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SEO SIMPLE PACK
A minimalist SEO tool that occasionally forgets how to read its own tags.
HealthyGrowing
83/100
This lightweight plugin provides essential SEO tools but has a broken category variable.
Active installs
~151,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.6★
14 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+81%
Growing fast
247 → 446 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +81% in the last year
247/day a year ago→446/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySEO Simple Pack is well-regarded as a lightweight, no-frills SEO plugin that covers the essentials without bloat, though it carries a notable bug where snippet variables like %_cat_name_% are not resolved in title tags, and at least one user reports site damage after uninstallation.
What people like
- +Lightweight compared to major SEO plugins, without sacrificing necessary functionality×3
- +Simple and intuitive to use, even without reading documentation×3
- +Provides exactly what is needed for SEO — no unnecessary extras×2
Common complaints
- −Snippet variable %_cat_name_% is not resolved in title tags — the raw placeholder string is output instead of the category name, silently affecting many sites
- −Uninstalling the plugin can break the site
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.62★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-09-122025-08-082026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 14 total
Latest reviews · 14 analyzed
- 2024-12-04★★★★★Problem categorydimuchios84
- 2024-08-19★★★★★初学者でも使いやすいSeiko Kuchida
- 2023-05-19★★★★★Some Pages Got Garbled.k.kurihara
- 2022-11-28★★★★★Nullnemausus30
- 2022-10-29★★★★★Free, simple settings and works Finenene
- 2022-10-04★★★★★Good!! Simple, just right.satooog1-shot
- 2022-04-22★★★★★【不具合】titleタグにスニペットを指定できないmagnetypo
- 2021-07-28★★★★★Thats all I need584
- 2021-02-16★★★★★必要最小限で最適なSEOプラグインchildsview
- 2021-02-10★★★★★Just rightishitaka
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to SEO SIMPLE PACK
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
436
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
511
Prior 7-day baseline
983
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
29,931
Mean release-day peak (30d)
937
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-14.7%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.16
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.64 → 4.62★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered