rationalwp

Rational SEO provides 100% of the technical SEO requirements for modern sites with 0% of the database bloat, UI clutter, or performance drag.
<h4>Philosophy</h4>
Rational SEO rigorously rejects features that do not directly influence search engines or social crawlers:
<ul>
<li>No Content Scoring – No traffic lights, readability checks, or keyword density counters</li>
<li>No Dashboard – No “SEO Overview” widget or React-powered admin home</li>
<li>No Analytics – No ranking tracking or Google Search Console API integrations</li>
<li>No Frontend Assets – Zero CSS or JS files loaded on the frontend</li>
<li>No 404 Logging – Never writes 404 hits to the database</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
Meta Tags
<ul>
<li>Custom title tags with configurable separator</li>
<li>Meta descriptions (manual or auto-generated from excerpt/content)</li>
<li>Robots meta (index/noindex control)</li>
<li>Canonical URLs</li>
<li>Google and Bing verification meta tags</li>
</ul>
Social Media
<ul>
<li>Open Graph tags (og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url, og:type, og:locale, og:site_name)</li>
<li>Twitter Cards (summary or summary_large_image)</li>
<li>Per-post social image override</li>
</ul>
Structured Data
<ul>
<li>JSON-LD schema output using @graph format</li>
<li>Organization or Person schema (configurable)</li>
<li>WebSite schema with publisher linking</li>
<li>WebPage schema</li>
<li>Article schema on posts/pages with author, dates, and images</li>
</ul>
XML Sitemaps
<ul>
<li>Sitemap index at /sitemap.xml</li>
<li>Per-post-type sitemaps with pagination</li>
<li>Transient caching with stale-while-revalidate</li>
<li>Content freshness filtering (exclude old content)</li>
<li>Post type exclusions</li>
</ul>
Editor Integration
<ul>
<li>Meta box on all public post types</li>
<li>Custom SEO title and description fields</li>
<li>Focus keyword field with real-time presence indicators (title, description, first paragraph, URL slug)</li>
<li>Noindex toggle per post</li>
<li>Canonical URL override</li>
<li>Social image override</li>
<li>Taxonomy term SEO fields (title, description, noindex, canonical)</li>
</ul>
Post Type Archives
<ul>
<li>Custom SEO title and description for each post type archive</li>
<li>Configure via Settings > Rational SEO > Archives tab</li>
</ul>
AI Assistant (optional)
<ul>
<li>AI-powered focus keyword suggestions</li>
<li>AI-generated SEO titles and meta descriptions</li>
<li>One-click “Suggest All” for keyword, title, and description together</li>
<li>Uses OpenAI GPT-4o-mini (requires your own API key)</li>
<li>Data sent only when you click — never in the background</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the following external services:
<h4>RationalWP Plugin Directory</h4>
This plugin fetches a list of available RationalWP plugins from <a href="https://rationalwp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">rationalwp.com</a> to display in the WordPress admin menu. Only the menu file version number is sent as a cache-busting query parameter. No user data is transmitted. The response is cached locally for 24 hours.
<ul>
<li>Service URL: <a href="https://rationalwp.com/plugins.json" rel="nofollow ugc">https://rationalwp.com/plugins.json</a></li>
<li>Terms of Service: <a href="https://rationalwp.com/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://rationalwp.com/terms/</a></li>
<li>Privacy Policy: <a href="https://rationalwp.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://rationalwp.com/privacy/</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>OpenAI API (optional)</h4>
This plugin provides optional AI-powered SEO suggestions using the <a href="https://openai.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenAI API</a>. When a site administrator configures an OpenAI API key in Settings > Rational SEO > General, users can click “Suggest” or “Generate” buttons in the post editor to receive AI-generated focus keywords, SEO titles, and meta descriptions.
Data is only sent when a user explicitly clicks an AI suggestion button. The data sent includes the post title and up to 2000 characters of post content (stripped of HTML), along with the user’s own API key for authentication. No data is sent automatically or in the background.
<ul>
<li>Service URL: <a href="https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions" rel="nofollow ugc">https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions</a></li>
<li>Terms of Use: <a href="https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/</a></li>
<li>Privacy Policy: <a href="https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/</a></li>
</ul>

RationalSEO

Technical SEO essentials with zero bloat. No dashboards, analytics, content scoring, or frontend assets.

Ryan Howard

Visibility Kit is a lightweight WordPress SEO plugin that combines essential SEO tools into a single package:
SEO Meta Box
<ul>
<li>Per-post SEO title with variable support (%title%, %sitename%, %sep%, %page%)</li>
<li>Meta description with character and pixel-width counters</li>
<li>Live SERP preview (desktop and mobile) — see exactly how your listing will appear in Google</li>
<li>Canonical URL override</li>
<li>Robots meta (noindex, nofollow) per post</li>
<li>Open Graph image picker with media library integration</li>
<li>Twitter Card meta tags (summary_large_image when OG image set)</li>
<li>Automatic Rank Math and Yoast SEO meta output suppression</li>
<li>Global title template and separator settings</li>
</ul>
XML Sitemap
<ul>
<li>Automatic sitemap index at /sitemap_index.xml with per-post-type sub-sitemaps</li>
<li>Configurable post types included in sitemap</li>
<li>Optional author archive sitemap</li>
<li>Image sitemap entries (featured image + content images)</li>
<li>Automatic exclusion of noindex and manually excluded posts</li>
<li>Pagination for large sites (1,000 URLs per sub-sitemap)</li>
<li>Transient caching with version-stamp invalidation</li>
<li>Automatic Google ping on new post publish (with 60s debounce)</li>
<li>Disables WordPress core sitemaps to avoid duplicates</li>
<li>/sitemap.xml redirects to /sitemap_index.xml</li>
</ul>
Structured Data (Schema)
<ul>
<li>Config-driven JSON-LD — no admin UI clutter, just a single <code>config.php</code></li>
<li>Automatic page type detection: homepage, blog posts, author archives, case studies, mapped pages</li>
<li>Schema types: Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, WebSite, Article, Person/Author</li>
<li>Multiple location support with geo coordinates and business hours</li>
<li>URL path-to-schema mapping for service and location pages</li>
<li>Author module with custom profile fields (headshot, social links, job title)</li>
<li>Automatic Rank Math schema suppression (keeps all other Rank Math features)</li>
</ul>
FAQ Accordion
<ul>
<li>CSS-only accordion using native <code><details>/<summary></code> — zero JavaScript</li>
<li>FAQPage JSON-LD schema auto-generated from H3 headings</li>
<li>Shortcode: <code>[viskit_faq]</code></li>
<li>Chevron icon with smooth CSS rotation</li>
<li><code>all: unset</code> styling to prevent theme conflicts</li>
<li>Keyboard accessible out of the box</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to Google’s sitemap ping service to notify Google when new content is published.
Google Sitemap Ping
<ul>
<li>What it does: Notifies Google that your sitemap has been updated so new content can be discovered and indexed faster.</li>
<li>What data is sent: Your sitemap URL (e.g., <code>https://example.com/sitemap_index.xml</code>).</li>
<li>When it is sent: Automatically when a new post is published for the first time. A 60-second debounce prevents duplicate pings.</li>
<li>Service provider: Google LLC</li>
<li><a href="https://policies.google.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>

Visibility Kit SEO

SEO meta box, XML sitemap, config-driven structured data (JSON-LD), and CSS-only FAQ accordion with schema.

RationalSEO vs Visibility Kit SEO