Installation Instructions

1. Upload meta-seo-pack directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Go to the 'Meta SEO Pack' menu and configure it if you want (you can also leave default configuration as-is if you are a beginner)
4. Enjoy :)

FAQ

How Meta SEO Pack rewrites `title` tag?

Meta SEO Pack uses following title formats as a base for title of different pages (configurable):

• Home Page: %blog_name%
• Posts: %title% | %categories% | %blog_name%
• Pages: %title% | %blog_name%
• Attachments: %title% | %categories% | %blog_name%
• Categories: %categories% | Categories | %blog_name%
• Tags: %tag% | Tags | %blog_name%
• Custom Taxonomies: %term_name% | %tax_label% | %blog_name%
• Archive for Day/Month/Year: Archive for %date% | %blog_name%
• Author Posts: %author_name% | Authors | %blog_name%
• Search Results: Search results for %search% | %blog_name%
• Other pages: %blog_title% | %blog_name%

There are also extra rewriting rules for subsequent pages of archives, posts, pages and comments. This way you will avoid duplicate title problems (reported in Google Webmasters Tools):

• Subpages for multipage Archives/Posts/Pages: %desc% - Page %n%
• Subpages for multipage comments: %desc% - Comments Page %n%

Title formats with hardcoded english words are translatable, so you will not have to translate them (assuming there is a translation for your language).

How Meta SEO Pack generates value for `meta keywords` tag?

All pages uses configured Default keywords as value for meta keywords tag. Some of the pages also adds some extra keywords (configurable):

• Home Page: no extra keywords
• Posts: meta tags, tags, categories, custom taxonomies
• Pages: meta tags, custom taxonomies
• Attachments: no extra keywords
• Categories: category name and all parents
• Tags: tag name
• Custom Taxonomies: taxonomy name and taxonomy term name
• Archive for Day/Month/Year: no extra keywords
• Author Posts: author name
• Search Results: search term

Plugin does not add extra keywords for subpages.

How Meta SEO Pack generates value for `meta description` tag?

Meta SEO Pack either uses entered description, excerpt or generate it from content. This depends on page (configurable):

• Home Page: special description (by default it is set to %blog_name% - %blog_desc%)
• Posts: either use entered meta description, excerpt (if entered) or generate from post content (initial part)
• Pages: use entered meta description or generate it from page content (initial part)
• Attachments: attachment description
• Categories: use category description
• Tags: use tag description
• Custom Taxonomies: taxonomy term description
• Archive for Day/Month/Year: description is not added (yet)
• Author Posts: description is not added (yet)
• Search Results: description is not added (yet)

Description is also additionally changed for subsequent pages of archives, posts, pages and comments. This way you will avoid duplicate description problems (reported in Google Webmasters Tools):

• Subpages for multipage Archives/Posts/Pages: %description% - page %n%
• Subpages for multipage comments: %description% - comments page %n%

How Meta SEO Pack generates value for `meta robots` tag?

Meta SEO Pack adds noindex,follow as a value of meta robots for pages, in order to avoid Duplicate Content problem. follow is added to make sure you will keep link juice of links leading to noindexed pages. Here is the list of pages which can be noindexed (configurable):

• Home Page: subpages only
• Posts: comment subpages only
• Pages: no
• Attachments: yes
• Categories: yes
• Tags: yes
• Custom Taxonomies: yes
• Archive for Day/Month/Year: yes
• Author Posts: yes
• Search Results: yes

Meta SEO Pack can also add noodp and noydir, in order to prevent Search Engines from using descriptions entered in DMOZ (ODP) or Yahoo! Directory as description for page.

You can also enter your meta robots value for every Post and Page - when you do so, it will take precedence over default configuration. Meta SEO Pack will add noodp and noydir if you checked these options.

You can also noindex your feeds - Meta SEO Pack can both add meta robots tag to feeds and send X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header.

How to remove footer added by Meta SEO Pack?

This plugin is provided for free, so this footer is the only way I can get credit from happy users. Of course you can disable it - just go to the plugin Options page, scroll to the bottom, uncheck "Add link to Meta SEO Pack" and save options.

Changelog

2.2.1

• Added Dutch translation (thanks Rene);
• Code cleanup

2.2

• Fix: custom taxonomy pages does not have term name in rewritten title;
• Changed default title format for custom Taxonomies to %term_name% | %tax_label% | %blog_name% (MSP should update your existing title format automatically to use %term_name% instead of %tax_name%);
• Allow to use custom taxonomies as keywords for posts and pages;
• Show warning when WordPress is configured to block search engines;
• Fix: strip non-registered shortcodes too from generated meta description

2.1.3

• Removed cannonical tag added by WP 2.9 (it is generated for posts, pages and attachments only)
• Updated to be compatible with WP 2.9.x

2.1.2

• Marked as compatible with WP 2.8.5

2.1.1

• Do not show post/page metadata in Custom Fields

2.1

• Added option to globally enable and disable rel="nofollow";
• Allow to enter custom meta keywords, description and robots for every post and page;
• Added default title format for pages not supported by Meta SEO Pack yet (usually ones added by other plugins);
• Added "Integration manual for plugin developers" to the readme file

2.0

• Added options to add rel="nofollow" to various links;
• Added new menu, split single options page into multiple pages;
• Send Send X-Robots-Tag in WP 2.7 too;
• Optimised options initialisation

1.2

• Added option to add rel="nofollow" to links to admin section

1.1.2

• Added Polish translation

1.1.1

• Fixed catchable fatal error when getting post category

1.1

• Added options to configure title rewriting
• Fixed title rewriting for Custom Taxonomies
• Fixed fatal error when mbstring PHP extension is not loaded

1.0.1

• Make plugin compatible with WordPress 2.7 (may work with lower versions too)

1.0

• Initial version