Description
Coretex SEO scans your WordPress content and uses the AI provider you choose to identify SEO and content improvements.
Every recommendation is placed in an approval queue. Nothing changes on your website until you approve it.
Use your own AI provider and API key. There is no Coretex account, licence key or registration required, and the plugin does not connect to Coretex servers.
Key Features
- SEO titles and meta descriptions — Improve length, clarity and click-through potential.
- Heading structure — Check H2 and H3 structure and receive suggestions for improvement.
- Internal linking — Discover opportunities to connect related content with relevant anchor text.
- Image SEO — Generate descriptive image titles and accessible alt text.
- Spelling and proofreading — Check published content for spelling and writing issues.
- SEO audit — Find broken links, duplicate titles and descriptions, canonical issues and noindex tags.
- GEO health checklist — Check how prepared your content is for AI-powered search and answer engines.
- Keyword research — Generate keyword ideas with search intent and difficulty estimates.
- AI article writer — Generate article ideas and create full content drafts.
- Content scoring — Review readability and optimisation scores for posts and pages.
- robots.txt editor — Edit your robots.txt file with protection against accidentally blocking your entire site.
- IndexNow — Submit recently changed content to Bing and Yandex.
- AI crawler checks — Check whether recognised AI crawlers may be blocked from accessing your content.
- Scheduled audits — Automatically run audits and receive email notifications when issues are detected.
- Bulk approve and reject — Process multiple recommendations at once.
- Local AI support — Connect to Ollama and run AI models directly on your own server.
Bring Your Own AI
Coretex SEO lets you choose the AI provider you want to use.
Supported providers include:
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Google Gemini
- Mistral
- Groq
- DeepSeek
- xAI
- Perplexity
- OpenRouter
- Ollama
Enter your own API key and requests are sent directly from your website to the provider you select.
With Ollama, AI processing can run entirely on your own server.
There is no requirement to use a Coretex AI service.
You Stay in Control
Coretex SEO does not automatically make AI-generated changes to your website.
The AI proposes improvements. You decide what happens next.
Recommendations are placed in a queue where you can:
- Review suggestions
- Edit recommendations
- Approve individual changes
- Reject suggestions
- Bulk approve or reject recommendations
Only approved recommendations are applied to your website.
Screenshots
- Coretex SEO dashboard showing your site’s SEO overview and recommendations.
- AI provider settings for choosing your preferred AI service and model.
- Site Scan showing SEO issues and optimisation opportunities.
- SEO recommendations generated by your selected AI provider.
- Approval Queue for reviewing and managing suggested changes.
- Content analysis showing SEO, readability and optimisation scores.
- Keyword Research providing keyword ideas and search intent information.
- AI Article Writer for generating article ideas and content drafts.
- Technical SEO audit showing links, indexing and metadata issues.
- GEO health checklist showing AI-search readiness recommendations.
- Scheduled Audits and settings for automated SEO monitoring.
Built to Be Extended
Coretex SEO includes documented action and filter hooks that allow other plugins and extensions to integrate with the plugin.
Developers can add their own:
- Admin screens
- Scan types
- Features
- Feature flags
- Settings panels
- Audit sections
The complete hook reference is included in HOOKS.txt inside the plugin folder.
An optional commercial Coretex SEO Agency add-on is available for agencies managing SEO for clients.
The core plugin is fully functional without the Agency add-on, and the features listed above do not require it.
External Services
Coretex SEO does not connect to Coretex servers.
Third-party services are contacted only when you configure them and perform an action that requires the service.
AI Providers
AI features require an AI provider that you configure.
When an AI scan is performed, Coretex SEO may send the title, excerpt and relevant post content to the AI provider you selected. Your Site Profile information may also be sent if you have configured one.
No AI request is made until you run a scan or enable a scheduled audit.
- OpenAI — https://api.openai.com
- Anthropic — https://api.anthropic.com
- Google Gemini — https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com
- Mistral — https://api.mistral.ai
- Groq — https://api.groq.com
- DeepSeek — https://api.deepseek.com
- xAI — https://api.x.ai
- Perplexity — https://api.perplexity.ai
- OpenRouter — https://openrouter.ai
- Ollama — a URL provided by you, with
http://localhost:11434used by default
Ollama can run locally on your own hardware, allowing AI requests to remain on your server.
