“SEO Cleaner” Documentation by “TeamDev” v1.0

“SEO Cleaner — WP Plugin for Site Clean Up”

Created: 04/13/2016
By: TeamDev
Email: php-cms@teamdev.com

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Table of Contents

  1. Plugin Description
  2. Plugin Installation
  3. Admin Settings
  4. View Changes
  5. Frequently Asked Questions
  6. Plugin Filters and Actions
  7. Notes

A) Plugin Description - top

SEO Cleaner is a WordPress plugin that allows you to clean up unnecessary elements from your site’s source code. You can remove unused meta tags, links, scripts and styles in your head section, delete redundant server response HTTP headers and disable features that you do not need that potentially can harm your site’s SEO.

B) Plugin Installation - top

From Your WordPress Dashboard

  1. Visit 'Plugins > Add New'.
  2. Click 'Upload Plugin'.
  3. Select zip-archive with plugin and click 'Install Now'.
  4. Activate SEO Cleaner from your plugins page.

Via File Upload

  1. Unpack zip-archive with plugin.
  2. Upload the 'seo-cleaner' folder to your '/wp-content/plugins/' directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, etc...)
  3. Activate SEO Cleaner from your plugins page.

Once Activated

  1. Visit 'Settings > SEO Cleaner' and adjust the preferences.
  2. Check your plugin works fine and enjoy plugin usage.

C) Admin Interface - top

Plugin Settings are located under 'Settings > SEO Cleaner'.

Plugin Settings

Use Head Cleanup settings for removing unnecessary html tags from your head section.

Head Cleanup

Use Feed Cleanup settings for removing feed links and/or disabling this functionality.

Feed Cleanup

Use HTTP Response Cleanup settings for removing redundant HTTP response headers.

Server Cleanup

HTTP response headers are not visible to website users. You can see them only via the browser developer tools console.


Use WP JSON API Cleanup settings for removing WP JSON API links, headers or totally disable this feature.

WP API Cleanup

Usually WP API is used by external apps to get data from your site.


Use Comments Cleanup settings for adjusting comment form and comments template.

WP API Cleanup

Use Archives Redirect for disabling unused archives.

WP API Cleanup

Using these options you can redirect unused archives to the homepage and avoid indexing these pages and content duplication.


Use Attachments Redirect for disabling attachment pages.

WP API Cleanup

Every image or other file attached to post has it's own URL and sometimes it can hurt your SEO if these URLs will be indexed by search engines. So you can enable this option and redirect attachment single page URLs to parent post URL to avoid indexing these pages.


Use this tooltip to view the feature that will be disabled. Just hover the icon with question mark.

Helping Tooltip

D) View Changes - top

You can disable this html tags from head section. Every tag can be disabled separately.

Head Section Cleanup

This settings is located under 'Settings > SEO Cleaner > Head Cleanup'.
Feed links disabling option is available under 'Settings > SEO Cleaner > Feed Cleanup'.
WP API links and scripts disabling option is available under 'Settings > SEO Cleaner > WP JSON API Cleanup'.


You can disable this HTTP headers. Every header can be disabled separately.

HTTP Headers Cleanup

This settings is located under 'Settings > SEO Cleaner > HTTP Response Cleanup'.


You can do these adjustments with your comments template. Every feature can be controlled separately.

Comments Cleanup

This settings is located under 'Settings > SEO Cleaner > Comments Cleanup'.

E) Frequently Asked Questions - top

Why I do not see any changes?
First of all clean your browser cache and site cache when you are applying new settings. Most of changes you can see only in page source code or via browser developer tools.
What if I don't know what this feature means?
We have added screenshots almost for every feature where it was possible. Just navigate to plugin settings in admin panel and hover the question mark. Also every option has description under the checkbox.
What if I use one of this features?
Just skip this option and do not turn on it.
Should I disable all features?
If you are using one of these features you should not disable it. E.g. if you are using Emoji on your site — do not disable it. But if you are not planning to use it - you can turn of it, this will help you keep your head section clean.
What if in the head section I see other redundant links not listed in plugin setting?
Sometimes some WordPress themes contain hardcoded links and plugin has no control on this. You can remove it in the header.php file in your theme. As a best practice is to do this in a "Child Theme" (this allows keeping future updates).
What if I need this plugin customized?
We can help you tuning the plugin up to your needs, or even creating a new one from scratch, per your requirements. Drop us your request and we will get back with the estimate shortly.

F) Plugin Filters and Actions - top

Hooks (filters and actions) in WordPress core, plugins and themes essentially allow you to manipulate code without editing core files. So you can change third-party plugin behaviour from your own theme or plugin and keep future updates as well.

Plugin Hooks:

Example:

add_filter( 'seo_cleaner_redirect_status', function( $status ) {

    $status = 302;

    return $status;

} );

In this case we are changing 301 redirect to 302 redirect.

G) Notes - top

  1. Please clean your browser cache and site cache when you are applying new settings.
  2. "X-Pingback" and "X-Powered-By" HTTP headers can be removed only if you have PHP version 5.3 and up.
  3. Some features may not work if you have very modified theme and/or plugins, or if you have third-party extensions that can impact on this features. Contact us if our help is needed.

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this plugin. We would be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this plugin. No guarantees, but we'll do our best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the plugins on CodeCanyon, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.

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