stats, rewrite flush, robots.txt preview, missing descriptions).
• Add title templates, term SEO, webmaster verification, Twitter/X site, Facebook App ID, and social profile URLs.
• Add SERP preview, character counts, and focus keyword checks in the post editor.
• Expand sitemap (post types and taxonomies), schema (breadcrumbs, author, Product), and attachment 301s.

1.0.2

• Fix homepage vs Posts page titles, descriptions, and canonicals (including static front pages).
• Exclude noindex and password-protected posts from the sitemap; avoid a duplicate homepage URL.
• Output noindex on 404s; skip revision/autosave meta saves; walk page parents in breadcrumbs.
• Character-safe description trimming; og:type is article only for posts; advertise the sitemap in robots.txt.
• Expand the Usage page with homepage, meta box, robots, sitemap, schema, and breadcrumb details.

1.0.1

• Refreshed admin UI with a cleaner, card-based layout (local CSS only).
• Media library picker for default OG image, organization logo, and per-post OG image.

1.0.0

• Initial release.