AI Content Bridge — AI Content Generator with Topic Clusters & Internal Linking

AI Content Bridge generates complete, publish-ready content from a short brief and publishes it to your site: a full article or page, SEO metadata, an optional featured image and relevant video embeds. You don't need any AI API keys of your own: generation runs on the AI Content Bridge service. See it work on a real site One unedited take on a live site: a whole topic cluster planned around an existing page, a post generated from it, then the site's older posts scanned for the places that should link to it, each one approved by hand. This is the part no other tool does. https://youtu.be/P7DRkhF6HiY It includes 24 purpose-built content types across marketing, commerce, business and learning & development, a built-in SEO score on every piece, an editable, search-grounded outline step for keyword-led pages, and reusable writing-style profiles so your content stays on-brand. Plan a topic cluster, not just a post Point the Content Strategist at a page you already have (a service page, a category page, a guide) and it plans the supporting posts that page is missing, then dates them into a calendar you can edit before anything is created. As each supporting post is generated it links back up to that page naturally, inside the copy, using anchor text that fits the sentence. Add the [content_cluster] shortcode to the page itself and it lists its supporting posts automatically as they publish. That is the hub-and-spoke structure search engines reward, built for real rather than drawn on a diagram, and there is no monthly cap on how many clusters you plan. Link your back catalogue into what you publish next Publishing a new post is only half the job. It needs links pointing at it, and those links live in posts you wrote months or years ago. Open any published post and AI Content Bridge finds the older posts that could link to it, shows you each one in the sentence the link would land in, and inserts the ones you approve. It reads the keywords and phrasings you declared when you planned the post, so no AI runs and no credits are spent. Placement is checked at the moment of writing, not when the list was built. If you have edited that post since, nothing is written and you are told to scan again. Links ACB adds can be removed again with one click, restoring the original wording exactly. And where a phrase would wrap only the front of a longer product name you publish, such as linking "Ford Transit" inside "Ford Transit Custom", the spot is refused rather than split, worked out from the post titles and keywords you already have. Illustrated articles, not walls of text Most AI writing produces one image at the top and then two thousand words of unbroken text. AI Content Bridge reads the article it has just written and suggests images that suit each section, described in plain language rather than prompts, then places the one you choose into the post, inset left or right so your text wraps around it. It works on posts you have already published, too: open the image window on anything you have generated and ask for suggestions. Browsing suggestions is free; you only spend a credit on the images you decide to create. Your featured image is placed at the top of the post automatically, so it shows even on themes that do not display one. It works with the plugins you already run, each detected automatically with nothing to connect. Yoast, Rank Math and SEOPress receive SEO metadata; WooCommerce gets product content; MailPoet and Newsletter handle email; The Events Calendar takes events. For learning content, it generates LearnPress and LifterLMS lessons and courses complete with knowledge-check quizzes, built and linked to the lesson for you. Every new licence starts with 10 free trial credits, and while they last every content type is unlocked. They are a one time grant rather than a monthly allowance, so once they are spent you need credits to generate again. A one time credit bundle never expires and generates Blog Posts on the free plan; a paid plan unlocks every content type and adds a credit allowance every month. More walkthroughs

• The full journey on the free credits, a blank site to three linked published posts: https://youtu.be/iiN1_cQstww
• The whole loop in one take, three months planned and one brief to a publish-ready post: https://youtu.be/iffW4rlA6dY
• Outline review and the 0–100 SEO score: https://youtu.be/PegVbyEmJH8
• Writing Style Profiles, a different voice per client: https://youtu.be/YygkHCzS8Os
• WooCommerce products and ACF field targeting: https://youtu.be/Jy1mG0y6oag
• Courses, lessons and quizzes for LifterLMS and LearnPress: https://youtu.be/eYoeRyuw2G0
• The same brief through ChatGPT and through AI Content Bridge: https://youtu.be/HWhYYBAITpw
• A two-minute overview of the plugin: https://youtu.be/0MK6YlDVTL8

1. Install the plugin from the WordPress plugin directory (or upload the zip) and activate it.
2. Open AI Content Bridge in your admin menu. The setup wizard opens automatically.
3. Enter your email address. That's the whole form: your free licence key is created and stored for you.
4. Click the verification link we email you, on any device, and setup completes by itself. Your 10 trial credits are active.
5. Choose a content type, fill in the brief, and generate.

