Livada SEO Lite

Description

Livada SEO Lite is a free SEO plugin for small local businesses, with business schema for campgrounds, hotels, B&Bs and restaurants. It has no licence key, no trial period and no locked feature. It adds no JavaScript file to your pages; its only front-end file is a stylesheet of under 1 KB, loaded only on pages that show breadcrumbs.

What’s in the box

• Meta — title templates, meta description, canonical URL and robots directives
• XML sitemap — posts, pages and the post types you choose
• Schema (JSON-LD) — WebSite, Article, and a business entity (Campground, Hotel, Bed & Breakfast, Restaurant, Store and other local-business types), filled in once from your business details
• Open Graph & Twitter Cards — filled in automatically, with a per-post image override
• Breadcrumbs — the [livada_breadcrumbs] shortcode and the livada_seo_breadcrumbs() template tag
• On-page analysis — 20 checks, including a Flesch reading-ease score, recalculated each time you save a post and listed in the SEO box
• Robots.txt — an editable virtual robots.txt with a sitemap line
• Redirects & 404 Monitor — 301 and 302 redirects (regex patterns supported), CSV import and export, and a 404 log from which you can create a redirect in one click
• AI suggestions (optional) — title, meta description and focus keyword suggestions from Anthropic Claude, OpenAI or Google Gemini, using your own API key
• Image alt-text — lists the images that have no alt text and lets you fill it in from one screen; optional AI suggestions (Anthropic only)
• Importers — Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress (see “Migrating from another SEO plugin” below)
• Migration Verify — under Livada SEO → Migration Verify, tick the pages to check (or type an address of your site), take a “before” snapshot of what they publish in their <head>, run your import, then compare: each tag is shown as Unchanged, Changed, Missing or Added. Also available through the REST API and WordPress Abilities
• AEO (AI assistants) — /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt (a plain-text summary of your business with links to your main pages), your business description, founding date, founder and areas of expertise added to your business schema, snippet directives (max-snippet:-1) and optional content markers. Settings under Livada SEO → General, section AEO
• REST API — settings, per-post SEO data, on-page analysis, redirects and 404s, imports, image alt-text, sitemap tools and more, under /wp-json/livada-seo/v1/ (administrator accounts only)
• AI agent discovery — the plugin registers its actions with WordPress’s Abilities API (WordPress 6.9 and later), so an MCP adapter plugin can offer them to AI tools, and it publishes an API catalog and an MCP server card that describe its REST API (see “What this plugin publishes on your site” below). It does not run an MCP server itself

Why Livada SEO Lite?

• Checkable migrations — Migration Verify lets you compare a page’s head tags before and after you switch from another SEO plugin, from its own admin screen, instead of assuming nothing was lost
• Ready for AI assistants — llms.txt, business details for AI and snippet directives are included, produced by your own site with no external service
• Light on the front end — no JavaScript file, and a stylesheet of under 1 KB only on pages that show breadcrumbs
• Your business described once — enter your name, address, phone and opening hours once, and every page publishes them as structured data
• AI is optional and yours — bring your own API key; the plugin does not meter, resell or proxy anything

Designed for

• Camping, hotel, B&B and restaurant sites
• Single-location local businesses
• Developers who want code they can read and modify

Want more?

Livada SEO Pro (a separate plugin, livada.io/livada-seo) adds multiple business locations, automatic image optimisation, hreflang for multilingual sites, WooCommerce schemas, a daily Site Audit, bulk editing tools, and more — sharing the SEO data you already entered in this plugin.

What this plugin publishes on your site

Besides your pages’ own tags (title, meta description, canonical URL, Open Graph, JSON-LD schema), the plugin serves:

• /sitemap.xml and a virtual /robots.txt
• /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt: a plain-text (Markdown) summary for AI assistants, built from your Schema settings and the AEO fields: business name, type, city, contact details, areas of expertise (or your post categories), links to up to 12 pages (50 in the full version) and, in the full version, your latest 100 posts. Password-protected pages and pages set to noindex are left out. Both files are sent with X-Robots-Tag: noindex. On by default; untick Publish /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt under Livada SEO → General (section AEO) to stop publishing them.
• With AEO on (the default): max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large and max-video-preview:-1 added to the robots meta tag, and an X-Robots-Tag: max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large response header, never on a page set to noindex (untick Snippet length); on posts and pages, meta tags named summary, topic, subject, classification, target, audience, coverage, distribution, rating and revisit-after; and a data-ai-summary attribute on the first paragraph plus a schema.org Answer wrapper after headings ending with “?” (untick Content markers). Untick Turn on AEO to stop all of these at once.
• /.well-known/api-catalog, plus a Link: rel="api-catalog" header on your pages; an MCP server card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json (also answered at /.well-known/mcp/server-cards.json and /.well-known/mcp.json); and /auth.md, which says that the REST API uses WordPress Application Passwords. They only describe the REST API, which accepts administrator accounts only. They are on by default and this version has no switch for them in the admin: a developer can turn them off by setting agent_readiness_enabled to false in the livada_seo_lite_settings option, then saving Settings → Permalinks once so the old addresses stop answering.
• A Markdown version of a post or page, only for requests that send Accept: text/markdown. It is on by default; set markdown_negotiation_enabled to false in the same option to turn it off.
• Off by default, and with no admin switch in this version: a text-and-data-mining rights signal (W3C TDMRep) made of /.well-known/tdmrep.json, tdm-reservation headers and meta tags. It is published only if a developer sets tdm_reservation to reserved or not_reserved in the same option.

