A very lightweight plugin that adds the Dublin Core metadata to your WP website.
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….
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…
Works great. Developer is very quick to respond when it comes to bug reporting.
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!
Enjoy!
| WordPress | 4.2.3+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Updated the code to remove Yoast HTML Comments from version 14.1, plus other minor improvements. Removed some outdated or redundant metas.
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