UTSSites Auto FAQ Schema vs Asteris Blocks

UTSSites Auto FAQ Schema is the most intelligent, fully automatic FAQ schema plugin for WordPress. While other plugins make you manually enter every question and answer, this plugin reads your existing content — headings, paragraphs, bold text — and automatically generates perfect Google-ready FAQPage JSON-LD schema in seconds. Install. Activate. Done. No shortcodes. No manual work. No coding required. ⚡ Zero config. Auto detect. Unlimited FAQs. Google-ready schema. Instant rich snippets. 🏆 Why Choose UTSSites Auto FAQ Schema? ✅ Zero manual work — no questions to enter, no shortcodes to add ✅ 3 smart detection strategies — headings, paragraphs, bold text ✅ 40+ question patterns — detects any natural question format ✅ Unlimited FAQs — no artificial limits in the free version ✅ 100% Google compliant — passes Rich Results Test every time ✅ Zero performance impact — no JS, no API calls, no slowdowns ✅ Free forever — GPL open source, no license keys needed ⚡ How It Works — Fully Automatic Every time a visitor loads your page, the plugin silently: Checks eligibility — Is this post type enabled? Is this page excluded? Is schema active for this post? Scans your content — Runs 3 detection strategies in priority order Deduplicates — Removes duplicate questions found across strategies Applies limits — Trims to your configured FAQ limit and answer length Injects schema — Outputs valid FAQPage JSON-LD into your head Google indexes it — Rich snippet dropdowns appear in search results The entire process adds less than 1ms to page load. Truly invisible. 🔎 3 Smart Detection Strategies Strategy 1 — H2 to H5 Heading Detection (Highest Priority) Scans all question-style headings in your content. Any H2, H3, H4, or H5 that ends with “?” or contains a question word is automatically detected. The paragraph immediately following becomes the answer. You choose which heading levels to include from Settings. Strategy 2 — Paragraph Tag Detection No heading structure needed. If any paragraph contains a sentence starting with a question word and ending with “?”, the question is extracted automatically — and the next paragraph becomes the answer. Perfect for blog articles and natural prose. Strategy 3 — Bold / Strong Tag Detection Detects questions inside strong or b tags. Perfect for FAQ-style content where questions are bolded and answers follow in the next paragraph. ✨ Complete Free Feature List Detection & Core H2, H3, H4, H5 heading detection — choose levels individually Paragraph tag sentence detection Bold / Strong tag detection 40+ question word patterns — How, What, Why, When, Where, Who, Which, Can, Could, Is, Are, Was, Will, Should, Does, Did, Tell me, Explain, Define, Describe, Give me, Show me, and more Detect questions without “?” — detect question-word headings even without question mark Hash-based smart deduplication — identical questions appear only once Answer auto-extraction — next sibling element becomes the answer automatically Schema Output Valid FAQPage JSON-LD schema — schema.org fully compliant Passes Google Rich Results Test — 100% validation Injected into head via wp_head hook Proper JSON encoding with special character escaping Configurable max and min answer length Settings & Control Global enable / disable toggle Post type selection — Posts, Pages, Products, Custom Post Types Heading level toggles — H2, H3, H4, H5 individually Paragraph detection toggle Bold detection toggle Unlimited FAQs per page — no artificial cap Max answer length in characters Min answer length filter — skip very short answers Exclude specific post/page IDs Custom question patterns — add your own Per-Post Control Sidebar meta box in every post and page editor Per-post schema disable toggle Per-post custom FAQ limit override Live FAQ preview — see detected questions before publishing Full JSON-LD preview per post Live Schema Preview Bulk preview of recent posts in Settings page FAQ List tab — human-readable question and answer list JSON-LD tab — exact raw schema code injected into page head FAQ count badge Compatibility WordPress 5.5 to 6.9 PHP 7.4+ Gutenberg Block Editor Classic Editor Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, Beaver Builder WooCommerce product pages Rank Math SEO — conflict-safe Yoast SEO — conflict-safe WPML, Polylang — multilingual ready All major caching plugins Multisite compatible No external dependencies — zero external API calls GPL-2.0+ open source 📈 Why FAQ Schema Matters for Your SEO Google displays FAQ rich snippets for content with valid FAQPage schema. These expandable dropdowns appear directly below your search listing: 2 to 5x more SERP visibility — your listing dominates the page Higher Click-Through Rate — more screen space means more clicks Lower bounce rate — users who click already know what to expect Competitive advantage — most sites still don’t use FAQ schema 💎 Pro Version — For Serious SEO Professionals 👉 View All Pro Plans & Pricing FAQ Management (Pro) Manual FAQ Builder with Drag & Drop Reorder Custom Answer Override per FAQ Export / Import FAQs in JSON format Broken FAQ Detector Answer Length Optimizer Smart FAQ Score — Excellent / Good / Fair / Poor rating FAQ Templates Library — 6 niche templates AI-Powered Features (Pro) AI FAQ Suggestions — Google Gemini AI FAQ Suggestions — Groq (Llama) AI FAQ Suggestions — OpenAI GPT-4 Tone-Aware AI — Medical, Legal, Tech, eCommerce AI FAQ Quality Check PAA Suggester — Google Autocomplete Long-tail Question Suggester Advanced Schema Types (Pro) HowTo Schema with HowToStep support QAPage Schema Video FAQ Schema — YouTube integration Article + FAQ Combined Schema Schema Expiry Date Conditional Schema Rules per category or tag One-Click Google Rich Result Test Schema Validator in-plugin Rank Math / Yoast Conflict Handler Integrations & Analytics (Pro) Google Search Console Integration Analytics Dashboard + CSV Export FAQ A/B Testing Gutenberg FAQ Accordion Block Elementor FAQ Widget FAQ Shortcode + Widget WooCommerce Advanced Integration REST API (4 endpoints) Zapier / Webhook White Label — Full Rebrand Client PDF Reports Multi-site Network Support Priority Support + All Future Updates Pricing Starter — $19/yr — 1 site Pro — $49/yr — 3 sites (Most Popular) Agency — $99/yr — Unlimited sites Lifetime — $199 one-time — Unlimited sites, all future features forever 👉 Get Pro Today

