ACS SEO Plus Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
ACS SEO Plus covers the on-page basics without asking you to connect an account, install a wizard or learn a new vocabulary. Open a post, fill in the fields you care about, and leave the rest empty: every field falls back to something WordPress already knows.
It also counts page views on your own server, so you can see which entry is being read without adding a third party script to your pages.
What it does
- SEO title, meta description and canonical URL for every public post type.
- noindex and nofollow checkboxes per entry. Marking an entry noindex also removes it from the sitemap.
- Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, with a share image chosen per entry, then the featured image, then a site wide fallback.
- JSON-LD structured data: a WebSite graph with a search action on the front page, and BlogPosting or WebPage on the entries you opt in.
- An XML sitemap at its own address, so it never takes over the sitemap WordPress or another plugin already publishes. You choose which post types it covers.
- Page view counts per entry: today, yesterday, this month and all time, in the editor, in the post list and on an overview screen.
About the view counting
It runs entirely on your site. There is no cookie, no stored IP address and no request to any outside service. To recognise a repeat visit within the same day the plugin keeps a one way hash of the visitor address and browser string in the site cache for 24 hours; the hash is discarded after that and cannot be turned back into the original values. Only totals per entry are stored, never a log of individual visits. Views by logged in editors and by obvious crawlers are skipped.
Because the count happens in PHP, a full page cache will hide some views from it. That is expected, and it is the trade-off for not loading a tracking script.
No strings attached
This plugin is complete on its own. Nothing in it is locked, metered, time limited or reserved for a paid tier, it never asks for a licence key or an account, and it does not contact any server. Longer range traffic reports, referrer and device breakdowns, automatic image alt text and redirect management are sold separately as an add-on at ACS Developer (https://acs-developer.com/acs-seo-plus/). The add-on is not included here and this plugin does not check for it.
Screenshots
The SEO panel under the editor: SEO title, meta description, canonical URL, share image and the robots checkboxes, with a live character count.
The settings screen, where you choose what is printed in the page head, which post types the sitemap covers, whether views are counted and whether the credit comment appears.
The overview screen, listing the most viewed entries with today, yesterday, this month and all time side by side.
The views column added to the post list, showing today and the lifetime total for every entry.
The XML sitemap, served at its own address so the sitemap WordPress already publishes is left alone.
