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.

Andrei Zhitkov

<p>Defining your default canonical arbitrary is most useful for those unfortunate souls who have their site URLs in punycode. This plugin allows setting a default custom URL to be used as canonical. It is designed to work with Yoast SEO only. The individual settings are still available and can be edited as before. Since it is dependent on presence of Yoast SEO, this plugin will not activate without it.<br />
The plugin does not add its own settings page, It uses WordPress Settings -> General. Look for it at the bottom of that page.</p>
<h3>Technical Details</h3>
<p>Supported versions:<br />
WordPress 4.x<br />
WordPress 5.x<br />
WordPress 6.x<br />
Yoast SEO 6.x-20.x</p>


Custom canonical URL for Yoast SEO

This plugin allows setting a default custom URL to be used as canonical. It is designed to work with Yoast SEO only.

Epitome SEO vs Custom canonical URL for Yoast SEO