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JPKCom Rank Math Options — Guide & Tips

Use JPKCom Rank Math Options to unlock the robots.txt/.htaccess editors, remove Rank Math credits and disable telemetry — including on multisite, with zero configuration.

JPKCom Rank Math Options is a lightweight companion plugin for Rank Math SEO. It unlocks features hidden by default — chiefly the robots.txt/.htaccess editors on multisite — and trims a few Rank Math defaults most operators end up disabling anyway. There is nothing to set up: activating it is enough.

Guide

Requirements

  • WordPress 6.9 or newer (tested up to 7.0)
  • PHP 8.3 or newer
  • Rank Math SEO must be installed and active — the plugin header declares Requires Plugins: seo-by-rank-math, so WordPress prevents activation otherwise
  • Network-ready: can be network-activated on multisite and takes effect on every site

Installation

  1. Upload the jpkcom-rank-math-options directory to /wp-content/plugins/, or install the ZIP via Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
  2. Activate the plugin (network-wide on multisite) under Plugins → Installed Plugins.
  3. Make sure Rank Math SEO is active.
  4. Open Rank Math → General Settings → Edit robots.txt or Edit .htaccess — the editors are now available.

Configuration

There is nothing to configure — activating it is enough. If you want to disable the behaviour temporarily without deactivating the plugin, you can unhook the filter from another plugin or your functions.php:

remove_filter( 'rank_math/can_edit_file', '__return_true' );

Tips & Tricks

  • Why the editors are missing in the first place: Rank Math hides the robots.txt/.htaccess editors on multisite (and when the RANK_MATH_ADVANCED_MODE constant is not set) for safety. The plugin opts your installation back in via the official rank_math/can_edit_file filter (returning true).
  • Cleaner source & sitemap: The "Powered by Rank Math" HTML comment in the frontend and the "Generator" line in the XML sitemap are removed.
  • Telemetry off: Rank Math's anonymous usage tracking is forced off at the option layer (via an option_rank-math-options-general filter that rewrites the usage_tracking key to off on read — the only reliable hook point).
  • Spec-compliant llms.txt: Rank Math prepends an intro paragraph to the generated llms.txt; the plugin strips it so the file starts with the site's H1 as the spec expects.
  • Tidy admin bar: The Rank Math menu node is removed from the WordPress admin bar (frontend and backend).
  • No database writes: The plugin only hooks into Rank Math filters — no UI, no options, no database entries of its own.

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