50 free Gutenberg blocks. Full-featured, and free forever. Asteris Blocks gives you a polished, alphabetised block library covering everything you need to build landing pages, blog posts, and product pages. Every block is complete — nothing is locked behind a paywall, and the plugin never nags you to upgrade. What you get 50 blocks — Hero, Pricing Table, FAQ Accordion (with schema), Recipe Card (with rich results), Comparison Table, Countdown, Cookie Notice, Code Block with syntax highlighter, Image Hotspots, Map (OpenStreetMap), QR Code, Before/After Slider, Table of Contents, and 37 more. 12 pre-built patterns — Hero + Stats, Pricing 3-tier, Full landing page, and more — one-click insert. 60 block style variations — Hero (minimal / split / gradient), Feature Grid (cards / icons-only / bordered / numbered), Pricing (classic / minimal / bordered / highlighted), and dozens more. Newsletter integrations — Mailchimp, MailerLite, ConvertKit, Brevo. API keys encrypted at rest (AES-256-CBC). See “External services” below. Schema.org markup — FAQ + Recipe + AggregateRating JSON-LD validates on Google Rich Results Test. HTML anchor IDs on every block — link anywhere, jump anywhere. Native typography + colour controls on every text-bearing block. 100/100 Lighthouse accessibility on Kadence, GeneratePress, Twenty Twenty-Five. What you do NOT get No email-gated features — every one of the 50 blocks is fully functional, free. No nag screens, no pop-ups, no “your trial expires” timers in your editor. No tracking. No cookies. No analytics. The only outbound connections are the optional third-party services listed under “External services” below, and they run only when you add the relevant block to a page or configure a newsletter provider. Asteris Blocks is full-featured and free forever — funded by our other products, not by upselling you. If you ever want premium section patterns and pro-level design controls, there’s an optional Asteris Blocks Pro — but the free plugin is complete on its own and never pushes you toward it. Why Asteris Blocks? Built lean on purpose. Here’s what you actually get: Tiny footprint — about 215 KB zipped, and it loads zero front-end CSS or JavaScript on pages that don’t use an Asteris block. Only loads where it’s used — the shared stylesheet and script enqueue only on pages where one of your Asteris blocks actually renders. No site-wide weight. No JavaScript framework — blocks render in PHP with tiny vanilla-JS view scripts; no React or jQuery dependency dragged onto your front end. 50 blocks, 12 patterns, 60 style variations — all free — nothing gated, no “premium” lock icons cluttering the inserter. Schema built in — FAQ, Recipe and AggregateRating JSON-LD that validates on Google’s Rich Results Test, no separate SEO plugin required. No phone-home — no tracking, no cookies, no analytics on you. The only outbound calls are blocks you choose to add (Map, Video, embeds) — each documented below. Accessibility-minded — 100/100 Lighthouse accessibility on Kadence, GeneratePress and Twenty Twenty-Five. GPL-2.0 — audit it, fork it, keep it forever. No nag screens — Pro is mentioned once, never a pop-up or a disabled button. Asteris Blocks Pro Asteris Blocks is full-featured and free forever. If you want to go further, the optional Asteris Blocks Pro adds: 73 premium section patterns — niche page templates (photographer, music artist, conference, salon, fitness), video + audio sections, premium e-commerce layouts. The control layer — fine-tune any block’s spacing, responsive visibility, hover states, animations and custom CSS, no code required. AI Section Generator — describe a section and get a ready-to-edit block layout. Cloud pattern library — one-click insert from a growing hosted collection. Same lightweight, no-bloat build. See everything included at asterisblocks.com/blocks-pro. External services This plugin can connect to the following third-party services. None of them are contacted unless you add the block that uses them to a page, or configure a newsletter provider. No data is sent to us. Newsletter providers (optional). When you configure a provider and a visitor submits the Newsletter block, the visitor’s email address (and name, if entered) is sent from your server to that provider’s API to create or subscribe the contact. You choose the provider and supply the API key. Mailchimp — terms: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/ — privacy: https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/ MailerLite — terms: https://www.mailerlite.com/terms-of-service — privacy: https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy ConvertKit (Kit) — terms: https://kit.com/terms — privacy: https://kit.com/privacy Brevo — terms: https://www.brevo.com/legal/termsofuse/ — privacy: https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/ OpenStreetMap (Map block). Adding the Map block embeds a map from openstreetmap.org. When a visitor loads the page, their browser requests map tiles from OpenStreetMap. Terms: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use — privacy: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy YouTube / Vimeo (Video block). Adding a video embeds a player from youtube-nocookie.com or player.vimeo.com when a visitor plays it. YouTube terms: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms — Google privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy — Vimeo terms: https://vimeo.com/terms — Vimeo privacy: https://vimeo.com/privacy Spotify / SoundCloud (Embed block). Adding the Embed block with a Spotify or SoundCloud URL embeds that provider’s player. When a visitor loads the page, their browser requests the player and the track/episode you embedded from open.spotify.com or w.soundcloud.com. Only the public URL you paste into the block is sent. Spotify terms: https://www.spotify.com/legal/end-user-agreement/ — Spotify privacy: https://www.spotify.com/legal/privacy-policy/ — SoundCloud terms: https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use — SoundCloud privacy: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy