Minorank SEO
Minorank SEO is a full-featured SEO plugin for WordPress. It covers every layer of on-page SEO — from meta tags and structured data to sitemaps and real-time content analysis — all from a clean, built-in admin interface. No external platform account required.
Core Features
Meta Management Write and read SEO title, meta description, and focus keywords for posts, pages, custom post types, and all taxonomies (categories, tags, WooCommerce product categories, etc.).
Gutenberg SEO Metabox A 4-tab SEO panel appears in the block editor sidebar for every post and page:
- General — SEO title & description with live SERP preview and character-count indicators; focus keywords with per-keyword scoring.
- Advanced — noindex / nofollow / nosnippet / noimageindex checkboxes; max-snippet and max-image-preview controls; canonical URL field; pillar content toggle.
- Schema — per-post JSON-LD schema type override (Article, BlogPosting, FAQPage, HowTo, Product, LocalBusiness, and more).
- Social — Facebook Open Graph preview with OG title / description / image; Twitter/X Card preview with independent title / description / image fields; all fields fall back to core meta automatically.
Elementor Support A floating, draggable SEO analysis panel appears inside the Elementor editor — same keyword scoring and meta fields, no page reload needed.
Content Analysis Real-time scoring for each focus keyword: placement in title, meta description, slug, and headings; content length; image alt text; internal and external links. Each keyword gets an independent green / yellow / red score chip.
XML Sitemap
Automatically generates a sitemap index at /sitemap.xml with per-type sub-sitemaps (posts, pages, categories, WooCommerce products and product categories). Supports pagination, image entries (Google image sitemap namespace), and per-post-type exclusions. Toggle each post type and taxonomy independently from the Settings page.
Image SEO Addon
Automatically fills missing alt text and title attributes on images using configurable token-based format strings (%post_title%, %filename%, %focus_keyword%, etc.). Supports casing rules and find-and-replace rules. Operates on rendered HTML — the database is never modified.
Redirections Full CRUD admin UI for managing 301, 302, 307, 410, and 451 redirects stored in the database. Features: search by source or target, filter by type and group, bulk delete, group autocomplete. Redirections fire before WordPress loads any templates — zero overhead.
404 Monitor Logs every 404 hit with URL, referrer, user agent, IP address, and cumulative hit count. Lets you sort by any column, bulk-dismiss entries, and convert any 404 directly into a redirect with one click.
JSON-LD Schema Outputs structured data for every page type: WebSite + SearchAction on the homepage, LocalBusiness (with address, geo, opening hours, social profiles), Article / BlogPosting / NewsArticle on posts, WebPage on pages, Product on WooCommerce products, CollectionPage on category archives, and BreadcrumbList on all content pages.
Local Business Schema Addon Full Local Business JSON-LD configuration — business name, type (110+ schema.org types in grouped categories), address, phone, email, and logo.
IndexNow Automatically pings the IndexNow API (Bing, Yandex) whenever a post is published or updated. Also lets you manually ping any URL or the homepage on demand.
LLMs.txt
Generates a /llms.txt file following the llmstxt.org specification so AI crawlers can understand your site structure.
Post Type & URL Monitor Detects new custom post types registered by newly activated plugins and notifies you in the admin so you can configure their SEO settings. Also monitors URL changes (renamed slugs, trashed or deleted posts) and creates redirects automatically.
AI Meta Generator On-demand AI generation of SEO title and meta description using your own Anthropic API key. Requires the user to supply their own key — no data is sent without explicit action.
REST API
Every feature is exposed via a versioned REST API at /wp-json/minorank/v1/. Endpoints accept either an X-Minorank-Key header or a standard WordPress admin session — no separate auth plugin needed.
Why Minorank SEO?
- No bloat — vanilla PHP and JavaScript, no npm build step, no React dependency for admin pages, loads only on the pages that need it.
- Data-safe updates — all settings and logs are stored in WordPress options and custom database tables using
dbDelta(); plugin updates never wipe your data. - WooCommerce-aware — product sitemaps, product category schema, and WooCommerce detection built in.
- Standards-compliant — GPL-2.0-or-later, follows WordPress Coding Standards,
declare(strict_types=1)throughout.
External Services
This plugin connects to the following external services:
1. IndexNow API
* URL: https://api.indexnow.org/
* When: Automatically when a post is published or updated (if IndexNow is enabled), and on-demand via the Settings page.
* Data sent: Your site’s IndexNow key and the URL of the published/updated post. No personal data is included.
* Purpose: Notifies Bing, Yandex, and other IndexNow-compatible search engines of content changes for faster indexing.
* Privacy policy: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement
2. Anthropic API (AI Meta Generator)
* URL: https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages
* When: Only when an admin user explicitly clicks the « Generate with AI » button on a post. No data is sent automatically.
* Data sent: The post title and up to 2,000 characters of the post’s content (plain text, no HTML). Sent using the API key you supply in Settings.
* Purpose: Generates an SEO title and meta description using the Claude AI model.
* Requires: You must supply your own Anthropic API key. The plugin never provides or proxies an API key.
* Privacy policy: https://www.anthropic.com/privacy
* Terms of service: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms
Plugin privacy policy: https://minorank.com/privacy-policy