Innova GEO AI Indexer adds the essential GEO fields and structures to WordPress for optimizing content for Generative Search Engines (
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Mistral, Kimi). It features single-field AI population using your own provider API keys (BYOK), multi-stack
Schema.org JSON-LD output, and site-level
llms.txt file management.
Fully free with no account, no license, no subscription — you bring your own API key and the plugin calls the provider directly. Nothing goes through
geocite22.com.
What the free version does
- 5 core Post-level GEO fields: Quick Answer, FAQ, Direct Definition, Reading Time, Author Override.
- Multi-stack Schema.org JSON-LD: Organization + BreadcrumbList + Article/BlogPosting/NewsArticle/HowTo/Product/Review/Recipe/Event + FAQPage (optional) — all within a single
@graph in the <head>.
- Dynamic llms.txt: Automatically generated with pillar content + contact email + topical clusters.
- AI generation via BYOK: single-field ✨ Generate button next to each AI-generable field, using your own API key from any of the 5 supported providers (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Mistral, Kimi/Moonshot). Native structured tool use per provider.
- Model auto-discovery: click Test on a saved provider key and the plugin fetches the current list of available models from the provider's own
/v1/models endpoint. The Model field becomes an autocompleted dropdown — no need to remember exact model names as they change.
- User-friendly errors: connection errors are translated to human-readable suggestions ("Il provider è momentaneamente sovraccarico, riprova tra qualche secondo") with the raw technical detail available on a
ⓘ tooltip for debugging.
- API keys encrypted at-rest using Sodium secretbox (derived from
AUTH_KEY).
- AI generation audit log: full tracking of generations in a dedicated DB table.
- Automatic reading time calculation from post content (~200 words/min).
- Extendable: exposes hooks that a Pro add-on (or your own code) can use to add fields, sections, post types, and features.
Not in the free version — Pro add-on
There is an optional
Innova GEO AI Indexer Pro add-on plugin distributed separately at
geocite22.com that adds — on top of everything the free plugin does:
- 9 additional GEO fields (Key Takeaways, Target Queries, Citation Sources, Key Statistics, Related Entities, Schema Type, Expertise Level, Last Fact Check, ItemList Entries)
- Multi-field generation in a single click (batch panel above the metabox)
- Support for page builders (Elementor / Divi / Beaver Builder) — fetches the rendered HTML instead of
post_content
- Frontend display of GEO fields (auto-inject, shortcodes, Gutenberg blocks)
- Custom post types support + per-post-type field selection matrix
- Managed AI mode (no BYOK — credits included in the subscription)
- Roadmap features: LLM citation monitoring, AI-generated cover images, batch generation on the archive, WPML/Polylang translations
The Pro is entirely optional. The free plugin is fully functional and does not degrade in any way if the Pro is not installed.
Privacy & Third-Party Services
The free plugin communicates ONLY with the AI provider you configure —
geocite22.com is never contacted:
The plugin sends the post title + content + your prompt to the provider you selected, and receives back the AI-generated field values. No data is sent anywhere else. Your API keys are stored encrypted (Sodium secretbox) in
wp_options and never leave your site except as
Authorization headers in the direct provider calls.
IndexNow (optional, disabled by default) — if you switch it on in
Settings → IndexNow, publishing or updating a post whose Quick Answer is filled sends a notification to the search endpoints you selected:
Each notification contains only the URL of the content, your site host and a randomly generated verification key — never the post content. The key is published as a plain text file at
https://your-site.com/{key}.txt, as the IndexNow protocol requires. Turning the feature off stops all outbound calls immediately.
