Stedica SEO

Mô tả

Most SEO plugins help you optimise a post while you are writing it. Stedica SEO starts from the other end: it audits the pages you already published, scores every issue by severity, and gives you one screen to work through them.

It is also built to be installed alongside whatever SEO plugin you already use. Stedica reads and writes Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress and All in One SEO metadata, so you can run an audit today without migrating anything or losing what you have.

What the free edition does

  • Site audit — scans every URL on the site and groups every issue by severity: Critical, High, Medium, Low.
  • Titles and meta descriptions — edit inline, with length guidance, a live Google preview, and templates with dynamic variables such as #current_year.
  • Canonical URLs and meta robots — per-post noindex, nofollow, noarchive and nosnippet, merged correctly into WordPress’ own robots output.
  • Open Graph and Twitter Cards — per-post social metadata with an image picker.
  • Core structured data — Organization, WebSite, WebPage and BreadcrumbList JSON-LD.
  • Breadcrumbs — BreadcrumbList schema on singular views.
  • XML sitemap — paginated, cached and image-aware, with robots.txt integration.
  • robots.txt editor — override the virtual robots.txt, with your sitemap appended automatically.
  • IndexNow — submit new and updated URLs to Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver.
  • Redirects — unlimited rules (301, 302, 307, 410) plus a 404 log.
  • Image alt text — find every image missing alt text and fix it.
  • Readability — Flesch Reading Ease, shown right in the editor.
  • CSV export — take the full issue list anywhere.
  • Elementor compatible — reads content, headings and images from Elementor’s own data, which a plain post_content read misses.
  • Works with your existing SEO plugin — reads and writes Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress and AIOSEO fields.
  • Translation ready — every string in the interface is translatable, with translations delivered through translate.wordpress.org.
  • Headline analysis — length, keyword placement and structure scored as you type.
  • HTML sitemap[stedica_html_sitemap], nested and cached.
  • Table of contents — a block, or [stedica_toc], with stable heading anchors.
  • Cornerstone content — mark your important pages and their problems are scored higher.
  • hreflang — for multilingual sites, Polylang and WPML aware.
  • llms.txt — a machine-readable summary of your site for AI crawlers.
  • Orphan and under-linked pages — every page with no inbound internal links, found during the audit.
  • Keyword cannibalisation — your own pages competing for the same term.
  • Quick wins — the pages one or two fixes away from being clean.
  • Fix Mode — work through issues one at a time, approve suggestions and apply them in bulk.
  • Schema editor — validate your JSON-LD and edit individual @graph nodes by hand.
  • Broken link scan — check outbound links on demand.
  • Undo — every write the plugin makes to a post is reversible.
  • SEO permission — let a contractor do SEO without an administrator account.
  • REST API/wp-json/stedica-seo/v1/ for audits, issues and per-page SEO fields.
  • Health screen — what is working, and what quietly stopped.
  • Setup wizard — four questions on first install.

Stedica SEO Premium

Premium is a separate plugin that installs alongside this one and both stay active — you will see two rows in your plugins list, the same way Yoast Premium and SEOPress PRO work. Keep this plugin installed; Premium needs it and adds to it. It adds the parts that need automation, an external API, or work across your whole site at once:

  • AI meta titles, descriptions, alt text, schema, FAQ blocks and content briefs — using your own API key with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral or Groq, with a screen that tracks tokens and estimated spend.
  • Scheduled scans, and scan and weekly digest emails.
  • Google Search Console — indexing status, impressions, clicks, average position, and per-URL indexing requests.
  • Google Analytics 4 organic sessions.
  • Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) via PageSpeed Insights.
  • Redirect importers for Redirection, Yoast Premium, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SEOPress and Safe Redirect Manager.
  • Scheduled broken-link checking on a cron, rather than on demand.
  • Internal linking suggestions, with one-click insertion into the donor page.
  • AI schema generation, including FAQ and HowTo blocks.
  • Multi-location Local SEO — a LocalBusiness entry per branch, with address geocoding.
  • Keyword rank tracking — daily positions from Search Console, with biggest movers.
  • Content decay — pages whose impressions have fallen away since an earlier audit.
  • Multisite support.

Details at stedica.com.

External services

This plugin can connect to third-party services. All of them are optional and only used when you explicitly enable and configure them in Settings.

