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Simon Kraft

Mini Plugin for Minimalism

I might be the most reluctant SEO plugin user in the known universe. I got to appreciate the craft of people doing actual search engine optimisation over the last couple of years, but in general I cannot be bothered.

For quite some time, I’m also a user of The SEO Framework, a rather minimal SEO plugin for WordPress. It was just released in version 5.2 and only had a single thing that mildly annoyed me: the SEO Bar it added to a post types overview table was a bit to “loud” for my taste. So today I fixed it with the smallest of plugins, reskinning a lovely feature to make it feel a bit more native to the WordPress GUI. Meet Quiet SEO Bar. It’s basically just a couple of lines of CSS in a trench coat.

Screenshots of the WP post overview table with 4 rows of posts each with a title and the SEO bar. On the left we see big boxes with letters in them to indicate (no) issues with different SEO aspects of a post. On the right the revised version of this in slither shapes (mostly circles).
Left: the original The SEO Framework experience; Right: Quiet SEO Bar’s reskin.
16 Oct 2026 Reply
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Time to pitch your CloudFest Hackathon project!

We started preparing CloudFest Hackathon 2027 and I’m back on the team as one of the project mentors. 🎉

And to get things going we opened the call for projects last week. If you want to be leading one of the ten projects at the hackathon in March 2027, now’s the time to pitch your idea. Let me know if you have any questions.

hackathon.cloudfest.com https://hackathon.cloudfest.com/projects-page-2027/ →
05 Oct 2026 Reply