Description
Powerful, lightweight SEO plugin to manage search and social previews, generate XML sitemap, add schema markup – and optimize content.
SureRank was born from a simple idea: SEO doesnt have to be hard, bloated, or overwhelming.
As we looked at the existing SEO plugin landscape, we saw a pattern – bloated code, complex settings, technical jargon, cluttered interfaces, and a steep learning curve that left most WordPress users frustrated or confused. These tools were built for experts, not everyday users.
We wanted to change that.
SureRank is a simple, lightweight SEO assistant designed for anyone – whether you’re launching your first website or managing dozens of sites. No more intimidating dashboards or features youll never use. Just clean, clear guidance focused on what really moves the needle.
We cut the fluff and focused on fundamentals:
- Simple, clutter-free interface
- Optimized code that doesnt slow down your site
- Settings that need minimal inputs from you
- Straightforward meta and social settings
- Easy-to-understand schema implementation
- Smart, visual content optimization tools
- SERP and content analysis that makes sense
We also recognized that great SEO isnt just about checklists – its about understanding what to do and why. So SureRank includes intuitive visual cues, actionable suggestions, and beginner-friendly insights that help you confidently optimize your content without needing outside help.
SureRank is not just another SEO plugin. Its the SEO assistant that strips away the noise and helps you get results – clearly, quickly, and confidently.
How Does SureRank Work?
Once the plugin is active (see the Installation tab), getting to your first optimized page takes two steps.
Step 1. Complete the Onboarding Setup
After activation, youll be guided through a quick onboarding process to configure the essential SEO settings for your website. SureRank keeps it simple, so you can complete the setup in just a few minutes – no technical knowledge required.
Step 2. Fix Site-Level SEO Issues and Start Writing
SureRank will perform a quick SEO checkup and highlight important site-level improvements. Once youve addressed these, you can start writing new content and optimizing it with real-time suggestions to boost your rankings and stay ahead of competitors.
SureRank Features
SureRank is packed with powerful features designed to make SEO accessible, actionable, and effective for everyone – from beginners to advanced users. Heres what you can expect, and there is a full feature overview on our site.
Beginner-Friendly Interface
SureRank is built to simplify SEO for users of all skill levels. The clean, clutter-free dashboard uses clear, non-technical language and intuitive navigation, so youll never feel overwhelmed or lost. Every step is designed to guide you with confidence, even if youre optimizing a website for the first time.
Meta Title and Description Optimization
Easily customize your sites meta titles and descriptions to ensure theyre optimized for both search engines and users. This feature helps improve your visibility in search results and encourages higher click-through rates. You can also build reusable meta templates so titles and descriptions stay consistent across a whole post type.
Social Media Integration and Open Graph
With the free version, you can configure the title, description, and image that will appear when your content is shared on social media platforms like Facebook and X. SureRank writes the Open Graph tags and X (Twitter) card tags for you, so your social preview looks right without touching any code.
Home Page SEO Settings
Ensure your homepage is properly optimized with the ability to customize meta tags, title, and description. This ensures that your homepage is accurately represented in search engine results and gets the attention it deserves.
Archive Page SEO Settings
Gain control over your archive pages by customizing their SEO settings. You can adjust the titles and descriptions or choose to disable indexing, preventing search engines from indexing pages that arent needed for SEO.
Robots Instructions
Take control of how search engines crawl and index your site with robots instructions. You can easily add “No Index,” “No Follow,” and “No Archive” tags to specific pages, helping you avoid duplicate content issues and guide search engine bots effectively.
Robots.txt Editor and Analyzer
Edit your robots.txt file from the WordPress dashboard, without FTP or a file manager. The built-in robots.txt analyzer explains what your rules actually do, and warns you when a rule is blocking something you probably want crawled.
Canonical URL
Ensure that search engines know the preferred version of your pages by setting canonical URLs. This feature helps prevent duplicate content issues by signaling to search engines which page should be considered the “main” version. This improves your sites SEO health.
XML Sitemap
SureRank automatically generates an XML sitemap for your website, making it easier for search engines to crawl and index your content. With this feature, you can ensure that all your important pages are properly indexed, helping your site rank better in search results.
Schema Markup and Structured Data
Add structured data to your content with ease using SureRanks schema markup feature. Rich snippets, the star ratings, prices, FAQs and breadcrumbs you see in search results, are built from structured data, so getting it right is what makes your listing stand out and lifts CTR. SureRank outputs JSON-LD structured data, including BreadcrumbList schema for your breadcrumb trail, and the schema builder lets you add your own custom JSON-LD. See the schema setup guide for the full walkthrough.