Extension points
Filterable hooks for developers and the Pro add-on:
innogai22_field_definitions — add/remove GEO fields.
innogai22_displayable_fields — extend the list of publicly-displayable fields.
innogai22_enabled_post_types — extend the post types where the metabox appears.
innogai22_schema_output — modify JSON-LD payload before output.
innogai22_tool_schema — modify AI tool-use schema.
innogai22_ai_providers — register custom AI providers.
innogai22_license_manager — replace the null license manager (used by the Pro add-on).
innogai22_indexnow_should_notify — decide whether a saved post triggers an IndexNow notification (default: only posts with a filled Quick Answer).
innogai22_citation_density_config — recalibrate the Citation Density weights, thresholds and bonus meta keys.
innogai22_registered_geo_blocks — add or modify the GEO blocks catalogue.
innogai22_block_html — replace the public markup of a GEO block. Receives (string $html, string $blockName, array $attrs).
JavaScript filters (via
wp.hooks, editor side):
innogai22.citationDensity.suggestions — append or replace the actionable suggestions in the Citability sidebar. Receives (suggestions, analysis).
innogai22.citationDensity.panels — append panels to the Citability sidebar. Receives (panels, analysis).
innogai22_metabox_before_fields — inject markup at the top of the metabox (used by the Pro for the multi-field panel).
innogai22_settings_before_provider_section / innogai22_settings_before_locale_section — inject Settings sections (used by the Pro for the advanced tabs).
innogai22_dashboard_after_main_cards — inject Dashboard widgets (used by the Pro for license status, credits, monitoring).
innogai22_required_capability — custom capability for plugin management.
3.3.2
- The message shown while there is not enough content to score no longer assumes the page is empty. 3.3.1 said "write the content", but the threshold also applies at 30 or 45 words — to text that has been written. Telling someone who just finished a short page that they should write it is a defect, not help.
- The panel now shows a word counter (
30 / 50 words) with a progress bar, so the threshold is visible instead of looking like a broken feature. It also answers the obvious question — how much is still missing — without anyone having to ask.
3.3.1
- Fix: an empty page showed a citability score of 50/100 with a green bar, as if half the work were already done. The penalties are calibrated on prose — "fewer than 3 numeric claims" and "no list or table" say nothing about text that is not there yet. Below 50 words the panel now says there is not enough to analyse instead of showing a number that looks like information without being any.
- The suggestions are hidden too while the content is that short: four lines telling you to add everything were noise covering the only thing to do, which is write.
- The threshold lives with the other Citability settings and can be changed through
innogai22_citation_density_config.
3.3.0
- GEO blocks now tell you what is missing. Each of the four GEO blocks gets a "GEO · What's missing" panel in the block sidebar: a statistic without a source, a comparison with a single row, a procedure step with no description. The checks are deterministic — no AI call, no cost — and they point at the things that make the difference between structured data an assistant can quote and structured data it cannot verify.
- Groundwork for image analysis: the AI provider layer now accepts images, with each provider receiving them in its own required format. Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Gemini are marked as image-capable; Mistral and Kimi are not, and a request carrying an image to them fails immediately with a clear message instead of silently producing a description of nothing.
- Two extension points for add-ons, both declared in the plugin's architecture notes but never actually implemented:
innogai22_block_geo_hints (PHP) and innogai22.blockToolbar.controls (JS).
- Nothing changes if you do not use the GEO blocks. Existing AI generation is untouched: request payloads keep exactly the shape they had, and there is a regression test asserting it.
3.2.0
- Citability score in the Classic Editor: the 0-100 quotability score shipped in 3.1.0 was a Gutenberg sidebar, so it never appeared for anyone editing with the Classic Editor. It is now also a GEO · Citability metabox in the sidebar column of the classic post screen, with the same score, the same statistics and the same suggestions. It updates as you type in both the Visual and the Text tab, and the Quick Answer bonus reads the GEO box live instead of the last save.
- One score, two editors: the analysis engine moved to a shared file so Gutenberg and the Classic Editor cannot drift apart. A parity test asserts that the same content, given as blocks and as HTML, produces the same number.
- Page builders are told the truth: on posts managed by Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks or WPBakery the real content lives in the builder's own storage, not in the WordPress editor. The metabox now says so instead of showing a score computed on an almost-empty field — a wrong number looks like information, which is worse than no number.
