FoundHint – Local SEO, Schema & Google Business Profile Manager

Your business info, locations, schema and Google reviews in one place. Free multi-location support, and no Google Cloud project or API key needed. FoundHint – Local SEO Plugin to Get Found by Local Customers FoundHint is a free local SEO plugin for WordPress that helps you manage your Google Business Profile info, LocalBusiness schema, audits, posts, multiple locations and reviews from your WordPress dashboard. When your details are right everywhere, local customers find you, trust you and visit you. That is what local SEO is really about. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDN625JkPXo] Why FoundHint Is the Best Local SEO Plugin for WordPress? Most WordPress local SEO plugins either lock multiple locations behind a paid add-on or ask you to set up a Google Cloud project. FoundHint does neither.

• Multi-location management, run every branch from one WordPress dashboard, free.
• Accurate business info with Google sync, keep your website and Google Business Profile in step, and review every change before it's sent.
• LocalBusiness schema, accurate structured data for every location, with no coding and no duplicates alongside other SEO plugins.
• Local SEO audit, find what's missing, sorted by severity and explained in plain words.
• Review management, read, filter and reply to Google reviews without leaving WordPress.
• Google Business Profile posts, publish Update, Event and Offer posts to each location, with a live Google preview.
• Post scheduling, choose the date and time a post goes out (Premium).
• Share your blog on Google, turn a published blog post into a Google post from the post list or the block editor (Premium).
• Review auto-reply, reply to new Google reviews automatically with your own template for each star rating, set up separately for each location (Premium).
• Local SEO dashboard, your health score, what to fix and your Google connection at a glance.
• Advanced schema, Organization, every branch, services, WebSite, WebPage, About, Contact and Breadcrumb schema (Premium).
• Location landing pages, a page for each branch with its address, hours and map (Premium).

Coming soon: AI review replies, a post calendar, local citations, a local ranking grid with competitor history, service landing pages, an advanced audit and Business Profile performance analytics. Multiple locations, Google Business Profile sync, schema, the audit and review replies are all included in the free version. No upsell to add your second branch. Business Information and NAP Consistency Add your details once: name, business type and categories (from Google's own list), description with its earlier versions, phone numbers, email, website, opening date, price range, social profiles, booking and messaging links (appointment link, texting number, WhatsApp), hours, services, service area, logo, cover and gallery photos. Your name, address and phone (NAP) are stored once and reused in your schema, your audit and your Google Business Profile, so they stay consistent everywhere. Multi-Location SEO Plugin for WordPress Run many branches from one WordPress site, free, and switch between them from the bar at the top of every screen. Each location keeps its own address, map position, phone, website, opening hours, services, service area, photos, attributes and reviews. Built for franchises, chains and agencies. Opening hours: set each day as Open, Closed or Open 24 Hours, with several periods per day for split hours, plus special hours for holidays and one-off dates. Services: a name, description, price, currency, URL and status for each, matched to a ready-made service from Google's list for your category. Local Business Schema for WordPress Get accurate structured data with no coding. FoundHint builds LocalBusiness schema (with subtypes, address, geo coordinates, opening hours, services, contact details, social profiles and areas served) from the details you have already saved. Every location is published, and in your page source the JSON-LD sits between two FoundHint comments, so you can always see which plugin printed it. No duplicate schema. FoundHint detects Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress. If one of them already outputs LocalBusiness schema, FoundHint can stand aside. It never changes or disables another plugin's settings. Schema Manager (Premium): a tab for each schema, each with its own switch and a live JSON-LD preview: Organization, LocalBusiness, Locations (every branch, with its own page, subtype and parent), Services (provider, areas, page and price), Website structure (WebSite, WebPage, About, Contact, Breadcrumbs) and Settings. A Yoast Local SEO and Rank Math Local SEO Alternative FoundHint focuses only on local search: multiple locations, Google Business Profile sync and review replies, all free. Keep your current SEO plugin for content and on-page SEO, and let FoundHint handle the local side. Local SEO Audit and Health Score A built-in local SEO checklist for WordPress. The audit checks your business and location details, opening hours, structured data (and conflicts with other plugins), HTTPS, homepage availability, indexability and canonical URL, and your Google Business Profile connection, including whether the name and phone match your website. Every issue is sorted by severity (Critical, High, Medium, Low, Passed) and explained in plain words. One simple health score, with a trend over time, shows your progress. Note: the Health Score shows your setup progress. It is not a Google ranking score and does not show your position in Google Search or Google Maps. Safe fixes: Detect → Explain → Apply → Recheck. A one-click fix appears only when the right value is already known, you preview it first, and the audit reruns straight away. Anything that needs your judgement stays a recommendation. Google Business Profile WordPress Plugin

