INI Scout

INI Scout is a focused, no-bloat SEO plugin for WordPress. It adds solid on-page
SEO with automatic structured data, and stays out of the way of multilingual
plugins (e.g. TranslatePress / WPML — hreflang) and the rest of your stack.

Dashboard & settings

• A modern admin UI: vertical-nav settings with cards, accordions and toggle
  switches, plus an at-a-glance SEO dashboard.

On-page engine

• Document <title> and meta-description templating, per post type and per
  taxonomy, with per-post and per-term overrides.
• Canonical URLs for every context, with per-post override.
• Robots directives via the core wp_robots filter (no duplicate tags):
  per-post noindex, plus noindex toggles for search, date and author archives.
• max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1 by default.
• Google / Bing site-verification meta tags (output on every page).

Social

• Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, with featured-image fallback and a
  site-wide default share image. Per-post share-image override.

Structured data (Schema.org JSON-LD)

• WebSite (+ optional Sitelinks SearchAction) and
  Organization / LocalBusiness with address, geo, telephone, opening hours,
  price range and social profiles (sameAs).
• Article / NewsArticle for posts and news.
• Per-post-type schema mapping: assign any post type to a schema type
  (Article, WebPage, Store, Event, SaleEvent, …) from the settings screen, or
  leave it on auto for sensible defaults.
• BreadcrumbList on every non-home page.

Sitemap

• Custom XML sitemap at /sitemap.xml (index + per-type / per-taxonomy
  sub-sitemaps) with image entries and lastmod; respects noindex and leaves out
  password-protected content. Replaces the WordPress core sitemap. Excludable per
  post type / taxonomy. With plain permalinks it is served at
  /?iniseo_sitemap=index.

Redirects (optional)

• 301, 302, 307 and 308 redirects and 410 / 451 responses, matched by exact
  address, start, end, contained text or regular expression, with options for
  case and query strings. Rules run before WordPress loads the page and cost
  nothing while there are none.
• Optional hit counts, automatic 301s when the address of published content
  changes, a privacy-friendly 404 log, and CSV import / export (including CSV
  exports of the Redirection plugin). Everything is off until you turn it on.

Import from other SEO plugins

• Switching from Yoast SEO, All in One SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress, SmartCrawl or
  The SEO Framework? INI Scout → Import (or wp iniseo import) brings over
  titles, descriptions, robots settings, social fields, keyphrases, settings and
  redirects. A preview shows what will happen first; only empty INI Scout
  fields are filled, the old plugin’s data is never changed, and every import
  can be undone.

Set up with an AI agent

• Let your own AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, OpenCode, …) configure INI Scout
  through WP-CLI (wp iniseo …) or the REST API with an Application Password,
  following a guide built into the plugin. Every change is a dry run until
  confirmed, your own values are kept unless you agree, risky changes need your
  yes, and each agent session can be undone in one click. REST access is off
  until you turn it on.

IndexNow (instant indexing)

• Auto-submits published / updated URLs to Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver the
  moment content changes (a single ping is shared between them). Google does not
  consume IndexNow — the sitemap + Search Console cover Google.
• Secret key generated automatically and served as a virtual verification file
  (no stray file in the webroot); one-click regenerate and a manual test ping.
• Submits only what may be indexed (never noindexed or password-protected
  content, nor anything while search engines are discouraged). Each change is
  submitted once, at the end of the request that saved it (a bulk edit as one
  batch), after the response has been sent where the server supports it
  (PHP-FPM, LiteSpeed), so the editor save does not wait. Failed batches are
  retried (5 min, 30 min, 2 h); WP-Cron is only a safety net, and visitors
  never wait. Capped, non-autoloaded submission log.

Dashboard

• A modern, WordPress-native overview: setup checklist with progress, live
  feature toggles, IndexNow status & recent submissions, and per-content-type
  meta-description coverage bars.

robots.txt

• Virtual robots.txt editor that always advertises the sitemap.

Breadcrumbs

• [iniseo_breadcrumbs] shortcode and iniseo_breadcrumbs() template tag,
  sharing the same trail as the BreadcrumbList schema.

Notes

• Multilingual: hreflang and translated URLs remain TranslatePress’s job. Every
  tag this plugin prints is in the rendered HTML, so it is translatable through
  TranslatePress’s string editor.
• Caching: all front-end output is produced on wp_head and served from the
  existing page cache for anonymous visitors.

External services

IndexNow is optional and disabled by default. When you enable it and publish or
update eligible content, or explicitly submit a URL, INI Scout sends the site
host, public page URLs, verification key and key-file URL to
https://api.indexnow.org/IndexNow. Participating search engines share these
submissions. No account is required. Submission does not guarantee indexing.
Service information and terms: https://www.indexnow.org/terms
Privacy information: https://www.indexnow.org/terms (Privacy section)

Crawl and content analysis fetch public pages from your own site to analyze the
rendered content. No external analytics or telemetry service is used.