What is the Difference between MPG Free and MPG PRO?
The Multiple Pages Generator plugin is one of the most valuable tools for boosting your website's visits through SEO implications. MPG free and PREMIUM offer many features, but the main difference between these two is that the free plan has a limit of only one template. Also, the schedule source import is available only in the PREMIUM version.
Which product suits you better, Free or PREMIUM?
🧰 Tools Needed:
- The Multiple Pages Generator plugin - more details about installing and options can be found here.
- The Multiple Pages Generator PREMIUM plugin - more details about installing and options can be found here.
🗂 Features
The MPG plugin has six panels with options ( Main, Shortcode, Sitemap, Spintax, Cache, Logs ), but only the Main panel contains differences between the free and premium versions:
| Features | MPG | MPG Pro |
Template |
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| Import/Export functionality Allows importing and exporting existing MPG projects |
No | Yes |
| Duplicate/Clone functionality Allows duplicate/clone existing MPG project by a single click |
No | Yes |
| Conditional logic for visibility Supports conditional logic in project templates, allowing content to be rendered or hidden based on specified conditions in both Gutenberg and Elementor. |
No | Yes |
| Entity type From here you can choose pages or posts, that will be generated by MPG. |
Yes | Yes |
| Template Depending on the entity type, here will be displayed in the dropdown all those pages / posts, from which you can select one that will become a template for the ones generated now. |
Yes | Yes |
| Apply if URL contains This works like a filter, deciding what pages from your list will contain the new template, depending on what the URL contains. |
Yes | Yes |
| Exclude template from crawlers and site loops Make the template invisible to the site crawlers and within the website. |
Yes | Yes |
| Participate in the search? This option should be enabled to find the generated pages within your website during the search of your website. |
Yes | Yes |
Source - Direct Link |
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| 50 Rows limit Limit to fetch only the first 50 rows of a source file for page generation |
Yes | No |
| Direct link to source file Insert the file link ( Google Sheets or CSV ) to generate data for the MPG pages. It needs to have public access. |
Yes | Yes |
| Worksheet ID Copy and paste the worksheet ID from Google Sheets or leave it as it is. |
Yes | Yes |
| Set periodicity Set how often you want the project to check and sync with the content of the source file. |
- | Yes [Business & Agency only] |
| First Fetch Date / Time Pick the first date and time for the fetching process. |
- | Yes [Business & Agency only] |
| Notification You can choose to receive notifications related to the fetching process ( Do not notify, Errors only, or Every Time ). |
- | Yes [Business & Agency only] |
| Notification Email Insert the email address where the notifications will be sent, by default it will be the admin email. |
- | Yes [Business & Agency only] |
| Updating the modified date of generated pages Option to update the modified date of generated pages |
No | Yes [Business & Agency only] |
| Data preview | Yes | Yes |
Source - Upload File |
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| Choose .csv, .xlsx or .ods file from your computer | Yes | Yes |
| Data preview | Yes | Yes |
URL Generation |
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| URL Generation You can select from the dropdown list the shortcode that would create a great URL. It will be added to the URL format template. |
Yes | Yes |
| URL Format Template You can use here any combination of shortcodes, plain text, with separators. |
Yes | Yes |
| Default separator | Yes | Yes |
| Trailing slash settings You can choose whether to display the trailing slash (the last / ) or not. |
Yes | Yes |
| URL preview Check what the URLs look like and make some changes if there's needed. |
Yes | Yes |
📝 Note: For a detailed description of each of the above settings, check this doc.
⚙️Settings
The MPG plugin has two types of settings that contain specific options: Advanced Settings and Search Settings.
| Features | MPG | MPG Pro |
Advanced Settings |
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| Update tables structure Allows you to refresh the MPG tables, similar to the disabling / enabling process of the plugin. |
Yes | Yes |
| Page Builders Compatibility it's recommended if the generated pages are not displayed correctly ( there is no header, footer, non - replaced shortcodes ). |
Yes | Yes |
| WordPress base path Recommended if there are problems with the sitemaps due to the constant change of the ABSPATH used for security reasons. |
Yes | Yes |
| Cache hooks Installing different plugins, builders, or different versions of WordPress may cause the MPG settings, and from this section, you can change the options to solve the issues. |
Yes | Yes |
Search Settings |
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| Single search result template This option requires the search page of the website, which is available if you add ?s=string at the end of the URL. From there, you should copy the HTML code and replace the static text with shortcodes presented under the textbox ( Supported shortcodes ). |
Yes | Yes |
| Text before MPG search results You can add a certain piece of text to appear before MPG search results. |
Yes | Yes |
| Search results block selector You should set the selector that will be used as a container for the results generated by MPG. |
Yes | Yes |
| Is it case sensitive search? Check this if you want your search to be case-sensitive. |
Yes | Yes |
| Featured image header name Set a header name for the places where there is located image URL to be set to each search result. |
Yes | Yes |
| Excerpt length Set a maximum of words to be displayed in the posts of the search results. |
Yes | Yes |
| Max results count on a page Set how many pages should be displayed on a search result page. |
Yes | Yes |
💌 Support
| Features | MPG | MPG Pro (Personal) |
MPG Pro (Bussiness) |
MPG Pro (Agency) |
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| Support | - | Yes ( for 1 site ) | Yes ( for 5 sites ) | Yes ( for unlimited sites ) |
| Priority support | - | - | Yes | Yes + Live Chat support |
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