Connects your WordPress site to AEO Content AI Studio for AI-powered content publishing and 28-criteria site audit reports.
AEO Content AI Studio connects your WordPress site to the AEO Content AI Studio platform for AI-powered content management and AI visibility auditing.
What is AEO? AI Engine Optimization is the practice of structuring web content so AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — can discover, parse, and cite it. While SEO focuses on search rankings, AEO focuses on getting your content into AI-generated answers.
What This Plugin Does
Content Publishing — AEO Content AI Studio reads your existing posts, optimizes them with AI, and publishes updated or new content back to your site via a secure REST API. Categories, tags, featured images, and FAQ schema are handled automatically.
Audit Report — View your site’s AI visibility score directly in the WordPress dashboard. The audit evaluates 28 weighted criteria across three tiers — Content Substance, Content Organization, and Technical Plumbing — scored from 0 to 100. Each criterion includes detailed findings and a prioritized fix list.
Activity Log — Every API interaction is logged with timestamps, status, and details. Filter by command or status, export to CSV, and auto-cleanup keeps logs manageable.
Features
- Read, create, and update posts from AEO Content AI Studio
- View 28-criteria AI visibility audit report in WordPress admin
- Browse site categories and tags via REST API for platform sync
- Track all API activity with filterable log and CSV export
- Automatic heartbeat keeps platform and plugin in sync
- Secure API Key authentication on all endpoints
How It Works
- Install the plugin and enter your API Key from the AEO Content dashboard
- AEO Content AI Studio syncs your categories, tags, and posts via authenticated REST API
- AEO Content AI Studio analyzes and optimizes your content
- Optimized content is published back to WordPress with one click
- View your site’s AEO audit score and recommendations in the Audit Report tab
External Service
This plugin connects to the AEO Content platform at aeocontent.ai for the following purposes:
- Registration (on initial setup): When you save your API Key, the plugin sends your site URL to
https://www.aeocontent.ai/api/v1/plugin/register to register the connection. No content or personal data is transmitted.
- Heartbeat (periodic): The plugin sends your site URL, plugin version, WordPress version, PHP version, and enabled features to
https://www.aeocontent.ai/api/v1/plugin/heartbeat. This keeps the platform in sync and delivers any pending updates. No personal data or site content is transmitted.
- Audit Report (on demand): When you view the Audit Report page, the plugin fetches your site’s audit data from
https://www.aeocontent.ai/api/v1/audits/{site-slug}. This returns scoring data and recommendations generated by the platform. Audit results are cached locally for 1 hour.
All communication uses HTTPS and is authenticated via API Key. The platform’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy apply to data processed on the platform side.
Privacy
This plugin connects to the external service at aeocontent.ai. See the “External Service” section in the Description for full details on what data is transmitted and when.
The plugin stores the IP address of incoming API requests in the activity log for security and diagnostic purposes. Log entries are automatically deleted after 90 days. No cookies are set, no users are tracked, and no analytics are collected on the frontend.
Screenshots
AI Visibility:live visibility score, 7-day and 30-day deltas, citations count across 5 AI engines
Site Audit:Diagnose stage with critical criteria count, weakest pillar, and AEO Rank summary
Pages Audit:per-page AEO Rank scores with search, filters, word count, and inbound links
Opportunities:prioritized fix list with impact scores, pillar tags, and recovery potential
Rewrite Candidates:pages ranked by rewrite priority with weakest pillar and word count
Do I need an AEO Content account?
Yes. The plugin connects to the AEO Content platform which manages content optimization and audit scoring. Visit aeocontent.ai to get started with a free audit.
Can I connect my WordPress site from AEO Content AI Studio?
Yes. You can start from Studio, enter your site URL, and complete the connection from your WordPress admin screen. You can also start from the plugin inside WordPress. Both flows connect the same site.
What does the Audit Report show?
The site audit evaluates 48 criteria across five pillars: Content Originality (25%), Content Uniqueness (25%), Extractability (25%), Entity and Data Richness (15%), and Structural Signals (10%). Each page also gets a per-page AEO Page Rank score from 0 to 100 with letter grades (A through F) based on 17 content-specific checks. The workflow screen is organized into Connect, Diagnose, Fix, and AI Visibility stages. Most websites score between 30 and 60. Above 70 indicates strong AI citation readiness.
