Pablo Postigo

Mario Santos

luisherranz

Reyes Martínez

orballo

frontity

davidarenas

<p>This plugin adds all the tags in the head section of a website to WordPress REST API responses.</p>
<p>It is perfect if you are using WordPress for a headless set-up and would like to add the <strong>meta tags</strong> generated by your <strong>WordPress SEO plugin</strong> (like Yoast SEO or All-in-One SEO Pack) to the WordPress REST API output.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>This package depends on the <a href="https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP DOM library</a>. Most PHP environments have it by default so you don’t have to worry about that.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In case you get some errors regarding this dependency make sure you have this library installed (you can take a look at this <a href="https://github.com/frontity/wp-plugins/issues/35" rel="nofollow ugc">thread</a> in the code repository).</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
<p>This plugin is compatible and works out of the box with some of the most popular WordPress SEO plugins. These are the ones that we tested:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/" rel="ugc">Yoast SEO</a> – (up to 13.5)</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/" rel="ugc">All in One SEO Pack</a> – (up to 3.4.2)</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="https://github.com/alleyinteractive/wp-seo" rel="nofollow ugc">WP SEO</a> –</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Are you using a different SEO plugin and want to know if it’s compatible? Feel free to ask in our <a href="https://community.frontity.org/?utm_source=plugin-repository&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=rest-api-head-tags-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">community forum</a>. If you tested any other plugin, please let us know as well so we can update the list.</p>
<h3>How to use this plugin</h3>
<h4>Entities with head tags</h4>
<p>The plugin has been developed to include the head_tags field to the REST API response of most of the WordPress core entities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Posts, pages, attachments and custom post types.</li>
<li>Post types: for archive pages.</li>
<li>Categories, tags and custom taxonomies.</li>
<li>Authors.</li>
</ul>
<h4>In a Frontity project</h4>
<p>If you are using <a href="https://frontity.org?utm_source=plugin-repository&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=rest-api-head-tags-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Frontity</a>, you just have to install the <a href="https://docs.frontity.org/api-reference-1/frontity-head-tags?utm_source=plugin-repository&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=rest-api-head-tags-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">@frontity/head-tags package</a> and <strong>it will work automatically</strong>.</p>
<h4> In a different project</h4>
<p>You need to understand better how it works and <strong>add the data manually</strong>.</p>
<p><strong><em>How to fetch the head_tags field manually</em></strong></p>
<p>You have to get each entity from its respective REST API endpoint. For example: for fetching the posts, you should go to <code>/wp-json/wp/v2/posts&id=123</code> endpoint; for fetching the categories, you have to go to <code>wp-json/wp/v2/categories&id=123</code>, and for custom post types or custom taxonomies, it would be a different url in each case.</p>
<p>In the case of the homepage, it’s less intuitive and you should go to <code>/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post</code>. As previously said, each entity has a different endpoint so if you aren’t familiar with this, you should check out the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress REST API reference</a> for more information.</p>
<p>Inside each endpoint, it will be a new field named <em>head_tags</em>, which will be an array of objects representing the tags that WordPress would normally include inside the html head element. These objects have the properties <code>tag</code>, <code>attributes</code> and <code>content</code>.</p>
<p>For example for these HTML tags:</p>
<pre><code><title>Hello wordl! - My Site</title>
<meta name="robots" content="max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1">
<link rel="canonical" href="<https://test.frontity.org/>" />
</code></pre>
<p>This would be the content of the head_tags field:</p>
<pre><code>"head_tags": [
  {
    "tag": "title",
    "content": "Hello world! - My Site"
  },
  {
    "tag": "meta",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "robots",
      "content": "max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1"
    }
  },
  {
    "tag": "link",
    "attributes": {
      "rel": "canonical",
      "href": "<https://test.frontity.org/>"
    }
  }
]
</code></pre>
<h3>Settings</h3>
<p>The settings of this plugin are really simple.</p>
<h4>Purge cache</h4>
<p>In order to not affect the performance of your site, the head_tags field is cached for all your responses. Each time you update a post/page/cpt or a taxonomy, the cache for that entity will be purged automatically. In case you make global changes (i.e. your permalinks or your global Yoast settings) use the Purge button to clean the whole cache.</p>
<h4> Enable output</h4>
<p>By default, the head_tags field is included in the common endpoint of each entity. You can configure it so it doesn’t appear by default and to be shown when you include the head_tags=true query.</p>
<p>For example, with the output disabled, https://test.frontity.org/wp-json/wp/v2/posts won’t show the head_tags field unless you have the query <code>?head_tags=true</code> at the end.</p>
<h4>Skip cache</h4>
<p>In case you want to skip the cache, you can do so by adding to the query the  parameter <code>skip_cache</code>.</p>
<p>There are some cache plugins for the REST API which also use the same parameter. In case you want to ignore the cache for the REST API call but not for the head tags, you can use <code>skip_cache&head_tags_skip_cache=false</code>.</p>
<h3>Problems and Questions</h3>
<p>If you have any trouble with the REST API – Head Tags, you can check out <a href="https://docs.frontity.org/frontity-plugins/rest-api-head-tags?utm_source=plugin-repository&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=rest-api-head-tags-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">our docs</a> or join our <a href="https://community.frontity.org/?utm_source=plugin-repository&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=rest-api-head-tags-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">community forum</a> and let us know. We’ll be happy to help!</p>
<p>Bug reports for REST API – Head Tags plugin are welcomed in <a href="https://github.com/frontity/wp-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">our repository</a> on GitHub. Before opening an issue, please be sure to review the <a href="https://github.com/frontity/frontity/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md" rel="nofollow ugc">contributing guidelines</a>.</p>
<h3>More Information</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://docs.frontity.org/#what-is-frontity?utm_source=plugin-repository&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=rest-api-head-tags-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">About Frontity Framework</a></li>
<li><a href="https://blog.frontity.org/seo-for-headless-wordpress-themes/?utm_source=plugin-repository&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=rest-api-head-tags-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Guide on SEO for Headless WordPress Themes</a></li>
<li>Follow Frontity on <a href="https://twitter.com/frontity" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://github.com/frontity/frontity" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></li>
<li>Get help on the <a href="https://community.frontity.org/?utm_source=plugin-repository&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=rest-api-head-tags-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Frontity Community Forum</a></li>
</ul>


