Oriole One Custom Fields
Oriole One Custom Fields is a focused, lightweight SEO plugin for WordPress. It lets you add a custom meta title on posts, pages, and public custom post types, and automatically generates and injects a <meta name="description"> tag into your post <head> using the post excerpt as the primary source, with intelligent fallback generation from content.
How it works:
- Add an optional custom Meta Title on any supported edit screen. When set, it overrides the front-end document title for that singular post, page, or custom post type.
- If a post has a manually written excerpt, that excerpt is used as the meta description (HTML stripped, whitespace normalised, trimmed to about 155 characters).
- If no excerpt exists, the plugin auto-generates a description from content by stripping shortcodes, HTML, and excessive whitespace, then trimming intelligently to avoid breaking mid-word.
- If no title or description content is available, the plugin leaves the normal WordPress output alone.
Key features:
- Adds a custom meta title field to posts, pages, and public custom post types.
- Overrides the front-end document title when a custom meta title is set.
- Outputs meta descriptions for posts, pages, and public custom post types.
- Smart description fallback: manual excerpt to content to nothing.
- 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 and meta description output.
- 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 or description 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 and description output, with no tracking, no ads, and no upsells.