Google Search Console / Google Analytics 4 — When connected, the plugin sends your site URL and individual page URLs to Google in order to retrieve indexing status and traffic metrics. Requires you to authorise access via Google OAuth.
Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms — Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google PageSpeed Insights — When you request Core Web Vitals for a page, that page’s URL is sent to Google.
Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms — Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

AI providers (OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic — whichever you configure) — When you use an AI feature (meta generation, alt text, schema generation, content briefs), the plugin sends the relevant page’s title, URL, meta description, focus keyword and an excerpt of its text content to the provider you selected, using the API key you supply. No data is sent unless AI is enabled in Settings and a key is present.
OpenAI: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use — https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
Google Gemini: https://ai.google.dev/terms — https://policies.google.com/privacy
Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms — https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

IndexNow (Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver)Off by default. If you tick the IndexNow box in Settings, the URL of each post you publish or update is sent to https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow, which passes it to those search engines so they can recrawl it. Only the URL is sent — no page content, no personal data, and nothing about your visitors. Nothing is transmitted until you enable it, and unticking the box stops it immediately.
Service: https://www.indexnow.org/
Terms of use: https://www.indexnow.org/terms
Privacy policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement

OpenStreetMap / Nominatim (Premium — Local SEO only) — When you click Find coordinates on the Local SEO settings, the business address you typed is sent to https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search to look up its latitude and longitude. It runs only on that click, and the request identifies itself with the plugin name, version and your site URL as Nominatim’s usage policy requires.
Terms: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/ — Privacy: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy

Freemius (licensing, updates and optional usage data) — Freemius handles Premium licence checks and updates. The free plugin ships with tracking switched off: the SDK runs in anonymous mode, so no site or user data is sent unless you accept its opt-in notice, which you can dismiss or decline and still use every feature.
Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/ — Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy/

If your site serves visitors in the EU, disclose any AI provider you enable in your own privacy policy, since page content is transmitted to that provider.

Note that in the free edition the AI providers, Search Console, Analytics and PageSpeed integrations are not present in the package at all, so nothing is sent to any of them.

Licence

Stedica SEO is licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. A copy of the GPL v2 ships in LICENSE.

The plugin bundles the Freemius WordPress SDK (vendor/freemius/), which is licensed GPL-3.0; its own licence text is in vendor/freemius/LICENSE.txt. Because Stedica SEO is offered under GPL v2 or later, the two are compatible, and the combined distribution you receive is effectively governed by GPL v3. This is noted here so the presence of two different GPL versions in the package is not mistaken for an oversight.

Third-party components and their licences:

  • Freemius WordPress SDK — GPL-3.0 — https://github.com/Freemius/wordpress-sdk
  • Chart.js (assets/js/chart.umd.min.js) — MIT — https://www.chartjs.org/

Everything else in this package is Copyright © 2026 Stedica LLC.

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Khối

Plugin này cung cấp 1 khối.

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Cài đặt

  1. Upload the stedica-seo folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install the ZIP via Plugins Add New Upload Plugin.
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu.
  3. Go to Stedica SEO Settings to set your title and description lengths.
  4. Go to Stedica SEO Audit and run your first scan.

Hỏi đáp

Do I have to remove Yoast / Rank Math / SEOPress / AIOSEO?

No. Stedica detects the active SEO plugin and reads and writes its metadata fields, so both stay in sync.

Does it work with Elementor?

Yes. Content, H1 detection, word count, readability and image alt scanning all read Elementor’s stored page data, which a normal post_content read would miss.

Is AI required?

No. Every AI feature is optional and off until you add your own API key. Without it the plugin still audits, scores, and lets you edit everything manually.

Who pays for the AI calls?

You do, directly to whichever provider you configure, using your own API key. The AI Costs page tracks token usage and estimated spend.

What languages is Stedica available in?

The interface is written in English and is fully translatable — every string, including the screens drawn in the browser by JavaScript. Translations are hosted on translate.wordpress.org and WordPress installs them for you when you set your site language, so nothing ships inside the plugin.

Can I translate Stedica into another language?

Yes, and the best place to do it is https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/stedica-seo/. Translating there means your work is reviewed by the WordPress polyglots community, shipped to every site through the normal translation updates, and never lost on a plugin update. A languages/stedica-seo.pot template also ships with the plugin; its header explains which strings must be left in English (product names, Schema.org types, and values the plugin stores internally) and how the %s/%d placeholders work.

If you would rather work offline first, copy the template to stedica-seo-{your_locale}.po and translate it in a tool like Poedit, then import the result at translate.wordpress.org. Always validate with msgfmt --check before importing — it catches the placeholder mistakes that would otherwise break the plugin in your language only.

A translation you keep locally belongs in wp-content/languages/plugins/, which survives plugin updates; WordPress prefers a translation found there.

Will it slow down my site?

