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CBP Update Metadata

Upload CSV or XLSX files to update SEO meta titles and descriptions by URL, with dry-run support. Auto-detects Yoast, Yeast SEO, or SEOPress. Also exports existing metadata to CSV for migration between plugins.

by Chillibyte - DS · github.com/chillibyteuk/cbp-update-metadata

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/chillibyteuk/cbp-update-metadata/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/chillibyteuk/cbp-update-metadata ↗

Simple WordPress plugin to bulk update and export SEO meta title and meta description values.

Features

  • Upload CSV or XLSX to import
  • Export existing metadata to CSV (same columns as import, so you can migrate between plugins)
  • Match rows to WordPress content by URL (with safe fallbacks for normalized, relative, and path-only URLs)
  • Update Meta Title, Meta Description, or both
  • Dry run mode to preview changes without writing to the database
  • Admin results table showing skipped and updated rows
  • Auto-detects the active SEO plugin (Yoast SEO, Yeast SEO, or SEOPress) and reads/writes the correct post meta keys
  • Export lets you pick post types per export and optionally skips rows with no metadata set

Expected Columns

Use a header row with:

  • URL (required)
  • Meta Title (optional if only updating descriptions)
  • Meta Description (optional if only updating titles)

Accepted header aliases:

  • Meta Title, title, meta_title
  • Meta Description, description, meta_description, meta desc

Export / Migration

Tools > Update SEO Metadata now has an Export section above Import.

  • Select the post types to export (only publish is exported).
  • Choose whether to include only rows that have a title or description set.
  • The downloaded seo-export-*.csv uses relative URLs (e.g. /about/), plus Meta Title, Meta Description — identical to the import format, so the same file works on any domain.

Workflow for Yoast → Yeast:

  1. On the source site (Yoast active) → Export → download CSV.
  2. On the destination / same site with Yeast SEO active → Import the same CSV (dry-run first).

Install

  1. Copy the plugin folder into wp-content/plugins/.
  2. Activate CBP Update Metadata in WordPress.
  3. Open Tools > Update SEO Metadata.

Notes

  • The plugin first tries WordPress url_to_postid() and then falls back to normalized URLs, home-relative paths, and path/slug matching.
  • Ambiguous fallback matches are skipped and reported instead of guessed.
  • The detected SEO plugin is shown on the admin page; import and export both use that engine.
  • Export is relative-path based (/page/ not https://example.com/page/) for portability; import accepts both absolute and relative URLs.
  • Skipped rows (no matching URL or missing data) are counted and flagged in red in the results table.
  • For Yoast SEO, the plugin reads/writes _yoast_wpseo_title and _yoast_wpseo_metadesc.
  • For Yeast SEO, the plugin reads/writes cbp_yeast_seo_title and cbp_yeast_seo_meta_description.
  • For SEOPress, the plugin reads/writes _seopress_titles_title and _seopress_titles_desc.
  • XLSX import requires PHP ZipArchive; export is CSV only.