StackMime SEO documentation

1. Download the zip from the product page, or search for “StackMime SEO” under Plugins → Add New once it is listed on WordPress.org.
2. Install and activate it. Deactivate any other SEO plugin first, so titles and tags aren’t printed twice.
3. Open SEO → Overview.

SEO → Overview lists what still needs doing in plain language: HTTPS, permalinks, pages without titles, your logo and broken redirects. It also warns you if Yoast SEO, Rank Math or All in One SEO is active.

Under SEO → Settings, add your business name, a square logo, a default link preview image and your social profiles. They go into the JSON-LD schema Google reads: Organization, WebSite, WebPage, BreadcrumbList and Article. Themes and plugins can add FAQPage items through a filter.

Edit a page and fill in the StackMime SEO box under the editor. The preview shows how it looks in Google, and the counters turn green in the recommended range: about 25 to 60 characters for a title, with the main keyword near the start.

With automatic descriptions on, pages without a description use the excerpt or first lines. A description you write always wins. Choose the title separator in Settings.

Under SEO → Redirects, add 301, 302, 307 or 410 redirects. Use * for folder redirects, for example /blog/2019/*. Chains are joined automatically and each redirect counts its hits.

To move many at once, import a CSV with the old address, the new address and optionally the status code. Then click Check destinations: redirects that lead to broken pages are flagged.

The 404 log lists missing addresses people and Google ask for. Use the Redirect button on any that used to be pages.

Choose a second language under SEO → Settings. Then, in each page’s StackMime SEO box, set its language and pick its translation. Both pages point at each other with hreflang tags, get the right lang and dir attributes, and show localised breadcrumbs. One-language sites are left unchanged.

Add a Google Analytics 4 Measurement ID or a Tag Manager container ID under Settings. Phone and email clicks are sent as click_to_call and email_click events.

Switch on Load Analytics only after the visitor accepts cookies and use a consent plugin that supports the WP Consent API, or your theme’s banner. Nothing loads until the visitor accepts.

Add your Search Console verification tag, then submit /wp-sitemap.xml in Search Console.

The plugin improves the sitemap WordPress already makes: noindex pages leave it, author and taxonomy sitemaps can be removed, and last-modified dates are added. You can also noindex search results, send attachment pages to the file, add robots.txt lines, leave pages out of the sitemap and stop WordPress’s “guess” redirects.

Google’s tag loads only after you enter an Analytics or Tag Manager ID, and with consent mode only after the visitor accepts. It sends page views, device details, IP addresses and click events to Google, under Google’s terms and privacy policy. Check destinations requests each redirect target from your own server to read its status; nothing about your site or visitors is sent.

1.3.1

• New: a Getting started guide and a one-time welcome notice after a fresh install (no redirect).

1.3.0

• New: a cleaner admin, Google preview and colour-coded character counts.
• New: automatic meta descriptions (optional) and a title separator setting.
• New: any second language for two-language sites.
• New: consent mode with the WP Consent API.
• Improved: Google’s tag is loaded through the WordPress script system.

1.2.1

• Redirect destination checks and CSV import improvements.

1.0.0

• First release.