Settings reference: every tab explained

General

The General tab holds settings that affect the whole site.

Titles & Meta

This is where you set title and description templates. Each template uses variables such as %title%, %sep%, %sitename%, %excerpt% and %primary_category%, which are filled in for each page.

• Homepage. The title and description for your front page.
• Post types. A title template, description template and noindex option for posts, pages, products and any other public post type.
• Taxonomies. The same for categories, tags and product categories. Tags are set to noindex by default.
• Author and date archives. Templates and noindex options, plus switches to turn those archives off entirely and redirect them to the homepage.
• Special pages. Templates for search results and the 404 page. Search results are noindexed by default.

Social

Settings for how your pages look when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn, X and messaging apps: a default share image (1200×630 pixels works best), your Facebook App ID, your X username and the default X card type. Individual posts can set their own social titles, descriptions and images.

Schema

The Schema tab describes who is behind the site and sets defaults:

• Site represents. Choose an organization or a person, then add the name and a logo or photo.
• Social profiles. One URL per line. They're added to your schema as sameAs links, which connect your site to your profiles.
• Default schema types. The type used for posts, pages and products unless a page chooses another. See schema setup by content type.

Sitemaps

Turn XML sitemaps on or off, set how many links each sitemap file holds, include images and author archives, and exclude specific post IDs. This tab also has the Google News sitemap, with the publication name and post types to include, and the video sitemap, which detects YouTube, Vimeo and self-hosted video automatically. The sitemap guide covers submitting them.

Breadcrumbs

Turn breadcrumbs on, then choose the separator, the home label, an optional prefix such as "You are here:", whether the blog page appears in the trail, and whether to hide the current page's title. Breadcrumbs appear wherever you add the block, shortcode or template tag; see the shortcode and block reference.

Local SEO

Your main business details, which are output as LocalBusiness schema on the homepage, and the multiple locations settings. The local SEO guide walks through every field.

WooCommerce

Extra Product schema settings: a shipping country and flat shipping rate, which add shipping details to your offers, and a return window, which adds a return policy. See the WooCommerce setup guide.

Image SEO

Options to fill in missing image information automatically:

• Set alt text and title from the file name when you upload an image.
• Add missing alt attributes when a page is displayed, using an alt template.
• Add missing title attributes, using a title template.

Templates can use %filename% alongside all the usual variables, so %filename% - %title% produces alt text that includes the post title.

Redirects & 404

Turn the redirect manager and the 404 log on, automatically create a 301 redirect when a published URL changes, set how many 404 entries to keep, and optionally redirect every 404 to the homepage. We don't recommend the last option; see redirects and the 404 monitor.

IndexNow

Turn on IndexNow to tell Bing, Yandex and other participating search engines about new, updated and deleted content as soon as it happens, and choose which post types are submitted.

Role Manager

Choose which WordPress roles can use each part of Rilea SEO. There are five permissions:

Administrators always have every permission.

Back up and copy settings

On the Tools screen, Export settings (JSON) downloads every setting in one file, and Import settings restores it. Use it before big changes, or to set up a new site the same way as an existing one. The Maintenance section can also clear the sitemap cache and reset all settings to their defaults.