Google Search Console Integration
Easily connect SureRank with Google Search Console to monitor your sites performance directly within your WordPress dashboard. This integration provides insights into content performance, indexing issues, and more, allowing you to make data-driven decisions for your SEO strategy.
Content Performance in Google SERPs
Track how your content is performing in Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) directly from your dashboard. This feature gives you valuable insights into how your pages are ranking, helping you refine and improve your content strategy.
Site-level SEO Checks
SureRank performs automatic site-level SEO checks to identify common issues such as missing sitemap, incorrect open graph tags, indexing problems, and more. With clear recommendations, you can easily fix these issues to ensure your site is fully optimized and performs well in search results.
Page-level SEO Checks
SureRank performs in-depth SEO checks for each individual page of your website, ensuring that every page is optimized for search engines. This includes evaluating elements like meta tags, canonical URL, broken links, and more to ensure your pages are search-engine friendly. The page SEO checks guide explains what each check looks for.
Image SEO
Optimize your images with SureRanks image SEO feature. It automatically generates alt text for your images, improving accessibility and helping search engines better understand the content of your images. Additionally, it ensures that attachment pages are redirected, keeping your SEO strategy clean and efficient.
Automatic RSS Feed Optimization
Ensure your RSS feed is optimized for search engines and ready for syndication with SureRanks automatic RSS feed optimization feature. This helps search engines properly index your RSS content, improving visibility and allowing you to reach a wider audience.
SEO Metabox
With the SEO Metabox, you can easily set custom meta titles, descriptions, social sharing settings, and robots instructions for each individual post or page. This gives you full control over how your content appears in search results and on social media platforms.
WooCommerce Integration
SureRank integrates seamlessly with WooCommerce, providing eCommerce SEO tools specifically designed for your online store. It helps optimize your product pages, categories, and other eCommerce elements to improve search visibility and drive more traffic to your store.
Migrate from Other SEO Plugins
Switching to SureRank is seamless with the built-in Migration Tool. It allows you to easily migrate SEO data and settings from other popular SEO plugins, such as Rank Math, AIOSEO, or Yoast, without losing critical SEO information. This ensures a smooth transition while preserving your existing optimization efforts.
Import/Export SureRank Settings
Simplify your SEO management with the ability to export and import SureRank settings. Whether you’re setting up multiple sites, collaborating with team members, or sharing configurations with clients, this feature makes it easy to transfer SEO settings across websites quickly and accurately.
SureRank Pro Version Features
For users who want to take their SEO efforts to the next level, SureRank Pro offers powerful, professional-grade tools designed to help you outperform your competitors, optimize content faster, and manage your site’s SEO more efficiently. Compare the two side by side on the free vs Pro page, or see plans and pricing. Heres what you get with SureRank Pro.
SERP Research
Gain a deep understanding of whats ranking in search results for your target keywords. SureRank Pros SERP Research tool analyzes the top-performing pages and provides insights into what it takes to compete and outrank them.
Content Analyzer
SureRank Pros Content Analyzer evaluates your content against your competitors content and provides actionable suggestions to improve your rankings. It helps ensure that your content is not only high-quality but also fully optimized for both search engines and users.
Outline Builder
Plan better content faster with the Outline Builder. By analyzing top-ranking content, SureRank Pro suggests relevant headings and structure ideas so you can create highly competitive, well-organized content that meets search intent.
Content Gap Finder
Discover missing topics, keywords, and content opportunities that your competitors are covering – but youre not. The Content Gap Finder helps you close these gaps and make your site a more complete, authoritative resource.
One-Click SEO Issues Fixer
SureRank Pro actively scans your website for common SEO problems and helps you fix them in one click. From missing meta tags to incorrect schema setups, it offers clear solutions to improve your sites overall SEO health.
Links Manager
Keep track of your internal and external links easily. SureRank Pros Links Manager allows you to monitor, organize, and fix broken links, ensuring your site’s link structure supports better SEO performance.
Redirection Manager
Set up and manage 301 redirects directly from your WordPress dashboard. The Redirection Manager helps preserve your sites SEO value when URLs change, preventing broken links and minimizing lost traffic.
SEO Role Manager
Maintain control over your SEO settings with the SEO Role Manager. This feature allows administrators to assign specific SEO capabilities based on user roles, ensuring that only authorized team members can access or modify SEO settings. It helps protect important SEO configurations and prevents accidental changes that could negatively impact your site’s rankings.
Who Can Benefit from SureRank?
Almost every website can benefit from a solid SEO strategy – and SureRank makes it simple for everyone. SureRanks intuitive, beginner-friendly interface combined with its powerful optimization tools caters to a wide range of users across different industries and needs. Heres who can benefit the most from SureRank:
- New Website Owners: If you’re launching a brand-new website, SureRank is the perfect SEO companion to help you start strong. It guides new website owners through essential optimization steps, ensuring a solid foundation for search engine visibility right from day one.
