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Search Engine Snitch is a lightweight WordPress plugin that monitors your site’s search engine visibility settings. If you accidentally (or intentionally) block search engines from indexing your site, this plugin will send you email alerts to notify you of the change.
Key Features:
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<li>Real-time Monitoring: Continuously monitors your site’s “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” setting</li>
<li>Email Notifications: Sends alerts when search engine visibility is disabled</li>
<li>Admin Bar Indicator: Shows current visibility status directly in the WordPress admin bar</li>
<li>Customizable Frequency: Choose how often to check visibility (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)</li>
<li>Custom Email: Set custom email addresses for notifications</li>
<li>Cron-based Checks: Uses WordPress cron for scheduled checks (no performance impact)</li>
<li>Lightweight: Minimal code footprint, no external dependencies</li>
</ul>
Why Use Search Engine Snitch?
Accidentally blocking search engines can have serious consequences for your website’s SEO and traffic. Common scenarios include:
<ul>
<li>Developers disabling visibility during maintenance and forgetting to re-enable it</li>
<li>Accidental changes by multiple team members</li>
<li>Plugin conflicts that modify visibility settings</li>
<li>Testing environments affecting production settings</li>
</ul>
Search Engine Snitch acts as a safety net, ensuring you’re always aware of your site’s search engine visibility status.
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<ul>
<li>Multiple email recipients</li>
<li>Visibility history log</li>
<li>Instant checks (not just scheduled)</li>
<li>Multisite support</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin does not: 
* Collect any personal data 
* Track users 
* Send data to external servers 
* Store information beyond plugin settings
All data remains on your WordPress installation. The only external communication is the email notification when triggered.
<h3>License</h3>
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License v2 for more details.

Search Engine Snitch

Monitor your WordPress site's search engine visibility and get instant alerts when search engines are blocked from indexing your content.

Mike Riethmuller

Better Writing is a WordPress plugin that helps you write better content.
Readability
One way it achieves this is by providing readability information as you type. You can select from one of 5 different readability scoring methods including:
<ul>
<li>Flesch reading ease formula</li>
<li>Coleman Liau index</li>
<li>Gunning fog index</li>
<li>SMOG Index</li>
<li>Automated readability index</li>
</ul>
You are able to see at a glance if your content is on target with the readability meta box on the WordPress edit screen. You can also set a custom target score and sort posts and pages by readability.
All features can be turned on or off for posts, pages or even custom post types.
Use details of your readability score elsewhere within WordPress by using shortcodes. 
* [readability-score] 
* [readability-method] 
* [readability-flesch] 
* [readability-coleman] 
* [readability-gunning] 
* [readability-smog] 
* [readability-ari]
Preferred terms
Consistent use of language is important and is something that can easily suffer, especially where multiple writers are involved. Better Writing allows you to maintain a list of your preferred terms and non preferred terms. It will prompt writers and editors with spell-check style suggestions in the content editor. It will check as you type and allows for multiple terms and multiple suggestions.
All features are designed to be non-intrusive and let you get on with your work, whilst giving you the tools you need to help you write better without distraction.
<h3>Credits</h3>
Credit to Dave Child for use of https://github.com/DaveChild/Text-Statistics.

Better Writing

Helps you write better content with readability scores and preferred terms as you type. Highly configurable.

Search Engine Snitch vs Better Writing