- Installing SureRank
- SureRank Onboarding Guide
- How to Activate Your SureRank Pro License
- SureRank Dashboard Overview
- General Settings
- Advanced Settings
- Search Console – SureRank
- Managing URL Redirection in SureRank
- SureRank Feature Management – Quick Guide
- Robots.txt Feature in SureRank
- How to Migrate from Rank Math to SureRank
- How to Migrate from Yoast to SureRank
- How to Migrate from SEOPress to SureRank SEO
- How to Migrate from Squirrly SEO to SureRank
- How to Migrate from All in One SEO (AIOSEO) to SureRank
- How to Migrate from Slim SEO to SureRank
- Migration Failed: How to Diagnose
- After You Migrate: Verification and Cleanup Checklist
- Sitemaps in SureRank
- How to Enable Video Sitemap in SureRank Pro
- How to Enable the News Sitemap in SureRank
- How to Show the HTML Sitemap on Your Site in SureRank Pro
- How to Regenerate the Sitemap After Excluding a Post Type in SureRank
- Change the Sitemap URL in SureRank
- How to Enable Author Sitemap in SureRank
- How to Exclude Post Types from the Sitemap
- How to Enable the Author Sitemap and Why Authors Are Excluded (Pro)
- Editing Meta Box
- SureRank – Page SEO ChecksÂ
- Enabling Page SEO Checks in WordPress
- Image Alt Text – Automatic Optimization
- Link Manager
- Using the SureRank Front-End Meta Box
- How to Edit the Meta Title and Description for a Single Page or Post
- Controlling Indexing with Robot InstructionsÂ
- How to Set Global Title and Description Templates with Variables
- How to Set a Canonical URL and How the Canonical Field Works
- How to Fix WWW and Non-WWW Version Redirects to Improve Your SEO
- How to Fix: No H1 Heading Found on Your Homepage
- How to Fix Missing H2 Headings on Your Homepage
- Re-run Checks Button in SureRank
- Fix Critical Error: Another SEO Plugin Detected in SureRank
- Fix Warning: Site Tagline Is Not Set in SureRank
- How to Fix: Robots.txt Contains Invalid Rules in SureRank
- How to Fix Multiple SEO Plugins Detected on Your Site
- How to Fix: Homepage is Not Indexable by Search Engines
- Warning: Homepage Does Not Contain Internal Links
- How to Fix: Search Engine Title is Missing on the Page
- Page Level SEO: Broken Links Detected
- How to Fix Missing Alt Text on Images
- How to Fix Page URLs That Are Too Long
- Page Level SEO Warning: No Links Found on This Page
- Page Level SEO Warning: No Images or Videos Found
- Page Level SEO Warning: Missing Search Engine Description
- Page Level SEO Warning: No Subheadings Found on This Page
- Page Level SEO Warning: Canonical Tag is Missing
- Page Level SEO Warning: Open Graph Tags Missing
- What is Google Search Console and how does SureRank use it?
- Recommended Image Sizes
- SureRank – SEO Check Severity Guide
- Using SureRank with Other SEO Plugins – Best Practices
- Import/Export Feature – SureRank Plugin
- What is llms.txt and Does SureRank Support It?
- Does SureRank offer a keyword rank-tracking feature?
- Does SureRank Come With Google Analytics Integration?
- Email Summary in SureRank
- SureRank Role Manager
- Using the Google Indexing API with SureRank
- Managing Third-Party Integrations in SureRank
- Miscellaneous Settings in SureRank
- Setting Per-Author SEO for Author Archive Pages
- Search Engines Not Indexing Your WordPress Site?
- Sitemap Not Showing in SureRank
- Fixing robots.txt Issues in SureRank
- Why a Working Link Is Flagged as Broken (404)
- Which Pages Are Included in Your SureRank Sitemap
- Fixing False SEO Audit Warnings Caused by Caching
- Fixing “Couldn’t Fetch” for Your Sitemap in Google Search Console
- Troubleshooting: Favicon and Logo in Google Search Results (Supported Formats and CDN Gotchas)
- Customize XML Sitemap Top Bar with surerank_sitemap_top_bar_data
- Analyze ACF Field Content with SureRank
- Preserve Modified Date During Updates surerank_freeze_modified_date
- Customize Final Title Tag surerank_final_title
- Customize Post Type Archive Title Output surerank_post_type_archive_title
- Customize Archive Page Title with surerank_archive_title
- CustomizeModify the Search Results Page Title surerank_search_title
- Customizing the 404 Page Title surerank_not_found_title
- Customizing the Title Separator surerank_title_separator
- How to Remove Archive Prefixes from Titles Using SureRank
Miscellaneous Settings in SureRank
SureRank’s Miscellaneous settings page holds three independent, unrelated toggles that don’t fit anywhere else in the plugin. Here’s what each one does.
Where to Find It
Go to SureRank → Tools → Miscellaneous.
Contribute to SureRank
What it does: Shares anonymous usage data with the SureRank team (how the plugin is used, which features are active) to help prioritize fixes and new features.
- Off by default until the customer opts in.
- No personal or site content is involved. It’s usage/feature data, not post content or customer data.
- Can be turned off at any time with no effect on plugin functionality.
Headless REST API
What it does: Exposes a site’s SEO metadata (titles, descriptions, social tags, and schema) through a public REST endpoint, so a headless front-end (e.g. a separate React/Next.js site pulling content from WordPress) can render the same SEO output SureRank would normally print in <head>.
- Off by default.
- Only relevant for sites using WordPress as a headless CMS, meaning the actual front-end the visitor sees is a different application, not WordPress’s own theme.
- Turning this on does not change anything on a normal (non-headless) WordPress site. The SEO tags in <head> are printed by SureRank either way. This setting only adds the extra public endpoint for external apps to fetch that same data.
- If a customer doesn’t know what “headless” means, they almost certainly don’t need this on.
Delete Plugin Data on Uninstall
What it does: Controls whether uninstalling (not just deactivating) SureRank also permanently deletes its data: settings, schema, sitemap data, per-post and per-term SEO fields, and any scheduled tasks.
- Off by default. SureRank’s data is preserved if the plugin is removed and reinstalled later.
- If turned on, uninstalling the plugin from the Plugins screen removes all SureRank data permanently. This cannot be undone.
- Deactivating the plugin never deletes data, regardless of this setting. Only a full uninstall (delete) does, and only if this toggle is on.
Steps for the Customer
- Go to SureRank → Tools → Miscellaneous.
- Turn Contribute to SureRank on/off based on their preference. No functional impact either way.
- Only turn on Headless REST API if they’re running a headless/decoupled front-end that needs to fetch SEO data via the API.
- Leave Delete Plugin Data on Uninstall off unless they specifically want a clean removal with no leftover data. Warn them this is permanent before they enable it and uninstall.
Key Takeaways
If a customer accidentally deleted their SEO data by uninstalling with this toggle on, there’s no way to recover it from within SureRank.
Check whether they have a recent site backup.
This isn’t a bug. It’s the intended, permanent effect of the setting.
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