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Smart Index Control

WordPress plugin for SEO cleanup — noindex archive control, feed disabling, and attachment page redirects.

by Imran Hosain · github.com/imran-hosain/smart-index-control · 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/imran-hosain/smart-index-control/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/imran-hosain/smart-index-control ↗

A lightweight WordPress plugin that gives you simple, dashboard-based control over how search engines index your site — without editing your theme files or .htaccess.

Features

  • Noindex tag/category archives — Add a noindex directive to taxonomy archive pages with a single toggle, useful for sites where thin tag/category pages hurt SEO.
  • Disable XML/RSS feeds — Turn off feed endpoints (/feed/, /comments/feed/, etc.) and return a proper 410 Gone response instead of a 404, signaling to search engines that the feed is permanently removed.
  • Redirect attachment pages — Automatically 301-redirect standalone attachment pages to their parent post, preventing duplicate/thin content from being indexed.
  • Custom redirect fallback URL — Choose where orphaned attachments (no parent post) should redirect to, instead of always defaulting to the homepage.
  • Export/Import settings — Download your configuration as JSON and re-apply it on another site in seconds.

All features are optional and controlled from a clean, tabbed admin dashboard — nothing is enabled by default.

Admin UI

Smart Index Control ships with a custom-built dashboard (no page-builder or framework dependency):

  • Top-level admin menu item, positioned alongside WooCommerce
  • Tabbed navigation (Archives / Feeds / Attachments / Advanced / About) with instant, client-side tab switching — no page reload
  • iOS-style toggle switches with live "X of Y features active" status
  • Settings persist correctly per-tab (each tab's form preserves the other tabs' saved values on submit)

Installation

  1. Download the latest release or clone this repository.
  2. Upload the smart-index-control folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
  3. Activate the plugin from the Plugins screen in WordPress.
  4. Find Smart Index Control in your admin sidebar to configure.

Requirements

  • WordPress 6.0+
  • PHP 7.4+

Why this plugin

Most SEO plugins bundle dozens of unrelated features. Smart Index Control focuses on three specific indexing/crawling issues that commonly come up during technical SEO audits, so you can fix them quickly without installing a heavier all-in-one SEO suite.

Development notes

  • Settings are stored as a single option (smidx_settings) and cleaned up on uninstall, not on deactivation, so temporarily disabling the plugin never wipes your configuration.
  • The sanitize callback re-validates every known key on every save; hidden fields preserve cross-tab values so saving one tab never resets another.
  • Admin CSS/JS is enqueued only on the plugin's own settings page — it never loads elsewhere in wp-admin.
  • Follows WordPress Coding Standards throughout.

License

GPL v2 or later. See LICENSE.

Author

Imran Hosain — WordPress & Shopify Developer