Simple SEO Improvements offers a lightweight solution to enhance your website's search engine optimization (SEO) effortlessly.
Easily modify HTML titles and META robots fields across all post types and taxonomies.
Content editing allows you to set custom meta values for page titles, descriptions, posts, and other content types.
With flexible configuration options, you can define default values for the "robots" meta field for pages, posts, attachments, and custom content types.
You can prevent the indexing of unwanted pages, such as attachment pages, while keeping the link-follow attribute intact. Additionally, choose whether global settings should apply to new content or be enforced for each content type individually.
Key Features
- Add a Facebook application ID.
- Integrate IndexNow for Bing.
- Add a Twitter site tag.
- Insert custom HTML code after the tag.
- Insert custom HTML code before the tag.
- Insert custom HTML code in the section.
- Set a default og:image for the site.
- Set a unique HTML title for individual entries.
- Add meta descriptions for the homepage when displaying posts.
- Include meta descriptions for each entry.
- Apply meta robots to all post types (posts, pages, and media).
- Include meta robots for all custom post types.
- Customize meta robots for individual entries.
- Control meta robots for author archives.
- Manage meta robots for date archives.
- Remove category prefixes from URLs.
- Remove tag prefixes from URLs.
- Configure "Max Image Preview" settings.
- Set "Max Snippet" options.
- Set "Max Video Preview" options.
- Add structured data.
- Add rel="nofollow" to externals links.
- Add target="blank" to externals links.
- Add own CSS classes to externals links.
Room for Improvement?
We'd love your help to make Simple SEO Improvements even better!
- Report Bugs: Found an issue? Report it by creating a new topic in the plugin forum. Once verified, the issue will be tracked in GitHub for resolution.
- Suggest New Features: Have an idea for a new feature? Share it by creating a topic in the plugin forum to discuss its potential.
- Submit Pull Requests: If you're a developer, contribute by addressing existing issues on GitHub. Be sure to check our contributing guide for developers.
Thank you for helping improve Simple SEO Improvements for everyone!
There are 3 ways to install this plugin:
1. The super-easy way
- Navigate to the Plugins > Add menu in your Admin
- Search for
Simple SEO Improvements
- Click to install
- Activate the plugin
- A new box
Simple SEO Improvements
will appear in the entry and taxonomy screen
- A new menu
SEO Improvements
in Appearance
will appear in your Admin Settings Menu
2. The easy way
- Download the plugin (.zip file) on the right column of this page
- In your Admin, go to the menu Plugins > Add
- Select the button
Upload Plugin
- Upload the .zip file you just downloaded
- Activate the plugin
- A new box
Simple SEO Improvements
will appear in the entry and taxonomy screen
- A new menu
SEO Improvements
in Appearance
will appear in your Admin Settings Menu
3. The old and reliable way (FTP)
- Upload the
Simple SEO Improvements
folder to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- A new box
Simple SEO Improvements
will appear in the entry and taxonomy screen
- A new menu
SEO Improvements
in Appearance
will appear in your Admin Settings Menu
Project maintained on github at
iworks/simple-seo-improvements.
2.2.3 (2025-02-22)
2.2.2 (2025-02-22)
- An error with replacement on older PHP has been fixed.
2.2.1 (2025-02-21)
2.2.0 (2025-02-21)
- The build process has been improved.
- The iWorks Options module has been updated to 2.9.5.
- The iWorks Rate module has been updated to 2.2.3.
- The
_load_textdomain_just_in_time()
notice has been fixed. #6.
- The rel="nofollow" attribute can be added now. #4. Props for sylwiastein.
- The target="blank" attribute can be added now. #4. Props for sylwiastein.
- The translation domain for few strings where been fixed.
- Translation placeholders has been added.
2.1.0 (2025-01-26)
- Multiple
LocalBusiness
Type
have been added.
- The
Article
has been removed from JSON-LD on LocalBusiness page.
- The country select has been improved.
- The iWorks Options module has been updated to 2.9.4.
- The iWorks Rate module has been updated to 2.2.1.
- The LocalBusiness
Type
list has been improved.
- The
og:image
has been fixed.
2.0.9 (2024-02-14)
- The JSON+LD has been improved for a product.
- Compatibility with the OG plugin has been improved.
- The iWorks Options module has been updated to 2.9.1.
2.0.8 (2024-02-08)
- The "offers"/"Offer" field has been added.
2.0.7 (2024-02-06)
- The "offerCount" field has been improved.
2.0.6 (2024-02-06)
- The "offerCount" field has been added.
- Cleaning string has been improved.
2.0.5 (2024-01-31)
- The support for WooCommerce product has been added.
- The iWorks Rate module has been updated to 2.1.7.
