Simple Meta Tags for Pages and Posts
by lonare · SEO
A super simple plugin to edit meta tags on all your posts and pages for SEO. Facebook's OpenGraph and Twitter Cards are included.
45 health vs 66 average across 401 SEO plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.28, well behind 6.8.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3192 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
25
now · peak 83
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “70+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,370 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-10 80+ → 70+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-05-09 70+ → 80+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-05-07 80+ → 70+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-05-05 70+ → 80+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-05-03 80+ → 70+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-05-01 70+ → 80+ up after 3 days in band
- 2026-04-28 80+ → 70+ down after 120 days in band
- 2025-12-29 90+ → 80+ down after 194 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Meta Tag Manager 80K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Meta Keywords for Each Page 800+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B - S Simple Meta Tags 700+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
- B Basic SEO Pack 700+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
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Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI 10M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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