activetwist

<p>AI-Native SEO without the theater. Explicit signals. Deterministic output. No scoring. No upsells.</p>
<h3>Designed by Refusal</h3>
<p>Active Twist SEO intentionally refuses:</p>
<ul>
<li>Content scoring</li>
<li>AI content generation</li>
<li>Telemetry / tracking</li>
<li>Upsells and feature gating</li>
<li>Dashboard bloat designed to create dependency</li>
</ul>
<p>Instead, it focuses on explicit, inspectable SEO signals.</p>
<h3>Built for Modern Indexing</h3>
<p>Active Twist SEO is built for search engines and AI crawlers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Machine-readable Markdown export</li>
<li>LLMs.txt generation</li>
<li>Raw JSON-LD preview and override</li>
<li>Deterministic schema selection by post type</li>
<li>Explicit canonical ownership</li>
<li>Robots.txt and sitemap controls</li>
</ul>
<h3>Capability Comparison</h3>
<p>✓ Rejects content scoring<br />
✓ Rejects AI content generation<br />
✓ Rejects upsells & feature gating<br />
✓ Rejects telemetry / tracking<br />
✓ Explicit canonical ownership<br />
✓ Raw JSON-LD preview<br />
✓ Markdown export for AI indexing<br />
✓ LLMs.txt generation</p>
<p>Most traditional SEO suites:<br />
• Include scoring systems<br />
• Include AI content tools<br />
• Gate features<br />
• Collect telemetry<br />
• Abstract canonical control<br />
• Hide structured data behind UI layers</p>
<p>Our plugin focuses on the foundational mechanics of modern SEO:</p>
<h3>Core SEO Controls</h3>
<ul>
<li>SEO title and meta description per post and page</li>
<li>Canonical URL ownership and per-page override</li>
<li>Robots meta control (index/noindex, follow/nofollow)</li>
<li>Deterministic fallback logic for all fields</li>
<li>Visible value source labels for all SEO fields (explicit, auto-generated, inherited)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Search Preview</h3>
<ul>
<li>Real-time Google search result preview</li>
<li>Live title and meta description rendering</li>
<li>Visual truncation and length guidance</li>
<li>Preview reflects actual rendered output, not scores</li>
</ul>
<h3>Structured Data (JSON-LD)</h3>
<ul>
<li>Site-wide Organization and WebSite schema</li>
<li>Optional LocalBusiness schema</li>
<li>Per-post Article and BlogPosting schema</li>
<li>Author (Person) schema sourced from WordPress user profiles</li>
<li>BreadcrumbList generation</li>
<li>Custom per-page JSON-LD override support</li>
<li>Per-page schema modes: automatic, custom, or disabled</li>
</ul>
<h3>Social Metadata</h3>
<ul>
<li>Open Graph metadata for Facebook and LinkedIn</li>
<li>Twitter Card metadata with configurable card type</li>
<li>Per-post social title, description, and image overrides</li>
<li>Deterministic fallback logic from SEO fields and featured images</li>
<li>Live Facebook and Twitter share previews in the editor</li>
</ul>
<h3>Markdown and AI Discovery</h3>
<ul>
<li>Native HTML-to-Markdown conversion</li>
<li>One-click Markdown download from post and page editor</li>
<li>Markdown download available from post and page list views</li>
<li>Machine-readable Markdown access via alternate content endpoint</li>
<li>Explicit support for AI and indexing agents without tracking or content generation</li>
</ul>
<h3>Site-Level SEO Files and Observability</h3>
<ul>
<li>XML sitemap generation</li>
<li>Virtual robots.txt editor</li>
<li>llms.txt generation</li>
<li>SEO Status dashboard with loopback inspection</li>
<li>Canonical conflict detection</li>
<li>Indexability and HTTP status reporting</li>
<li>Lightweight 404 monitoring</li>
<li>Site-wide health evaluation across recent public content</li>
<li>Zero output buffering to ensure deterministic, low-overhead rendering</li>
</ul>
<p>Active Twist SEO is designed to be boring in the best possible way. It does not generate content using AI, it does not track your competitors, and it does not sell you upgrades. Most importantly, it does not phone home or collect user data—your SEO strategy stays on your server.</p>
<p>It is designed to coexist safely with other SEO suites like Yoast or Rank Math, allowing you to gradually transition or use Active Twist as a lightweight alternative for specific deployments.</p>
<p>When Active Twist SEO output is enabled, it takes explicit ownership of canonical tags to ensure a single, deterministic source of truth.</p>


Active Twist SEO + JSON-LD

Deterministic SEO controls and JSON-LD for WordPress: titles, descriptions, canonicals, robots, and social metadata without tracking or AI.

Fred Dessaint

<p>Epitome SEO let you write optimized metadata for search engines. This plugin provides very simple but powerful features to fully optimize your site without decreasing its performances. Epitome SEO is used under professional conditions by people in the SEO industry. It was designed to fit into WordPress as a core functionality.</p>
<h4>SEO Settings</h4>
<ul>
<li>There is a metadata model for pages that are not optimized individually.</li>
<li>Avalaible models: frontpage, singular, category, tag, taxonomy, author, date, search, 404 and paged.</li>
<li>Custom variables such as <code>%title%</code>, <code>%date%</code> or <code>%sitename%</code> can be used to automatically write metadata based on a template.</li>
<li>A model let you optimize: title for search engine, meta description, meta robots tags (index/noindex and follow/nofollow).</li>
<li>An advanced tab for setting analytics tracking code.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Posts & Pages</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add a light metabox with SEO fields.</li>
<li>Available fields: title for search engine, meta description, long description, canonical link, meta robots tags (index/noindex and follow/nofollow).</li>
<li>Replace the default metadata model whether fields are completed.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Taxonomies</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add several fields to each taxomony panel (first on category and tags).</li>
<li>Available fields: optimized name, title for search engine, meta description, canonical link, meta robots tags (index/noindex and follow/nofollow).</li>
<li>Use the optimized name if you want to improve taxonomies titles in your theme. The default name is used then for small areas of your layout.</li>
<li>Use a long description in the context of search engine optimization, while the built-in short description of WordPress can be used as an introduction in your theme.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to the administrator panel Settings/SEO and then modify the general options.</li>
<li>On each regular post, custom post and static page you will find a metabox named SEO with clearly defined fields.</li>
<li>On each taxonomy on administrator panel you will find extra fields to provide optimized content.</li>
</ol>


Epitome SEO

Let you write optimized metadata for search engines.

Active Twist SEO + JSON-LD vs Epitome SEO