datanephew SEO Bridge

Yoast SEO and Rank Math store the SEO title, meta description and focus keyword as post meta, but do not register every one of those keys for the REST API. The core REST controller silently discards meta keys it does not know about, so a request that writes them returns 200 and changes nothing. This plugin registers those keys on the post and page post types, with an explicit sanitize callback and an auth callback that checks the caller can edit the post in question, so the standard /wp/v2/posts and /wp/v2/pages endpoints accept them. It adds no write routes of its own and relies on WordPress’s own capability checks. A key that the SEO plugin already exposes to REST is left exactly as that plugin registered it.

This plugin was built for datanephew, which edits SEO metadata over the WordPress REST API, but it is not tied to it and does not require it. It is equally useful to anyone — a headless front end, an editorial script, another integration — that needs those fields writable over REST. It collects no data, makes no outbound requests, adds no settings page, creates no database tables, and displays nothing in the WordPress admin.

All in One SEO is detected and reported, but its fields are not bridged, and it does not need to be. AIOSEO keeps SEO titles and descriptions in its own database table rather than in post meta, so registering post meta keys for it would not change what AIOSEO reads. AIOSEO 4.9.8 and later ship their own REST API for these fields on every plan including the free one, so an AIOSEO site can already write them through the core endpoints without this plugin.

What it registers

When Yoast SEO is active, for both posts and pages:

• _yoast_wpseo_title
• _yoast_wpseo_metadesc
• _yoast_wpseo_focuskw

When Rank Math is active, for both posts and pages:

• rank_math_title
• rank_math_description
• rank_math_focus_keyword

With none of the supported SEO plugins active, the plugin registers nothing.

Status endpoint