About this plugin
Simple Open Graphs is a feather-light social metadata plugin that makes every link to your site look great on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Pinterest, Telegram, and beyond, without the bloat of a full SEO suite.
Less than 100KB on the front end. Zero database tables. Zero settings required to get started.
Why Simple Open Graphs?
- ⚡ Lightweight. No frontend JavaScript. No CSS. Just clean <meta> tags.
- 🖼️ Auto-generated social images. Posts with no featured image get a branded 1200×630 share card drawn on your own server – no external services, no per-post design work.
- 🎨 Live previews of how your post will look on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter/X – right inside the post editor.
- 🔁 Plays nice with SEO plugins. Auto-detects Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress, Slim SEO, The SEO Framework – and automatically yields to them on the front end so you never get duplicate tags.
- 📥 One-click importer from Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, and The SEO Framework.
- 🧰 Developer friendly. Filters, REST endpoints, WP-CLI commands, PSR-4 autoloader, namespaced OOP.
Features
Open Graph (Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Telegram)
- og:title, og:description, og:image, og:image:alt, og:image:width, og:image:height, og:image:type, og:image:secure_url
- og:url, og:type, og:locale, og:site_name, og:updated_time
- article:published_time, article:modified_time, article:author, article:section, article:tag
- Facebook App ID + Admins
- WooCommerce product:price:amount, product:price:currency, product:availability, product:retailer_item_id
Twitter/X Cards
- twitter:card (summary, summary_large_image, app, player)
- twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image, twitter:image:alt
- twitter:site, twitter:creator
- Per-author handle override from the WordPress user profile
Site verification (one-tag-each)
- Facebook domain verification
- Pinterest verification (rich pins)
- Google Search Console
- Bing Webmaster Tools
Automation
- Auto-generated branded social card (title + optional logo + site name) for posts with no image of their own – rendered locally with GD, cached in uploads, fully color-customizable
- Featured image fallback → first content image → auto-generated card → site default → safety fallback
- Auto-generated excerpts/descriptions trimmed to platform-safe lengths
- Auto locale detection
- Auto title separator
- Auto duplicate-tag prevention
Compatibility
- Gutenberg, Classic Editor, Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Oxygen, WPBakery
- WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads
- WPML, Polylang, multisite
- AMP, REST API, headless WordPress
- All major page caches & object caches
Developer tools
- wp sog import yoast --overwrite (WP-CLI)
- GET /wp-json/sog/v1/meta?url=… (REST)
- apply_filters( 'sog_meta_tags', $tags, $data ) and a dozen more
Privacy
Simple Open Graphs does not make external HTTP requests, does not collect telemetry, and does not add tracking scripts.