Description
Livada SEO Lite covers real SEO hygiene end to end, with zero front-end JavaScript and zero front-end CSS (except an opt-in 1 KB stylesheet for breadcrumbs). No time limit, nothing crippled — everything below works for as long as you use this plugin.
What’s in the box
- Meta — title templates, meta description, canonical, robots
- XML sitemap — posts and pages
- Schema — WebSite, Article, and a business entity (Campground, Hotel, Bed & Breakfast, Restaurant, Store, and eight more types — whichever fits your business)
- Open Graph & Twitter Cards — auto-fill + per-post OG image override
- Breadcrumbs — shortcode, template tag, and an Elementor dynamic tag
- On-page analysis — 16 SEO checks + Flesch reading-ease score, live in the metabox
- Robots.txt manager — virtual robots.txt with a sitemap directive
- AI-powered suggestions — title, meta description, focus keyword and rewrite, via Anthropic Claude, OpenAI or Google Gemini (bring your own API key)
- Image alt-text review — list every attachment missing alt-text, edit inline, optional one-click AI-generated suggestion
- Yoast / Rank Math / AIOSEO / SEOPress importer — batched migration of your existing SEO data
- Migration Verify — snapshots what Google could already see on a page before you import, then diffs it against the same page after — so a switch from another SEO plugin is proven lossless, not just assumed
- AI Visibility Score — a free 0–100 score for how ready your site is to be discovered and cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews — the kind of number paid AI-visibility monitoring tools charge a monthly fee for
- Full REST API for every feature above
- Built for AI agents — an MCP-ready REST API (via WordPress’s own Abilities API, 6.9+), a machine-readable API Catalog, and an Agent Skills manifest, so AI tools can discover and use what this plugin does — not just crawl it
Why Livada SEO Lite?
- Proof, not just promises — Migration Verify checks that switching from another SEO plugin didn’t silently drop a tag Google could already see; the AI Visibility Score gives you a real, checkable number instead of a vague “your SEO looks good”
- Genuinely light — 0 KB front-end JS/CSS (an opt-in 1 KB stylesheet only if you use the breadcrumbs shortcode)
- A real business entity, not just a page title — describe your business once (name, address, phone, hours) and every page publishes it correctly to Google and AI assistants
- AI-assisted, not AI-locked — bring your own API key for any of three providers; nothing is metered or resold
Designed for
- Camping / hotel / B&B / restaurant sites
- Single-location local businesses
- Developers who want code they can actually read and modify
- Anyone who wants a real, working free SEO plugin
Want more?
Livada SEO Pro (a separate plugin, livada.io/livada-seo) adds redirects + a 404 monitor, multiple business locations, AEO (llms.txt + AI content markers), automatic image optimisation, hreflang for multilingual sites, WooCommerce schemas, a daily Site Audit, bulk editing tools, and more — sharing the SEO data you already entered in this plugin.
External services
This plugin connects to the following third-party services. Each one is used only for the specific feature it powers — none of them runs unless you actively use that feature (and, for the AI providers, only after you’ve entered your own API key).
AI-powered suggestions and image alt-text (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini)
When you click one of the metabox’s AI ✨ buttons (title/description/keyword suggestions) or the Image SEO bulk editor’s AI button (alt-text suggestions), this plugin sends the relevant page content (title, existing meta, or a small excerpt) to whichever provider you’ve configured, using the API key you provided under Livada SEO General. Nothing is sent unless you both configured a key and clicked the button. Your API key is stored encrypted at rest.
* Anthropic (Claude): https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms and https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
* OpenAI: https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/ and https://openai.com/policies/row-privacy-policy/
* Google Gemini: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms and https://policies.google.com/privacy
AI Visibility Score (Livada Observatory)
This plugin includes an AI Visibility Score capability: when run, it sends your site’s public homepage URL to Livada’s Observatory scoring service, which returns a 0–100 score describing how ready the site is to be found and cited by AI assistants. No visitor or personal data is sent — only the site’s own public URL.
* Service: Livada (https://livada.io) — terms of service and privacy policy: https://livada.io/cgv/ and https://livada.io/politique-confidentialite/
Installation
- Upload the
livada-seo-litefolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install directly from the WordPress.org Plugins screen. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
- Go to Livada SEO Schema to describe your business (name, address, phone, hours).
- Go to Livada SEO General to (optionally) add an AI provider API key for suggestions and alt-text.
- (Optional) Migrate from another SEO plugin under Livada SEO Tools.
Migrating from another SEO plugin
- Keep the other plugin active during the import.
- Go to Livada SEO Tools and click the matching Import from … button.
- The import is batched and migrates titles, meta descriptions, focus keywords, canonical URLs and social profiles.
- After the import succeeds, deactivate the other plugin and verify a few posts manually before deleting it.
FAQ
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Does it work with Elementor?
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Yes. The on-page analyser renders Elementor content for accurate scoring.
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How does the AI-powered suggestion feature work?
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Add an API key for Anthropic, OpenAI or Google Gemini under General. The key is stored encrypted at rest, derived from your
wp_salt('auth'). The metabox’s AI ✨ buttons then call your chosen provider and pre-fill the field with a suggestion you can edit before saving. -
What’s the difference between this and Livada SEO Pro?
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Same underlying SEO data (titles, descriptions, business info) — Pro adds advanced features on top: multiple business locations, redirects, AEO, automatic image optimisation, hreflang, WooCommerce, Site Audit and bulk tools. They are two separate plugins; nothing in this plugin is disabled or time-limited.
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How do I uninstall cleanly?
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Use Plugins Delete.
uninstall.phpremoves every option, every post meta with the_livada_seo_prefix, and every plugin transient.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release: meta, sitemap, schema, Open Graph, breadcrumbs, on-page analysis, robots.txt, AI suggestions, image alt-text review, and importers for Yoast/Rank Math/AIOSEO/SEOPress.