- Existing Website Owners: Already have an established site but struggling to improve rankings or feeling overwhelmed by SEO? SureRank helps existing website owners streamline their optimization efforts, identify issues, and take clear steps toward better visibility and performance.
- Small Local Businesses: Entrepreneurs, local shops, and service providers with limited technical knowledge or resources can use SureRanks beginner-friendly features to effectively optimize their websites without hiring expensive SEO consultants.
- Professionals and Agencies: Freelancers, marketing consultants, and digital agencies can leverage SureRanks powerful SEO tools, including SEO Role Management and content performance reports, to optimize and manage multiple websites with ease – making it ideal for client work.
- Blogs and Online Magazines: Content creators, bloggers, and digital publications can use SureRanks SERP Analyzer, Content Gap Finder, and Content Optimizer tools to create content that ranks higher and stays competitive in search engine results.
- SaaS and eCommerce Sites: SaaS businesses and online stores powered by WooCommerce or other eCommerce platforms can benefit from SureRanks WooCommerce-specific SEO integrations, site-level and page-level checks, and schema optimization, all designed to increase organic traffic and sales.
SureRank is built for everyone – from beginners taking their first steps in SEO to seasoned professionals managing dozens of websites – making search engine optimization simpler, faster, and more effective.
Some of the WordPress Plugins SureRank Supports
SureRank is compatible with plugins such as:
- WooCommerce
- Elementor
- Easy Digital Downloads
- LearnDash
- LifterLMS
- Tutor LMS
- CartFlows
- SureDash
- BuddyPress
- bbPress
- Spectra
- GiveWP
- MemberPress
- PrestoPlayer
- Restrict Content Pro
- SureMembers
- OttoKit
- The Events Calendar
- Wishlist Member
- And many more
Some of the WordPress Themes SureRank Supports
SureRank works with any theme, including:
- Astra
- Hello Elementor
- Kadence
- GeneratePress
- Blocksy
- Bricks Builder
- Flatsome
- Hestia
- Neve
- Spectra One
- And many more
Branding Guideline
SureRank is a registered trademark. Please use the following format when mentioning SureRank anywhere:
- SureRank [correct]
- Sure Rank [incorrect]
- Surerank [incorrect]
- Sureranks [incorrect]
- Sure ranks [incorrect]
- SureRanks [incorrect]
- Sure Ranks [incorrect]
Connect With Our Team and Community
Join our Facebook group community: Learn the tricks and techniques that other SureRank users are using to optimize their sites and grow their business. Also, get exciting insider information on upcoming feature releases.
Contributors & Developers
“SureRank SEO Meta Tags, Social Preview, XML Sitemap, Schema & Open Graph” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Brainstorm Force
Screenshots
[Get a quick overview of your site's SEO health-run automated checks for indexing, sitemaps, and more, all directly from the main dashboard.]
Get a quick overview of your site’s SEO health-run automated checks for indexing, sitemaps, and more, all directly from the main dashboard.
[See impressions, clicks, and keyword trends from Search Console-track what's driving traffic in one clear view.]
See impressions, clicks, and keyword trends from Search Console-track what’s driving traffic in one clear view.
[Set global titles and descriptions for your site-keep your content optimized without editing each page manually.]
Set global titles and descriptions for your site-keep your content optimized without editing each page manually.
[Control how your pages look on social platforms-set fallback images and metadata for Facebook and X.]
Control how your pages look on social platforms-set fallback images and metadata for Facebook and X.
[Edit SEO details directly in the editor-titles, descriptions, social previews, indexing, and schema all in one panel.]
Edit SEO details directly in the editor-titles, descriptions, social previews, indexing, and schema all in one panel.
[Manage your site's structured data with ease-set default types and control how search engines understand your content.]
Manage your site’s structured data with ease-set default types and control how search engines understand your content.
[Run smart checks on every page-spot missing titles, low content, link issues, and more at a glance.]
Run smart checks on every page-spot missing titles, low content, link issues, and more at a glance.
Installation
- In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins and click Add New.
- Search for SureRank, then click Install Now and Activate.
- Follow the onboarding wizard to configure your core SEO settings.
To install manually, upload the surerank folder to /wp-content/plugins/ and activate the plugin through the Plugins screen. Step-by-step instructions with screenshots are in the installation guide.
FAQ
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What makes SureRank different from other SEO plugins?
