WordPress Search Console diagnostics & repair

Find what's holding your site back from search visibility. Then repair it — with rollback on every change.

17 automated checks. 7 repair tools. Built from real-world experience managing 9 WordPress sites over 3+ months.

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Why foxglovewp exists

Every SEO tool we tried could tell us what was wrong. None of them could fix it.

Over three months of managing 9 WordPress sites, we kept finding the same problems: sitemap headers telling Google not to index them, canonical tags pointing to the wrong URLs, thousands of pages silently excluded from sitemaps, robots.txt files blocking the CSS and JavaScript Google needs to render pages. We fixed each one manually — hundreds of database rows, mu-plugin deployments, SSH commands — and documented every pattern.

Then we built the plugin that does it automatically.

foxglovewp runs the same 17 diagnostic checks we ran manually across our fleet. When it finds a problem, it doesn't just list it — it offers a repair tool, each with scoped rollback SQL captured before any change is made. If the repair doesn't help, you revert with a single click. No data loss, no guessing, no SSH required.

15,000+ indexing-blocking rows
repaired across our fleet
17 automated diagnostic checks
(growing from real bugs)
7 repair tools
with scoped rollback

This isn't a tool built from a spec sheet. It's built from a debug log — every check in foxglovewp started as a real problem we found on a real site, diagnosed, and repaired. The plugin is the documentation of that work, automated so you don't have to do it by hand.

What it does

Diagnostics that find the problems other tools miss. Repair tools that fix them safely.

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Sitemap Exclusion Detection

Detects the X-Robots-Tag noindex header that silently makes your entire sitemap invisible to Google. Affects most Yoast and Rank Math installations.

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Sitemap Header Repair PRO

Strips the noindex header via output buffer — no file editing required. Survives SEO plugin auto-updates that would otherwise revert the fix.

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Canonical Repair PRO

Repairs null, relative, and stale canonicals in bulk. Every fix captures the exact rows changed so you can revert with one click.

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Sitemap Coverage Analysis

Compares your sitemap URL count against your actual published posts. Catches the silent gap where thousands of pages are excluded from Google's view.

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Robots.txt Asset Block Detection

Detects when robots.txt blocks wp-includes or wp-content directories — preventing Googlebot from rendering your pages. A common misconfiguration we found fleet-wide.

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Cron Reachability Check

Detects when wp-cron.php is blocked by firewalls or server rules — which silently breaks scheduled posts, plugin syncs, and sitemap generation on low-traffic sites.

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IndexNow Push PRO

Notifies Bing, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, Seznam, and Naver when you publish or update content. Gets your pages discovered faster than waiting for organic crawl.

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SEO Drift Detection PRO

Weekly baselines of your pages. Alerts when canonicals change, noindex tags appear, H1s disappear, or titles shift — before they show up as GSC problems.

Full Rollback PRO

Every repair generates rollback SQL scoped to the exact rows it changed. Revert from Fix History at any time. The fix, revert, re-apply cycle produces identical results.

The 17 diagnostic checks

Each one started as a real problem found on a real site.

Diagnostics (Free)

  • Sitemap X-Robots-Tag noindex header
  • Null canonicals in Yoast indexable
  • Stale canonicals (permalink mismatch)
  • is_public NULL (sitemap exclusion)
  • is_robots_noindex NULL (ambiguous robots state)
  • Doubled canonical tags (mu-plugin conflicts)
  • Sitemap URL coverage (sitemap vs published posts)
  • Sitemap dead URL sampling
  • Robots.txt asset blocks (wp-includes, plugins, themes)
  • Cron reachability (wp-cron.php blocked)
  • Canonical redirect loops
  • Stale postmeta canonicals
  • Crawler IP block detection (403 to Googlebot)
  • Sitemap URL Inspection (top pages verdict)
  • Position regression alerts (7-day drops)
  • Daily monitoring with email alerts
  • Weekly SEO health report

Repair Tools (PRO)

  • Sitemap noindex header repair PRO
  • Null canonical repair (bulk, with rollback) PRO
  • is_public repair (bulk sitemap inclusion) PRO
  • is_robots_noindex repair PRO
  • Robots.txt asset block repair PRO
  • Cron reachability repair (mu-plugin deploy) PRO
  • Canonical redirect loop repair PRO

Also included in PRO

  • IndexNow push (5 search engines)
  • SEO drift detection (weekly baselines)
  • Position comparison reports
  • Fix history with one-click revert
  • Sitemap resubmission to Google
  • Yoast and Rank Math support
  • Priority support

Safety first

Every repair is reversible. No change is permanent.

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Pre-fix backup required

The plugin requires you to download a database backup before any repair. A gate screen ensures you've done it before proceeding.

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Scoped rollback SQL

Every repair captures the exact row IDs it changes. Rollback restores only those rows — not a broad undo that could affect unrelated data.

One-click revert

The Fix History page lists every repair with a Revert button. The fix, revert, re-apply cycle has been tested to produce identical results.

How it works

Three steps. No SSH, no file editing, no developer required.

1

Install & Connect

Install the plugin. Connect your Google Search Console account via secure OAuth. Select your property.

2

Diagnose

Run a scan. See a health score (0-100) and a prioritized list of findings — each with a clear explanation of what it means and why it matters.

3

Repair & Monitor

Apply repairs with rollback safety. foxglovewp resubmits your sitemap to Google automatically. Daily monitoring watches for regressions.

Pricing

Free to diagnose. PRO to repair. Cancel anytime.

Free

$0/forever
  • Full diagnostic dashboard
  • 17 automated checks
  • Health score (0-100)
  • Daily monitoring
  • Admin bar health indicator
  • Weekly email report
  • Top queries table
  • Yoast + Rank Math support
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