Lightweight SEO assistant for meta tags, schema and structured data, XML sitemaps, Open Graph previews, robots.txt, and Search Console.
- Installs
- 300,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (51)
- Updated
- 4 days ago
The SEO Framework – Fast, Automated, Effortless.
The fastest feature-complete SEO plugin for professional WordPress websites. Secure, fast, unbranded, and automated SEO. Do less; get better results.
- Active installs
- 200,000+
- #263 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 4.9M
- 4,925,997
- Downloads, 30 days
- 146.6K
- 27K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.9 / 5
- 380 reviews
- Last updated
- 17 days ago
- Oct 14, 2026
- Version
- 5.2.0
- 18 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 14, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 7.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4.0 or newer |
| First published | May 29, 2015 |
| Support, last two months | 9 of 14 threads resolved (64%) |
Reviews
4.9 / 5 from 380 reviews
| 5 stars | 362 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 13 |
| 3 stars | 0 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 4 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
The fastest and only feature-complete SEO plugin that follows the guidelines and rules imposed by WordPress and search engines.
Preview The SEO Framework in WordPress Playground.
Start using proven SEO tactics to improve your website’s ranking. Clean, dedicated, extensible, unrestricted, ad-free, and no strings attached.
To top it off, this is the fastest full-featured SEO plugin, and it blends right into your WordPress website, without leaving you in the dark.
It’s easy to get started. Activate this plugin, and your site’s instantly protected against prominent SEO attacks. The SEO Framework will also prefill all critical meta tags for you. A real time-saver. Ingenious.
Migrate | Setup | Improve | Extensions | API | Support | Privacy
We poured over 30 000 hours of love into this plugin. Here are the results:
• It is brilliant.
The SEO Framework is an expert system for SEO. It is the only solution that can intelligently generate critical SEO meta tags in any language by reading your WordPress environment. This automation saves you a considerable amount of time that could be used to write more content or focus on other tasks. It also removes the need for advanced SEO knowledge.
• It comes preconfigured.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Is The SEO Framework free?
Absolutely! It will stay free as well, without ads, tracking, bloat, or nags!
This plugin is slim yet all-inclusive. It’s 100% freeware, not crippleware.
Is there a premium version?
No. We treat this plugin as premium already.
However, we do offer many free and paid extensions that help support this free plugin. We provide these via our free Extension Manager plugin.
Why is there no analytics, tracking, or 404 monitoring?
SEO experts that use advanced tools such as Ahrefs, SEMrush, Screaming Frog, and Google Analytics prefer using The SEO Framework because it doesn’t try to do their job haphazardly.
To correctly analyze your website, it must be done from the outside.
I have a feature request, a question, or found a bug.
Please visit the support forums and kindly tell us about it.
We’ll try to get back to you within a week. Typically, we reply within three days.
I am a developer; how can I help?
Any input is much appreciated, and everything will be considered.
Please visit the GitHub project page to submit issues or even pull requests.
Learn more about contributing.
What do the colors tell me?
We use different colors to convey messages. Red is an error that you must resolve. Yellow is a non-critical warning that you may want to address. Green is good. Blue is informational and situational. Gray is undefined or unprocessable.
Latest changelog entry
Pray take care, Glaucon, that your daring ambition doesn’t lead to a fall! Don’t you see how risky it is to say or do what you don’t understand? – Xenophon
Release highlights
- Authors now have complete SEO controls: a meta title and description, social tags, a canonical URL, robots directives, and a redirect.
- You can now click a generated title or description and edit it directly, instead of retyping it from scratch.
- We added Fediverse support, so Mastodon can credit the author when someone shares your page.
Screenshots
The SEO Framework shows you how your site is performing, at a glance. This is what we call the SEO Bar. 
Hover over, tap on, or focus any SEO Bar item and it will tell you what's asserted from your environment. 
The SEO meta box is displayed on all pages. It's everything you need. Here you can see the pixel counters. 
These SEO settings are shown on the term edit screen. It seamlessly blends into your WordPress interface.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.