u/Rguedes80

I've been exploring Astro and one thing that keeps coming up in discussions is the idea of "total SEO freedom."

In WordPress, most SEO work depends on plugins like Yoast or RankMath. A skilled dev can bypass them, but the ecosystem pushes you toward that layer of abstraction.

In Astro, my understanding is that everything is code by default: meta tags, canonicals, structured data, robots.txt, sitemap. No plugin standing between you and the HTML output.

My questions:

• Is that a fair comparison or am I oversimplifying?
• Are there any SEO use cases where WordPress still has a clear advantage over Astro?
• What's your go-to setup for SEO in Astro projects?