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If you have ever published to WordPress from an external tool and found the SEO fields\nempty afterwards - no meta description, no focus keyword, no canonical, every post\ncredited to the same admin account - this plugin exists for that exact problem.<\/p>\n\n
PilotDeck Connector publishes content from PilotDeck<\/a> into this\nWordPress site with the meta title, meta description, focus keyword, canonical URL,\nFAQ structured data and the article's author all intact, written into whichever SEO\nplugin you already use.<\/p>\n\n Why a plugin is needed at all<\/strong><\/p>\n\n WordPress core already exposes This plugin closes that single gap. Its surface is deliberately small.<\/p>\n\n What it does<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Authors (new in 1.3.0)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The authors you set up in PilotDeck now carry through to WordPress, so each article\nis credited to the person who wrote it instead of one shared account. This supports\nthe author signals (E-E-A-T) that search engines and AI answers look for.<\/p>\n\n How connecting works<\/strong><\/p>\n\n On activation the plugin generates a random 48-character key and stores it on your\nsite. Settings \u2192 PilotDeck shows an Integration Key that packs your site address and\nthat key together, so you paste one value into PilotDeck instead of two. You can\nregenerate the key at any time, which immediately stops any previous copy from working.<\/p>\n\n Requests arrive over your site's REST API and must present that key. Nothing else can\npublish through this plugin.<\/p>\n\n This plugin is a connector for PilotDeck<\/a><\/strong>, a paid third-party\ncontent and SEO platform from Aveo Software. The plugin is not useful on its own - it\nexists so that a PilotDeck account can publish into this site.<\/p>\n\n How data flows<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The plugin does not<\/strong> send your site's content, credentials or visitor data anywhere.\nIt does not phone home, collect analytics, or contact PilotDeck on its own. It only\nlistens.<\/p>\n\n PilotDeck connects inbound<\/em> to your site's REST API and sends the content you have\nasked it to publish, including the article author's name, bio, photo URL and profile\nlinks. When it does, the plugin returns:<\/p>\n\n That information is returned only in response to a request that already carries your\nIntegration Key, and only to whoever made that request.<\/p>\n\n Outbound requests (images only)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n When a publish request includes a featured image URL, or an author photo URL for an\nauthor user the plugin is creating, your site downloads that image so it can be added\nto your media library. The request goes to whatever host that image is on - normally\nPilotDeck's own storage or your image CDN. No other outbound requests are made.<\/p>\n\n Terms and privacy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n By connecting this site to PilotDeck you agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>. A PilotDeck account\nis required to use this plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n Serve your site over HTTPS. The settings screen warns you if it is not, because the key\nwould otherwise travel in clear text.<\/p>\n\n\n Yes. The plugin is a connector; it does nothing without a PilotDeck account sending\ncontent to it.<\/p><\/dd>\n Nothing. The plugin generates a key, adds one settings screen, and waits. It does not\nalter your posts, your users, your theme, your database beyond two options, or your\nsite's front end until a connected PilotDeck account publishes something. You can\ndeactivate and delete it and the site is exactly as it was. If you want to see what it\nwould publish, there is an overview at pilotdeck.co<\/a>.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Posts publish normally either way. If Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO or\nSEOPress is installed, the plugin also fills in the SEO fields. If none is installed,\nthere is simply nowhere for a meta description to go.<\/p><\/dd>\n\/wp\/v2\/posts<\/code>, so creating a post remotely needs no\nplugin. What core cannot do is write SEO meta. Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO and\nSEOPress store their fields as post meta that is not registered with show_in_rest<\/code>,\nso core accepts the request, returns 201 Created<\/code>, and discards those fields without\nan error. For an SEO workflow that is a broken publish, not a partial one.<\/p>\n\n\n
schema.org<\/code>) structured data in the page head, which SEO plugins\ndo not generate because they cannot infer questions and answers from prose.<\/li>\n\n
.invalid<\/code> domain, so nobody can sign in as it unless a site admin\nsets a password. You can edit, or reassign and delete, these users like any other.<\/li>\nschema.org<\/code> Person block describing the author\n(name, job title, bio, photo and profile links) is added to the page head of each\narticle, next to the FAQ block.<\/li>\nExternal services<\/h3>\n\n
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Do I need a PilotDeck account?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
I installed this without a PilotDeck account. What happens?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Do I need an SEO plugin?<\/h3><\/dt>\n