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✨ Add meta tags to your site
✨ Blazing fast performance
✨ Uses only 60KB of code!

Head Meta Data (HMD) improves the definition and semantic quality of your website by adding <meta> tags to the <head> section of your web pages. Super lightweight, fast, and user-friendly.

🤖 Default Meta Tags

Customize the perfect set of meta tags for your site. For example:

<head>

    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="abstract" content="Obsessive Web Development">
    <meta name="author" content="Jeff Starr (aka Perishable)">
    <meta name="classification" content="Website Development">
    <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Perishable Press">
    <meta name="description" content="Web Development Tutorials">
    <meta name="designer" content="Jeff Starr @ Monzilla Media">
    <meta name="distribution" content="Global">
    <meta name="keywords" content="Web, WordPress, Tutorials">
    <meta name="language" content="en">
    <meta name="publisher" content="Perishable Press">
    <meta name="rating" content="General">
    <meta name="resource-type" content="Document">
    <meta name="revisit-after" content="3">
    <meta name="subject" content="Web Dev + WordPress + Security">
    <meta name="template" content="shapeSpace WordPress Theme">
    <meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

    <!-- plus you can add your own custom tags! -->

</head>

🤖 Dynamic Meta Tags

Use shortcodes to dynamically output SEO meta tags:

<title>[hmd_post_title] | My Awesome Website</title>
<meta name="description" content="[hmd_post_excerpt]">

This outputs dynamic titles and descriptions, useful for SEO. You also can add unique meta tags and markup on specific posts and pages. Check out the Installation tab for more information.

✨ Help bots understand your content better

🤖 Features

Simple and easy to use
Clean, standards-based code
Customize all <meta> tags
Add your own custom <meta> tags
Add custom meta tags on any post or page
Supports X (Twitter) Cards and Facebook Open Graph tags
Supports <meta>, <link>, <base>, <title>, and <style>
Automatically adds tags to the <head> section of all pages
Check out a Live Preview of your meta tags and custom tags
Auto-populates tags using your site’s information
Use shortcodes to include dynamic information
Easily disable any unwanted tags
Lightweight, fast, and secure

✨ Check out Head Meta Pro to define tags for each page view

🤖 Shortcodes

Shortcodes enable you to include dynamic bits of information in your meta tags. Head Meta Data provides the following shortcodes:

[hmd_post_excerpt]  Outputs post excerpt
[hmd_post_date]     Outputs post date
[hmd_post_author]   Outputs post author
[hmd_post_title]    Outputs post title
[hmd_post_cats]     Outputs post categories
[hmd_post_tags]     Outputs post tags
[hmd_site_tagline]  Outputs site tagline
[hmd_site_title]    Outputs site title
[hmd_year]          Outputs current year
[hmd_tab]           Outputs tab space to tag markup

So you can display your own set of custom meta tags exactly as desired. Learn more »

🤖 Pro Features

The Pro version can do everything the free version can do, PLUS:

Define meta tags for Custom Post Types
Define meta tags for each type of page-view (e.g., home, posts, pages, archive, search)
Define tags for Facebook (Open Graph)
Define tags for X (Twitter)
Define Facebook and X tags for each type of page view
40+ advanced shortcut variables like %POST_AUTHOR% and %ARCHIVE_TYPE%
Dedicated “Meta Tags” meta box for posts and pages
Add custom meta tags to any post or page-view
Add custom script and style to any post or page-view
Meta Tags box integrates with SEO plugins
Additional meta tags beyond the free version
Dedicated setting for image_src link tag
Premium support for pro purchases

✨ Level up your meta tags with Head Meta Pro »

🤖 Privacy

This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.

Head Meta Data is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.