Front-end work is minimal: the plugin outputs meta tags on singular pages and does one indexed lookup for redirects. Scanning and AI calls happen in the admin area or on a schedule, never during a visitor’s page load.

How do I upgrade to Premium?

From Stedica SEO Upgrade inside your dashboard. There is a 7-day trial and it does not ask for a card. Stedica SEO Premium installs alongside this plugin rather than replacing it — keep this one active — and nothing in your data changes.

Is Premium a separate plugin, or does it replace this one?

Separate. Stedica SEO Premium installs alongside Stedica SEO and both stay active — two rows in your plugins list. Premium contains only the paid features and uses this plugin’s code, so it cannot run without it. WordPress enforces that for you: it will not activate Premium without Stedica SEO, and will not let you deactivate Stedica SEO while Premium is active.

Do I have to reconfigure anything after upgrading?

No. Your settings, scans, redirects and every meta description you have written stay exactly as they are — Premium reads the same data this plugin already wrote. If you later cancel, deactivating Premium leaves all of it untouched; only the paid features stop.

What is the difference between the free version and Premium?

The free edition is complete. It audits every URL on your site, stores as many redirects as you need, and everything it does it does fully — nothing is capped, watermarked or half-written. Stedica SEO Premium is a separate add-on that adds capability this plugin does not contain: AI writing, Google Search Console and Analytics, Core Web Vitals, keyword rank tracking, content decay detection, scheduled auditing, the redirect importers and the broken link checker.

What happens to my redirects if my licence lapses?

Nothing. Redirects are part of this free plugin and there is no limit on them, so every rule you created keeps working and you can still add, edit, disable and delete them exactly as before. A lapsed licence only stops the separate Premium add-on from updating.

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The full history is in changelog.txt, which ships with the plugin.

3.26.2

  • Fixes a sitemap that left out most of the site on a shop. A WooCommerce store was publishing a sitemap of its pages and nothing else — no products, and no product category or tag archives either. Three separate faults caused it, and all three are fixed.
  • The sitemap was reading “Post Types to Scan” from General to decide what to list. That setting answers what the audit should analyse, which is a different question from what a search engine should be told about, and it ships as Posts and Pages only. The sitemap now lists every public post type in its own right, and a new Content to list control under Crawling & Indexing lets you untick any you would rather leave out. Because it records what you exclude rather than what you include, a post type added later by another plugin is covered without coming back to this screen.
  • The sitemap was being built before any plugin had registered a post type. It was served on init at priority 1, and post types are registered on init at priority 10 — WooCommerce included — so products could not be seen no matter what the settings said. This alone kept products out even once the setting above was corrected.
  • Cart, checkout and account pages are no longer listed. They are ordinary published pages, so a store’s sitemap was offering them to Google alongside real content. The shop page is still listed — that one is the catalogue landing page.
  • Taxonomy archives follow the post types they belong to, so a shop’s product categories and tags now appear as well.

3.26.1

  • Every AI provider’s model list is current again. The lists were written into the plugin and last touched in 2024, so by now they offered models the providers had retired — including the default for Anthropic, which meant a site using Claude on a current key got an API error rather than a suggestion. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and Groq all now list the models they actually serve today.
  • Refresh models now works for every provider, not just Google. All five publish a model list; only Google’s was ever wired up, which is why the other four went stale. The button reads the list from your own account, so a model the provider retires drops off on its own without waiting for a plugin update.
  • If your saved model is one that has since been retired, the Model dropdown now says so instead of quietly displaying a different model than the one being used.
  • Cost estimates no longer invent spend. A model missing from the price table was priced at GPT-4o’s rate — up to fifty times the real cost of a cheap current model — with nothing marking the figure as a guess. Prices for every listed model are updated, and models you may have used in the past keep their old rates so your cost history stays accurate.

3.26.0

  • Settings is now a list of sections with one panel open at a time, instead of one long page you scrolled through hunting for a heading. Thirteen sections, the section you were last in opens when you come back, and each one has its own address so you can link straight to it.
  • Settings that belong together are now together. The importer and the settings file were buried inside the XML Sitemap row and are in General, beside the SEO plugin they read from. The sitemap, its submission to Google, IndexNow, robots.txt, llms.txt and hreflang are one Crawling & Indexing section. Redirects, the 404 rescue and the broken link checker are one Redirects & Links section. Breadcrumb and author schema sit with the rest of the schema settings, beside the live preview that shows them.
  • Nothing was removed and no setting changed its value. Save still saves the whole screen rather than the section on show, and the Save button stays with you as the page scrolls.