Native SEO Meta Tags

Description

Native SEO Meta Tags generates the essential SEO head tags automatically from the content you already have in WordPress: post title, excerpt, featured image, term description, and user biographical info. No heavy SEO plugin needed.

What it generates

• Document title and meta description on home, singulars, taxonomy archives and author archives.
• Open Graph tags (og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url, og:type, og:site_name).
• Twitter Card tags (summary_large_image when an image is available, summary otherwise).
• Article + BreadcrumbList JSON-LD on posts and pages for Google rich results.
• Person JSON-LD on author archives with sameAs from user profile social URLs (E-E-A-T).

Block Editor native

Per-post overrides live in the post sidebar as a Gutenberg PluginDocumentSettingPanel — fully compatible with WordPress 7.0 collaborative editing. A Classic Editor meta box is used as a fallback when the Block Editor is disabled for the post type.

Works with any public post type and custom post type.

Designed to coexist

Auto-detects active SEO plugins and steps aside to avoid duplicates:

• Yoast SEO
• Rank Math
• All in One SEO (AIOSEO)
• SEOPress
• The SEO Framework
• Slim SEO (Open Graph only)
• Jetpack (Open Graph only)
• VigIA (Site Identity JSON-LD only, on home)

Each module checks only the conflicts relevant to it — so if Slim SEO is active, Open Graph stays off but meta description and schema keep running.

What you can customize

• Activate or deactivate each of the 4 modules independently, with visual toggle cards.
• Max length of auto-generated meta descriptions (120–200 chars).
• Home meta description override.
• Fallback Open Graph image for content without a featured image.
• Site-wide Twitter @username and Facebook App ID.
• Publisher logo for Article schema (required by Google).
• Per-post overrides in the post sidebar: Meta title (also replaces the document title), Meta description, Open Graph image.
• Author social URLs: fields added to the user profile (Twitter/X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Mastodon, Instagram, YouTube) used as sameAs in Person schema.

Zero database tables

Uses the standard WordPress options and post/user meta tables. No custom tables, no cron jobs, no external calls apart from a cached Gravatar probe (24h TTL).

Complements the AyudaWP ecosystem

Designed to work alongside:

• Native Sitemap Customizer — sitemap customization.
• NoIndexer — noindex control.
• VigIA — AI visibility, crawler analytics, Site Identity JSON-LD.
• AI Share & Summarize — AI distribution.
• SEO Read More Buttons — customized read-more links.

External services

This plugin connects to Gravatar (operated by Automattic Inc.) to check whether the post or page author has a public Gravatar avatar, so it can be exposed in Open Graph tags (og:image) and in Person JSON-LD (image) for E-E-A-T.

What data is sent and when:

• When a singular view (post, page, custom post type) is rendered and the Open Graph module is active, and there is no per-post og:image, no featured image, no WooCommerce gallery image and no inline image in the content, the plugin sends an MD5 hash of the lowercased and trimmed author email to https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/{hash}?d=404 via wp_remote_head() (HEAD request, no body) to check whether a Gravatar exists for that author.
• When an author archive is rendered and the Person schema module is active, the same probe is performed for that author.
• The original email address is never sent — only an MD5 hash, which is the standard Gravatar lookup mechanism.
• The result (found / not found) is cached for 24 hours in a transient (nseo_gravatar_{hash}) so subsequent page loads do not hit Gravatar again.

This service is provided by Automattic Inc.:

• Terms of Service: https://wordpress.com/tos/
• Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/

No other external services are used. The plugin makes no other HTTP requests, sends no telemetry and stores no data outside your own WordPress database.