There is no separate signup and nothing to copy or paste. The licence key is handled for you, and it locks to this site's domain on first activation. If you already have a licence key (for example, a paid plan), you can enter it manually in Settings instead. Pretty permalinks must be enabled and your site's REST API reachable so generated content can be published back to your site. Requirements WordPress 6.0 or later, PHP 7.4 or later, and the PHP mbstring extension, which is standard on most hosts. If mbstring is missing you will see a notice on the Plugins screen.

2.12.1

• Fixed: the report's status message ("Report loaded — N posts found…") could not be dismissed and stayed on screen when you switched to the cluster view. It now has a close button, clears itself after a few seconds, and clears when you change report views.
• Fixed: the "angle they're missing" content-gap text on the outline review was set in an italic display font that was hard to read at paragraph length. It now uses the regular body font.

2.12.0

• New: Refresh a Post — a "Refresh with ACB" row action on your posts and pages reads an existing article, opens a pre-filled Content Brief, and — after the usual SERP-grounded outline and generation — lets you apply the improved version back onto the original in place, with a loss-check safeguard and one-click Undo. The generation is given the real article to improve, not a blank page.
• New: refreshing a post now protects the internal links ACB inserted into it. If a refresh would drop one, the apply step lists it and asks you to confirm, the same way it does for shortcodes, tables and phone numbers.
• New: the cluster report now lists the individual pages that link into a cluster — with the anchor text, a jump to view or edit each one, and a flag on any link that is no longer present.
• New: when you refresh a post that already relates to one of your topic clusters, the brief offers to add it to that cluster, so it joins the cluster in your diary and on the pillar's cluster block.

2.11.2

• Fixed: content containing backslashes, such as code samples, regular expressions and Windows file paths, could lose them when a post was published or when a link, video or image was inserted. WordPress strips one level of backslashes on save unless the content is prepared for it, and several of ACB's save paths were not preparing it. All of them now do, so code and paths survive exactly as written. Ordinary prose was never affected, which is why this went unnoticed.
• Fixed: the out-of-credits message on the free plan referred to a fixed number of trial credits that no longer matched what the plan grants. It now states plainly that your free credits are used up and points to bundles or an upgrade, without quoting a figure that can drift.
• Fixed: the Usage screen no longer shows placeholder numbers when it cannot reach the licence server. It now shows a dash for anything it does not know, rather than a plausible-looking figure under a "live data" heading.
• Changed: the "Buy Credits" button on the free plan now opens the in-app Usage tab, where bundles are purchased, instead of sending you to the website.
• Security: the licence server now refuses content and credit requests when its shared secret is not configured, rather than accepting them. This is a hardening change with no effect on a correctly configured install.

2.11.1

• Fixed: 2.11.0 was published without several of its plugin files, so it could not be activated. This release contains the complete file set. There are no other changes: everything listed below shipped in 2.11.0.
• New: build a topic cluster under any post type. The pillar picker used to show only pages and posts, so if your most important pages are a custom post type, such as Makes or Models, you could not choose them as a pillar at all. Every public post type is now listed, with a badge showing which type each result is.
• New: read content stored in custom fields. If your pages keep their body text in ACF fields rather than the main editor, those pages were invisible to inbound linking, because there was nothing in the post body to match against. Tell ACB which fields hold your text in Settings and those pages become usable link sources. Pages built from one shared template are deliberately left alone, because a link written into shared text would appear on every page using it at once.
• New: insert links into WYSIWYG custom fields. Where a field is a WYSIWYG editor, approved inbound links are written straight into it, and undo works exactly as it does for the main editor.
• New: ACB reads the field type from ACF rather than asking you. A plain text field is read for matching but refused for insertion, because a link written into one renders as visible angle brackets instead of a link. You pick fields from a checklist of what ACF actually has, showing each field's label, name, type and whether links can be inserted into it.
• New: a cluster report. Open a cluster from the Content Diary to see how much of the plan is built, how many links point at your pillar and whether they come from the cluster or the rest of your site, and what work is outstanding. It counts links inside post content only, so menus, footers and shared templates are not included. It reports links and nothing else: no rankings, positions or traffic, because ACB cannot see those.
• Fixed: on servers without the PHP mbstring extension, running an inbound link scan could stop with an error instead of completing. Scans now work without it, and a notice tells you if the extension is missing so you can ask your host to enable it.
• Improved: when an inbound scan finds nothing because the phrase is simply absent from your other posts, it now says so, instead of reporting that the phrase was stuck in headings and links.
• Improved: inbound scans now check up to 800 candidate posts per search word rather than 200, and tell you when a site is large enough that the counts shown are a minimum.