Privacy

Everything the plugin stores stays in your own WordPress database. In normal use it sends nothing to Livada. The only requests it sends to another party are the optional AI requests described under “External services”. Two on-demand checks, Migration Verify (its admin screen, the REST API or the Abilities API) and the Markdown check (REST API or Abilities API), fetch a page of your own site, never another domain: a redirect that leaves your site is not followed. Migration Verify stores the tags it read (a post’s in that post’s meta, an address that is not a post in one option holding the 50 latest), nothing about visitors.

• 404 Monitor — for each missing URL it stores the requested path, a hit counter, the date of the last hit, the referring page and the visitor’s browser user-agent (first 255 characters). It does not store IP addresses. Nothing expires by itself: delete rows one by one, or purge the whole log, under Livada SEO → 404 Monitor.
• Activity Log — records, with the WordPress user and the time, each save of the settings (only how many settings changed, never their values), each change to the business locations (only how many there were and are), each AI suggestion of a title, a description or a focus keyword (only its type and length, never its text), each redirect added (with its two addresses) or deleted, and each time the log is cleared. It keeps the latest 1,000 entries.
• Redirects — each redirect stores how many times it was used and the date of its last use, and nothing about the visitor. Each use schedules one short WordPress background task (WP-Cron) that updates those two values.
• API keys — see “Where is my API key stored?” in the FAQ.

If your privacy policy lists what your site collects, mention the 404 Monitor’s referrer and user-agent records.

External services

This plugin can connect to the services below. It does so only for the feature described, only when someone triggers that feature, and never before you have entered your own API key.

AI suggestions (Anthropic, OpenAI or Google Gemini — the provider you choose)

Used for: the ✨ AI buttons in the SEO box of the post editor, which suggest a title, a meta description or a focus keyword. You choose the provider and enter your own API key under Livada SEO → General.

What is sent, and when: each time someone who can edit the post clicks one of these buttons, the plugin sends your API key and a prompt to the provider you chose. The prompt contains the post’s title, its SEO title, meta description and focus keyword, the first 1,500 characters of its text, its permalink and the site language. The same request can be made through the plugin’s REST API and WordPress Abilities (administrator accounts only), for example by an AI agent you have connected. Nothing is sent otherwise. The provider bills the usage to your account.

• Anthropic (Claude): https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms and https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
• OpenAI: https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/ and https://openai.com/policies/row-privacy-policy/
• Google Gemini: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms and https://policies.google.com/privacy

Image alt-text suggestions (Anthropic only)

Used for: two buttons in Livada SEO → Image SEO, shown only when an Anthropic API key is saved. The AI button on a row suggests alt text for that image, and nothing is saved until you click Save. The AI ✨ fill empty alts on this page button asks you to confirm, then does the same for every image of the page that has no alt text yet (up to 50) and saves each suggestion as soon as it comes back, without waiting for your review. This feature always uses Anthropic and needs an Anthropic API key, whichever provider you chose above.

What is sent, and when: for each image, each time either button asks for a suggestion, the plugin sends your Anthropic API key, the public URL of the image (Anthropic downloads the image from that URL) and a short instruction that includes the title of the admin screen, which contains your site’s name. It can also be triggered through the REST API and WordPress Abilities (administrator accounts only). Nothing is sent otherwise. Terms and privacy policy: the Anthropic links above.

AI Visibility Score module (Livada Observatory): not reachable from the admin in this version

The plugin’s code includes an AI Visibility Score module. No admin screen, button or scheduled task calls it in this version, so nothing is ever sent unless custom code runs it. If it is run, it sends your site’s public homepage URL (and the plugin version in the request’s user-agent) to Livada’s Observatory scoring service, which returns a 0–100 score describing how ready the site is to be found and cited by AI assistants. No visitor or personal data is sent — only the site’s own public URL.
* Service: Livada (https://livada.io). Terms of service and privacy policy: https://livada.io/cgv/ and https://livada.io/politique-confidentialite/

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