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Omni SEO

Getting Started · 4 min read

Installing Omni SEO

Install the plugin, activate your licence and run the setup wizard on a fresh or existing WordPress site.

Omni SEO installs like any other WordPress plugin. It needs PHP 7.4 or newer and WordPress 6.0 or newer, and it works on single sites and multisite networks.

Before you start

  • Take a database backup. This is good practice for any plugin that writes post meta.
  • If you already run Yoast SEO or Rank Math, keep it active for now — the importer reads from it.
  • Make sure pretty permalinks are enabled, otherwise the sitemap routes will not resolve.

Install from the plugin zip

  1. Download omni-seo.zip from your account.
  2. In WordPress go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
  3. Choose the zip file and select Install Now, then Activate.
  4. Open Omni SEO → Setup Wizard from the admin menu.

Install with WP-CLI

shell
wp plugin install ./omni-seo.zip --activate
wp omniseo licence activate --key=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
wp omniseo sitemap flush

Run only one SEO plugin's output

Two plugins printing title tags and schema will produce duplicate meta. Once you have imported your data, deactivate the old plugin before going live.

The setup wizard

The wizard asks four things: whether the site is a business or a person, which post types should be indexed, whether WooCommerce features should be enabled, and whether to import from an existing SEO plugin. Every answer can be changed later in Omni SEO → Settings.

Verify the install

  • Visit /sitemap_index.xml and confirm the styled index renders.
  • Open any post and confirm the Omni SEO panel appears in the sidebar (block editor) or below the content (classic editor).
  • View the front-end source and confirm a single JSON-LD @graph block is present.

That's it

No modules to unlock and no separate add-ons to install. Everything described in the documentation is active from the moment you activate the plugin.