Description
ACS SEO Plus covers the on-page basics without asking you to connect an account, install a wizard or learn a new vocabulary. Open a post, fill in the fields you care about, and leave the rest empty: every field falls back to something WordPress already knows.
It also counts page views on your own server, so you can see which entry is being read without adding a third party script to your pages.
What it does
- SEO title, meta description and canonical URL for every public post type.
- noindex and nofollow checkboxes per entry. Marking an entry noindex also removes it from the sitemap.
- Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, with a share image chosen per entry, then the featured image, then a site wide fallback.
- JSON-LD structured data: a WebSite graph with a search action on the front page, and BlogPosting or WebPage on the entries you opt in.
- An XML sitemap at its own address, so it never takes over the sitemap WordPress or another plugin already publishes. You choose which post types it covers.
- Page view counts per entry: today, yesterday, this month and all time, in the editor, in the post list and on an overview screen.
About the view counting
It runs entirely on your site. There is no cookie, no stored IP address and no request to any outside service. To recognise a repeat visit within the same day the plugin keeps a one way hash of the visitor address and browser string in the site cache for 24 hours; the hash is discarded after that and cannot be turned back into the original values. Only totals per entry are stored, never a log of individual visits. Views by logged in editors and by obvious crawlers are skipped.
Because the count happens in PHP, a full page cache will hide some views from it. That is expected, and it is the trade-off for not loading a tracking script.
No strings attached
This plugin is complete on its own. Nothing in it is locked, metered, time limited or reserved for a paid tier, it never asks for a licence key or an account, and it does not contact any server. Longer range traffic reports, referrer and device breakdowns, automatic image alt text and redirect management are sold separately as an add-on at ACS Developer (https://acs-developer.com/acs-seo-plus/). The add-on is not included here and this plugin does not check for it.
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Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/, or install it from the Plugins screen. - Activate the plugin.
- Open ACS SEO Plus > Settings to choose what is printed in the page head and which post types belong in the sitemap.
- Edit any post or page and fill in the SEO panel under the editor.
FAQ
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Does this replace the sitemap WordPress already has?
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No. WordPress keeps serving its own sitemap at /wp-sitemap.xml and this plugin serves its own at a separate address, so neither one interferes with the other. If you would rather have only one, there is a checkbox on the settings screen that turns the built in sitemap off. It is unticked by default.
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Can I use it alongside another SEO plugin?
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It will not break anything, but two plugins writing the same tags means duplicate output. Turn off the overlapping parts on the settings screen, or pick one plugin for the head tags.
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Does it send any data anywhere?
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No. The plugin makes no outgoing HTTP requests at all.
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Why are my view counts lower than my analytics service?
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Views are counted in PHP. A page served from a full page cache never reaches PHP, so it is not counted. Repeat visits within a day count once, and logged in editors and obvious crawlers are skipped, so the figure is deliberately conservative.
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Where are the view counts stored?
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In post meta on your own database, as a daily counter plus a lifetime total per entry. Daily counters older than about thirteen months are trimmed automatically; the lifetime total is kept. Deleting the plugin removes all of it.
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Will it change my theme output?
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Only the page head. The plugin adds meta tags there and nothing to the visible page. An optional HTML comment naming the plugin can be switched on, and it is off by default.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- First release.