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SureRank is built to simplify SEO. It avoids complex jargon and overwhelming settings. With a beginner-friendly interface, lightweight code, smart visual previews, and step-by-step guidance, SureRank feels more like a personal SEO assistant than a traditional SEO plugin. For a feature-by-feature comparison, see SureRank vs Yoast SEO, vs Rank Math, and vs SEOPress.
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Will SureRank slow down my website?
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Not at all! SureRank is built to be lightweight and fast. It follows modern WordPress coding standards and has no unnecessary bloat, so your websites performance remains top-notch.
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Is SureRank beginner-friendly?
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Absolutely. SureRank is designed with simplicity in mind. Even if youve never done SEO before, the plugin walks you through the process and shows exactly how your pages will appear in search results – no guesswork involved.
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What are the requirements to use SureRank?
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You just need an up-to-date version of WordPress. Once you install the plugin, it guides you through a simple onboarding process so you can start optimizing right away.
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Can I track how my content performs in search engines?
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Yes! SureRank provides insights into how your content is performing in Google SERPs. It also includes site-level and page-level SEO checks, so you can identify and fix optimization issues quickly.
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Does SureRank support schema and XML sitemaps?
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Yes, SureRank comes with built-in support for schema markup and XML sitemaps out of the box – helping search engines understand and index your site more effectively.
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Can I edit my robots.txt file with SureRank?
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Yes. You can edit robots.txt directly from the WordPress dashboard, and the built-in analyzer explains what each rule does and flags rules that block content you probably want crawled.
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Yes. SureRank outputs Open Graph tags and X (Twitter) card tags in the free version, and you can set the social title, description, and image per page or site-wide.
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Does SureRank output structured data and rich snippets?
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Yes. SureRank writes JSON-LD structured data, including BreadcrumbList schema, and the schema builder lets you add your own custom JSON-LD. Structured data is what search engines use to build rich snippets.
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Can I optimize my WooCommerce products with SureRank?
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Yes! SureRank fully supports WooCommerce. You can customize SEO titles, descriptions, social previews, schema, and more for all your product pages to improve visibility in search engine results and drive more traffic to your store.
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Does SureRank help with image SEO?
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Definitely. SureRank automatically generates alt text for images and redirects attachment pages to their parent posts. These optimizations help improve your site’s accessibility and search engine visibility.
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Does SureRank work with other SEO plugins?
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We dont recommend running multiple SEO plugins at the same time to avoid conflicts. If you are moving over from another plugin, the best-practices guide covers what to migrate and what to switch off first.
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What if I want more advanced features?
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SureRank Pro includes advanced tools like SERP research, content gap analysis, an outline builder, and more – all designed to help you create better content and rank higher in search results. See plans and pricing.
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How can I report a security bug?
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We take plugin security extremely seriously. If you discover a security vulnerability, please report it in a safe and responsible manner.
You can report the issue through our Bug Bounty Program.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“SureRank SEO Meta Tags, Social Preview, XML Sitemap, Schema & Open Graph” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.10.0 – 19-August-2026
- New: Content Generation – Bulk content generation is now available in the free plugin.
- New: Migration – Added migration support for The SEO Framework.
- New: Schema – Custom JSON-LD string values and textarea fields now support smart tags.
- New: Schema – Added nested field support for Person and schema references.
- New: Abilities API – Noindex, nofollow, and noarchive can now be set per post and term.
- New: MCP – SureRank abilities are now available on the shared MCP server.
- New: Site SEO Audit – Added a “Fix It All For Me” nudge for free users.
- Improvement: AI – Title, description, and social meta are now generated in a single request.
- Improvement: Sitemap – Filtered posts are now excluded from the sitemap index count.
- Improvement: Schema – Schema @id now matches the canonical URL trailing-slash format.
- Improvement: Schema – Schema types missing from the render registry now report a validation error instead of being dropped silently.
- Improvement: Analytics – Feature usage is now tracked as analytics events instead of KPI boolean flags.
- Improvement: Onboarding – Refreshed the upgrade nudge design.
- Improvement: Translations – The AI schema recommendation reason is now translatable.
- Improvement: Compatibility – Added TagDiv Composer support for content analysis.
- Fix: Sitemap – Sitemap generation no longer times out on sites with a large number of posts.
- Fix: Compatibility – Fixed Divi 5 render-state pollution and an SEO popup CSS leak.
- Fix: Content Analysis – Elementor-built pages and dynamic blocks are now analyzed correctly.
- Fix: Search Console – Invalid credentials are now cleared on a definitive token refresh failure.
- Fix: Breadcrumbs – The singular post is now resolved from the main query instead of the global post.
- Fix: Modified Date – Fixed a fatal error when another plugin passes post data as an object.
- Fix: Schema – The AI schema recommendation now works for taxonomies.
