Pantry SEO

v1.0.0

Contents: Titles, descriptions, social cards, canonical URLs and basic schema.

27 KB, no external requests

The SEO fields every page needs and nothing you have to score. Set a title and description per post, get correct social cards, canonical tags, robots controls and Organization schema, and keep the WordPress core sitemap. There is no analysis, no traffic light and no keyword box.

Compared with the popular plugins

The Pantry SEO settings screen in the WordPress admin, at Plugin Pantry > SEO.

What it does

Per-post SEO title and meta description in a plain meta box on every public post type
Site-wide title format with a separator and a home page title and description
Open Graph and Twitter card tags, with a default social image and per-post override
Canonical URL on singular pages, archives and paginated pages, with a per-post override
Robots meta per post (noindex, nofollow) and site-wide noindex for author, date and search archives
Organization or Person schema plus WebSite schema as JSON-LD, from a short set of fields
Keeps the WordPress core sitemap and adds per-post and per-post-type exclusions
Steps aside automatically when Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress or The SEO Framework is active, with one notice explaining why

What it does not do

No content analysis, readability checks, scores or traffic lights
No focus keyword fields
No redirects or 404 handling (see Pantry Redirects)
No breadcrumbs
No sitemap of its own
No external requests of any kind

Measured footprint

Zip size: 27 KB
Lines of PHP: 2,162
Options: pantry_seo_settings
Post meta: pantry_seo_title, pantry_seo_description, pantry_seo_image, pantry_seo_canonical, pantry_seo_noindex, pantry_seo_nofollow
Custom tables: none
Post types: none
Cron events: none
Transients: none
Admin assets: includes/core/assets/pantry-admin.css on the Pantry SEO settings screen only, includes/core/assets/pantry-admin.js on the Pantry SEO settings screen only
Front-end assets: none
External requests: none
Measured on: 2026-09-12

Compatibility

WordPress: 6.4 or newer, tested to 7.1
PHP: 8.1 or newer
Where it lives: Plugin Pantry > SEO
Licence: GPLv2 or later

Documentation

Read the documentation

Every setting on the Pantry SEO screen and what each one does, with the hooks it publishes: the same text that ships in the plugin README.

Pro add-on (planned)

See Pantry Pro pricing

Breadcrumbs with schema
Article, FAQ, Product and Local Business schema
Titles and descriptions for taxonomy and archive pages
Bulk title and description editor

Planned for a later Pantry Pro release. Nothing in the free plugin waits on it, and a licence bought today covers it the day it ships, since one key covers every module.

Changelog

All notable changes to Pantry SEO are recorded here. The format follows Keep a Changelog and the project uses semantic versioning.

1.0.0 - 2026-09-12

Added

Per-post SEO title, meta description, social image, canonical URL, noindex and nofollow in a plain meta box on every public post type, on both the classic and the block editor.
Site-wide title format with a choice of separator, plus a home page title and description.
Open Graph and Twitter card tags, with a default social image and a per-post override.
Canonical URLs on singular pages, archives, paginated archives, split posts and paged comments, with a per-post override.
Site-wide noindex for author, date and search archives.
Organization or Person schema plus WebSite schema as one JSON-LD graph.
Sitemap exclusions for whole post types, and automatic removal of any post set to noindex, on top of the WordPress core sitemap.
A "Noindex" label in the posts list for anything set to noindex.
Automatic stand-aside when Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress or The SEO Framework is active, with one notice on the settings screen that says why.
Filters pantry_seo_description, pantry_seo_canonical and pantry_seo_schema_graph.