Ichiban - SEO control center

[maximus]

Hi everyone,

I've been timing my bigger releases with the lunar cycle — new moon for launches, full moon for milestones. Collections shipped on the full moon two weeks ago. Tonight the moon is invisible. The module isn't. 🌑

GitHub: https://github.com/mxmsmnv/Ichiban

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Status: 0.1.0-alpha. The module is usable on real sites. Start on staging with a database backup.

Why Ichiban?

Ichiban (一番) is Japanese for "number one" — fitting for an SEO module whose entire purpose is to help your pages rank first.

Why another SEO module?

There hasn't been a comprehensive SEO module for ProcessWire for a while. Yoast and RankMath solve this for WordPress — both charge $59–$99/year for the full feature set. Ichiban is MIT, free, and built specifically for ProcessWire.

What it does

Page field — five-tab editor per page: Meta (Google-style SERP preview), Social (OG + Twitter/X cards), Schema, Sitemap, Advanced. Render with echo $page->seo; or enable auto-injection.

Source expressions — resolve field values dynamically:

title|truncate:70
field:summary|truncate:160
{splash}

Admin sections:

• Dashboard — battery-style site score, health stats, GSC highlights, indexing issues
• Bulk Editor — edit all meta titles/descriptions in one table, grouped by Critical/Warnings/Healthy
• Audit — site-wide SEO rule checks, priority cards, CSV export, hookable rule system
• Redirects — 301/302/307/410/451, regex rules, hit counts, CSV import/export, auto-redirects on slug change
• Insights — Google Search Console OAuth, metrics, top pages/queries, countries, devices, URL Inspection scan
• Backlinks — Moz API snapshots, cached history, links/domains/anchors views
• Schemas — database-backed Schema.org builder, map properties to PW fields
• Revisions — tracked SEO field changes with restore
• Cleanup — remove low-value head tags, block spam crawl queries
• Migration — SeoMaestro → Ichiban converter (15 fields mapped)
• Reports — scheduled SEO email reports, DOCX export
• AI — OpenRouter-backed SEO prompt workspace with Context module integration
• XML Sitemap — built-in generator with hreflang, image sitemap, LazyCron auto-regeneration
• IndexNow — one-click key generation and verification
• robots.txt / llms.txt — dynamic serving (companion to RobotsTxt module)

Known alpha limits

• GSC requires a Google OAuth client setup — not plug-and-play
• Moz free API quota is very small — refresh intentionally
• Schema Builder is alpha — test before production
• Auto head injection can conflict with existing theme SEO tags — use manual echo $page->seo; first
• SeoMaestro migration is experimental — always backup before running
• Disable debug mode before production

Requirements: ProcessWire 3.0.200+, PHP 8.1+

MIT License — free, no Pro tier, no upsell.

[Peter Knight]

Congrats Maximus. Looks like a really impressive set of SEO tools. 😀

[maximus]

Thanks for the kind words, Peter! This actually gave me the push to keep going - after several iterations I had almost given up on building something substantial, because every popular CMS already has mature SEO tooling.

I went through Yoast, RankMath, SEOmatic, and a bunch of others, took notes on what worked and what didn't, and tried to bring the best of it to ProcessWire. Still a long way to go, but the foundation is there.

Looking forward to seeing SEO NEO when it's ready too - good SEO tooling for ProcessWire benefits everyone!

[maximus]

Also checked BuiltWith — there are 22,000+ live ProcessWire sites out there. Would love to see Ichiban running on as many of them as possible someday. 🙂

[Peter Knight]

54 minutes ago, maximus said:

Also checked BuiltWith — there are 22,000+ live ProcessWire sites out there. Would love to see Ichiban running on as many of them as possible someday. 🙂

True - that would be amazing.
But also, think about 22,000 support tickets? 🫣

[maximus]

That's why GitHub Issues exist. 😄