- Note: the 4 GEO blocks introduced in 3.1.0 remain Gutenberg-only. They are block editor components and have no Classic Editor equivalent.
- New: two filters on
llms.txt generation, for add-ons. innogai22_llms_txt_pillars receives the Pillar Content entries as structured data (title, url, description) and lets an add-on append its own — the plugin stays in charge of ordering, deduplication by URL, the 25-entry cap (raisable via innogai22_llms_txt_pillars_max) and the markdown rendering. innogai22_llms_txt_content is the escape hatch on the final markdown, documented since 1.0 but never actually implemented.
- Fix: the citability sidebar used
wp.editPost.PluginSidebar, deprecated since WordPress 6.6 in favour of wp.editor.PluginSidebar. It now prefers the current API and falls back to the old one, so the sidebar keeps working on WordPress 6.4-6.5 and will not disappear when core drops the deprecated proxy.
3.1.0
- IndexNow (optional, off by default): publishing or updating a post whose Quick Answer is filled notifies the search endpoints you selected (Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam). The verification key is generated on first activation and served at
https://your-site.com/{key}.txt. The ping is non-blocking (0.5s timeout) so saving a post is never slowed down; a per-URL throttle avoids hammering the endpoints when you save the same post repeatedly. Log of the last 100 notifications, "Test connection" button, key regeneration.
- AI crawler control: new Settings → AI crawlers panel with 18 known AI crawlers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Perplexity, Common Crawl, ByteDance, Meta, Mistral, Cohere, Diffbot, You.com and more). Each row states what blocking that crawler costs you. Everything is Allowed by default — blocking a crawler means leaving its data, which is the opposite of what this plugin is for. Live preview of the exact robots.txt block, plus a warning if a physical robots.txt file is bypassing WordPress.
- Citability sidebar in the block editor: a 0-100 score of how quotable your content is for an AI assistant, with statistics and actionable suggestions. The analysis is deterministic and entirely local — no AI call, no network request, your text never leaves the browser.
- 4 new GEO blocks: Definition (emits
DefinedTerm), Statistic (emits Claim with its citation), Comparison (emits ItemList with PropertyValue) and Procedure (emits ItemList of HowToStep). Plus 3 ready-made block patterns. Compose semantic blocks, get correct JSON-LD without ever seeing schema.org.
- Improved JSON-LD entity graph: three new nodes (
WebSite, WebPage, Person) and stable cross-references between them. The author is now a Person node with a stable @id shared across posts, so fifty articles by the same byline read as fifty articles by the same person.
- Fix: invalid schema.org types in the Related entities field no longer break JSON-LD validation. Entities saved as
Concept (not a real schema.org type) made the schema.org validator reject Article.mentions. Types are now normalised on output — Concept, Topic and Technology become DefinedTerm, Company becomes Organization, and anything unrecognised falls back to Thing. Already-published content is fixed on the next page load, with no database migration.
- Fix: the
@id of the main article no longer changes when you change "Primary schema type" — it used to become #howto or #blogposting, which changed the identity of already-indexed content. It is now always #article.
- Fix:
mainEntityOfPage pointed at a node that did not exist in the graph. It now points at the new WebPage node.
- Full English translation, including every string in the block editor.
3.0.0
- Freemium split: the plugin becomes the free "essentials" edition. 9 advanced fields (Key Takeaways, Target Queries, Citation Sources, Key Statistics, Related Entities, Schema Type, Expertise Level, Last Fact Check, ItemList Entries) move to the new Innova GEO AI Indexer Pro add-on distributed at geocite22.com. Data saved under those meta keys remains in the DB — if you later install the Pro, the fields reappear populated.
- Free version = 5 core fields (Quick Answer, FAQ, Direct Definition, Reading Time, Author Override) + JSON-LD + llms.txt + single-field AI generation via BYOK.
- Removed the "Post Types abilitati", "Campi GEO per post type" and "Visualizzazione frontend" sections from Settings — hardcoded to post + page + all 5 core fields always visible in the metabox. These configurability options move to the Pro add-on.