• One-click connection: no Google Cloud project, client ID or API key needed. Each Google listing your account manages is linked to its own FoundHint location.
• Website vs Google comparison: name, description, phone, website, address, hours, categories, services and links side by side; you decide which version to keep.
• Import from Google: a guided import of your details, hours, services, service area and links. Refresh from Google reads attributes and photos and only fills fields that are empty here.
• Send updates to Google: business information, categories, hours and special hours, services, service area, attributes, links and photos. Review the changes first; anything left empty here is never sent as a deletion.

Google Reviews in WordPress See each location's reviews with the reviewer's photo and any photos they attached. Filter by rating, reply status and review status (live, edited or removed), search, page through 5 to 100 at a time and export to CSV. Post, edit or delete your reply without switching to Google. Reviews a customer later removes stay readable here, clearly marked, and no longer count toward your rating. Google Business Profile Posts

• Update, Event and Offer posts, with dates, coupon code and terms for offers, and buttons such as Book, Order online, Call now or Learn more
• Live preview of how the post looks on Google, updated as you type
• Photos from your Media Library or your Google gallery
• Drafts, editing and deleting live posts, and syncing posts already on Google
• Scheduling (Premium): pick a date and time in your site's time zone
• Share your blog on Google (Premium): use "GBP Posting" under a published post or in the block editor to share it with a "Learn more" link

With Premium, also create a local landing page for each branch from saved data, with its address, phone, hours, map and schema. Works With Your WordPress Website FoundHint works alongside Gutenberg, the Classic Editor, Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, WooCommerce and common WordPress themes. No need to replace your existing SEO workflow. Local SEO for Every Local Business Restaurants, cafes and hotels; plumbers, electricians, HVAC and other service area businesses; dentists, doctors and clinics; lawyers, accountants and real estate agents; salons, spas and gyms; auto repair shops and dealerships; retail stores; and agencies managing many client locations. Pick the right Google category and LocalBusiness subtype, list your services, and your schema and Google Business Profile follow from the same data.

1.2.4

• Requirement: WordPress 6.6 or later.
• Improvement: The admin screens and the block editor's GBP Posting popup now use the React and translation libraries that come with WordPress instead of bundled copies.
• Improvement: The plugin's styles no longer change the look of the WordPress admin menu and toolbar on the FoundHint screen.
• Improvement: Shorter plugin description.
• Fix: Activation could fail to create the Google reference, services and location attributes tables on older MySQL setups, where an index may be at most 767 bytes.
• Fix: Removed the unused schema_page_index table. It is dropped automatically on update.

1.2.3

• New: Review auto-reply with FoundHint Premium. Each Google listing has its own: switch it on from the Reviews screen, choose new reviews only or unanswered ones too, and pick a reply template for each star rating. Every rating starts on "Don't reply", and AI replies are marked as coming soon.
• New: Reply templates belong to each location. Switching location in the top bar shows that location's templates, and the reply dialog offers the templates of the review's own location.
• New: The Reviews and Posts screens warn when auto-reply or scheduled posts have stopped running, with a "How to fix" guide to setting up a cron job.
• New: Choose how many older reviews auto-reply answers each day, so a large backlog goes out gradually. New reviews are always answered first.
• Improvement: {{business_keyword}} now fills in your business category, and {{location_city}} uses the city from Google when a location has none.
• Improvement: Reply placeholders work with spaces or capitals, names typed in lower case get a capital letter, and a long quoted review is shortened to fit Google's limit.
• Improvement: The reply dialog says when a detail such as the city was left out, so you can reword before publishing.
• Improvement: Refreshed layout for the Schema screen's Business, Locations, Services and Settings tabs.
• Fix: On a location with more than 1,000 reviews, reading reviews no longer marks the older ones as removed.
• Removed: The "Import from CSV" button on the Reply templates card, and the sample reply templates shown without FoundHint Premium. Without Premium, the card now explains templates and links to Premium.