- Fix: Admin Bar – Fixed a 403 error on site-level SEO status requests.
- Fix: Onboarding – The connection status now shows “Connected” once the auth popup closes.
- Fix: MCP – No-input abilities no longer fail when unexpected arguments are passed.
1.9.3 – 27-July-2026
- New: Sitemap – Added on-the-fly (default) and scheduled (cron) sitemap generation modes.
- Improvement: Security – Post and term SEO REST endpoints now enforce object-level permission checks.
- Improvement: Performance – Page cache is now purged when SEO data is saved, including “Fix It For Me” and Angie updates.
- Improvement: Image SEO – The image alt check now offers a Pro fix with a free upgrade prompt.
- Fix: Search Console – Indexing status no longer shows “Access denied” when the connected Google account owns the property.
- Fix: Display Conditions – “Specific Pages” now requires a page to be selected before saving.
- Fix: Image SEO – Images without a source are now skipped in the alt-text check.
- Fix: Site Health – Removed a false “stale sitemap” warning.
- Fix: Broken Links – Relative URLs are now normalized before being checked.
- Fix: Schema – Field definitions now resolve correctly for schema sub-types.
- Fix: Compatibility – Skip content rewriting on Breakdance output and WooCommerce cart/checkout, and render the Breakdance toolbar tooltip above the canvas.
- Fix: Multilingual – Non-text settings are no longer registered for Polylang translation.
1.9.2 – 7-July-2026
- New: Admin Bar – Added an SEO toolbar that surfaces site and page checks, quick tools, and Pro features right from the admin bar.
- New: Editor – SEO checks now appear inside the editor through a pre-publish panel and the classic metabox.
- New: Onboarding – Added a first-run guided tour of the editor across Gutenberg, Classic, Elementor, Bricks, Breakdance, and Divi.
- New: Comments – Added comment-link SEO that redirects ?replytocom URLs and adds rel attributes to comment reply links.
- New: Integrations – Added SEO integration for FluentCart.
- Improvement: Open Graph – Free users now see an upgrade nudge for automatic Open Graph image generation.
- Improvement: Learn – Pro tutorials on the Learn page now appear as locked upgrade cards.
- Improvement: Navigation – The settings submenu now keeps its expanded state across tabs and page reloads.
- Improvement: Compatibility – Added a compact, dismissible cache-plugin compatibility notice to the SEO Meta Box and Sitemap.
- Improvement: Security – Google Search Console OAuth tokens are now encrypted.
- Improvement: Security – Hardened the Squirrly importer against PHP object injection.
- Fix: Import – Per-post robots rules no longer override post-type no-index settings during import.
- Fix: Broken Links – Fixed a fatal error in the broken-link checker when SEO check data was stored as a string.
- Fix: Search Console – Indexing-status errors are now shown instead of a stuck “Checking” state.
- Fix: Home Page – Restored Home Page SEO checks for static front pages.
- Fix: WooCommerce – Cart and Checkout blocks no longer render editor preview products on the front end when SureRank is active.
- Fix: Schema – Fixed an out-of-memory crash from re-entrant schema generation when importing or saving settings on WooCommerce or FluentCart sites.
1.9.1 – 25-June-2026
- Improvement: Products – Product image alt text now uses the image file name automatically.
1.9.0 – 17-June-2026
- New: AI – Enable or disable MCP with a single toggle, and connect an AI client from a new setup screen.
- New: Headless REST API – Serve your SEO meta tags, schema, and social previews through a public REST API so headless front-ends can render them without scraping the page.
- New: Front-end SEO Meta Box – Open and edit the SureRank SEO meta box right from the front end of your site (via the admin bar), including author, date, and taxonomy archive pages.
- New: Robots.txt Analyzer – See at a glance how your robots.txt rules affect SEO and what they’re blocking.
- New: Author SEO – Set per-author SEO (title, description, social preview) for author archive pages.
- New: Custom JSON-LD Schema – Add your own JSON-LD schema straight from the schema builder.
- New: XML Sitemap – Post-type archive pages are now included in the sitemap.
- New: Migration – Your primary focus keyword now carries over when you migrate from another SEO plugin.
- New: Broken Links – Ignore specific URLs in the broken-links check so known-good links stop being flagged.
- New: Schema – Choose a time, not just a date, in the schema date picker.
- Improvement: Import – Imported settings are sanitized and JSON-LD output hardened for safer migrations.
- Fix: Archives – Author, date, and post-type archive titles now follow the configured title format and separator.
- Fix: Site Health – The homepage reachability check now respects HTTP error status codes instead of reporting a healthy page.
