SnippetGrove – AI SEO Metadata

SnippetGrove finds missing SEO metadata and lets you write it into the SEO plugin you already use. The local audit and manual editor are free and do not require an account. Optional AI generation uses the WP Shelf service and a separate SnippetGrove license. SnippetGrove does not replace your SEO plugin's sitemaps, redirects or schema. Implemented:

• Detection of the active SEO plugin (Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress) with a fallback for sites running none
• Reading and writing SEO titles and meta descriptions through whichever of those is active
• A coverage audit counting published posts with no meta description or title, per post type, plus images with no alt text
• The same count for category, tag and product-category archives, on Yoast, Rank Math and SEOPress
• Bulk AI generation of SEO titles and meta descriptions, planned and costed before a run is dispatched
• The same for Open Graph and X card titles and descriptions, on Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress and All in One SEO
• Bulk AI image alt text, with decorative images detected and left alone
• Pages you can exclude from generation, with your front page protected by default
• A review queue with a decision per item, applied into the host SEO plugin's own fields
• Rollback of a whole run from a write journal, so a batch you dislike is undoable
• Admin screens for coverage, the gaps behind every number, and a run, plus REST routes for the same
• WP-CLI: wp snippetgrove audit, generate, status, apply, revert, export and import
• A portable configuration file — set SnippetGrove up once, apply it to every site you run
• Reviewing a run in a spreadsheet: export to CSV, approve or edit in bulk, import the decisions back
• License activation against the WP Shelf licensing service

Hosted generation requires a WP Shelf license and an enabled generation service. Hosted generation is enabled for activated licenses. Public licensing enrollment is not yet open. Local audits and manual editing do not depend on it. Not included:

• Per-language metadata via Gloty

Nothing in this plugin claims to influence whether any AI answer engine cites a site. That is not measurable from inside WordPress and will not be claimed. What the optional report sends No usage report is sent unless you enable it in Settings. This is independent of licensing and generation requests. Its JSON payload contains the product identifier and the following data:

• Which SEO plugin is active, and how many others compete with it
• The number of counted post types, how many published items exist, and how many have no SEO title or meta description, as site-wide totals rather than per item
• How many images exist and how many have no alt text
• Your WordPress, PHP and SnippetGrove versions, your site's locale, and whether WordPress considers the site production, staging or local
• A one-way hash identifying this installation, salted with a random value generated on your site and never sent. It lets one site's weekly reports be counted as one site; it cannot be turned back into an address

Not included in the usage-report payload: your site address, any e-mail address, any user account, any post, title, description or other content, and your license key. Turning the setting off stops the weekly job immediately; uninstalling deletes the salt, so a later reinstall is a different installation as far as we can tell. As with any HTTPS request, the receiving server can see your server's network address; the payload does not make the connection anonymous. Why we ask: which SEO plugins are really out there decides which of them gets fixed first, and the real size of the metadata gap is what the plan sizes have to be priced against. Both are currently guesses. Full documentation, including what each coverage number counts and exactly what leaves your site: https://wp-shelf.com/snippetgrove/docs

0.56.0

• Changed: wp snippetgrove export and wp snippetgrove settings-export now always write to standard output, and the --file option is gone. Redirect to save it: wp snippetgrove export 12 > review.csv. A plugin should not write files to a path of its own choosing, and the shell already does this better.

0.55.1

• Fixed: generation no longer sends the contents of inline scripts, styles and noscript blocks in a post to the model as if they were page text. A tracking snippet or a style block in a post's content used to reach the service as prose, costing tokens and muddying the generated title or description.

0.55.0

• Renamed the plugin to SnippetGrove across its code, data, commands, website, documentation and WordPress.org listing.
• Retained the complete metadata audit, manual editor, hosted generation, review and undo feature set from the release candidate.

0.54.4

• Undo every available write in large runs, preserve newer edits, and resume safely after an interrupted undo.
• Stop generation and scheduled or forced writes if the active SEO plugin changes after selection.
• Applied X metadata now overrides Rank Math or AIOSEO social inheritance. Undo restores the original setting after both X fields are restored.
• Undo preserves newer manual edits to metadata and image alt text.
• Keep partially delivered batches in recovery until missing results arrive or the recovery deadline passes, without resending a smaller batch under a new billing key.
• Recover interrupted dispatch requests and count overlapping result deliveries only once.
• Pause for a service review with saved results and an explicit Try again action when generation safety checks require operator attention.
• Continue recovering older runs with multiple batches in flight without requiring an open admin screen.

0.54.3

• Match the admin accent to the teal SnippetGrove icon and website.
• Guide new installations to license settings before creating a hosted generation run. Local audits and manual editing remain free.
• Show taxonomy coverage in the interactive dashboard, including hosts where it cannot be measured.
• Stop retrying malformed generation acknowledgements after the normal retry budget, preserving the batch for safe replay.
• Bound polling when completed jobs cannot return results, while retaining late results that are available.

0.54.2

• Fixed hosted generation and result polling on fresh installs with no saved server URL.
• Fixed undo for native metadata and empty fields, plus selection, review and undo of social metadata.
• Refresh coverage after manual metadata saves so the last fixed gap does not show a stale-count warning.
• Improved request-input sanitization and documented temporary CSV stream handling.
• Included shared JavaScript sources and standalone build instructions in the plugin ZIP.
• Clarified external-service requests and privacy disclosures.
• Verified clean installation and removal on WordPress 7.1.

0.54.0

• Added JavaScript search, sorting and pagination for admin data tables.
• Navigate between plugin subpages asynchronously, with Back/Forward support. Earlier release notes are included in CHANGELOG.md.