McCrossen Marketing

McCrossenSEO™ handles all standard on-page SEO requirements out of the box — meta titles and descriptions, robots meta, canonical URLs, Open Graph, Twitter/X cards, JSON-LD schema markup, XML sitemap generation, redirect management, and bulk editing.
Free features (no account required):
<ul>
<li>Meta title and description management per post, page, and custom post type</li>
<li>Character count indicators (60 for titles, 160 for descriptions)</li>
<li>Global title pattern with configurable separator</li>
<li>Robots meta controls (noindex, nofollow, max-snippet, max-image-preview, max-video-preview)</li>
<li>Canonical URL management with paginated content support</li>
<li>Open Graph meta (title, description, image) with fallback chain</li>
<li>Twitter/X Card meta with card type selector</li>
<li>JSON-LD schema markup (Article, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, Organization, LocalBusiness)</li>
<li>XML sitemap with configurable post types and automatic noindex exclusion</li>
<li>Redirect manager (301, 302, 307)</li>
<li>Bulk editor for titles and descriptions across all content</li>
<li>Internal link suggestions</li>
<li>Import from Yoast, RankMath, AIOSEO, and SEOPress (one-click migration)</li>
<li>Analytics and tracking code injection (GA4, GTM, Facebook Pixel) — only loads when administrator configures IDs</li>
<li>Site verification codes (Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster)</li>
<li>robots.txt editor</li>
<li>Diagnostics panel with rate-limited automatic error reporting</li>
</ul>
Optional connected features (requires McCrossen Marketing account):
<ul>
<li>URL Optimization scoring across 59 ranking signals</li>
<li>AI-powered SEO recommendations</li>
<li>One-click Plugin Bridge: apply meta titles, descriptions, headings, alt text, and schema changes directly from the platform to your WordPress site</li>
<li>Platform-pushed llms.txt with audit-score-weighted content</li>
</ul>
The free version is fully functional as a standalone SEO plugin. No account or external connection is required for free-tier features.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to external services depending on which features the site administrator enables. The plugin makes zero external connections by default. All listed services activate only after explicit administrator configuration or connection.
<h4>McCrossen Marketing Platform</h4>
When: Only when the site is connected via the “Connect to McCrossen” button under McCrossenSEO™ > Connect2McCrossen. 
What is sent: Site URL, WordPress version, PHP version, plugin version, account identifier, and installed McCrossen plugin list. (The plugin also sends sanitized error reports rate-limited to one per error type per hour, even when not connected, to surface plugin-specific issues to the maintainer. This can be disabled by deactivating the plugin.) 
Why: Authenticated delivery of platform-generated SEO recommendations, audit data, and (where the account permits) llms.txt content. 
Service URL: https://mccrossenmarketing.com 
Privacy Policy: https://mccrossenmarketing.com/privacy-policy/ 
Terms of Service: https://mccrossenmarketing.com/terms-of-service/
<h4>Google Analytics 4</h4>
When: Only when an administrator configures a GA4 Measurement ID under McCrossenSEO™ → Tracking & Verification. 
What is loaded: The <code>gtag.js</code> script from <code>https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js</code>. 
Where: Site frontend, in <code><head></code> for site visitors, only on installs that have configured a GA4 Measurement ID. 
Service: Google Analytics — https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/
<h4>Google Tag Manager</h4>
When: Only when an administrator configures a GTM Container ID under McCrossenSEO™ → Tracking & Verification. 
What is loaded: The GTM script from <code>https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js</code>, and a <code><noscript></code> iframe fallback to <code>https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html</code>. 
Where: Site frontend, only on installs that have configured a GTM Container ID. 
Service: Google Tag Manager — https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/tag-manager/
<h4>Meta (Facebook) Pixel</h4>
When: Only when an administrator configures a Facebook Pixel ID under McCrossenSEO™ → Tracking & Verification. 
What is loaded: The pixel script from <code>https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js</code> and a tracking image from <code>https://www.facebook.com/tr</code>. 
Where: Site frontend, only on installs that have configured a Pixel ID. 
Service: Meta Platforms — https://www.facebook.com/policy.php and https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/businesstools

McCrossenSEO

WordPress SEO plugin with meta management, schema markup, XML sitemap, Open Graph, redirect manager, and optional platform-powered optimization.

Scott Kingsley Clark

Important: It is not recommended you leave debugging enabled when you’re done, the debug information exposes file paths of files as well as PHP arguments passed into functions from the PHP <code>debug_backtrace()</code> which may contain sensitive information.
This is useful for those times when you have a lot of plugins / theme functions interacting that cause an unknown redirect. This tool helps you figure out what is redirecting and where it’s redirecting at in the code.
This plugin outputs information about each <code>wp_redirect()</code> and <code>wp_safe_redirect()</code> call done on the front and in the admin area of a site.
<h4>Usage: Enabling with the setting</h4>
You can enable redirect debugging by going to <code>Settings > Debug wp_redirect()</code> on your site or in your network settings (if network activated). You have the option to enable debugging for frontend requests and/or admin dashboard requests. You also have the ability to only show debugging if the person is logged in or is an admin.
If you encounter problems with this plugin blocking redirects you need for logging in or being able to disable the redirect, simply rename the plugin or define this in your wp-config.php file: <code>define( 'DEBUG_WP_REDIRECT', false );</code>
<h4>Usage: Enabling through wp-config.php</h4>
You can define constants in your wp-config.php file to enable redirect handling for frontend / admin dashboard requests. Constants override any options set in the admin settings page.
<ul>
<li>To enable redirect debugging on the frontend of a site: <code>define( 'DEBUG_WP_REDIRECT', true );</code></li>
<li>To enable redirect debugging in the admin dashboard of a site: <code>define( 'DEBUG_WP_REDIRECT_ADMIN', true );</code></li>
<li>To only show redirect debugging to logged-in admins of a site: <code>define( 'DEBUG_WP_REDIRECT_LOGGED_IN_ADMIN', true );</code></li>
<li>To only show redirect debugging to logged-in users of a site: <code>define( 'DEBUG_WP_REDIRECT_LOGGED_IN', true );</code></li>
<li>To only show redirect debugging to logged-in user ID(s) of a site: <code>define( 'DEBUG_WP_REDIRECT_LOGGED_IN_USER_ID', true );</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage: Enabling debugging through PHP in your own code</h4>
You can enable/disable debugging when you have your own code you want to start/stop debugging after a certain point.
These functions will start/stop debugging the redirects whether it’s on a frontend or admin dashboard request.
<ul>
<li>Enable debugging: <code>debug_wp_redirect_enable()</code></li>
<li>Disable debugging: <code>debug_wp_redirect_disable()</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage: As an mu-plugin</h4>
Take the debug-wp-redirect.php file and add it to your mu-plugin folder in a location like: <code>/wp-content/mu-plugins/debug-wp-redirect.php</code>
You won’t need any other files. The admin settings page will not show up so you will need to use mu-plugin mode specifically with the constants for wp-config.php as documented above.
<h4>Contribute to make this plugin better</h4>
You can help to make this plugin better through <a href="https://github.com/sc0ttkclark/debug-wp-redirect" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> or <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/sc0ttkclark" rel="nofollow ugc">sponsor my time</a>.

Debug wp_redirect()

Worked really good. I had one issue where an object was echoed out like a string. A quick edit fixed that, and not it works perfectly. 5/5 if not for that error (on line 63).



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What the.. Where'd that redirect come from? This plugin helps to uncover redirects as they happen.

McCrossenSEO vs Debug wp_redirect()