- Fix: SEO Meta Box – The SEO popup now opens on all taxonomies.
- Fix: Comments – Stripped the ?replytocom parameter from comment reply links to avoid duplicate, low-value URLs.
1.8.1 – 4-June-2026
- Update compatibility with 1.8.0 release.
1.8.0 – 4-June-2026
- New: Abilities API – Registered SureRank abilities via the WordPress Abilities API with MCP support, allowing AI agents to read and update SEO meta, settings, sitemap, and robots.txt.
- New: Schema – AI-powered schema recommendation generator in the Schema tab suggests the right schema types for your content.
- New: SEO Metabox – Indexing status from Google Search Console (URL Inspection) now appears in the SEO meta box.
- New: Integrations – Added an Integrations settings page with WooCommerce and Angie toggles.
- New: Developer – Added
surerank_freeze_modified_datefilter to preserve the post modified date during programmatic updates. - New: Developer – Added filter to automatically open external links in a new tab with rel=”noopener noreferrer”.
- New: Developer – Added filter-based white-label support for the sitemap top bar.
- New: Developer – Added
surerank_og_typefilter to override the Open Graph type for custom page models. - Improvement: Cron – Server-side cron is now detected when WP-Cron is disabled, preventing false cron warnings.
- Fix: Classic Editor – Keyword-in-URL check now evaluates correctly on Classic Editor drafts.
- Fix: Multilingual – Completed TranslatePress sitemap compatibility, including correct handling of excluded path wildcards.
- Fix: PHP – Hardened the analyzer and description helper against servers missing the mbstring extension, preventing fatal errors.
- Fix: Admin – Corrected the review notice logo sizing in the admin area.
- Fix: Migration – Deactivating the previous SEO plugin after migration now works for all supported plugins, including The SEO Framework and Slim SEO.
- Fix: Role Manager – Users granted Global Settings access no longer get a permission error on the Site Information settings.
1.7.4 – 20-May-2026
- New: Learn – Added a guided setup with step-by-step checklist, chapter progress tracking, and auto-detected completions to help users configure SureRank.
- Improvement: Classic Editor – Moved the SureRank trigger into the sidebar under the Publish panel for a cleaner editor layout.
- Fix: Compatibility – Bricks – Frontend meta variable hook no longer triggers a full Bricks render, preventing slow page loads and 504 timeouts on query-loop pages.
- Fix: Compatibility – Divi 5 – Fixed the first Tabs tab not being visible when Image SEO is enabled.
- Fix: Sitemap – Prevented XML parse errors caused by leading output before the sitemap response.
- Fix: Schema – Event schema now emits valid ISO 8601 datetime values.
- Fix: PHP 7.4 – Resolved a parse error in the cache rebuild backup reader on PHP 7.4.
- Fix: Link Manager – Removed Pro-only submenu items from the free version.
- Fix: Classic Editor – Hid the permalink redirect notice on classic editor screens where it did not apply.
1.7.3 – 30-April-2026
- New: Compatibility – Added support for Breakdance builder with SEO Metabox.
- Improvement: Compatibility with Open Graph image generation SureRank Pro feature.
- Fix: SEO Metabox – Fixed an issue where the Meta Box could be accessed from the All Pages, Posts, and CPT listing pages.
1.7.2 – 27-April-2026
- New: Compatibility – Added support for the WP Ghost plugin to ensure SureRank works correctly when WP Ghost is active.
- New: Multilingual – Ship wpml-config.xml for Polylang and WPML compatibility out of the box.
- Improvement: Sitemap – Reliability hardening with graceful cache miss, atomic rebuild, stale-while-revalidate, loopback probe, sync fallback, staleness recovery, and Site Health integration.
- Improvement: REST – Added apiFetch middleware with AJAX fallback for save endpoints, REST probe, AJAX-first mode, and Site Health integration for better resilience.
- Improvement: Multilingual – Centralized locale-format conversion in Locale_Formatter for consistent handling across the plugin.
- Improvement: Multilingual – Compatibility improvements for WPML, Polylang, and TranslatePress.
- Improvement: RTL – Resolved RTL issues found while testing Force UI components.
- Fix: Sitemap – Always emit valid XML on cache miss to prevent broken sitemap responses.
- Fix: Multilingual – Schema inLanguage now resolves per-post language and emits BCP-47 codes.
- Fix: Multilingual – Detach Polylang/WPML term filters during rewrite flush to prevent flush failures.
- Fix: Multilingual – Canonical URL correctly concatenates mapped subdomain with page slug for LandingKit and WPML domain mode.
1.7.1 – 15-April-2026
- Fix: Admin dashboard UI fixes in RTL version.
