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Welcome to the BetterSEO wiki!

BetterSEO is an enhanced SEO plugin for GetSimple CMS. It provides advanced control over metadata, robots tags, canonical URLs, Open Graph, Favicons, and Dublin Core. Built for better search engine visibility with minimal configuration.

📥 Installation

  • Download the plugin from the BetterSEO GitHub repository.

  • Unzip the folder and upload the BetterSEO directory to your /plugins/ folder.

  • Activate the plugin via Plugins > BetterSEO in your admin panel.

  • In your theme's header, replace: <?php get_header(); ?> with: <?php get_seoheader(); ?>

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📋 Output Example

Default GS without BetterSEO configured:

<meta name="description" content="  Thank you for using GetSimple CMS CE. This is your homepage, so please change this text to be what you want. GetSimple CMS Documentation How to..." />
<meta name="keywords" content="getsimple ce, easy, content management system" />

With BetterSEO configured, a page might include:


<!-- Basic Header Needs
================================================== -->
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1.0, shrink-to-fit=no" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<base href="https://localhost/demo/">
<title>Demo | Welcome to GetSimple CE!</title>
<meta name="description" content="  Thank you for using GetSimple CMS CE. This is your homepage, so please change this text to be what you want. GetSimple CMS Documentation How to...">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
<meta name="copyright" content="Demo">
<meta http-equiv="last-modified" content="Thu, 24 Jul 2025 8:30:25 GMT">
<link rel="canonical" href="https://localhost/demo/">

<!-- GeoLocation Meta Tags / Geotagging. Used for custom results in Google. Generator here https://www.geo-tag.de/generator/en.html -->
<meta name="geo.region" content="ES-TF" />
<meta name="geo.placename" content="Santa Cruz de Tenerife" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="28.467221;-16.247236" />
<meta name="ICBM" content="28.467221, -16.247236" />

<!-- Facebook, more here https://ogp.me/ 
=================================================== -->
<meta property="og:type" content="article">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Demo">
<meta property="og:title" content="Demo | Welcome to GetSimple CE!">
<meta property="og:description" content="  Thank you for using GetSimple CMS CE. This is your homepage, so please change this text to be what you want. GetSimple CMS Documentation How to...">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://localhost/demo/"><meta property="og:image" content="demo-main-image.jpg">

<!-- Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
=================================================== -->
<link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" />
<meta name="DC.Format" content="text/html" />
<meta name="DC.Type" content="article" />
<meta name="DC.Language" content="en" />
<meta name="DC.Title" content="Welcome to GetSimple CE!" />
<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Demo"/>
<meta name="DC.Date" content="Thu, 24 Jul 2025 8:30:25 GMT">

<!-- Favicons. Generator here: https://www.favicon-generator.org/ 
=================================================== -->
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="36x36" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/android-icon-36x36.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="48x48" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/android-icon-48x48.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="72x72" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/android-icon-72x72.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="96x96" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/android-icon-96x96.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="144x144" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/android-icon-144x144.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="192x192" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/android-icon-192x192.png">

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="192x192" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/apple-icon.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/apple-icon-57x57.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="60x60" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/apple-icon-60x60.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/apple-icon-72x72.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/apple-icon-76x76.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/apple-icon-114x114.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/apple-icon-120x120.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/apple-icon-144x144.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/apple-icon-152x152.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/apple-icon-180x180.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="192x192" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/apple-icon-precomposed.png">

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/favicon.ico" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/favicon-16x16.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/favicon-32x32.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="96x96" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/favicon-96x96.png">

<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/ms-icon-70x70.png">
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/ms-icon-144x144.png">
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/ms-icon-150x150.png">
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/ms-icon-310x310.png">

<meta name="msapplication-config" content="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/browserconfig.xml" />
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#ffffff">
<link rel="manifest" href="https://localhost/demo/theme/ResponsiveCE/fav/manifest.json">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#ffffff">

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