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Dublin Core Metadata Generator

A very lightweight plugin that adds the Dublin Core metadata to your WP website.

By Darken-x·SEO·Free
5(3 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 years ago
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As of April 2026, Dublin Core Metadata Generator is a WordPress seo plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.2.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 25% this week. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….

5/53 reviews
1.0K+active installs
14K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017

Overview

The plugin autogenerates the Dublin Core meta tags for all pages, posts and custom taxonomies, including Woocommerce products and categories. As a bonus, I also added the option to autogenerate Open Graph metadata, which can be turned on and off with a single click, and the additional option to have a default featured image for posts and pages that normally don’t have any featured image or for the situation where your main page is generated from a list of the latest posts or a simillarly custom-made solution.

Additionally, if the keywords meta tag option is active, it also has the capability of autogenerating keywords from post tags and titles (including Woocommerce products), join them with the general keywords as defined in the plugin settings, and then write them in the page̵…

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Ratings & Reviews

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Recent Reviews

Does exactly what it says
by John Jackson·7 years ago

Works great. Developer is very quick to respond when it comes to bug reporting.

Excellent plugin, thanks!
by moonblood·8 years ago

This plugin does exactly what it says (and a little more).

It generates the Dublin Core meta tags for all posts, pages, categories and even Woocommerce taxonomies.

But also, it cleans up the junk meta tags, such as the <meta name=”Generator” content=”WordPress”>.

Very cool, thanks!

Version 1.0 released
by Darken-x·8 years ago

Enjoy!

  • This topic was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Darken-x.

Download Trends

Today: 3Yesterday: 5This week: 35Period total: 913

Compatibility

WordPress4.2.3+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.3
100.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.3.2

Updated the code to remove Yoast HTML Comments from version 14.1, plus other minor improvements. Removed some outdated or redundant metas.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Darken-xDarken-x
Plugin Info
Version
1.3.2
Last Updated
May 18, 2020
WP Requires
4.2.3+
Tested Up To
5.4.19
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
14K+
Added
Oct 12, 2017
Business
Free

Tags

seometadataopen graphdublin coresearch engine optimisation

Developer

D
Darken-x
2 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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