by Pär Thernström 5 (2 reviews)

Simple SEO

Name: Simple SEO
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)
Author: Pär Thernström

The SEO basics: a title, a description and a "don't index" checkbox for every page. Small, fast, and no upsell banners all over your admin.

Simple SEO ranks #9,422 among WordPress.org plugins with 400+ active installations, is #254 of 1,658 in the Performance category, a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews, and was last updated Oct 1, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v1.5.0 Current Version v1.5.0

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 01 Oct, 2026

Refreshed 18 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#254 of 1,658 in Performance Top 25% by installs Downloads -32.7% this week

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400+

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KW Avg Position

65.6

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Downloads

47.1K

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Review 5 out of 5

5 (2 reviews)

Next Milestone 500

Total Progress 77%

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.5.0
Last Updated: Oct 01, 2026
Requires WP: 6.6+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Pär Thernström

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Reviews: 2
Support Threads: 0
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Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and bloggers who want more control over how their posts and pages appear in search results and navigation menus. It solves the problem of overly complex SEO plugins by offering a simple way to customize page titles and menu labels without additional settings or database tables.

Change page title output
Change menu title label
Supports custom post types
Add additional keyword synonyms
Uses WordPress custom fields
No settings required

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Simple SEO

WordPress does what it always does: the post title, and search engines pick their own description. On a front page that shows your latest posts, the Tagline is the description.

About 50 characters, close to the page's heading: the same words, with more to go on. WordPress adds " – Site name" after it (not on the front page), and Google may rewrite titles that are long or don't match the heading.

No. It asks search engines not to list it, and it's up to them to honor that. Anyone with the link can still open the page. It's also left out of the sitemap.

A wide picture, 1200 × 630 pixels, not your logo. It's used in link previews when a post has no featured image.

Yes, pick a share image in the post's Simple SEO fields. Link previews use it instead of the featured image, and your theme keeps showing the featured image. Handy when the picture that looks good on your site isn't the one that works in a shared link, like a card with the headline on it. I use Yoast SEO (or Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress, The SEO Framework). Then that plugin is in charge and Simple SEO outputs nothing. The fields stay, so nothing is lost if you switch.

AI search uses the same basics as normal search: a page that can be crawled, with a good title and description. As of 2026, Google doesn't use llms.txt, so Simple SEO doesn't make one.

Yup. The fields are post meta: _simple_seo_title, _simple_seo_description, _simple_seo_noindex and _simple_seo_share_image (an attachment ID), in the REST API with ?context=edit. Everything Simple SEO outputs goes through a filter first. See the hooks.

It's still there for pages: in the Classic Editor box, and in Quick Edit on pages that have one.