Is WP Meta SEO still maintained?

Not through WordPress.org, and the directory cannot tell you more than that. It closed the WP Meta SEO listing on 17 June 2026, 3 months ago, and gives the reason as "Author Request": the author asked for it to be withdrawn. Some authors do that when a plugin ends and some when they move it to their own site and carry on, so the listing alone does not say which. What is certain is that WordPress can no longer install or update it from the directory.

The evidence

Every figure below is read from the WordPress.org plugin directory. Nothing here is our assessment of the code.

Maintenance signals for WP Meta SEO, from the WordPress.org directory
Directory statusWithdrawn at the author's request, not available from WordPress.org
Closed on17 June 2026 (3 months ago)
Reason given“Author Request”
ClosureStated as permanent in the directory's notice
Read from the directory12 October 2026

Once a listing is closed the directory stops publishing its release date, tested-up-to version, install count and support figures, so the release details below come from the plugin's code archive instead.

What its code archive shows

WP Meta SEO’s last release, from its WordPress.org code archive
Last releaseVersion 4.5.18 (tagged 28 July 2025)
Tested up toWordPress 6.8
RequiresWordPress 4.7, PHP 5.6
Releases in the archive120
Read fromplugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-meta-seo, 12 October 2026

The directory keeps a closed plugin's code readable, and the last release tagged in WP Meta SEO's archive is version 4.5.18, tagged on 28 July 2025. That is 10 months before the listing was closed. A site still running it has a copy at least 14 months old.

That release declared itself tested up to WordPress 6.8, 3 releases behind the current WordPress 7.1.3. It asked for WordPress 4.7 and PHP 5.6 or later. The WordPress releases since then have run against code its author has not re-tested, and no fix can reach it through the directory.

The archive holds 120 tagged releases, the oldest still there tagged on 5 February 2015. Its last release described the plugin in one line as: “WP Meta SEO gives you the control over all your SEO optimization. Bulk SEO content and image SEO, on page content check, 404 and redirect” That is the job something else has to take over on any site still running it.

Tag dates, almost always the day a release shipped. The count is the tags left, not every release ever made.

What these signals mean

A closed plugin is not a quiet one. A quiet plugin is still listed, and its author could ship a fix tomorrow. A closed one gets no update however long you wait, and the dashboard shows no sign of that: a plugin with no update available looks exactly like one that is up to date.

An author asking for a listing to be closed is not a verdict on the code, and it is not the plugin team acting against the plugin. Authors withdraw plugins when they stop maintaining them, when a product is discontinued, and sometimes when they move distribution somewhere else. The reason alone does not say which of those happened, and the author's own site is the place to find out.

The directory's closure notice says the closure is permanent, so the listing is not expected to return. The closure is recent, so a copy installed before it may still be the latest version the author ever released, but nothing newer can arrive through WordPress from here.

What to do about it

Start with the author's own website. A withdrawn listing sometimes means the plugin carries on elsewhere, sold or distributed directly, and sometimes means it has ended. Which of those is true decides whether you are changing where updates come from or replacing the plugin, and only the author can tell you.

Do not start by deleting it. Find out what depends on it, back up the database as well as the files, and test the replacement on a staging copy first, because deleting a plugin can run an uninstall routine that drops its tables.

The directory stops publishing a closed plugin's category, so this page does not suggest alternatives. Any replacement has to do the job that WP Meta SEO's last release, version 4.5.18, describes above. That release was tested against WordPress 6.8; one worth moving to is tested against 7.1.3 and still listed in the directory.

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Questions

Why was WP Meta SEO removed from the WordPress plugin directory?

The directory gives the reason as "Author Request", quoted as it appears. That means the author asked for the listing to be closed, not that the plugin team acted against it. It does not say why they asked, so the author is the only source for that.

Will WP Meta SEO keep working if it is already installed?

Usually, for a while. Closing a listing removes the plugin from the directory; it does not reach into sites and switch anything off. What stops is updates, and they stopped on 17 June 2026: WordPress cannot offer an update for a plugin that is not listed, so the installed copy is frozen at whatever version it reached, which can be no later than 4.5.18, the last release in its archive. The dashboard gives no sign of that, because a plugin with no available update looks exactly like one that is up to date.

Could WP Meta SEO come back to the directory?

Not on the directory's own account: its closure notice says the closure is permanent. If the plugin carries on anywhere, it will be outside WordPress.org, and updates from there do not arrive through the normal dashboard route unless the author supplies their own updater.

Is WP Meta SEO a security risk?

We do not know, and nothing on this page is a security finding. Vulnerability data for WordPress plugins sits behind paid commercial APIs, and guessing at it from a version number either alarms people about plugins that are fine or implies that everything unflagged has been checked and is safe. Both are worse than saying nothing. What this page reports is maintenance: when the plugin last shipped, which WordPress version its author last tested against, and whether the directory still lists it. Those are facts the directory publishes, and they are what predicts whether a plugin will still work after the next core release.

Read from the WordPress.org plugin directory on 12 October 2026. We report maintenance signals only, and never claim a plugin is insecure. All plugins we cover.