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Old news...I built something that did this last year and people loved it youtu.be/xmPAHKvJ_Z8?...

I imagine 80% install an SEO plugin and think it “just works”. They never use _any_ of its added controls. 19.9% use less than half the controls (mostly title, meta).

I'd recommend going through Yoast SEO's code, and determining which bits you think that you don't need, in order to compete with other sites.

- Social metadata, because of their importance but also because of how they relate to SEO; - The nuances of meta robots tags and what that means about being included in for instance Google Discover; - All of Schema.org and what that does for your site, including things like Breadcrumbs 2/4

>>> And there was the "panel". When logged in, on a public page, you'd get admin options (Add/Edit/Unpublish/Delete/Copy/Move), and a bunch of flags (if set to Noindex, Disallowed in robots, not the canonical etc.) More than covered 95% of needs.

Well good to hear you code but ChatGPT code is wrong a great amount of the time when you add any complexity and there are also security issues, so just wondering if you edited it as well?

Perhaps it's a toggle for controlling robots directive on a specific page? If so, is that commonly needed? I can't think of a situation in which I've ever needed that functionality. I'd be inclined to add something like that as another separate plugin for those who needed that functionality.

I wanted to release a plugin like this and call it "Simple SEO". AFAIK, most people don't use anything else from these giant SEO plugins anyway.

What do you need a plugin control of generic robots directives for though. That's already handled by WordPress core, or perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you have in mind?

I've always liked the idea of just using my manually created post excerpts as the meta description. If it's good for SEO purposes, then it's good for my site visitors to read too (I don't mind setting my excerpts to the best length of meta description SEO).

Right now most people are missing out on setting up their schema. Google seems to be favoring sites that have a perfect schema defined.

About a thousand things, most of which all of the go-to WordPress SEO plugins take care of for you in the background, in ways you're clearly (and usually by design) unaware of 😅