Best meta description plugins for WordPress
The most popular meta description plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. SiteSEO leads with 400K+ active installs, ahead of SmartCrawl SEO checker, analyzer & optimizer (10K+) and Simple SEO (10K+). All 126 plugins tagged “meta description” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 meta description plugins
- 1.
SiteSEOThe most installed meta description plugin, with 400K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 8 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
SmartCrawl SEO checker, analyzer & optimizer10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 171 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 3.
Simple SEO10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 33 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 4.
VS Meta Description3K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 16 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Ubersuggest SEO Tools1K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 6.Simple SEO
400+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.SEO Meta Description Updater
400+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 8.
SEO Meta Description AI100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 9.Antypas Auto Categories, SEO & Tags
100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 months ago.
- 10.
Meta Tags Generator100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
All 126 plugins tagged “meta description”

SiteSEO
Down in the last 7 days:1#135by Softaculous1 month ago
SiteSEO is an easy, fast and powerful SEO plugin for WordPress. Unlock your Website's potential and Maximize your online visibility with our SiteSEO!
- Installs
- 400K+
- Rating
- 4.0(8)
- Downloads
- 876/day

SmartCrawl SEO checker, analyzer & optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,439by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform26 days ago
SEO checker, content analysis & SEO optimizer. Rank higher on search engines with 301 redirects, XML sitemaps & one-click setup.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(171)
- Downloads
- 195/day

Simple SEO
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,066by David Cole1 month ago
Allows the modification of META titles, descriptions and keywords for all pages and posts. Also allows for default setting for of META title, descript …
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(33)
- Downloads
- 65/day

VS Meta Description
#3,693by Guido2 months ago
With this lightweight plugin you can add a meta description to your website.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.4(16)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Ubersuggest SEO Tools
Up in the last 7 days:166#5,206by devneilpatel20 days ago
Audit your site, check Core Web Vitals, and apply AI-suggested fixes for titles, meta descriptions, and headings — from wp-admin.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 73/day
Simple SEO
Up in the last 7 days:28#9,382by Pär Thernström1 month ago
The SEO basics: a title, a description and a "don't index" checkbox for every page. Small, fast, and no upsell banners all over your admin.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 22/day
SEO Meta Description Updater
Down in the last 7 days:16#9,904by Joby Joseph1 year ago
A simple plugin to update SEO meta descriptions via the WordPress REST API.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SEO Meta Description AI
Down in the last 7 days:67#13,281by Binary Solutions1 year ago
Set and customize an AI generated SEO meta description for each post or page.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Antypas Auto Categories, SEO & Tags
Up in the last 7 days:55#14,170by Ioannis Antypas4 months ago
Auto-files new posts into the right category and adds an SEO title, meta description, and tags on publish. For AI publishing tools and more.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Meta Tags Generator
Up in the last 7 days:38#15,877by CongBom9 years ago
Automatic generate meta tags. Let your WordPress site optimize with Search engine & Social sharing.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SEO Magic
Down in the last 7 days:12#16,030by Maira Foresto2 months ago
Free AI SEO tools for WordPress: generate metadata, image alt text, social previews and content improvements while you stay in control.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 23/day
AI SEO Tools
Down in the last 7 days:74#16,886by KingAddons.com2 months ago
Generate alt text, meta descriptions, tags, schema and whole posts with your own API key. No credits, no markup, no middleman.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 18/day
Smart SEO
Down in the last 7 days:3#17,596by DediData8 months ago
Smart SEO - WordPress Search Engine Optimization Tools
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day

AISA
Up in the last 7 days:322#20,118by InGenium Project by Paolo Chiesa9 days ago
AI SEO & GEO with a built-in MCP server. Standalone or with Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, AIOSEO. One-Click & bulk (Premium), AI Vision alt text.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 29/day

FV Descriptions
Down in the last 7 days:24#20,142by FolioVision10 months ago
Simple plugin which allows you to mass edit the description fields of your choice.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

S-DEV SEO
Up in the last 7 days:50#20,901by Seodev6 years ago
SEO Tool which replace titles on selected pages and posts. Also adds ability for meta description.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

