EasyRankly

FAQ

Can I use EasyRankly together with another SEO plugin?

No. Two SEO plugins print the same tags twice: title, description, canonical and structured data. Deactivate Yoast SEO, Rank Math or any other SEO plugin before activating EasyRankly; EasyRankly > Import copies their SEO fields and redirects.

Does it work on multisite?

Yes. Each site of the network has its own settings, redirects, snippets and languages, with nothing to set up for the network. There are no network-wide features. Deleting the plugin removes its data from every site of the network.

Does EasyRankly collect personal data or send data to external servers?

No. It connects to no external service, does not track visitors and stores nothing about them: what it saves is your settings and SEO fields, in your WordPress database.

How do header, footer and patterns change language?

In block themes, create a template part or a synced pattern with the same name followed by the language prefix: “header-en” for “header”, “Banner — EN” for “Banner”. On the English pages it replaces the original. This is also how each language gets its own menu: the Navigation block in “header-en” shows the English menu. Unsynced patterns become a copy where they are inserted, so they are translated with the page of each language.

Are categories and tags translated?

No, each category or tag is the same in every language, with its address in each language. Its SEO title, description and social texts, and its description, are written in the default language: on the pages of the other languages they are ignored and the title and description templates of that language are used.

Are classic themes supported?

SEO, sitemap, redirects and custom code work with every theme. Two features need a block theme. The breadcrumb uses the WordPress Breadcrumbs block, and its structured data (BreadcrumbList) is printed only when the block is part of the template, which classic themes render after the page head. Multilingual needs a block theme too: with a classic theme, contents, addresses, site title and tagline change with the language, but menus, widgets and texts set in the Customizer show the same text in every language.

What does the “Everywhere” position of Custom code do?

It runs a PHP snippet as soon as the plugins are loaded, on every request, admin included, like the functions.php of a theme: use it to add or remove hooks. It never runs on the Custom code screen when you open it, so a broken snippet can always be fixed there. What the snippet prints at that moment is dropped. If a snippet locks you out, add define( 'EASYRANKLY_SAFE_MODE', true ); to wp-config.php: no snippet runs until you remove it.

Who can use PHP snippets?

Only users who can edit plugin files (the edit_plugins capability, which on a standard site means administrators). PHP snippets are switched off on sites that define DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT or DISALLOW_FILE_MODS in wp-config.php: existing ones stop running and new ones cannot be saved. HTML snippets need the unfiltered_html capability, which administrators have on a single site and only super admins have on a multisite network.

What happens when a PHP snippet breaks?

The code is checked for syntax errors before it is saved, and a snippet that does not parse can be saved only as inactive. If an active snippet throws an error, the error is shown to administrators and the snippet stays on, so visitors cannot switch it off; a fatal error, which breaks the page, switches it off. If a snippet locks you out anyway, add define( 'EASYRANKLY_SAFE_MODE', true ); to wp-config.php: no snippet runs until you remove it.

How are password-protected posts handled?

They are noindex and left out of the sitemap. Their automatic description is empty, so their text never appears in the page source; a description you write for the post yourself is still used.

Are empty archives indexed?

No. A category, tag, author or post type archive with nothing in it is noindex until it has content. A category or tag with its own description stays indexable, since the description is content.

Are feeds and attachment pages indexed?

Feeds are never indexed: they send an X-Robots-Tag: noindex, follow header, so search engines still follow their links. Attachment pages, which show only the uploaded file, are off by default on sites created with WordPress 6.4 or later. On older sites, turn them off in EasyRankly > Indexing: their address then leads to the file. This is the WordPress setting, so it stays as you set it if you remove EasyRankly.

Does it work with WooCommerce and ACF?

Yes, without conflicts. The shop page gives the product archive its SEO title, description and canonical, cart, checkout and account pages stay out of the sitemap, and WooCommerce keeps printing its own Product structured data. Products, and any content edited with the classic editor, get the SEO and Language fields in boxes under the editor. Not supported yet: multilingual stores. With ACF, title and description templates can use a custom field with {{cf:field_name}}; values saved inside ACF blocks are not read.