Manny Wenas SEO

At a copywriting conference around 2011, a group of journalists asked their SEO tool — half sarcastically — whether they should just repeat their keyword phrase fifteen times in a row. The tool essentially said yes. That's the problem Manny Wenas SEO was built to fix. Every other SEO plugin on the market was designed to make Google happy. Manny Wenas SEO was designed to make writers happy. The difference matters. Mechanical writing ranks worse than good writing. Always has. We just happen to be the first plugin to build that conviction into the scoring. Our core principle: reward writers for organically placing their keyphrase. Never make them feel like they're writing for a search engine algorithm. Mechanical writing is the enemy. What makes this different We check five things: your keyphrase in the title, in the opening paragraph, in a subheading, in the slug, and in the meta description. That's it. We don't count how many times you used it in the body. We don't penalise you for not hitting a density percentage. We don't tell you to stuff it into places it doesn't belong. If you wrote a good article and placed your keyphrase naturally in those five locations, you'll score well. If you wrote a great article but missed one, you'll still score well — and we'll tell you which one you missed, not scold you for it. Features

• Focus keyphrase (semantic matching) plus up to two related keyphrases
• SEO title, meta description, noindex/nofollow per post
• Open Graph and X/Twitter cards
• Sitemaps: posts, news, images, videos, categories, tags, authors, plus an HTML sitemap shortcode
• robots.txt management and weekly-generated llms.txt (anchor posts first)
• Connected @graph JSON-LD, server-side rendered
• Yoast SEO and Rank Math coexistence (we defer: no duplicate meta, schema or sitemaps)
• Google Search Console (OAuth), per-post query data
• WordPress Abilities API (WP 6.9+)
• 0-100 SEO and readability score with a written verdict in the editor

Deliberately excluded: redirects, 404 monitor, analytics dashboard, AI writer.

1.0.5

• Fixed: Search Console "Suggest" button now shows a clear "not connected" message when GSC is not linked
• Removed: Dead internal methods pages_report() and youtube_id()
• Fixed: Uninstall now cleans up Trends transients (mwseo_trends_*)

1.0.4

• Compliance: the ABSPATH direct-access guard (defined( 'ABSPATH' ) || exit;) is now the first statement of every file in includes/
• Packaging: removed the Domain Path header until translation files ship

1.0.3

• Compliance: every PHP file in includes/ now starts with the standard ABSPATH direct-access guard
• Packaging: the languages/ folder (Domain Path) is always present in the distribution

1.0.2

• Compliance: removed pro-tier licence gate; all included features are now fully functional
• Security: replaced wp_salt('auth') with a neutral site-specific hash seed in schema output
• Code quality: replaced inline script tag in importer with wp_add_inline_script()
• Privacy: IndexNow and Google Trends integrations are now disabled by default and require explicit opt-in
• Docs: added External Services section to readme.txt disclosing all third-party connections
• Hardening: tightened REST API permission callback for low-scoring posts endpoint
• Branding: updated Plugin URI to mannywenas.com

1.0.1

• New 100-point scoring system (Text & Content 45, Placement 30, Technical 15, Optional 10)
• Optional keyphrases field: shows N/A instead of 0 when empty
• Alt text check is now accessibility-based (any non-empty alt passes)
• Word count under 300 words is now a notice, not a score deduction
• External links: advisory notice only, no point deduction
• Rank Math / Yoast title templates rendered before scoring
• All user-facing strings are now i18n-ready (.pot included)

1.0.0

• Initial release.