SEO: meta fields, sitemap & redirects

SEO in Devani is per-page fields, not a plugin. Every page and post carries its own metadata, edited in the admin's SEO editor.

Per-page fields

• Meta title & description — what search results show. If you leave them empty, sensible defaults derive from the page title.
• Keywords — supported for the few engines that still care.
• Canonical URL — point duplicates at the original.
• Robots — per-page indexing control (e.g. noindex a thank-you page).
• Open Graph & Twitter cards — control exactly how the page looks when shared, including the share image. If unset, they fall back to the meta title/description and featured image.
• JSON-LD schema — structured data blocks (article, product, local business) attached per page.

What maintains itself

• Sitemap — /sitemap.xml regenerates from your published content. Drafts are excluded automatically.
• robots.txt — served with sane defaults.
• Alt text — with AltText connected, every image in your library gets accurate, specific alt text written automatically. Better accessibility and better image SEO with zero manual writing.

301 redirects

The redirect manager maps old paths to new URLs with proper 301s (or 302/307/308 if you need them). Use it whenever you change a slug, retire a page, or migrate from another CMS — it preserves link equity and keeps old bookmarks working. Redirects match the path with or without a trailing slash.

Performance is SEO

Core Web Vitals are a ranking input, and Devani's architecture works in your favor: server-rendered clean HTML, no database queries, images served pre-sized in WebP from a CDN, and fonts loaded locally. Most sites migrating from a plugin-heavy CMS see their scores jump without doing anything.