Description
A lightweight plugin to make your site more SEO Friendly. This plugin provides SEO features that are really matters to optimize your site’s SEO in a non-intrusive way.
Features
- Meta Description (This plugin use the built-in WordPress excerpt function to get all description metas. So you can simply use the excerpt box if you want to customize the output)
- Social Media Meta Tags (Open Graph protocol)
- Set default Facebook Image
- Set default Twitter Image
(by default, all social media images will get the featured image first. If the entry does not have a featured image, it will use these images as a fallback. if you leave this blank, the plugin will try to get the first image from each entry)
- Structured Data (Schema) Markup (JSON-LD)
- Organization Schema
- Local Business Schema
- Sitelinks Search Box Schema
- Breadcrumbs Schema
- Article Schema
- Product Schema for Shop & Product Category Page – Add Product Schema with offer and ratings to Shop & Product Category Page (this option only appear if you use WooCommerce, useful if you enable ratings for your products)
- Custom JSON Schema – Utilize WordPress native post meta fields to add custom JSON Schema. Simply add new « jsonScript » to the name field and add the JSON schema markup to the value field. You can add custom JSON schema markup as many as you like in each page/post since this using
foreach. - Custom Title for Search Engine and Social Media – Utilize WordPress native post meta fields to use different titles for search engines & social media. Simply add new post meta field named « seoTitle » for search engine title, « twitterTitle » for twitter title, and/or « ogTitle » for other social media titles, then add the custom title to the value field.
- Sitemap – Utilize the built-in WordPress sitemap features. Use this plugin to control / configure:
- The sitemap index url
- Remove posts / pages / products / taxonomies / any registered custom post types globally from the sitemap
- Remove Users (globally) from the sitemap
- Remove each entries individually from each entries edit screen
- Add attachments (image / video) to the sitemap
- Change your Robots.txt Content – Easily customize you robots.txt content using the provided textarea.
- Image Alt Tags – Add empty image alt tags with title.
- Disable Feeds – Disable WordPress Feeds to prevent scrappers from duplicating your content.
- Works well with WooCommerce.
Disclaimer
- As the plugin name says, you will not find any non-matter features for SEO in this plugin.
- This plugin was built by prioritizing the use of built-in WordPress features.
- Still not tested thoroughly in FSE themes.
- Still not tested in multisites websites.
Found any issues?
Please use this support forum to report it.
Check out my other plugins:
- Optimize More! – A DIY WordPress Page Speed Optimization Pack.
- Optimize More! Images – A simple yet powerfull image, iframe, and video optimization plugin.
- Lazyload, Preload, and more! – This tiny little plugin (around 14kb zipped) is a simplified version of Optimize More! Images. Able to do what Optimize More! Images can do but without UI for settings (you can customize the default settings using filters).
- Shop Extra – A lightweight plugin to enhance your WooCommerce & Business site.
- Image & Video Lightbox – A lightweight plugin that will automatically adds Lightbox functionality to images.
- Animate on Scroll – Animate any Elements on scroll using the popular AOS JS library simply by adding class names.
Installation
From within WordPress
- Visit Plugins > Add New
- Search for SEO That Matters or Arya Dhiratara
- Activate SEO That Matters from your Plugins page
- Find SEO That Matters settings in Tools > SEO That Matters
Manually
- Download the plugin using the download link in this WordPress plugins repository
- Upload seo-that-matters folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate SEO That Matters plugin from your Plugins page
- Find SEO That Matters settings in Tools > SEO That Matters
FAQ
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Why you create this?
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It’s for my personal projects. I need a lightweight plugin for my SEO needs. The most popular and the slimmest SEO plugin still fails to allow me to add custom Structured Data (Schema) Markup (JSON-LD) in page/post I need.
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Why use the native WordPress post meta fields?
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Why not? This plugin was built by prioritizing the use of built-in WordPress features. I want to keep it as simple and lightweight as possible.
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I can’t find my post meta fields in the editor
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If you’ve never use it before, usually it doesn’t appear by default. Just click the three dots in the top right corner > click preferences > click the panel tab > enable (enable) custom fields.
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Where can I find the individual sitemap options?
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you can find additional Seo That Matters metabox in each edit screen.
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I can’t find the options to remove attachments from sitemap
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you need open Media Library > choose the attachment > click « edit more details »
Avis
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Contributeurs & développeurs
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Historique des changements
1.0.3
- Bug fixes
1.0.2
- Update compatibility check for WP 6.4
1.0.1
- Fix incorrect lastmod format
- Fix the plugin setting url in the plugin list screen
- Add additional information about meta description and social media image in the plugin descriptions
1.0.0
- Initial release


