ranklite

RankLite focuses on the essentials of on-page SEO. It’s intentionally small, fast, and easy to configure. You get all the core tools—without the kitchen sink:
<ul>
<li>Titles & Meta Descriptions per post/page with live counters</li>
<li>Global defaults with smart fallbacks</li>
<li>Open Graph & Twitter Cards (title, description, image)</li>
<li>Canonical and robots meta (index/noindex, follow/nofollow)</li>
<li>XML Sitemaps (<code>/sitemap.xml</code>) with pretty permalink support and pings to Google & Bing</li>
<li>JSON-LD Schema for Website, Article, Breadcrumbs + FAQ/How-to blocks (basic)</li>
<li>Breadcrumbs output helper</li>
<li>Manual 301 Redirects</li>
<li>Analytics helpers (Google Analytics/GTAG & Google Tag Manager passthrough)</li>
<li>Optional data wipe on uninstall</li>
<li>Multisite-aware and performance-minded</li>
</ul>
No telemetry. No ad pixels. No phone-home calls—everything stays on your site.
<h3>Why RankLite?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Performance first. Lightweight code, minimal queries, no admin nag spam.</li>
<li>No lock-in. Uses standard WordPress fields/meta so you can switch any time.</li>
<li>Clean UI. Sensible defaults and clear controls that won’t overwhelm you.</li>
</ul>
<h3>What’s included in the Free version?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Titles/meta with counters and fallbacks</li>
<li>Canonical, robots</li>
<li>Open Graph & Twitter Cards</li>
<li>Website/Article/Breadcrumbs + FAQ/How-to schema (basic, JSON-LD)</li>
<li>XML sitemaps with Google/Bing pings</li>
<li>Breadcrumbs helper</li>
<li>Manual redirects (301)</li>
<li>Analytics & GTM helpers</li>
<li>Tools page with wipe on uninstall option</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pro add-on</h3>
A separate Pro add-on (not required) can extend RankLite with AI-assisted titles/descriptions/alt-text/articles, advanced schema & sitemaps, a 404 monitor, and auto-redirects. The free plugin is fully functional on its own and does not require Pro.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Meta box on posts/pages for custom SEO Title & Description</li>
<li>Smart fallback to site title/tagline or post excerpt</li>
<li>Open Graph/Twitter image fallback</li>
<li>Robots (index/noindex, follow/nofollow) per post and global</li>
<li>Sitemaps: index + post types; pretty <code>/sitemap.xml</code> with:
<ul>
<li>Fallback query route for non-pretty permalinks</li>
<li>Automatic pings to Google and Bing when content changes (with safe throttling)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Schema: Website, Article, Breadcrumbs + FAQ/How-to via blocks (basic) with safe defaults</li>
<li>Breadcrumbs: simple template function/filter to output a trail</li>
<li>Redirects: add simple 301 manual redirects from an admin screen</li>
<li>Analytics: GA4/gtag and GTM helpers (paste ID and go)</li>
<li>Developer-friendly (filters/actions documented below)</li>
<li>Privacy-friendly: no data leaves your site</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin does not:
<ul>
<li>Collect personal data</li>
<li>Send usage data to third parties</li>
<li>Set cookies on the front end by itself</li>
</ul>
If you enable Analytics or GTM helpers, you are integrating external services—ensure you have the proper disclosures/consent (e.g., via your cookie banner).
<h3>Performance</h3>
<ul>
<li>Minimal queries and safe caching behavior</li>
<li>No assets loaded on the front end unless necessary</li>
<li>Short timeouts and safe throttling for sitemap pings to Google/Bing</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin can optionally connect to the following external services:
<ol>
<li>Google Search and Bing (sitemap ping)</li>
</ol>
– What it does: When sitemap pinging is enabled, RankLite can notify search engines that your sitemap has been updated. 
– What is sent: The public URL of your sitemap is sent as a query parameter to: 
 – https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap= 
 – https://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap= 
– When: Only when sitemap pinging is enabled in the plugin settings and a sitemap is generated/updated. 
– Terms / Privacy: 
 – Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy / https://policies.google.com/terms 
 – Microsoft (Bing): https://privacy.microsoft.com / https://www.microsoft.com/servicesagreement
<ol>
<li>Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager (optional)</li>
</ol>
– What it does: If you choose to enable Analytics or Tag Manager in RankLite, the plugin outputs the official tracking/snippet code provided by Google. 
– What is sent: Standard analytics/usage data as defined by Google, associated with your own property IDs (e.g. GA4, GTM). No additional data is sent by RankLite beyond what Google’s scripts normally collect. 
– When: Only when you explicitly enable these features and enter your own tracking IDs. 
– Terms / Privacy: 
 – Google Analytics / Tag Manager: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ 
 – Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
<h3>Developers</h3>
<h3>Filter the final title string</h3>
<pre><code>`php
</code></pre>
/** 
 * Filter the final value RankLite outputs. 
 * 
 * @param string $title Final title string. 
 * @param array $parts Parsed parts (h1, site_name, brand, etc). 
 * @param WP_Post|null $post Current post object (or null). 
 * @param string $type Detected type: ‘news’ | ‘product’ | ‘default’. 
 */ 
add_filter( ‘ranklite_meta_title_final’, function( $title, $parts, $post, $type ) { 
 return $title; 
}, 10, 4 ); 
 `
<h3>Add extra sitemap index entries (e.g. news/video)</h3>
<pre><code>`php
</code></pre>
add_filter( ‘ranklite/sitemaps/index_items’, function( $extra, $opts ) { 
 $extra[] = array( 
 ‘loc’ => home_url( ‘/news-sitemap.xml’ ), 
 ‘lastmod’ => gmdate( ‘c’ ), 
 ); 
 return $extra; 
}, 10, 2 ); 
 `
<h3>Tweak the breadcrumb trail before output</h3>
<pre><code>`php
</code></pre>
add_filter( ‘ranklite_breadcrumb_trail’, function( $trail ) { 
 // $trail is an array of arrays like [ ‘name’ => ‘Blog’, ‘url’ => ‘https://example.com/blog/’ ]. 
 return $trail; 
} ); 
 `
<h3>Programmatic redirect registration</h3>
<pre><code>`php
</code></pre>
do_action( ‘ranklite/register_redirect’, ‘/old-path’, ‘/new-path’, 301 ); 
 `
See inline docs for more hooks and parameters.