1.7.0 – 10-April-2026
- New: Migration – Ability to migrate from the All in One SEO (AIOSEO) plugin to SureRank.
- New: Migration – Ability to migrate from the Slim SEO plugin to SureRank.
- New: Compatibility – Added support for Divi 5 builder with SEO Metabox.
- New: Compatibility – Added support for Bricks builder with SEO Checks and Link suggestion.
- New: Settings – Added a settings screen to collect information for knowledge base and local business.
- Improvement: Performance – Improved overall plugin performance.
- Improvement: Focus Keyword – Improved keyword matching with diacritics-insensitive and flexible phrase handling.
- Improvement: Site SEO Checks – Updated the Site Analysis content.
- Improvement: Settings – Moved Sitemaps settings from Advanced to General settings.
- Improvement: Sidebar – Sidebar submenu accordions now auto-expand and collapse based on the active route, and also support manual toggling.
- Fix: Fixed an issue where the Product schema priceValidUntil field was not set to full width.
1.6.6 – 18-March-2026
- New: Migration – Ability to migrate from the Squirrly SEO plugin to SureRank.
- Improvement: Onboarding – UI/UX improvements.
- Improvement: Polylang – Improved compatibility with the Polylang plugin to have manual string translations support.
1.6.5 – 27-February-2026
- Improvement: Onboarding – UI/UX improvements.
- Fix: Fixed an issue where SEO Bar and SEO Metabox were hidden for some cases.
1.6.4 – 25-February-2026
- Improvement: Site SEO Checks – Improve SSL check to verify if the SSL certificate is valid and properly configured, rather than just checking if the site is using HTTPS.
- Improvement: Onboarding – UI/UX improvements.
1.6.3 – 09-February-2026
- New: Multilingual: Added support for WPML and Polylang for multilingual sitemap.
- Improvement: Google Search Console – Show average position of post and pages in content analysis table.
- Improvement: Site SEO Checks – Added better visuals and updated content for Site SEO checks help guide.
- Improvement: Added new fields to Organization Schema.
- Improvement: UI/UX enhancements.
- Fix: Onboarding – Fixed an issue where the posts and pages were not searched properly.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with NewsPaper theme and Event plugin.
- Fix: Fixed an issue in Sitemap where the images column was added even if the option was disabled.
- Fix: Fixed an issue with metadata not getting applied if homepage is set to a shop page in WooCommerce.
1.6.2 – 14-January-2026
- New: Introduced an option to get Email Reports on Monthly basis.
- New: Ability to add or remove Schema field with a better control.
- Improvement: Onboarding flow has been improved for a better user experience.
- Improvement: UI sets of multiple fields has been improved with better user experience for edit Schema.
- Improvement: Edit support added for the AI content suggestions in meta & social SEO.
- Improvement: Generating sitemap as soon as any migration gets completed.
- Improvement: Displaying an indicator and a notice in the Schema editor if any Display Rule is not being set, to avoid blank schemas without any rulesets.
- Fix: Resolved a few issues in Rank Math migration like – global image gets set to featured image of every post, validations of search engine title and description for a social title and description.
1.6.1 – 23-December-2025
- Improvement: Removed default title prefixes from taxonomy, archive, and post type archive pages.
- Fix: Fixed an issue where onboarding settings were not updated correctly in an edge case.
1.6.0 – 22-December-2025
- New: Introduced Email Summary with site performance insights from Google Search Console.
- Improvement: Improved user experience in SureRank Meta box and other additional components.
- Improvement: Optimized Page SEO checks in the SEO bar.
- Improvement: Added custom field support (text and image) for ACF, SCF, Pods, and Metabox in meta templates, schemas, and social settings.
- Fix: Fixed an issue where schema was not displaying in metabox when the display condition was set to the front page.
1.5.1 – 09-December-2025
- Improvement: Enhanced content generation to provide more accurate and relevant results.
- Improvement: Google Search Console Dashboard Widget – updated the UI for a better user experience.
1.5.0 – 25-November-2025
- Improvement: Schema – Added option to reset display conditions defined in the first condition.
- Improvement: Ability to add business information during onboarding.
- Improvement: Added noindex robots settings for WooCommerce pages.
- Improvement: Added compatibility to the Avada theme for Page SEO checks.
- Improvement: UX enhancements.
- Fix: Onboarding – Solved an issue where the onboarding form wasn’t getting submitted in an edge case.
- Fix: Fixed an issue where SEO Meta Box page checks were not updated in Classic Editor.
- Fix: SureRank Schema now deactivates when WP Schema Pro plugin is enabled.
1.4.3 – 29-October-2025
- Improvement: Improved UI for Google Site Verification, Site SEO Checks, Page SEO Checks, and Focus Keyword.