2.10.0

• New: inbound links. Open a published post from the Content Diary and ACB finds older posts on your site that could link to it. You see each suggestion in the sentence the link would land in, with the anchor highlighted, and approve the ones you want. Approving writes the link into the older post for you.
• New: inbound linking costs no credits and uses no AI. It matches the keywords and anchor phrasings you declared when you planned the post, so it is exact and repeatable.
• New: links can point at your cluster pillar as well as the post itself. A long-tail keyword often appears nowhere in an older post, while the shorter pillar phrase does, so these are shown in their own section with the destination named. A link going somewhere other than the post you are reviewing is never a surprise.
• New: product names are protected. If linking a phrase would wrap only the front of a longer product you publish, such as "Ford Transit" inside "Ford Transit Custom", ACB refuses that spot and says so, rather than splitting the name. It works this out from the keywords and post titles you already have, so no guesswork is involved.
• New: undo. Every link ACB inserts can be removed again from the review screen, restoring the original text exactly.
• Improved: nothing is written unless the sentence you approved is still there. ACB re-checks the exact wording at the moment it writes, and if the post has been edited since the scan it writes nothing and asks you to scan again.
• Improved: near-identical suggestions are grouped, so twenty posts using the same phrase are reviewed as one pattern that you can open to check individually.
• Improved: when a scan finds nothing, it now explains why: the phrase is missing from your other posts, or only appears in headings and existing links, or would split a longer product name.
• Fixed: the Content Diary stopped at the first 24 entries in list and grid view, with no way to reach the rest. All entries are now reachable, with a "Show more" button as well as loading on scroll.
• Fixed: in list view, a generated post with a full set of buttons squeezed the title and excerpt into a narrow column. The buttons now wrap onto a second row instead.

2.9.2

• Fixed: planning a second topic cluster over dates you had already planned failed with "0 briefs inserted". A publish date was treated as reserved across your whole site, so a new plan covering the same weeks was rejected even when none of its briefs were duplicates. Different posts can now share a date; duplicate titles and keywords are still blocked.
• Fixed: the "Weekly" and "Every 2 weeks" schedules always planned Mondays, whatever start date you chose. They now follow the day you start on, so a plan starting on a Thursday lands on Thursdays.
• Fixed: briefs scheduled in the Content Diary were created as plain drafts with no date, so WordPress did not know when to publish them. A brief with a future date is now genuinely scheduled and the post shows "Scheduled for..." in WordPress. Set the time of day in Settings (default 9:00 am).
• Fixed: inserting a YouTube video at the top or bottom of a post placed it outside the article, where it lost the post's styling. This affected posts using the automatic featured image at the top.
• Fixed: an unrecognised image position could stop a generation from being published.
• New: mark a generated post as approved. Approving is a note to yourself and never holds a post back. It simply shows which posts you have reviewed, which becomes useful once several clusters are in progress.
• New: filter the calendar by topic cluster, so you can see one cluster's schedule on its own. The filter was previously available only in the list and grid views.
• Improved: when briefs are skipped while adding a plan to the diary, the reason is now shown for each one instead of a single combined message.
• Improved: the diary now shows each post's real WordPress state (scheduled, published or draft) alongside its planned date.

