Metando gives WordPress site owners a simple place to manage the technical SEO signals that matter, without turning publishing into a score-chasing exercise.
Metando is built on a simple idea: an SEO plugin should handle the technical signals that matter, then get out of your way. It is deliberately lean and focused, not a sprawling marketing suite. There is no account to create, no telemetry, no remote content calls, no AI add-ons, and no upsell banners in your dashboard. Everything runs locally on your site, and nothing about your content, settings, or visitors is ever sent anywhere.
Features
- Search title pattern with site-wide defaults and per-page overrides.
- Search descriptions from page content by default, with optional hand-written descriptions.
- Separate social titles, descriptions, and image previews.
- Canonical URL and noindex controls for individual public pages and posts.
- Accurate Organization or Person identity, WebSite, WebPage, and BlogPosting JSON-LD.
- WordPress native XML sitemap controls at /sitemap.xml for public content types, taxonomies, and URLs per file; noindex and alternate-canonical content is excluded.
- Automatic redirects with a built-in 404 monitor: add 301/302/307/410 rules, see hit counts, and turn any logged 404 into a redirect. All local, no external requests.
- Import titles, descriptions, canonicals, indexing and social metadata from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, or SEOPress, so switching is painless.
- Local content review and site visibility/sitemap checks in the dashboard.
- Detects common SEO plugins and pauses its output to avoid duplicate metadata.
- No third-party integrations, tracking, analytics, account connection, or remote content requests.
- Updates are delivered through WordPress.org and the standard WordPress update system.
What Metando sends (and what it never sends)
Nothing leaves your site. Metando makes no outbound requests for content, has no analytics or telemetry, connects to no account or third-party service, and transmits no information about your pages, settings, or visitors. The only network activity is the standard WordPress update check against WordPress.org, exactly like any other directory plugin. Metando is open source under the GPL, so you can verify all of this in the plugin’s own code.
Metando does not promise rankings, guarantee indexing, generate keyword-stuffing scores, or add unsupported review/rating markup. Structured data should describe visible, accurate site content.