1.2.2

• New: Schedule posts for a date and time, in your site's time zone, with FoundHint Premium. Scheduled posts show when they go live, and can be changed, published now or cancelled back to a draft.
• New: Share your blog on Google with FoundHint Premium. Turn it on from the Posts screen, then choose "GBP Posting" under a published post in Posts → All Posts, or the GBP Posting button in the block editor's top bar, to open a new post that links to the article.
• New: "Choose photo" on a post opens the WordPress Media Library, on the Posts screen and in the block editor. Dropping a file still uploads it.
• Improvement: The newest post is now always at the top of the posts list, scheduled or not.
• Improvement: A scheduled post can't be edited or deleted while it is being sent.
• Removed: The "Turn reviews into posts" card, the "Schedule with a CSV file" button and the "Customer photos" picker on the Posts screen.

1.2.1

• New: Choose your logo, cover photo and gallery photos from the WordPress Media Library on the Business Profile's Photos tab. Dropping files on a photo still uploads them.
• New: A failed post explains why it is not on Google, with Retry for a post Google did not take.
• New: Link fields on posts can fill in your website address in one click.
• Improvement: Redesigned Posts screen, with its actions in the header and your latest 5-star reviews ready to turn into thank-you posts.
• Improvement: Redesigned Reviews screen and reply templates.
• Improvement: Without FoundHint Premium, the Schema screen shows your details read-only, locks only the schema preview with an "Unlock with Premium" button, and marks Premium tabs with a badge.
• Improvement: The remaining "FoundHint Pro" text on the Posts and Reviews screens now says FoundHint Premium.
• Fix: Removing a photo that has not been sent to Google no longer deletes an image you picked from your Media Library.

1.2.0

• New: Redesigned Schema screen with Organization, LocalBusiness, Locations, Services, Website structure and Settings tabs, each with an on/off switch that saves at once.
• New: Support for the FoundHint Premium Schema Manager: edit every schema type, manage branch locations and services, and choose where each one prints.
• New: The JSON-LD in your page source is wrapped in FoundHint comments, so you can see which plugin printed it.
• New: The Schema screen follows the location chosen in the top bar.
• New: A "Get Pro" link on the Plugins screen, and an "Activate licence" prompt when FoundHint Premium is installed but not activated.
• Improvement: Deleting a service also clears its schema settings.
• Improvement: "FoundHint Pro" is now called FoundHint Premium throughout the plugin.

1.1.1

• Improvement: Updated readme with posts, links and FAQ details.

1.1.0

• New: Posts & Scheduling screen to publish Google Business Profile posts for each location.
• New: Update, Event and Offer posts, with buttons, photos and a live Google preview.
• New: Drafts, editing and deleting live posts, and syncing posts already on Google.
• New: Turn a 5-star review into a thank-you post in one click.
• New: Filter posts by type, status, time and source, with a History view.
• New: Support for the FoundHint Premium add-on (then called FoundHint Pro).
• Improvement: On local or staging sites, post photos are added to your Google profile first so the post can use them.
• Fix: A post with a just-uploaded photo no longer fails with "Internal error encountered".

1.0.0

• New: Redesigned Reviews screen, with Sync reviews and the location switcher in the top bar.
• New: Filter reviews by star rating, reply status and review status, and search by reviewer name or words.
• New: Pagination with 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100 reviews per page.
• New: Customer photos attached to a review are shown on the review, and open full size in a viewer.
• New: Reviewer profile photos, with initials when there is no photo.
• New: "Edited" and "Removed by reviewer" review statuses. A removed review stays readable, is no longer counted in your rating, and cannot be replied to.
• New: Reply dialog with the review quoted, a built-in reply for each star rating, and a character limit counter. Edit or delete your reply from the review.
• New: Export reviews to CSV: every filtered review, or only the ones you select.
• New: Previews of upcoming features: AI reply suggestions, auto-reply, reply templates, email alerts and AI reply history.
• Improvement: Clearer checkboxes, dialog borders and form fields on the Reviews screen.
• Fix: Disconnecting and reconnecting the same Google account no longer creates duplicate locations.

0.1.0

• First release.
• Business information, categories, locations, opening hours with special hours, services, service area, photos, and social and booking links.
• LocalBusiness JSON-LD schema for every location, with schema ownership alongside other SEO plugins.
• Local SEO audit with a health score, issues by severity and one-click fixes.
• Google Business Profile connection, guided import, data comparison, refresh and publish.
• Google reviews for each location, with replies.