2.9.1

• Fixed: "Insert into Post" for YouTube videos did not work on Landing Pages, Service Pages, About Us pages, FAQ Pages or events. It now works on every content type.
• Fixed: inserting a YouTube video could rewrite the rest of the post, turning shortcodes such as [content_cluster] and [content_featured_image] into fixed HTML that stopped updating. Insertion now leaves the rest of your content exactly as it was.
• Fixed: the "After the first paragraph" option for videos placed the video at the end of the post instead, on posts written in the classic editor.
• Fixed: videos are now placed inside the article rather than above or below it, so they pick up the same styling as the rest of the content.
• Fixed: Monthly Reports showed a stale status and no thumbnail for pages, events and products. They now show the live status and image for every content type.

2.9.0

• New: in-body images. ACB now suggests images that suit each section of an article, and places the one you choose into the post for you.
• New: image suggestions at generation. Tick "Suggest up to 3 in-body images" when you create a brief and the descriptions come back with the article, free, with no extra credit.
• New: image suggestions for posts you already have. Open the image window on any generated post and press "Suggest images for this post". This works on everything you have written with ACB, not just new content.
• New: in-body images are inset left or right so your text wraps around them, alternating sides down the article. Generated at the right shape for the layout rather than cropped to fit.
• New: the featured image now appears at the top of the post automatically via a [content_featured_image] shortcode, so it shows on themes that do not display it themselves. Delete the line to remove it, or turn it off in Settings.
• New: [content_image] shortcode. Offered whenever ACB will not edit a post directly (a page-builder page, or one where the target section has been renamed), so you can always place the image yourself.
• Improved: image alt text is generated with every suggestion.
• Improved: image generation rate limit raised, and now counted per licence rather than per server, so agencies running several sites are no longer capped collectively.
• Note: generating an in-body image costs 1 credit, the same as regenerating a featured image. Browsing suggestions is always free.

2.8.11

• New: topic clusters in the Content Strategist. Choose an existing page as the pillar and the plan becomes the supporting posts that page is missing.
• New: automatic internal linking. Each post in a cluster links up to its pillar page contextually, written into the body copy at generation time.
• New: [content_cluster] shortcode. Lists a page's supporting posts, updating itself as they publish. Shows nothing until at least one is published.
• New: cluster filter in the Content Diary, with a published-of-total count per cluster.
• New: deleting a brief can now also move its generated post to the WordPress trash. Off by default, asked separately, and only ever applies to posts this plugin created.
• Improved: replanning against a page you have already built a cluster for now fills the gaps rather than repeating topics, rejecting proposals that duplicate an existing post's search intent.
• Improved: Content Strategist field headings darkened for legibility.

2.8.10

• New licences now start with 10 trial credits (was 5) that unlock every content type while they last.
• YouTube video embeds are now available on all plans, including free.
• Onboarding, dashboard and pricing copy updated to match.

2.8.9

• Fixed: saving an invalid licence key now correctly deactivates the plugin. Previously the "Email verified — licence active" status could remain on screen after a failed key was saved.
• Fixed: your credit balance now refreshes immediately after activating a licence, instead of showing a placeholder figure until the page was reloaded.
• Improved: the plugin now connects to the licence service on its own domain.
• Improved: clearer message when a licence key cannot be verified, explaining that the plan has been set to Free.

2.8.8

• Improved: completely redesigned setup. Start with just your email. Your free licence key is stored automatically, and the moment you click the verification link (on any device) setup completes by itself. No more copying and pasting a licence key.
• Improved: the setup screen now explains exactly why an email address is needed (your licence key is locked to your site to prevent credit abuse) and confirms there are no newsletters or marketing emails, just one verification email.
• Improved: closing setup now minimises it to a "Finish setup" banner instead of hiding it permanently, so an unfinished activation always has a one-click route back.
• Added: a Resend button on the check-your-inbox screen, with a reminder to check the junk folder.
• Fixed: paid plan pricing no longer appears before the free signup. Plans are available from a "View paid plans" link and, as always, from the dashboard.

