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SEO Confident

A lightweight WordPress SEO plugin with schema markup, XML sitemaps, meta tags, redirects and technical SEO tools.

by Digivator · github.com/digivator/seo-confident · website

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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/digivator/seo-confident/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/digivator/seo-confident ↗

A lightweight WordPress SEO plugin. Meta tags, XML sitemaps, schema markup, robots.txt and llms.txt editors, redirects and breadcrumbs, all in one plugin.

Features

  • Meta tags with a custom title, description and keywords for every page, post and public post type
  • Canonical URLs with automatic and per page control
  • Open Graph and Twitter Cards for clean social sharing
  • Schema markup for Organisation, Local Business, Professional Service and Person, plus Article, WebPage, BreadcrumbList and your own JSON-LD, site wide or per page
  • XML sitemaps at /sitemap.xml for posts, pages, public custom post types and taxonomies
  • HTML sitemap through the [seoc_html_sitemap] shortcode
  • Robots.txt editor with a live preview and explicit rules for the main AI crawlers
  • llms.txt editor, or one generated automatically from your content
  • Redirects with 301, 302 and 307 support, plus loop and duplicate checks
  • Hreflang tags and optional speakable markup
  • Technical SEO hardening such as security headers, canonical enforcement and tel: link fixes
  • Settings import and export

Everything runs on your own server. There is no tracking and no external service.

Requirements

  • WordPress 5.8 or later
  • PHP 7.4 or later

Installation

From the WordPress.org directory. Once the plugin is listed, go to Plugins > Add New, search for SEO Confident, then install and activate it.

From a GitHub release. Download seo-confident-x.y.z.zip from the latest release, then go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin and activate it.

From source. Clone the repository into wp-content/plugins/seo-confident and activate it. The plugin has no build step.

SEO Confident replaces other SEO plugins, so deactivate any you have before switching on this one.

Quick start

  1. Open SEO Confident in the WordPress admin menu.
  2. Set the homepage title and description.
  3. Choose your organisation type and add your business name, logo and contact details.
  4. Edit any page or post to use the SEO Confident meta box.
  5. Submit /sitemap.xml once in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Developer filters

Filter What it does
seoc_excluded_page_slugs Slugs of pages to keep out of the sitemap and llms.txt
seoc_exclude_post Exclude any post from the sitemap and llms.txt. Receives $exclude, $post
seoc_sitemap_post_types Post types that get a sitemap
seoc_sitemap_max_urls Maximum URLs per sitemap, 5000 by default. Receives $max, $post_type
seoc_llms_txt_content The final llms.txt content
seoc_page_schema The auto-generated Article or WebPage schema, before it is printed. Receives $schema, $post
seoc_ai_bots The AI crawlers that get an Allow group in robots.txt
seoc_output_hreflang Return false to switch hreflang tags off
seoc_hreflang_code The language code used in hreflang tags, taken from the site locale by default
seoc_speakable_selectors CSS selectors marked as speakable on the homepage. Empty by default

Example, marking parts of the homepage as speakable:

add_filter( 'seoc_speakable_selectors', function () {
    return array( '.entry-title', '.entry-summary' );
} );

Development

You need PHP 7.4 or later and Composer.

composer install      # installs the coding standards tooling
composer phpcs        # checks the code against the project ruleset
composer phpcbf       # fixes what can be fixed automatically
bash bin/check-version.sh   # confirms the version matches everywhere
bash bin/build-zip.sh       # builds dist/seo-confident-x.y.z.zip from the last commit

The ruleset in phpcs.xml.dist is WordPress Extra with the formatting rules relaxed, because the code base uses four space indentation. Security, escaping, i18n, prefixing and PHP compatibility rules are all enforced. Pull requests run the same checks in CI, along with the official Plugin Check used by the WordPress.org review team.

See CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request and docs/RELEASING.md for how a release is cut.

Security

Please report vulnerabilities privately. The details are in SECURITY.md.

Licence

SEO Confident is free software released under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 or later. See LICENSE.

About

Made by Digivator.co.uk, a digital operations service based in Surrey.