Townsmith Local Pages Engine – Service Area & Location Page Generator
| 开发者 | thestephenevans |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年7月7日 22:33 |
| PHP版本: | 8.0 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.0 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
- Real pages, never virtual. Generated pages are ordinary WordPress pages: editable in the block editor, owned by you, and fully intact if the plugin is ever deactivated. Merge tokens are resolved at generation time, not at render time.
- One blueprint, deterministic variation. Design a single template with merge tokens, copy variations that rotate deterministically per page, and a local content slot that starts empty on every page, because the genuinely local part is yours to write.
- A Quality Score with teeth. Every generated page is scored 0–100: similarity against its sibling pages (5-word shingle comparison), local substance (filled slots, area descriptors, local imagery), and a thin-content floor. The pre-publish panel shows exactly what to fix and links to the spot, and warns before a below-threshold page publishes.
- A safety check, before Google's. A portfolio Safety Check reads every page's score into one plain-English verdict: how many pages are safe to publish and which look like the near-duplicate "doorway" pages Google demotes. In the block editor, Twin Finder shows the exact sentences a page shares with its closest sibling, so you know precisely what to rewrite in local terms. It is guidance computed entirely on your own site, never a guarantee from Google and never a call home.
- Schema that cooperates. One JSON-LD graph per page: LocalBusiness, Service with areaServed, breadcrumbs, FAQ. If Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SEOPress is active, Local Pages Engine steps back and emits only the Service piece, wired to the host plugin's organisation, never a duplicate LocalBusiness.
- Hub-and-spoke linking that survives. Each service gets a hub page; each area page carries an "Areas we cover" block and a breadcrumb back to its hub. The links are baked into the saved markup, refreshed automatically as the area set changes, and keep working even with the plugin deactivated.
- Safe sync. When the blueprint changes, a review screen shows exactly what would change on each page. Blocks you have edited are yours: sync never overwrites them, and a deleted block is never re-added. No silent background rewrites, ever.
- Resumable background generation. Generation runs through a batched queue built for cheap shared hosting. Interrupt it anywhere and it resumes without duplicates.
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常见问题:
What is a service-area or location page?
A landing page targeted at one service in one place you cover, for example "Boiler Repair in Leeds" or "Emergency Electrician in Bristol". Local Pages Engine builds the matrix of these pages from your services and areas, but leaves a local content slot empty on each so the genuinely local writing is yours.
Is this a bulk page generator?
No, and deliberately so. Local Pages Engine is built quality-first for local SEO, with sibling-similarity scoring, a thin-content floor and publish gates. It is designed to keep the pages it produces defensible under Google's scaled-content and doorway-page guidance, not to spin thousands of near-identical pages.
Does this plugin send my data anywhere?
No. Everything runs on your own WordPress install. There are no external API calls, no AI services, and no telemetry of any kind.
What happens to generated pages if I deactivate or uninstall the plugin?
Nothing. Generated pages are real WordPress pages and remain fully intact, editable, and rendering, including their internal links, which are baked into the saved markup. Uninstalling removes the plugin's settings and queue table only (and even that can be kept with a setting).
Will it conflict with my SEO plugin?
No. Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress are detected at render time. When one is active, Local Pages Engine suppresses its own meta description and emits only the Service schema piece, referencing your SEO plugin's organisation data.
Can it overwrite content I've edited?
No. The moment you edit a generated block, that block is yours. The sync flow updates only untouched blocks and shows you a per-page preview before anything is applied.
Why did publishing my page get blocked?
Its Quality Score is below your threshold and the Pro add-on's enforcement mode is switched on (this plugin only warns). The pre-publish checklist lists exactly what to fix: usually filling the local content slot, writing an area descriptor, or making the copy less similar to a sibling page.
Will location pages get my site penalised by Google?
Not for being location pages. Google's scaled-content and doorway-page policies target near-identical pages built only to rank: many pages that read the same with a town name swapped. That is exactly what this plugin is built to prevent: every page is scored against its closest sibling, thin pages are flagged before they publish, and the Safety Check gives your whole portfolio a plain-English verdict before Google sees it.
Does it use AI to write my content?
No. This plugin contains no AI and makes no external calls: generation merges your own blueprint and copy variants deterministically, and the local content slot stays empty until a human fills it. The optional Pro add-on includes an off-by-default assistant that can reword a single sentence you select. It assists, never generates pages, and the free plugin needs none of it.
更新日志:
- Usability pass across the admin. The setup wizard no longer emits a notice on activation and now has a proper page title. Areas and Services gained labelled edit fields (area type, local descriptor, coordinates, service description, default FAQs) in place of the raw Custom Fields box, and their list tables show type, descriptor, hub and page count at a glance. On a generated page, each local content slot shows its prompt instead of a bare button, and the Quality Score is now visible in the editor sidebar while you draft, not only at publish. The dashboard labels empty cells with "Generate", explains the score colours, and reminds you to set a business name so pages read as whole sentences (your site name is used until you do). The Sync screen describes what changed by date rather than by revision number. No change to generation, scoring, schema, linking or sync behaviour.
- New: an area-first URL option. Alongside flat (/service-area/) and hierarchical (/service/area/), generated pages can now nest as /area/service/ beneath an area landing page. Designate an area's hub page from the command line (
wp townsmith hub --area=<id> --page=<id>) or the REST route, the same way service hubs work. Useful for rebuilds that need to keep an existing area-first URL structure without redirects.
- Copy editing pass across the admin screens and this description. No change to generation, scoring, schema, linking or sync.
- Added bundled translations for German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese, covering the admin screens and the editor panels. Official language packs from translate.wordpress.org take over automatically as each locale is approved. No change to generation, scoring, schema, linking or sync.
- New: a Page Safety check. On the Quality screen, a plain-English verdict shows how many of your location pages are safe to publish and which look too similar or too thin, before Google sees them. In the block editor, Twin Finder reveals the exact sentences a page shares with its closest sibling so you can rewrite them in local terms. Both run entirely on your own site: no external services, no data leaves your install. No change to generation, schema, linking or sync.
- Added two optional, dismissible prompts on the plugin's own admin screens: a review invitation that appears only after you have published pages with the plugin, and a single pointer to the Pro add-on. Both are easy to dismiss for good, neither is incentivised, and nothing is sent anywhere. No change to generation, scoring, schema, linking or sync.
- Renamed the plugin to describe what it does (a service-area and location page generator) and refreshed the readme. No change to generation, scoring, schema, linking or sync.
- Added the plugin homepage and author links to the plugin header.
- Generation runs are now unlimited: every selected service and area is generated, and variation blocks rotate through all authored variants.
- Hardened capability checks: page disposal, bulk sync, bulk re-scoring and slug updates now verify edit or delete rights on each affected page rather than a broad role capability.
- First public release: blueprint blocks and merge engine, resumable batched generation, the Quality Score with pre-publish panel and publish gate, schema output with SEO-plugin cooperation, hub-and-spoke linking with deactivation-safe markup, blueprint sync with human-edit protection, and the admin app (wizard, dashboard, quality, settings).