Technical SEO

Once you have enabled this menu in SEO Engine, nothing will appear at first. You need to go into the settings under the Technical SEO section and choose which features you want to check out. The Technical SEO tools work at your website level, not at your content level, so these are things you won’t need to modify frequently. Once you’re done with them, you can hide those tabs to keep things clean, that’s why nothing shows up at first, to avoid clutter.

Robots Editor

In the same settings page, this will add a section where you can view and modify your site’s robots.txt. You can also use AI to modify it for you if you’re not sure what you’re doing here.

Sitemap

Once enabled, this will add a new section in the settings. Now go to Settings > Sitemap. Here you’ll find different options to modify your sitemap. This is entirely based on the WordPress core sitemap, which is already part of your site by default unless changed. You can completely disable this default sitemap, and if you do, you can enable the SEO Engine custom sitemap. This is useful if you want to have a cool-looking sitemap in case any human dares to venture there.

Schema Markup

This feature generates JSON-LD schema markup for your posts, pages, and products. It helps search engines better understand your content and can enable enhanced results such as reviews, product availability, pricing, and more.

To enable or disable this feature, go to Settings → Technical SEO and toggle the “Schema Markup” option.

The generated schema depends on the post type:

Posts use the Article schema
Pages use the WebPage schema
Products use the Product schema

By default, custom post types use the Article schema. If you want to change which schema is assigned to a specific post type, you can use the filter:

schema_by_post_type( $type_to_schema )

If you want to customize the generated schema manually, you can use these filters:

mwseo_schema_article( $schema, $post )

mwseo_schema_webpage( $schema, $post )

mwseo_schema_product( $schema, $post, $product )

These filters allow you to modify or extend the schema output as needed.

This will add new settings directly to the Technical SEO settings page. It will insert Open Graph metadata into your posts and pages headers so that when your content is shared on social networks, it’s displayed and linked to your site properly. You can specify which Facebook and X IDs it should be associated with. This also allows you to visualize how your post will appear once shared.

Redirect Attachments

This feature doesn’t come with any advanced settings.

It overrides the default WordPress behavior where sharing your site’s image attachment links opens only the media itself. With this enabled, the link will point to the attached post instead, if one exists.

Disallow GPTBot