Description
SZBTechs AI Blog Writer writes helpful, search-optimised blog articles about your own WooCommerce products. Press Run now and it:
- Selects a product — published, in-stock products with a price and image; rotates so no product repeats inside the reuse window (default 14 days).
- Decides a topic — the AI proposes informational angles relevant to your market and picks the strongest one (never repeats a recent topic).
- Researches keywords — mines Google Autocomplete for your country and language (set in the Site profile) and picks one long-tail keyphrase, secondary keywords and FAQ questions.
- Builds links — 3–6 internal links (product, category, related posts, pillar URLs) and 2–4 external citations restricted to your authority whitelist (editable in Settings; defaults include WHO, NIH/PubMed, NHS, Wikipedia…).
- Writes the article (default 1000–1200 words) under a machine-checked SEO rule pack: title and meta length, keyphrase placement and density, heading hierarchy, clean slug, linking, image alt text, safety (no medical claims) and title uniqueness.
- Adds images — the product photo becomes the featured image, with keyword-rich alt text.
- Saves the article — as a draft in the review queue with the full rule checklist (publish, edit or delete it with one click), or, if you turn on Auto-publish, publishes it straight away when every rule passes. Articles that fail a rule always stay drafts.
It writes with the AI provider you connected in WordPress itself (the WordPress AI Client, WordPress 7.0+), so no extra key is needed. On sites without the WordPress AI Client you can use your own Groq API key instead (Groq offers a free tier).
Security by design: AI output is treated as untrusted (all HTML is filtered with wp_kses_post, the post author is never taken from AI text), outbound requests use wp_safe_remote_request, every admin action is nonce- and capability-checked, and only posts created by the plugin can be published or deleted from its queue.
Pro edition
A separate paid plugin, SZBTechs AI Blog Writer Pro, adds a daily schedule, several posts per run, SZBTechs Cloud AI models or other AI providers, AI hero images, People-Also-Ask and Google Trends keyword data, an extended AEO/GEO rule pack with automatic repair passes, Article and FAQ JSON-LD schema, and settings export/import. This plugin is complete on its own and never asks for a license.
External services
This plugin connects to the following third-party services. Nothing is sent until you press Run now.
- WordPress AI Client — used when “WordPress AI” is selected, or with the default “Automatic” setting when a provider that can write text is connected in WordPress 7.0+; the prompts below go to whichever AI provider you connected in WordPress (Settings AI), under that provider’s terms.
- Groq API (
api.groq.com) — used when “Groq” is selected, or with “Automatic” when WordPress AI has no text provider; writes topics, keywords (fallback) and articles. Sent: your API key, the selected product’s name, categories, price and description, and the generated prompts. Terms · Privacy - Google Autocomplete (
suggestqueries.google.com) — keyword suggestions. Sent: short search phrases derived from the product and topic, plus your country/language codes. Terms · Privacy - Cited websites — each external link in a generated article receives one HEAD/GET request to check it is not broken. Sent: a standard HTTP request with no personal data.
- Your product image URLs — downloaded once to attach the featured image to the post.
Installation
- Install from Plugins Add New (search “SZBTechs AI Blog Writer”), or upload the zip.
- Activate the plugin. WooCommerce must be active with at least one published, in-stock product that has a price and an image.
- Go to AI Blog Writer Settings AI provider: keep WordPress AI (WordPress 7.0+ with an AI provider connected), or choose Groq and add a Groq API key (https://console.groq.com/keys). The default Groq model is
openai/gpt-oss-120b; use any active model on your Groq account. - Check the Site profile (brand, author, country, currency, Google geo/language) and, if you like, your citation whitelist.
- On the dashboard press Run now, review the draft in the queue, then press Publish.
FAQ
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Will it publish without my approval?
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Only if you turn on Auto-publish (Settings Publishing, or the switch on the dashboard). Then articles that pass every rule are published automatically; articles that fail any rule are always kept as drafts. With Auto-publish off (the default) every article waits in the review queue.
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What if the AI provider is down or my quota is used up?
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The run stops, the error is shown in the run log, and nothing is published. Press Run now again later.
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Why does a run take a few minutes?
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A run makes several AI and web requests. It continues on the server in the background and the dashboard shows its progress, so you can leave the page. If a run is stopped by your host’s PHP time or memory limit, the dashboard says so; check the PHP error log.
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Are the articles safe for health & beauty stores?
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The prompt forbids medical claims (cures, diagnoses, “100% effective”, replacing a doctor), a disclaimer is appended to every post, and a safety rule scans the final text for violations.
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Changelog
1.2.5
- The dashboard shows which AI the next run will use, and Settings confirms a saved Groq key (last 4 characters only).
- The Groq key field is no longer autofilled by browser password managers.
1.2.4
- New “Automatic” AI provider setting (the default): uses WordPress AI when a provider that can write text is connected, otherwise your Groq key.
- Fix: runs no longer fail with “No AI provider connected in WordPress supports text generation” when WordPress AI has no provider but a Groq key is set.
- The settings page shows whether WordPress AI is ready.
1.2.3
- Fix: “Save settings”, “Publish” and “New image” could stay on “Saving…” without submitting in Chrome and other browsers.
1.2.2
- New name: SZBTechs AI Blog Writer for WooCommerce.
- The WordPress AI Client is now the default AI provider on WordPress 7.0+; Groq remains available for other sites.
- Auto-publish setting: publish articles that pass every rule automatically (off by default).
- The citation whitelist is editable in Settings.
- Run now continues in the background with live progress, so hosts and CDNs with request time limits no longer cut a run off.
- Fix: fatal error when two copies of the plugin were installed at the same time.
- Security: result messages in wp-admin are nonce-protected and shown only to users who can manage the plugin.
1.1.0
- Keyword research locale follows the Site profile.
- Fix: “Call to undefined function wp_strip_tags()” fatal error.
- Fix: run failed on sites with existing posts.
- Security: AI-generated HTML is always filtered; the post author is never derived from AI output; outbound requests use wp_safe_remote_request.
1.0.0
- Initial release: pipeline, rule engine, images, dashboard and review queue.