IndexNow
When you select Submit Recent Content to IndexNow, Coretex SEO sends recently changed post and page URLs and a site-specific key to the IndexNow API.
Service: https://api.indexnow.org
Nothing is sent unless you manually trigger an IndexNow submission.
Documentation: https://www.indexnow.org/documentation
DataForSEO
DataForSEO is optional.
If you provide DataForSEO credentials, keyword research can use real search-volume data. The keyword strings being researched and country code are sent to DataForSEO.
Without DataForSEO credentials, Coretex SEO uses AI-generated estimates instead.
Service: https://api.dataforseo.com
Your Website
The SEO audit can request pages from your own website to check links, canonical tags and indexability.
These requests are made directly to your own domain and are not sent through Coretex servers.
Installation
- Install and activate Coretex SEO.
- Go to Coretex SEO Settings.
- Select your preferred AI provider.
- Enter your API key and save the settings.
- Use Test Connection to check the connection.
- Optionally complete your Site Profile.
- Go to Site Scans and run a scan.
- Review the recommendations in the Queue.
- Approve the changes you want to apply.
FAQ
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Do I need a Coretex account or licence key?
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No. Coretex SEO works after activation without registration, a licence key or a Coretex account.
The plugin does not contact Coretex servers.
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Does Coretex SEO automatically change my website?
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No.
AI recommendations are placed in the approval queue. Changes are only made when you approve a recommendation.
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Do I need to pay for an AI provider?
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Most supported AI providers charge for API usage and require your own API key.
Ollama can run AI models locally on your own hardware without an external AI API.
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Is my content sent to an AI provider?
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Only when you choose an AI provider and run an AI-powered scan or feature.
The content required to generate the recommendation is sent directly to your selected provider.
With Ollama running locally, your content can remain on your own server.
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Can I use Coretex SEO with Yoast SEO, Rank Math or All in One SEO?
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Yes.
Coretex SEO stores its recommendations separately and only outputs its own title and description tags when you enable that option in Settings.
You can therefore use Coretex SEO as an AI-assisted suggestion and analysis tool alongside another SEO plugin.
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What is GEO?
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GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimisation.
It focuses on improving content so it is easier for AI-powered search and answer engines to understand, reference and cite.
Coretex SEO includes a GEO health checklist to help identify areas that may need improvement.
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Can developers extend Coretex SEO?
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Yes.
Coretex SEO provides documented actions and filters for extending the plugin.
See
HOOKS.txtin the plugin folder for the complete hook reference and examples.
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Contributors & Developers
“AI-Assisted SEO – Choose Any AI, Free or Paid” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
5.0.0
- Rewritten as a standalone plugin with no licence key, registration or Coretex server connection.
- Added scheduled SEO audits for all users.
- Added bulk approve and reject functionality.
- Added a feature registry for third-party extensions.
- Added an admin tab registry for add-ons and extensions.
- Added filtered audit sections for extensibility.
- Added configurable scan batch size and the
cortex_seo_batch_capfilter. - Added
HOOKS.txtwith the complete action and filter reference. - Added local AI support through Ollama.
- Added AI crawler checks.
- Added IndexNow support.
- Improved SEO, GEO, keyword research and content analysis features.
- Fixed failed AI scans incorrectly reporting zero recommendations.
- Fixed spelling-check progress and scan totals.
- Fixed admin stylesheet loading.
- Improved database query preparation, input sanitisation and output escaping.
- Removed the Google Fonts request from wp-admin.
- Improved queue caching and performance.
- Improved multisite cleanup during uninstall.
- Fixed IndexNow key file handling after activation.
- Fixed translation loading and language settings.
- Removed the licence checker, cron job and licence-related admin notices.
- Fixed REST endpoint permission handling.
- Moved advanced agency features to the optional Coretex SEO Agency add-on.
4.1.0
- Added Site Profile.
- Added React admin dashboard.
- Added REST backend.
- Added AI Visibility view.



















