Simplicity & Peace of Mind

Seamless social sharing, clean search indexation

Every WordPress site manager encounters two persistent requirements when publishing content: ensuring that links shared on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter display crisp images with clear titles, and maintaining a smooth sitemap.xml file for search crawlers.

Too often, existing solutions force heavy, bloated plugins with overwhelming settings menus that are difficult to master.

Auto Open Graph & Sitemap focuses on total simplicity. The plugin installs in seconds and manages all your social metadata and sitemap effortlessly, without any unnecessary settings.

⚡ Effortless Simplicity

No learning curve required. Everything is designed to be crystal clear from the very first minute.

🔗 Flawless Social Previews

Open Graph and Twitter Cards are rendered automatically at optimal priority for LinkedIn and Facebook.

🛡️ Zero Extension Conflicts

Smart detection of active SEO plugins gracefully pauses output with zero risk of duplicate tags.

Maximum Simplicity — Free WordPress Plugin

Absolute simplicity for your WordPress social presence and SEO.

A smooth, lightweight solution with zero hassle.

Zero complex settings, no learning curve needed. Set your default sharing image and generate your sitemap.xml in two clicks from a clean dashboard.

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Free. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+.

How it works Features

Everything essential for your site,
without unnecessary bloat.

Auto Open Graph & Sitemap bundles indispensable tools to perfect social sharing and guide search engines accurately.

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Automated Open Graph Tags

Clean emission of og:title, og:description, og:image, article:author, and associated metadata with automatic fallbacks to your defaults.

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Optimal Header Priority

Positioned at priority 2 inside your page head, immediately following the title tag, preventing code truncation by scrapers like LinkedIn Post Inspector.

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XML Sitemap Generator

Serves sitemap.xml dynamically on the fly combined with physical file writing at your site root to ensure maximum crawler compatibility.

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Content Type Filtering

Easily choose to include or exclude static pages, blog posts, categories, and tags to focus Google's crawl budget effectively.

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Smart Conflict Detection

Automatic detection of active SEO plugins (Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, Google XML Sitemaps). Controls are safely disabled to avoid duplicates.

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Native Sitemap Override

Seamless filter handling for WordPress native sitemaps, avoiding unwanted coexistence with wp-sitemaps.xml when the plugin's sitemap is active.

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Real-Time Status Card

Instantly review your public sitemap URL, listed URL count, service status, and timestamp of the last file regeneration.

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Instant Update Action

Physically regenerate your sitemap.xml file at any time with a single click inside the WordPress admin dashboard.

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Built-in Bilingual Support

Admin interface and notification notices are fully translated into French and English following official WordPress Gettext standards.

Interface Overview Screenshots

Two clear tabs for effortless management

Social Sharing Management

Define default values for site name, title, description, and sharing image. Enable or disable social tag output via a dedicated toggle switch.

Toggle switch ON/OFF with conflict detection
Dynamic character counter for description
Image selector integrated with WordPress Media Library
Support for individual post WordPress authors

XML Sitemap Management

Control the generation of your sitemap.xml file. Filter content types to include and monitor your status card.

Public sitemap.xml URL directly accessible
Content type filters (Pages, Posts, Categories, Tags)
Graceful conflict detection and blocking
One-click manual update button

Getting Started

Up and running in under two minutes

Installation is simple and straightforward. No account creation, no API keys required.

Activate Plugin

Upload the plugin folder to wp-content/plugins and activate it from your WordPress plugins menu.

Configure Open Graph

Navigate to Tools > Auto Open Graph & Sitemap, set your default image, and refine your description.

Filter Sitemap

On the Sitemap tab, check the content types you want search engine bots to crawl and index.

Update Sitemap

Click Update to generate the sitemap.xml file physically and confirm its active status.

Comparison

Auto Open Graph & Sitemap vs heavy SEO suites

All-in-one SEO suites frequently add dozens of superfluous features that clutter your admin panel. Our solution stays focused on what matters.

Feature	Auto Open Graph & Sitemap	Yoast SEO (free)	Rank Math (free)
Price	100% Free	Free with recurring upsell notices	Free with recurring upsell notices
Server Footprint	✓ Very lightweight — single clean main file	⚠ Dozens of extra scripts and database tables	⚠ Multiple background modules
Open Graph Management	✓ High priority header emission for clean previews	✓ Included	✓ Included
Filterable XML Sitemap	✓ Simple content type selection	✓ Included	✓ Included
Smart Conflict Detection	✓ Gracefully disables toggles without site errors	⚠ Intrusive notices	⚠ Forced disables