RationalSEO
Technical SEO essentials with zero bloat. No dashboards, analytics, content scoring, or frontend assets.
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·0 active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, RationalSEO is a WordPress seo plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 221 times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2026. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
0/5Rating
0active installs
221total downloads
2 monthssince 2026
Overview
Rational SEO provides 100% of the technical SEO requirements for modern sites with 0% of the database bloat, UI clutter, or performance drag.
Philosophy
Rational SEO rigorously rejects features that do not directly influence search engines or social crawlers:
- No Content Scoring – No traffic lights, readability checks, or keyword density counters
- No Dashboard – No “SEO Overview” widget or React-powered admin home
- No Analytics – No ranking tracking or Google Search Console API integrations
- No Frontend Assets – Zero CSS or JS files loaded on the frontend
- No 404 Logging – Never writes 404 hits to the database
Features
Meta Tags
- Custom title tags with configurable separator
- Meta descriptions (manual or auto-generated from excerpt/content)
- Robots met…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0.5
- Improved: “Suggest All” now builds title and description around existing focus keyword when one is set
- Improved: AI response parsing handles markdown code fences from API
- Fixed: Sitemap URLs no longer redirect with trailing slash (breaks XML parsing)
- Fixed: Sitemaps now work even when rewrite rules are not flushed
Contributors
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