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Auto SEO

by Phillip.Gooch · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 1 other plugin · 510+ installs across the portfolio →

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Auto SEO is a quick, simple way to add title, meta keywords, and meta descriptions to your site all at one from a single page.

⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
57 Health · C
Maintenance 39/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

57 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

500+

Active installs

≈550 estimated

40.2K

Total downloads

since 2012

3.77★

Rating (adjusted)

3.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+25%

155

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

71 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 48/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 561 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+25% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

155

now · peak 158

15830d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Auto SEO · #8845 you Nested Pages · #473 Meta Tag Manager · #574 SEO Friendly Images · #1428

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

316per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

1.5y ago

latest release · v2.6.6

20

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.6.6 · 1.5y ago2.5.6 · 8.7y ago2.5.5 · 8.8y ago2.5.4 · 9.6y ago2.4.4 · 9.8y ago2.3.4 · 10.0y ago2.3.3 · 11.0y ago2.2.3 · 11.4y ago2.1.3 · 11.7y ago2.1.2 · 11.8y ago2.1.1%20WordPress%204.0%20Update · 12.0y ago2.1.1 · 12.0y ago2.0.0 · 12.3y ago1.3.8 · 13.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 11% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 80%
v2.6 11%
v2.5 9.5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
500–600 ≈550

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

At the current install trend, crossing 600+ in roughly 332 days.

Install history · since 2015-05-27 · 1,422 observations

500Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
2.6.6
Last updated
1.5y ago
Added
2012-07-19 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.4
Tested up to
6.7.7
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ chauthong
    8.9y ago

    This plugin auto changes something in my setting.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ coolwaytostart
    11.0y ago

    This plugin really does its job

    Read on wp.org ↗

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. Medium · 6.1 Auto SEO <= 2.5.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
    2025-02-03 CVE-2025-25147 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 2.5.6 Patched in 2.6.6

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.2

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✕ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✕ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-04-28 600+ → 500+ down after 44 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-15 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-14 300+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-13 100+ → 300+ up after 508 days in tier
  5. 2024-10-21 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-10-20 100+ → 200+ up after 17 days in tier
  7. 2024-10-03 200+ → 100+ down after 5 days in tier
  8. 2024-09-28 100+ → 200+ up after 8 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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