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Bare Bones SEO

v1.0.0 · by charltondigital

A minimal SEO plugin for developers and agencies who want direct technical control without the overhead.

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About this plugin

Bare Bones SEO is built on the premise that 95% of ranking-moving SEO work happens outside plugin settings. So the plugin stays out of your way.

No telemetry. No upsells. No dashboard widgets. Just clean control over the things a plugin should actually handle: indexing, sitemaps, titles, descriptions, schema, and redirects.

Built for developers and agencies managing sites where precision matters more than wizard-style automation.

Key Features

  • Global Indexation Controls: Set indexing and sitemap behavior by post type across your entire site from a single screen.
  • Page-Level Overrides: Title, description, JSON-LD schema, and indexing controls on every post and page. Page-level settings can only be more restrictive than site-level — never more permissive.
  • Bulk Page Meta Editor: Audit and edit titles, descriptions, and indexing across your entire site in a paginated AJAX grid without opening individual editors.
  • 301 Redirect Manager: Handle moved pages and external redirects. Runs only on 404s to avoid any frontend overhead.
  • 404 Monitor: A read-only log of 404 errors by path, paginated and capability-checked.
  • Health Notices: Detects common configuration problems (site set to discourage search engines, entire post types noindexed) with one-click fixes.

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