🤖 Support Development

I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:

And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:

BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall
Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots
Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys
GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics
Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress
Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms
USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms

Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thanks! 🙂

Screenshots

Head Meta Data: Plugin Settings (panels toggle open/closed)

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🤖 Installation

Upload the plugin to your blog and activate
Visit the settings to configure your options

More info on installing WP plugins

🤖 Shortcodes

Shortcodes enable you to include dynamic bits of information in your meta tags. Head Meta Data provides the following shortcodes:

Single post views

[hmd_post_excerpt]  Outputs post excerpt
[hmd_post_date]     Outputs post date
[hmd_post_author]   Outputs post author
[hmd_post_title]    Outputs post title
[hmd_post_cats]     Outputs post categories
[hmd_post_tags]     Outputs post tags
[hmd_site_tagline]  Outputs site tagline
[hmd_site_title]    Outputs site title
[hmd_year]          Outputs current year
[hmd_tab]           Outputs tab space to tag markup

You can include any of these shortcodes in the “Custom Tags” setting, and the displayed information will reflect the current post being viewed. On non-single page views, like the homepage, archives, and search results, the shortcodes display general information:

Non-single views

[hmd_post_excerpt]  Outputs site description
[hmd_post_date]     Outputs date of latest post
[hmd_post_author]   Outputs site name
[hmd_post_title]    Outputs site description
[hmd_post_cats]     Outputs all view categories
[hmd_post_tags]     Outputs all view tags
[hmd_site_tagline]  Outputs site tagline
[hmd_site_title]    Outputs site title
[hmd_year]          Outputs current year
[hmd_tab]           Outputs tab space to tag markup

✨ Note: Many more shortcut variables available in the Pro version »

You can add custom tags via the “Custom Tags” setting, for example:

<meta name="date" content="[hmd_post_date]">
<meta name="abstract" content="[hmd_post_title]">
<meta name="author" content="[hmd_post_author]">
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright [hmd_year] Awesome Website">

Another example using shortcodes to output meta tags dynamically:

<title>[hmd_post_title] | My Awesome Website</title>
<meta name="description" content="[hmd_post_excerpt]">

That will output dynamic titles and descriptions according to the current post or page view. Very useful for SEO and helping bots to understand your content better.

✨ Feedback and ideas welcome! Reach us anytime via our contact form »

🤖 Custom Meta Tags

To add custom meta tags to the <head> section of any specific post or page:

Visit the “Edit Post” or “Edit Page” screen
Open the “Custom Fields” meta box
Add a new custom field
For the custom field Name, enter head-meta-data
For the custom field Value, enter desired tag/markup
Save changes and done.

You can add as many custom meta tags as desired, no limits.

For example, we could add the following custom <link> tag to any post:

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/android.png" sizes="192x192">

After saving changes that exact code will be included in the post’s <head> section.

You can also use shortcodes in custom meta tags, for example:

<meta name="description" content="[hmd_post_excerpt]">

That will output the post excerpt on single post views, and the site description on archive and home views.

Tip: You can include tab spaces in the custom field value, for example:

        <meta name="description" content="[hmd_post_excerpt]">

Useful for indenting code to align with other meta tags 😉

Tip: By default, any custom tags are displayed after the default meta tags.

Tip: To disable all of the default meta tags on any post, add a new custom field with the name hmd_disable_default. Give it a value of 1. Save changes and done.

✨ Note: The Pro version provides a Meta Tags Box for adding tags to posts and pages

🤖 Upgrades

Visit the WordPress Plugins screen, locate the plugin, and click “Update” 🙂

🤖 Restore Default Options

To restore default plugin options, either uninstall/reinstall the plugin, or visit the plugin settings > Restore Default Options.

🤖 Like the Plugin?

If you like Head Meta Data, please take a moment to give a 5-star rating. It helps to keep development and support going strong. Thank you!

🤖 Uninstalling

This plugin cleans up after itself. All plugin settings will be removed from the WordPress database when the plugin is deleted via the WP Plugins screen. Any custom fields will NOT be removed.

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To ask a question, suggest a feature, or provide feedback, contact me directly.

Reviews

LSBK ሐምሌ 10, 2025

It helped me handling all meta data in an easy way.

jhoujhou ግንቦት 22, 2023

You did a great job

Rod Mitchell ሚያዝያ 16, 2023 5 replies

Hi there just installed your plugin and wonder if someone can help me. I’m running the wp 2021 theme and it won’t let me create a header for my home page. I don’t mean the site title, I mean header for my home page. There’s a box there for it, but it won’t register the title I put in it for some reason. Been told theme doesn’t support that but it’s affecting my SEO, so screming frog spider tells me 🙂