About this plugin
Three fields on every post and page:
- SEO title. The title in search results and the browser tab. Your headline says “About us”, search results say “About us: small batch coffee from Stockholm”.
- Meta description. The summary search engines often show under the title.
- Discourage search engines. For thank-you pages, test pages and anything else that doesn’t belong in Google.
Leave a field empty and WordPress does what it always did.
A few things just happen: link previews with the right title, description and image in Slack, Mastodon, Bluesky and friends. Pages you keep out of search are left out of the sitemap too. There’s a panel in the block editor, a box in the Classic Editor, and the fields in Quick Edit.
Using Yoast SEO or another big SEO plugin? Simple SEO steps aside.
No scores, no “Go Pro” banners, no extra database queries. No nags. Okay, one small grey tip about Simple History, my activity log plugin.
No plugin makes a page rank. Good content does. Simple SEO hands search engines and shared links the title, description and image you chose, and asks search engines to skip the pages you don’t want listed.
txt, no “AI optimization”.
Back from the dead
Simple SEO is old. Like really old. ).
Of the SEO plugins still maintained today, only All in One SEO is older. Then it slept from 2012 to 2026.
I woke it up mostly for myself: I wanted the SEO basics on my own sites without a plugin that asks for attention every time I log in. It grows when I need something on my own sites, but it stays small and fast on purpose.
No big company or investors, just one developer: me, the guy behind Simple History. With both active, every SEO change is logged: who, when, and what it said before. I also make CMS Tree Page View, and the two work together too.
If Simple SEO saves you time, a donation keeps it going.