Oriole One Custom Fields
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Lightweight SEO plugin with an integrated SEO metabox for custom meta title, custom/automatic meta description, and per-post noindex.
Oriole One Custom Fields is a focused, lightweight SEO plugin for WordPress. It provides an integrated SEO metabox on supported edit screens with optional fields for Meta Title, Meta Description, and Noindex.
How it works:
- Use the integrated SEO metabox to set an optional custom Meta Title. When set, it overrides the front-end document title for that singular post, page, or custom post type.
- Set an optional custom Meta Description in the same metabox. The plugin uses a manual excerpt first, then the custom description, then generated content.
- Enable per-post Noindex from the same metabox when you need a singular URL excluded from indexing.
- If no custom title or noindex value is set, the plugin leaves those outputs alone. Meta descriptions can still use the manual excerpt or generated content.
Key features:
- Adds a unified SEO metabox to posts, pages, and public custom post types.
- Includes Meta Title, Meta Description, and Noindex controls in one place.
- Overrides the front-end document title when a custom meta title is set.
- Outputs meta descriptions for posts, pages, and public custom post types.
- Description priority: manual excerpt to custom description to content to nothing.
- Outputs
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">when Noindex is enabled for a singular item. - Strips shortcodes, HTML, and excess whitespace automatically.
- Trims descriptions to about 155 characters on word boundaries.
- Includes a Settings page to enable or disable Meta Title, Meta Description, Noindex, and the SEO fields metabox.
- Detects and defers to major SEO plugins to prevent duplicate SEO output.
- No database tables, no cron jobs.
- No frontend CSS or JavaScript.
- Translation-ready with full i18n support.
- PHP 8.0+ and WordPress 6.0+ compatible.
Conflict detection – compatible with:
- Yoast SEO (free and premium)
- Rank Math SEO
- All in One SEO (AIOSEO)
- SEOPress
- Slim SEO
- The SEO Framework
When any of the above plugins are active, Oriole One Custom Fields silently steps aside so you never get duplicate SEO title, description, or robots output.
Not output on:
- Archives, category pages, tag pages
- Search results
- The homepage / static front page
- RSS and Atom feeds
- WordPress admin
- REST API requests
Lightweight by design:
This plugin follows a strict “do one thing well” philosophy. It includes only the settings needed to control title, description, and noindex output, with no tracking, no ads, and no upsells.