2.8.7

• Fixed: the upgrade panel listed the wrong number of content types for the Starter and Pro plans (it said 7 and 15; the correct figures are 6 and 17) and advertised a recipe content type that the plugin does not include.
• Fixed: the Pro column listed Writing Style Profiles and the writer templates as Pro features. Both are available on every plan. It is extracting a style automatically from a writing sample that requires Pro, and the panel now says so.
• Improved: generation is no longer abandoned if a single network call to the content service fails momentarily; transient failures are retried automatically before the run is given up and your credits returned.

2.8.6

• Fixed: L&D content types (Course Overview, Training Module, quizzes and lessons) can no longer publish as a plain blog post when an LMS is installed. If routing information is missing, the correct LMS destination is now derived automatically from the content type.
• Improved: with Course Overview selected, the course picker now reads "Create as a new course" instead of "Don't publish to LMS", making the two intended workflows explicit: create a new course, or populate an existing one.

2.8.5

• Fixed: Landing Pages, Service Pages, About Us and FAQ Pages now publish as WordPress pages by default instead of posts (the destination can still be changed per brief).
• Fixed: updating a content brief no longer temporarily hides the SEO, View post, YouTube and Image buttons on the entry's card.
• Fixed: field labels in the New Style Profile window were unreadable against the background.
• Fixed: the character counter beneath the writing sample displayed a raw character code instead of a tick.

2.8.4

• Fixed: target keywords in the Content Strategist now save immediately when added or removed. Previously changes could be lost on refresh unless a plan was run.

2.8.3

• Fixed: bulk delete in the Content Diary now deletes entries permanently, not just from the current view.
• Fixed: entries with multiple generated images no longer show two image buttons, just the gallery counter.
• Fixed: restores the correct admin interface build. Version 2.8.2 was packaged with an outdated interface bundle, which could cause the dashboard logo not to display and reverted some recent interface improvements.

2.8.2

• Fixed: bulk delete persistence and a duplicate image button in the Content Diary (re-released as 2.8.3 due to a packaging error).

2.8.1

• New: ACF field targeting now works for standard posts and pages as well as custom post types.
• Changed: every feature implemented locally in the plugin is now available on all plans with no tier conditions. Plan tiers apply only to the external generation service. This includes the ACF field selector, the YouTube embed option and Writing Style Profiles.
• Changed: removed the attribution line previously appended to free-plan content.
• Changed: all fonts (admin and front-end) are now self-hosted inside the plugin, with no requests to Google Fonts.
• Changed: options, classes, functions, script handles and post meta now use the distinct aicobr_ prefix; existing data is migrated automatically and legacy option values are retained for one release as a rollback safety net.
• Changed: the REST namespace is now aicobr/v1; the previous ai-content/v1 namespace remains registered as a working alias for the transition.
• Hardened: REST routes that modify the Content Diary or spend credits now require the manage_options capability by default (filterable via aicobr_rest_capability).
• Changed: the bundled Parsedown library is renamed AICOBR_Parsedown so it can never conflict with another plugin's or theme's copy.
• Removed: unnecessary WordPress core admin includes.

2.8.0

• Hardened: your content records (SEO reports, featured images and newsletter drafts) are now protected against a rare save-timing issue that could briefly blank them immediately after generation. New server-written fields are protected automatically going forward.

2.7.0

• New: AI Content Strategist. Turn your business context and target keywords into a reviewable, dated multi-month content plan that populates your Content Diary as scheduled drafts.
• New: Content Diary grid view and a sort dropdown (recent activity, date added, scheduled date, status, title).
• Improved: per-content-type length profiles for more natural, better-fitting article lengths.
• Improved: large content libraries stay fast. Content Diary entries now load as you scroll, in both list and grid.
• Improved: the credit balance now refreshes instantly after each generation, with much lighter background usage.
• Fixed: featured-image generation tuned for quality and cost (gpt-image-1.5).
• Hardened: generation pipeline resilience so a single failed job can never interrupt others.

2.6

• New: SEO Intelligence. A built-in SEO score on every generation and an editable, search-grounded outline review for keyword-led content types. Earlier release notes are available on request from support@aicontentbridge.com.