BoostMaster WordPress Plugin

The BoostMaster WordPress plugin connects your WordPress site to BoostMaster and does the site-side work for you, without editing files: it publishes your IndexNow key, adds the priority sitemap line to robots.txt, puts real modification dates in your sitemap and tells search engines about new and updated posts the moment you publish.

What it does

• Serves your IndexNow key. WordPress answers the key file at your domain, so Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver and Yep accept notifications for your pages. Nothing is written into your web root.
• Adds the priority sitemap line to robots.txt. Search engines accept a sitemap hosted elsewhere when your own robots.txt points to it. The plugin adds that one line.
• Puts real dates in your sitemap. The sitemap that ships with WordPress leaves out lastmod, so a page you changed looks the same as one you never touched. The plugin fills it in from the post's own modified date.
• Tells BoostMaster when you publish or update. New and changed addresses are queued and sent a few seconds later, so saving a post stays fast.
• Puts a summary on your WordPress dashboard. How many pages are tracked, how many Google has indexed, how many are still waiting and how many are blocked, without leaving WordPress. The figures are fetched twice a day in the background.
• Walks you through the setup. One screen shows what is already done, what BoostMaster still has to confirm from the outside, and the exact text to paste when your server needs it done by hand.
• Gives you a "latest posts" block. Search engines find pages through links. Use the shortcode [boostmaster_recent_posts count="5" title="New posts"] on a page that is crawled often.

Installation

1. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins → Add New, search for "BoostMaster", install and activate it. You can also download it from the WordPress.org directory.
2. In your BoostMaster dashboard, go to Settings → API and create a key with the "Connect and set up a site", "Read projects" and "Add pages" permissions.
3. In WordPress, go to Settings → BoostMaster, paste the key and press "Connect site".
4. Press "Check setup". BoostMaster reads your key file and your robots.txt from the outside and reports what it found.

What data is sent?

The plugin talks to the BoostMaster service only after you paste an API key. When you connect, it sends your site address and name; after that, the addresses of posts you publish or update. Your API key is sent with every request so the service knows which account the site belongs to. Nothing is sent about your visitors. Details are in our privacy policy.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a paid plan?

No. Connecting a site, publishing the IndexNow key and sending new addresses work on the free trial as well. Paid features are separate and are always shown in the dashboard before anything is charged.

Does the plugin write files into my site?

No. The key file is answered by WordPress at request time, and the robots.txt line is added through the WordPress filter. If your site has a real robots.txt file on disk, the plugin tells you to add the line to that file yourself.

Do I have to connect Search Console?

No, and most of the plugin works without it. Your sitemaps are read on a schedule, your pages are crawled and diagnosed, and new or changed pages are reported to the search engines that accept notifications. Search Console is needed only for Google's own answer to "did you index this page?".

I use Yoast, Rank Math or another SEO plugin.

That is fine. Those plugins write their own sitemap with lastmod dates, so BoostMaster leaves the sitemap to them and everything else keeps working. Some SEO plugins rewrite robots.txt instead of adding to it. BoostMaster adds its line last so it survives; if it still gets dropped, the settings screen tells you and gives you the line to paste into your SEO plugin's robots.txt editor.

Will publishing get slower?

No. Addresses are queued and sent by WP-Cron a few seconds later. If a send fails, the queue is kept and tried again.

How do I stop sending data?

In Settings → BoostMaster, turn off publish notifications, or press "Disconnect" to remove the key from the site.

What it does not do

No one can guarantee that a search engine will index a page, and this plugin does not claim to. It uses the official, documented channels only: IndexNow, sitemaps and the notifications your own site is allowed to send.