AutoDescriptor
Up in the last 7 days:23#20,917by Kaudo9 months ago
Meta description generator and manager for posts and pages, working automatically and in bulk.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Smart SEO
Up in the last 7 days:141#22,848by Eric-Oliver Mächler2 months ago
Lightweight, powerful SEO for WordPress — control your meta titles, descriptions, Open Graph tags and more. No bloat, just results.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Simple SEO Meta
#25,519by Epigrade7 years ago
Add page title, meta description, keywords and robots to all post types and taxonomies.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Marcelo Site Connector
Up in the last 7 days:1,185#26,008by itay122227 days ago
Places the Google tags a site needs, gives pages the description search engines show, and sends dead addresses to the page that replaced them.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Super Duper SEO Title and Description
Up in the last 7 days:36#27,350by Super Duper Plugins2 months ago
Lightweight SEO: titles, descriptions, Open Graph, XML sitemap, 301 redirects, AI crawler control, content rating, WooCommerce-friendly.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
WPInterface SEO
Up in the last 7 days:35,831#28,181by WPInterface15 days ago
Complete, lightweight SEO for any theme: titles, schema, sitemaps, redirects, Search Console and more. No ads, no nag screens.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Boostiq by AI SEO Booster
Up in the last 7 days:17,768#28,262by ai90122 days ago
AI SEO for WordPress: audits your pages, then writes the titles, descriptions, headings, schema and links you approve.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
WP BASIC SEO META
Up in the last 7 days:95#30,042by gabrielcastillo13 years ago
This is a simple meta tag plugin for wp head. When activeated a new meta box will appear in post, and page edit sections of wordpress admin panel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
U&AI SEO Bridge
Down in the last 7 days:7#30,295by ybriki2 months ago
Writes SEO title, meta description, canonical, robots and JSON-LD into fields WordPress themes actually render, via a small REST namespace.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Alesta
Up in the last 7 days:2,039#30,817by alestaplugin1 month ago
SEO + technical toolkit: AI title & meta with your own Anthropic or OpenAI key, FAQ schema, XML sitemap, .htaccess, brute-force protection and more.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MetaMax
Down in the last 7 days:266#31,160by eoutvik10 years ago
MetaMax automagically inserts meta tags in your html to make your site more SEO friendly.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fotisy
#31,421by fotisy2 months ago
AI-powered SEO suite to generate optimized Meta Titles, Descriptions, Image Alt Text, and structured llms.txt content in bulk using Google Gemini AI.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Quick Seo
Up in the last 7 days:545#31,548by rupesh gharat12 years ago
powerful seo plugin which enable your seo with single page setting.Quick seo allows you to gain better result in search engines.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SEO Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:1,396#31,938by soandso9 years ago
Plugin customized the title, add description and keywords for category and tag pages
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SEO that Matters
#32,012by Arya Dhiratara2 years ago
A lightweight plugin to make your site more SEO (and Social Media) Friendly in a non-intrusive way.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BreznGEO
Up in the last 7 days:955#32,402by mifupa6 months ago
AI meta descriptions, GEO blocks, internal link suggestions, Schema.org structured data, and llms.txt for WordPress. No subscription.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Amd
Up in the last 7 days:36#32,702by adpu1 year ago
Amd is a simple wordpress plugin that allows you to add and manage meta description and title tag of your posts and pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dirigible SEO
#33,032by Dirigible Studio6 years ago
Free, fast and easy search engine optimization for web developers & SEO pros. Edit titles and meta tags quickly and easily. All killer, no filler.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
TNC AI Excerpt Generator
Down in the last 7 days:663#34,227by Abdul Awal Uzzal3 years ago
Use the Power of OpenAI to Generate Summary of your posts & use as excerpt or SEO Meta Description!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Meta Description Made Easy
Down in the last 7 days:1,876#34,755by doomansoltani8 years ago
By using this simple plugin yo can add add meta description to the header of your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Improved Meta Description Snippets
Up in the last 7 days:4,545#35,499by microkid19 years ago
This generates meta descriptions as advised by the Official Google Webmaster Central blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SEO Meta Description Generator
#37,607by jonyonlinecash2 years ago
Genera automáticamente meta descripciones optimizadas para SEO utilizando IA.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SEOptimate Connector
Down in the last 7 days:13,473#41,869by SEOptimate8 days ago
Connects your WordPress site to SEOptimate so approved SEO title and meta description improvements can be applied directly.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Snapshot
Down in the last 7 days:4,417#45,207by darrinb12 years ago
Easily display a summary of post text or custom text.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MultiTags
Down in the last 7 days:850#45,542by Stefan11 years ago
Display correct tags when calling a tag-page with more than one tag.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Kraan Auto SEO Keyphrase
Down in the last 7 days:14,579#47,380by marcelkraan1 month ago
Automatically and securely fills in missing Yoast SEO focus keyphrases and meta descriptions for WordPress and WooCommerce.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day
WP to GHTime
#47,964ghtime-plugin17 years ago
Increases your SEO and Google rankings by providing links back to your blog. Protects your intellectual property by using a GHTime Data Protector Code …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Obohito SEO Fields
#49,276by MD ARIFUL HOQUE2 months ago
Adds editable SEO title, meta description, and optional meta keywords fields to WordPress posts and pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SEOTHON Connect
Up in the last 7 days:21,308#49,879by SEOTHON10 days ago
Connects your site to a SEOTHON account so finished posts arrive as drafts, and runs a free local on-page checkup that needs no account at all.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MSH SEO
#50,538by Techno Believe Solutions1 month ago
On-page SEO, schema, sitemaps and redirects that work without an account, with optional AI features from Marketing So High.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ROAS Master SEO Fields
#50,544by Boost Media LTD27 days ago
Opens a page's SEO title and meta description to the REST API for users who may edit that page, and prints them when no SEO plugin is active.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Searvia Connector
Up in the last 7 days:14,807#51,093by Searvia11 days ago
Applies the SEO fixes you approve in Searvia to your pages and publishes the articles you write there.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day

Mitch SEO
Up in the last 7 days:8,458#52,930by getmitch1 month ago
Lets Mitch apply approved SEO fixes (title, meta description, JSON-LD) via the REST API, rendered through whichever SEO plugin is active.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
AskKora SEO
Up in the last 7 days:6,088#53,223by koraai14 days ago
Let Kora keep your SEO titles, meta descriptions, business schema and llms.txt up to date — alongside Yoast SEO or Rank Math, or on its own.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day