SEO plugin support
42flows auto-detects your WordPress SEO plugin the moment you connect your site, and writes SEO metadata directly into its native fields — the same fields you'd edit manually in the post editor.
Supported plugins
| Plugin | Status | Fields written |
|---|---|---|
| Yoast SEO | ✅ Full support | SEO title, meta description, focus keyphrase |
| Rank Math | ✅ Full support | Title, description, focus keyword |
| All in One SEO (AIOSEO) | ⚠️ Limited | See note below |
How detection works
When you connect your WordPress site, 42flows runs a health check that:
- Pings your site's REST API.
- Detects which SEO plugin is active (if any).
- Verifies that the plugin's SEO meta fields are writable via REST.
If your SEO plugin doesn't register its meta fields for REST API access (the default for most of them), 42flows automatically installs a small free plugin — 42flows SEO Meta — from the official WordPress plugin directory. That plugin does nothing except flip the show_in_rest flag on the right fields for your active SEO plugin.
If you don't have an SEO plugin
That's fine. 42flows still publishes your content. The generated meta description is embedded as an HTML comment at the top of the post, which some themes read and use for <meta> tags. Without an SEO plugin, WordPress itself doesn't have native meta description support.
We recommend installing either Yoast SEO or Rank Math (both free) if you plan to publish regularly — they give you proper <meta> tags, schema markup, sitemap generation, and Open Graph control.
About AIOSEO
All in One SEO v4 stores SEO data in a custom database table (wp_aioseo_posts), not in WordPress's standard post meta. Our current plugin registers the postmeta keys, but AIOSEO ignores them on the frontend. Full AIOSEO support is on the roadmap. For now, use Yoast or Rank Math for full SEO metadata delivery.
Schema markup
Regardless of which SEO plugin you use, every post 42flows publishes includes JSON-LD structured data embedded in the content — Article schema at minimum, plus FAQ and HowTo schema where the content supports it. This happens independently of the SEO plugin.