Phaerixa Discovery Forensics & Indexing Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Phaerixa answers the question “why is this page not in Google?” with evidence instead of guesswork.
Most SEO plugins give you settings to configure. Phaerixa gives you answers. It records every search-relevant change on your site as it happens — noindex, canonical, slug, status, robots.txt, sitemap membership — and explains, in plain English, what most likely caused an indexing problem and where to fix it. The free version observes and explains; it never changes an indexing setting on its own.
The Indexability Score
A single number (0–100) built from the local scan of your site. It tells you, at a glance, how healthy your site’s indexing setup is — and goes up as you fix what the scan finds.
Local SEO Diagnostics
Scans your WordPress install — settings, plugins, post meta, theme output — against Google’s indexing requirements. It only ever requests your own site’s pages, robots.txt and sitemap; nothing is sent anywhere else. Results are grouped by severity with plain-English explanations and step-by-step fix paths.
Full Core SEO Layer
Meta titles and descriptions, Open Graph tags, Twitter/X cards, a robots.txt editor, canonical URLs and JSON-LD schema markup — all in one plugin, all with sensible defaults. Phaerixa does not generate a sitemap: it finds and checks the one your site already publishes (WordPress has its own since 5.5).
Change Ledger, Explain and the Investigator
The Change Ledger keeps one dated row per search-relevant change. Explain turns it into a probable cause. The Investigator builds a Page Dossier for any URL: the evidence, the decision path, and where to fix it.
Per-Post SEO Panel
Full meta controls on every post and page — Classic Editor, Block Editor, and Elementor. Meta title, description, OG image, canonical, noindex toggle, and schema type. Token preview so you can see how your title pattern renders before you save.
Pro Features
Phaerixa Pro is a separate download. The free version is complete on its own and never expires; Pro adds:
- Google Search Console — connect your own property for coverage, performance, URL Inspection and request-indexing, mapped to plain-English explanations
- Redirect manager — 301/302/307 redirects with hit counter, CSV import/export, loop detection
- Bot honeypot — catches crawlers that ignore robots.txt and can block them
- Fix re-checks — confirms with Google whether a fix actually worked
- GSC data sync — scheduled every 6 hours via WP-Cron
- Trend tracking — Indexability Score history and issue count over time
The free version stores no visitor personal data (see Privacy).
Uninstall
When you delete Phaerixa from the Plugins screen, the uninstall script runs automatically. If “Remove data on uninstall” is enabled in Settings, all plugin data is removed from your WordPress database, including:
- All plugin settings and options prefixed with
phrx_ - The stored licence record
The uninstall script does not delete:
- Any site content — posts, pages, users, media, or other plugin data
Disclaimer
Phaerixa is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind. Rob Snow / Rob Art | WordPress Development accepts no responsibility or liability for any data loss, ranking changes, or any damage arising from the use of this plugin. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your SEO configuration is appropriate for your site and compliant with applicable guidelines.
Phaerixa provides tooling and information to help you understand and improve your site’s indexing. It does not constitute professional SEO advice. Consult a qualified SEO professional for business-critical decisions.
External Services
The free version contacts no external service. It only requests your own website (below). The Google and licence services listed here are used by Phaerixa Pro only, a separate download that is not part of this plugin.
Google Search Console API (searchconsole.googleapis.com, www.googleapis.com) — Phaerixa Pro only. Pro connects to the Google Search Console API v3 and the URL Inspection API to fetch your site’s coverage and performance data, to list the properties your Google account can access, and to submit your sitemap when you ask it to. What is sent: your site’s own URLs (the pages being inspected), your chosen property, and the OAuth token issued to your own Google Cloud project. This requires you to create a Google Cloud project and complete the OAuth2 authorisation flow in Settings; nothing is transmitted until you connect a property, and the plugin never sends visitor data.
Google Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google APIs Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/terms
Google Indexing API (indexing.googleapis.com) — Phaerixa Pro only; the free version never contacts it. Used only when you press “Request indexing” for a page in the post editor. What is sent: the single URL you selected, plus the OAuth token from your own Google Cloud project. No other data is transmitted, and nothing is sent automatically or on a schedule. Same Terms and Privacy Policy as above.
Your own website — Phaerixa requests your site’s own pages, robots.txt and sitemap over HTTP in order to inspect what a search engine would see (page content, response codes, redirects and headers). These requests go to your own domain only. No data leaves your server.
Licence validation — Phaerixa Pro only. Communicates with the Rob Art licence server at https://robart-illustration.eu solely to verify your Pro licence key. Only your licence key, plugin slug, and site URL are transmitted. No visitor data, site content, or scan results are sent. This only occurs when you manually activate or deactivate a licence from Settings.
Privacy
Phaerixa stores its data in your own WordPress database. It does not use cookies, does not track visitors, and sends nothing to Rob Art | Illustration.
What the free plugin records: the Change Ledger stores site state — which page changed, what the old and new values were, and when. That is content and settings data, not personal data. The scanner and Investigator read your own pages and store their findings locally.
Personal data: the bot honeypot (a Pro feature) records the IP address and browser user agent of requests that hit a hidden bait URL, so those crawlers can be identified and blocked. That is personal data under GDPR. It is stored only in your database, is never transmitted anywhere, and can be removed at any time by deleting an entry from the Honeypot screen. The free build contains no honeypot and records no IP addresses.
Google Search Console (Pro only): when you connect a property in Phaerixa Pro, the OAuth tokens issued to your own Google Cloud project are stored in your database so the plugin can fetch your data. Revoking the connection in Settings deletes them. See the External Services section above for exactly what is sent to Google.
Uninstalling the plugin removes its data — see the Uninstall section.
Support
For documentation and guides visit the Phaerixa plugin page.
For bug reports or feature requests please use the support forum on the WordPress plugin directory page or contact us via the plugin page above.
Screenshots
Dashboard — Indexability Score, issue queue, and stat tiles showing indexed pages, critical issues, and GSC coverage split.
Diagnostics — Issue list grouped by severity with plain-English explanations and fix paths.
SEO — Meta tab with title pattern editor, OG image picker, and token preview.
Search Console — Coverage status chart with issue breakdown and URL-level detail.
Settings — 3-column card layout with System Info, General settings, and Licence card with modal overlay.