RankLite – Fast, Clean SEO

Fast, clean SEO: titles & meta, Open Graph/Twitter Cards, JSON-LD schema, and XML sitemaps with Google/Bing pings. No bloat, no tracking.

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A must needed plugin to prepare your site with social medias (like facebook, twitter,etc) and search engine optimization(SEO), <a href="http://wordpress.techhelpsource.com/wp-social-integration/" rel="nofollow ugc">click here</a> to view pro version demo to understand all features.
<h4>Login by facebook(pro) :</h4>
Facebook login button along with login form are shown anywhere in page using shortcode, First time user can connect their facebook account with existing account or creating new account to login by facebook next time on one click, everything is done using ajax, there are settings to show/hide login form parts.
<h4>Basic, Open graph & twitter card(pro) meta tags:</h4>
Open Graph meta tags are required to describe your page to facebook, twitter and other social media. By WSI plugin you can easily add title, description, image, and other information which are shown anywhere in facebook when your page is liked, shared, or commented on. This ensures your branding and social presence & it is must needed to present your content efficiently across social medias like FB, twitter, google+…It also adds twitter meta tags separately(you need to enable twitter cards for your website in twitter.com to display these content).It also adds basic metadata(description, keywords..). Provides efficient, out-of-the-box search engine optimization (SEO) on a web site powered by WordPress.
It adds metadata in the following ways –
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plugin injects metadata tab at the bottom of any post edit page admin side so that you can set title, description, keywords, full meta tags, news keywords meta tags for the post(pro)
</li>
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you can set front page description and keywords from setting page which will be added in different types of front page meta tags
</li>
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Automatic addition of the blog’s tagline in the description metatag, automatic addition of the blog’s categories in the keywords metatag.
</li>
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Automatic addition of an auto-generated excerpt of the post’s or page’s content in the description meta tag. If a post has a user-defined excerpt, then this is what is used.
</li>
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Also there are different ways to set description and keywords meta tag data from different data source for other pages like Attachments, custom post types, Category-based Archives , tag-based Archives, Author-based Archives
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It injects all these metadata for all kinds of pages – single post/page, static front page, default front page, static home page, author page, attachment page etc.
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It adds required FB & twitter username/profile url input box per user so that those user relaed open graph & twitter card metadata are added when available(pro)
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It’s possible to add site-wide meta tags from setting and post edit page in admin side so that you never miss any metadata(pro)
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You can add news keywords too, some other required meta tags are added automatically(pro)
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It generates detailed metadata for the media that have been attached to the content. Considers all the media you manage in the WordPress media library(pro)
</li>
</ul>
WSI allows filtering of the generated metatags and also of some core functionality through filters. This way advanced customization of the plugin is possible. 
The available filters are:
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wp_scintg_metadata_head – applied to all metatags that have been generated by WSI. The hooked function should accept and return one argument – an array of meta tags
</li>
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wp_scintg_basic_metadata_head – applied to the basic metatags (description, keywords, etc) which were generated by WSI
</li>
<li>
wp_scintg_opengraph_metadata_head – applied to the OpenGraph metatags that have been generated by WSI (pro)
</li>
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wp_scintg_twitter_cards_metadata_head – applied to the twitter cards metatags that have been generated by WSI (pro)
</li>
</ul>
You can see if open graph meta tags injected right or not and how it look like by submitting and checking any of your page url here – https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
<h4>Social plugins(facebook):</h4>
You can add facebook social plugins like like button, follow button, send button by putting WSI social shortcodes with different parameters written in the documentation anywhere in post, page, widget, templates…pro version includes – comments, share button, embed any FB post.

WP Social Integration

WP social integration brings login by facebook, adds basic & opengraph metadata, facebook social plugins anywhere in page

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