REST API – Head Tags

I have just used this in my local at moment, but planning to launch website soon with this plugin

frontity is future of wordpress, would like to learn more and create custom plugin and theme in frontity 

Kudos to team

This is future of Wordpress

Adds all the meta tags of the head section to WordPress REST API responses, including the ones generated by SEO plugins like Yoast or All in One SEO.

madfishdigital

<p>Developed by Mad Fish Digital, this plugin saves webmasters time when finding and removing thin pages from search engine indexes.</p>
<p>The plugin provides an interface to sort posts by word count and character count, then bulk noindex or nofollow them. Categories and terms can be sorted by post count and managed the same way. Author archive URLs can now also be managed from a dedicated tab — useful for controlling whether author pages appear in search results.</p>
<h4>Please Keep in Mind</h4>
<p>After a page or category is noindexed, it can take search engines up to a few weeks before the page stops appearing in the search index. The amount of time will depend on how frequently a search engine crawls your website. We recommend using Google Search Console to further analyze how your pages appear in the search index.</p>
<h4>Advantages</h4>
<p>1) Reduce the time it takes to NoIndex/NoFollow each page, post, category, or author URL manually</p>
<p>2) Sort posts and pages by word count and character count to quickly identify thin content</p>
<p>3) Sort categories and tags by their number of associated posts</p>
<p>4) Manage NoIndex and NoFollow directives for author archive URLs from a dedicated Authors tab</p>
<p>5) Speed up search engine penalty recovery by bulk noindexing large numbers of posts and pages</p>
<p>6) Quickly noindex content identified by web crawlers such as Screaming Frog or DeepCrawl</p>
<p>7) Visualize all posts’, pages’, categories’, and authors’ noindex and nofollow statuses at a glance</p>
<p>8) Syncs with Rank Math, Yoast SEO, and AIOSEO to maintain and manage your existing robots directives</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>For support related inquiries, visit the <a href="https://www.madfishdigital.com/wp-plugins/" rel="follow nofollow ugc">Mad Fish Digital plugin support page</a> to drop us a line or ask a question. Please note that responses to specific inquiries may take up to 24 hours.</p>
<h4>Why would you want to remove a bulk amount of pages from search indexes?</h4>
<p>At Mad Fish Digital, we use tools like Screaming Frog, LinkResearch Tools, Ahrefs, and SEM Rush to crawl and analyze web pages. Sometimes, you want to remove multiple web pages from a search engine’s index that contain no longer current content, old products and services, or outdated guidelines/regulations. In many of these cases, you need the pages to be temporarily dropped from Google’s index today, but may want to update the content at a later date. By noindexing a post or page, you can avoid having to set the status code of those pages to 404 (or 410).</p>
<p>This is where having a tool to bulk noindex/nofollow these pages can become handy. You can easily remove pages from the search index, then remove the noindex directive once the content has been updated.</p>
<p>This plugin allows you to bulk edit the meta robots index and follow directives for your site’s posts, pages, categories, and author archive URLs. This tool is compatible with your existing Rank Math, Yoast SEO, and AIOSEO settings. Syncing of category noindex/nofollow settings with Yoast and AIOSEO is not yet supported.</p>
<p>By keeping your pages in sync with the noindex/nofollow settings for Rank Math, Yoast, and AIOSEO, you never have to worry about duplicating efforts or which plugin is managing your robots directives.</p>
<h4>Fallback Protection</h4>
<p>If you disable your Rank Math, Yoast, or AIOSEO plugins, this plugin will continue to serve the appropriate meta robots tag based on the noindex/nofollow settings configured through the interface.</p>
<p>If you do disable any of these plugins, be sure to check the Bulk NoIndex/NoFollow interface (Tools menu) to confirm that your posts, pages, and author URLs are still noindexed and nofollowed accordingly. Robots directives set directly through the WP post editing interface may not always be tracked by this plugin if those SEO plugins were previously enabled but are later disabled.</p>
<h3>Installation & Usage</h3>
<p>1) Login as an administrator to your WordPress Admin account. Using the “Add New” menu option under the “Plugins” section of the navigation, you can either search for: “Bulk NoIndex & NoFollow Tool” or if you’ve downloaded the plugin already, click the “Upload” link, find the .zip file you downloaded and then click “Install Now”. Or you can unzip and FTP upload the plugin to your plugins directory.</p>
<p>2) Navigate to Tools -> Bulk NoIndex/NoFollow</p>
<p>3) Use the Posts, Categories, or Authors tabs to manage robots directives</p>


Bulk NoIndex & NoFollow Toolkit

Bulk set the noindex / nofollow robots tag for posts, pages, categories, and author URLs. Easily identify thin content and noindex it fast.

REST API – Head Tags vs Bulk NoIndex & NoFollow Toolkit