2.0.4 (2023-12-29)
2.0.3 (2023-11-22)
- Check for the LocalBusiness page option has been added to avoid showing the form on all new pages.
2.0.2 (2023-11-15)
- The AI bots bloking has been added into the robots.txt file.
- The dynamic property has been fixed.
2.0.1 (2023-11-07)
- The too-early call of the function
get_pages()
has been fixed. Props for schulz,
- The iWorks Options module has been updated to 2.8.8.
2.0.0 (2023-11-01)
- The structured data has been added.
1.5.8 (2023-11-01)
- A small typo in structured data has been fixed.
1.5.7 (2023-11-01)
- The post data has been added (json-ld).
- The sitelinks search box structured data has been added (json-ld).
- The logo structured data has been added (json-ld).
- The iWorks Options module has been updated to 2.8.7.
- The iWorks Rate module has been updated to 2.1.3.
1.5.6 (2023-10-06)
- The filter
simple-seo-improvements/is_active
has been added. It allows you to check if the plugin is active.
1.5.5 (2023-08-03)
- Robots.txt options have been moved to the configuration panel.
1.5.4 (2023-06-30)
- The
FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING
flag has been replaced by FILTER_DEFAULT
.
- The iWorks Options module has been updated to 2.8.5.
- The iWorks Rate module has been updated to 2.1.2.
- Unnecessary trailing slashes have been removed.
1.5.3 (2023-06-09)
- The front page post type has been set.
- Every singular post type has been set.
- The schema attribute "name" has been set to
og:title
.
- The schema attribute "description" has been set to
og:description
.
1.5.2 (2023-05-09)
- An ability to Google News noindex has been added.
- An ability to Google noindex has been added.
- An ability to set the "Max Image Preview" value has been added.
- An ability to set the "Max Snippet" value has been added.
- An ability to set the "Max Video Preview" value has been added.
1.5.1 (2023-01-18)
- The check for
is_array
has been added to avoid warnings in some situations.
1.5.0 (2023-01-17)
- iWorks Options has been updated to version 2.8.4.
- The meta robots for the author, day, month, and year archives have been added.
1.4.5 (2022-12-16)
1.4.4 (2022-12-02)
- Improved PHP syntax compatibility.
- iWorks Rate has been updated to 2.1.1.
1.4.3 (2022-09-19)
- Fixed a typo in sprintf pattern.
1.4.2 (2022-09-19)
- Added ability to use default image as site icon.
- Changed iWorks Rate Module repository to GitHub.
1.4.1 (2022-06-29)
- Fixed saving attachment data.
- Fixed translation domain.
- Fixed issue with empty description.
1.4.0 (2022-03-02)
- Added improvements to the robots.txt file.
1.3.0 (2022-03-02)
1.2.4 (2022-02-25)
1.2.3 (2022-02-23)
- Fixed filter call order - singular settings were ignored.
1.2.2 (2022-02-22)
- Fixed typo in the meta description field.
1.2.1 (2022-02-22)
1.2.0 (2022-02-17)
- Added meta description for the homepage with posts blog list.
- Added default og:image.
- Updated iWorks Rate to 2.1.0.
1.1.0 (2022-02-15)
- Added the ability to add custom code for HTML HEAD.
- Added the ability to add custom code for the beginning of the BODY tag.
- Added the ability to add custom code for the end of the BODY tag.
- Added ability to remove category URL prefix.
- Added ability to remove tag URL prefix.
- Added
fb:app_id
into configuration.
- Added integration with OG — Better Share on Social Media.
- Added
twitter:site
into the configuration,
- Updated iWorks Options to 2.8.1.
1.0.8 (2022-01-21)
- Updated iWorks Options to 2.8.0.
- Updated iWorks Rate to 2.0.6.
1.0.7 (2022-01-17)
1.0.6 (2022-01-14)
- Added configuration for single entries defaults.
1.0.5 (2021-09-28)
- Changed attachment URL to direct URL to file.
- Filter attachments on sitemap XML only to images.
1.0.4 (2021-09-28)
- Added ability to publish images on Sitemap XML.
1.0.3 (2021-09-04)
- Fixed missing data on the blog posts page.
- Updated iWorks Rate to 2.0.4.
1.0.2 (2021-06-29)
- Strip tags from title and description fields.
- Updated iWorks Rate to 2.0.2.
1.0.1 (2021-06-08)
- Added integration with OG Plugin to use the same custom title for
og:title
.
1.0.0 (2021-05-21)
- First release.
- Added HTML custom title for entries.
- Added HTML custom title for taxonomies.
- Added HTML meta
description
for entries.
- Added HTML meta
description
for taxonomies.
- Added HTML meta
robots
for entries.
- Added HTML meta
robots
for taxonomies.