- Improvement: Improved sitemap cache generation process.
- Improvement: Improved content generation to show results based on the sites language.
- Fix: Fixed drag-drop sorting issue in WooCommerce product categories listing.
- Fix: Fixed inconsistent page SEO checks in the metabox and SEO bar.
- Fix: Fixed the issue with false detection of broken links and updated it to include only 404 and 410 status codes.
- Fix: Fixed the issue where the onboarding screen appeared every time after activation.
1.4.2 – 13-October-2025
- Improvement: Improved the SEO Popup and SEO Bar loading performance.
- Improvement: Added a filter to change the default sitemap slug.
- Improvement: Improved the UX for the Date Picker field in Schemas.
- Fix: Site Level Checks – Resolved an issue where robots.txt accessibility checks were unnecessarily validating file content. The check now only verifies accessibility.
- Fix: Page Level Checks – Fixed a bug that caused SureRank to mistakenly identify mailto:, tel:, and sms: links as broken, even though they were valid.
1.4.1 – 26-September-2025
- Fix: Fixed an issue where the WooCommerce product image wasn’t opening when clicked on zoom in due to a conflict with the SureRank plugin.
1.4.0 – 23-September-2025
- New: Added Focus Keyword Checks for Page-level SEO.
- Improvement: SureRank now automatically adds alt and title text to images on the frontend.
- Improvement: Enhanced code quality and UI/UX.
- Improvement: SureRank settings are now only accessible to users with the required capability.
- Improvement: Google Search Console: The current site can now be verified directly from the SureRank dashboard.
- Security Fix: This release addressed an important security bug. Props to Darius from Patchstack for reporting it responsibly. Please make sure you are using the latest version on your website.
1.3.2 – 16-September-2025
- Fix: Fixed an issue where SureRank Pro components won’t get loaded in some edge cases.
1.3.1 – 11-September-2025
- Fix: Fixed an issue where Product Schema was not showing correctly on SureCart products.
1.3.0 – 04-September-2025
- New: Import/Export functionality for SureRank settings
- New: Migration Ability to migrate from the SEOPress plugin to SureRank
- Improvement: Added a tooltip to the Elementor Editor SureRank Meta Box trigger button
- Improvement: Introduced a new UI for Twitter previews in the Metabox and General settings
- Improvement: Enhanced code quality and UI/UX
- Improvement: Included homepage link in the sitemap XML
- Fix: Ensured compatibility with Bricks Builder v2.0.1
- Fix: Ensured the Gutenberg sidebar doesnt close when the SureRank panel is closed
- Fix: Resolved an issue with the SEO Bar that displayed an incorrect status despite the page being optimized
- Fix: Resolved an issue where duplicate canonical meta tags were printed on front page.
1.2.1 – 28-August-2025
- Fix: Fixed an issue where the index sitemap date was in an incorrect format.
1.2.0 – 18-August-2025
- New: Added the ability to edit the robots.txt file via the SureRank Robots Settings Editor.
- Improvement: Enhanced code quality and UI/UX.
- Improvement: Added the option to enable or disable the Migration feature.
- Improvement: Added the ability to migrate from third-party plugins to SureRank directly within the onboarding flow.
- Improvement: Implemented caching for the sitemap XML and its related sync feature, resulting in faster sitemap rendering.
- Fix: Resolved an issue where broken links were not displaying the correct status.
- Fix: Resolved an issue with meta descriptions on websites using the Avada theme where a shortcode was used on the homepage.
1.1.2 – 29-July-2025
- Improvement: Enhanced error handling and UI feedback for broken or slow-loading external links during Page SEO checks.
- Fix: Resolved UI glitch in Dia Browser
1.1.1 – 24-July-2025
- Fix: Resolved an issue where migration to SureRank from the Rank Math SEO plugin triggered an error in a specific edge case.
1.1.0 – 21-July-2025
- New: Migration Ability to migrate from the Rank Math SEO plugin to SureRank
- New: Migration Ability to migrate from the Yoast SEO plugin to SureRank
- New: Ability to enable and disable features like Page-Level SEO Checks, Schema, Google Search Console, etc.
- New: SEO Meta Box compatibility with the Bricks Page Builder
- Improvement: Improved the performance of the frontend application for SureRank
- Fix: Resolved an issue where some SEO Meta Box options were not saved in the correct format
1.0.2 – 10-July-2025
- Fix: Fixed an issue where the SureRank Onboarding details won’t get saved in an edge case.
1.0.1 – 08-July-2025
- Improvement: Enhanced the performance of the SureRank SEO Popup on Elementor pages.
1.0.0 – 01-July-2025
- Initial release
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