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outstand/seo
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A modern block-editor SEO sidebar — one UI, your engine in the background.

1.0.0(today)10GPL-3.0-or-laterPHPPHP ^8.2

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Outstand SEO
============

[](#outstand-seo)

> One block-editor SEO UI, powered by your engine in the background.

Description
-----------

[](#description)

Outstand SEO provides one custom Gutenberg sidebar that drives whichever powerful SEO plugin is active in the background — **[The SEO Framework](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autodescription/)**or **[Yoast SEO](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)** — while suppressing that plugin's own editor UI. The background engine keeps producing all frontend SEO output (`wp_head`, schema, sitemaps); Outstand SEO only replaces the editing UX.

How it works
------------

[](#how-it-works)

- **Engine adapters** (`includes/Engines/`) detect the active SEO plugin, disable its native editor UI, expose its post meta to REST, and describe a canonical field map (canonical field → native meta key + value codec). `EngineManager`resolves the active engine in priority order (TSF, then Yoast).
    - **TSF:** `the_seo_framework_seobox_output` filter removes the metabox; fields map to `_genesis_*` / `_social_image_*` / `_primary_term_*`.
    - **Yoast:** `wpseo_enable_editor_features_{post_type}` → `false` removes the metabox **and** the block sidebar / pre-publish / document panels; fields map to `_yoast_wpseo_*` with value codecs for Yoast's encodings (3-state noindex, comma-separated robots-adv, `is_cornerstone`, etc.).
- **SEO sidebar** — a dedicated **SEO** editor sidebar (`PluginSidebar`, opened from the icon in the editor header or the more menu) with collapsible General / Social / Visibility sections that mirror The SEO Framework's metabox. Title/description and OG/Twitter title/description fields show a character counter colored against a recommended range. Built from core `@wordpress/components`; each control renders only when the active engine supports that field (config localized as `window.outstandSeo`). Fields write the active engine's **native** post meta directly, so the engine renders the frontend unchanged — no duplicated data, no sync.
- **SEO Analysis panel** — a document panel in the default Settings sidebar with the focus keyphrase and lightweight on-page checks (keyphrase placement, content / title / description length, links), scored with the WordPress admin status colors. Editor-only; the keyphrase persists on the engine's native key.
- **Breadcrumbs block** (`outstand-seo/breadcrumbs`) — engine-aware: renders the active engine's breadcrumb trail (`tsf_breadcrumb()` / `yoast_breadcrumb()`). The matching `BreadcrumbList` schema is emitted by the engine, not duplicated here.

Supported fields
----------------

[](#supported-fields)

Fourteen canonical fields (title, description, canonical, robots noindex/nofollow/noarchive, Open Graph + Twitter title/description/image, focus keyphrase, redirect, primary terms) work on **both** engines. A handful are engine-specific — TSF-only (remove site name, exclude search/archive, Twitter card type) and Yoast-only (noimageindex, nosnippet, cornerstone, separate Twitter image). Unsupported fields are hidden for the active engine.

See **[Engine field support](docs/engine-field-support.md)** for the full matrix (native meta keys, codecs, and the TSF Focus-extension interop).

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- WordPress 6.7+
- PHP 8.2+
- One supported SEO engine active: **[The SEO Framework](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autodescription/)**or **[Yoast SEO](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)**. With neither active the plugin is dormant and shows an admin notice (no panels, no fatals).

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Manual Installation

[](#manual-installation)

1. Download the latest release ZIP from the [Releases page](https://github.com/pixelalbatross/outstand-seo/releases/latest).
2. Go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin in your WordPress admin area.
3. Upload the ZIP file and click Install Now.
4. Activate the plugin.

### Install with Composer

[](#install-with-composer)

To include this plugin as a dependency in your Composer-managed WordPress project:

1. Add the plugin to your project using the following command:

```
composer require outstand/seo
```

2. Run `composer install`.
3. Activate the plugin from your WordPress admin area or using WP-CLI.

Switching SEO engines
---------------------

[](#switching-seo-engines)

Each engine owns its own post meta, so switching engines is a deliberate act, not something this plugin migrates automatically. To move existing SEO data between engines, use the destination engine's importer (e.g. The SEO Framework's **Transport** extension imports Yoast / Rank Math / SEOPress data into TSF's keys). Once data is in the target engine's keys, Outstand SEO's sidebar edits it transparently.

Adding an engine
----------------

[](#adding-an-engine)

Adapters implement `Outstand\WP\SEO\Engines\EngineInterface` (see `includes/Engines/AbstractEngine.php` for shared REST-meta registration). Register a new adapter in `EngineManager::candidates()`. An adapter declares: `is_active()`, `disable_native_editor_ui()`, `register_rest_meta()`, `get_js_config()` (field map + codecs + primary-term key pattern + focus-keyphrase key), and `get_breadcrumb_html()`.

Changelog
---------

[](#changelog)

All notable changes to this project are documented in [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/pixelalbatross/outstand-seo/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md).

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

The SEO sidebar icon is from the [Industrial Sharp UI Icons](https://www.svgrepo.com/svg/486525/anomaly) collection by Siemens AG, licensed under the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). See [CREDITS.md](CREDITS.md).

License
-------

[](#license)

This project is licensed under the [GPL-3.0-or-later](https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-or-later.html).

###  Health Score

40

—

FairBetter than 86% of packages

Maintenance100

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity2

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity45

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

0d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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