What is AI Visibility?
The AI Visibility stage tracks whether AI engines actually cite your site in their responses. It monitors your key prompts daily across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. You see which queries return your pages, which cite competitors instead, and how your visibility score trends over time.
How does content publishing work?
AEO Content AI Studio reads your posts via the plugin’s REST API, optimizes them using AI, and sends updated content back. The plugin creates or updates WordPress posts with the optimized content, including categories, tags, featured images, and FAQ structured data. You control which posts are updated from the platform.
Why does Push as Draft fail?
Most draft publishing failures come from one of these issues: the site is not fully connected, the connected domain does not match the current WordPress site URL, the plugin is out of date, or a security layer is blocking REST API requests. Update the plugin, confirm the site connection, and try again.
Is it compatible with Yoast SEO / Rank Math?
Yes. The plugin does not inject schema or modify meta tags on the frontend. It manages post content and metadata through standard WordPress functions, so it works alongside any SEO plugin without conflicts.
What data does the plugin send to aeocontent.ai?
The heartbeat sends only technical metadata: site URL, plugin version, WordPress version, PHP version, and enabled features. Post content is only transmitted when you explicitly use AEO Content AI Studio to read or publish posts. All communication is encrypted via HTTPS.
Where do I get support?
For plugin setup, connection, audit, and publishing issues, use the WordPress.org support forum. For private account or billing issues, use support through aeocontent.ai.
What information should I include in a support request?
Please include your plugin version, WordPress version, PHP version, site URL, whether you started from WordPress or Studio, the exact error message, and the steps needed to reproduce the issue. Do not post API keys, tokens, or passwords.
Does the plugin slow down my site?
No. The plugin has zero frontend footprint:it does not add scripts, styles, or markup to your public pages. The heartbeat runs via WP-Cron in the background, and audit data is cached locally.
Can I use this without the platform?
The plugin requires a valid site connection to the AEO Content platform. Without it, the REST API endpoints remain inactive. The plugin does not break your site if disconnected:it simply has no data to display.
ChangeLog
1.2.7
- Added support visibility improvements in WordPress admin with direct Docs and Support Forum links
- Added plugin list links for Settings, Support, Docs, and Support Forum discovery
- Expanded the FAQ with Studio-first connection help and publishing troubleshooting guidance
1.2.6
- Security hardening for Studio connection handoff: admin confirmation is now nonce-protected instead of auto-completing on page load
- Local content index now excludes posts the current dashboard user cannot edit
- Activity log CSV export now neutralizes spreadsheet formula cells
1.2.2
- AI Visibility stage:live daily monitoring from 5 AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overview)
- Visibility overview with score, 7d/30d deltas, citation count, and critical alerts
- Citations tab:recent mentions with engine, query, page URL, and snippet
- Competitors tab:side-by-side visibility comparison against competing domains
- Trends tab:historical score movement chart
- Workflow-based 4-stage UI: Connect, Diagnose, Fix, AI Visibility with status badges
- Stage hero cards with contextual next-best-action recommendations
- Dedicated visibility API endpoint preferred over stale audit-embedded data
- Discovery profile with deterministic site analysis (entities, topics, pages)
- Google sign-in connect screen with disconnect and feature toggle
- Improved caching with short TTL during pending/refreshing states
1.1.0
- 1-click Google sign-in for account creation and site connection
- 5-pillar audit scoring (Answer Readiness, Content Structure, Trust & Authority, Technical Foundation, AI Discovery)
- Pages tab:full site inventory with per-page AEO Rank scores, categories, word counts, inbound links
- Rewrite Candidates tab:prioritized list of pages needing rewrites with tier classification and weakest pillar
- Run Full Site Audit button with real-time progress tracking (pending → discovering → auditing → seeding → completed)
- Support for up to 48 audit criteria with current and legacy slug mappings
1.0.0
- Initial release
- Content Publishing:create and update posts via AEO Content AI Studio
- Audit Report:28-criteria AI visibility score with detailed findings
- Activity Log:filterable command log with CSV export and auto-cleanup
- REST API:posts, categories, tags, publish, command dispatch, and health check
- Credential authentication with constant-time comparison
- Periodic heartbeat for platform connectivity
- Admin dashboard with three pages: Audit Report, Settings, Activity Log
