Head Meta Data

🤖 The easy way to add meta tags to your site
🤖 Performance: light, fast, and user-friendly

Head Meta Data (HMD) improves the definition and semantic quality of your web pages by adding a custom set of tags to the section of your web pages.

Basic Example

Display any set of custom meta tags for your site:

SEO Example

Use shortcodes to dynamically output SEO meta tags:

This outputs dynamic titles and descriptions, useful for SEO. You also can add custom meta tags and markup on specific posts and pages. Check out Installation for more infos.

Features

• Simple and easy to use
• Clean, standards-based code
• Customize all tags
• Add your own custom tags
• NEW: Add custom tags on any post or page
• Use shortcodes to include dynamic information
• Includes meta tags on all of your site’s web pages
• Check out a Live Preview of your meta tags and custom tags
• Automatically adds tags to the section of all pages
• Auto-populates tags using your site’s information
• Choose HTML or XHTML format for meta tags
• Supports Twitter Cards and Facebook Open Graph tags
• Easily disable any unwanted tags
• Option to reset default settings
• Works with or without Gutenberg Block Editor
• Regularly updated and “future proof”
• Lightweight, fast, and secure

🤖 New! Check out Head Meta PRO »

Shortcodes

Shortcodes enable you to include dynamic bits of information in your meta tags. Head Meta Data currently provides the following shortcodes:

• [hmd_post_excerpt] — post excerpt
• [hmd_post_date] — post date
• [hmd_post_author] — post author name
• [hmd_post_title] — post title
• [hmd_post_cats] — post categories
• [hmd_post_tags] — post tags
• [hmd_year] — current year
• [hmd_tab] — adds tab space to markup

So you can display your own set of customized meta tags exactly as desired. See the Installation section for more information about the HMD shortcodes!

Pro Version Features

The Pro version can do everything the free version can do, PLUS:

• Define meta tags for Custom Post Types
• Define meta tags for each type of page-view (e.g., home, posts, pages, archive, search)
• Define tags for Facebook (Open Graph)
• Define tags for X (Twitter)
• Define Facebook and X tags for each type of page view
• 40+ advanced shortcut variables like %%POST_AUTHOR%% and %%ARCHIVE_TYPE%%
• Dedicated “Meta Tags” meta box for posts and pages
• Add custom meta tags to any post or page-view
• Add custom script and style to any post or page-view
• Meta Tags box integrates with SEO plugins
• Additional meta tags beyond the free version
• Dedicated setting for image_src link tag
• Premium support for pro purchases

🤖 Level up your meta tags with Head Meta Pro »

More Info

Head Meta Data is designed to complete a site’s head construct by including some of the more obscure meta tags, such as “author”, “copyright”, “designer”, and so forth. As a matter of practicality, the more widely used tags such as “description” and “keywords” have been omitted, as they are already included via wide variety of plugins (such as “All in One SEO”) in a more dynamic way. Even so, adding “description”, “keyword”, or any other tags is easy from the plugin’s settings page.

Privacy

This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.

Head Meta Data is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.

Support development

I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:

• The Tao of WordPress
• Digging into WordPress
• .htaccess made easy
• WordPress Themes In Depth
• Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress

And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:

• BBQ Pro – Super fast WordPress firewall
• Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots
• Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys
• GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics
• Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress
• Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms
• USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms

Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thanks! 🙂