- Removed the "Licenza" and "Acquista" admin pages. The free plugin no longer talks to geocite22.com — it's fully local and offline. A new Versione PRO ⭐ page replaces them with a conversion funnel to the Pro add-on.
- Removed the multi-field "Genera con AI" panel at the top of the metabox — the free plugin generates one field at a time via the ✨ button next to each AI-generable field. Multi-field batch generation moves to the Pro.
- Removed the "Usa contenuto renderizzato" checkbox — page-builder-aware content fetching (Elementor / Divi / Beaver Builder) moves to the Pro.
- Removed the
ManagedProvider, RemoteLicenseManager, CreditsTracker internal classes. The free plugin is now pure BYOK.
- New extension hooks for the Pro add-on:
innogai22_displayable_fields, innogai22_enabled_post_types, innogai22_license_manager, innogai22_metabox_before_fields, innogai22_settings_before_provider_section, innogai22_settings_before_locale_section, innogai22_dashboard_after_main_cards.
2.0.0
- Rebrand to Innova GEO AI Indexer (previously "GEO Cite 22") to comply with the WordPress.org Plugin Review naming policy — the previous name was too similar to the existing "GeoCites" project. The backend SaaS at geocite22.com is unchanged and remains the partner service the plugin talks to.
- Slug, text domain, folder and main file all aligned to
innova-geo-ai-indexer.
- License key format change:
GC22-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX → INNOGAI22-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. Existing license keys (issued before 2.0.0) are no longer accepted — request a new key from the geocite22.com dashboard.
- Consolidated internal identifiers on a single unique prefix: constants
INNOGAI22_*, meta keys _innogai22_*, hook prefix innogai22_, DB tables wp_innogai22_*, JS globals innogai22*, CSS classes .innogai22-*, shortcodes [innogai22_*]. PHP namespace stays Innovams\GeoAiIndexer22\ (already brand-tied via the vendor segment).
- Security hardening: API keys arriving from the Settings and AJAX test endpoints are now explicitly sanitized with
sanitize_text_field() before use (previously only trimmed — safe against tag/whitespace injection).
- Documentation: new readme section listing third-party AI provider endpoints and links to each provider's Terms/Privacy pages.
- Upgrade path (no automatic migration in this release): uninstall any previous "GEO Cite 22" plugin, install "Innova GEO AI Indexer" 2.0.0, and re-enter the new license key. Custom field values stored under the old
_gc22_* / _gai22_* meta keys are NOT read by 2.0.0 — back-fill manually if needed.
1.6.1
- UX: on the Purchase admin page, the "Activate Premium" button is replaced with a "Coming Soon" label — Premium plans are temporarily not purchasable. The webapp checkout blocks Premium attempts server-side too.
1.6.0
- New: public display of the GEO fields. Six fields (Quick Answer, Key Takeaways, FAQ, Direct Definition, Key Statistics, Citation Sources) can now also be shown to readers, not just emitted in the JSON-LD. Three complementary ways: automatic output in the post content (opt-in, per-field toggle and position in Settings → "Frontend display"); shortcodes (
[innogai22_quick_answer], [innogai22_faq], [innogai22_key_takeaways], [innogai22_direct_definition], [innogai22_key_statistics], [innogai22_citation_sources]); and native Gutenberg blocks under the "Innova GEO AI Indexer" category. The FAQ uses a no-JavaScript <details> accordion. A field placed manually via shortcode or block is not duplicated by the automatic output.
1.5.1
- Fix: "Generate with AI" failing with "the provider did not return a valid tool_use", especially on Gemini and when generating many fields at once. The token budget was too low (2048): structured multi-field output — plus the internal "thinking" of Gemini 2.x models — got truncated before the tool call was emitted. Raised to 8192.
- Fix: the Gemini error is no longer opaque — it now reports the real reason (finishReason MAX_TOKENS / MALFORMED_FUNCTION_CALL / safety block).
- Fix: the "Primary Schema type" field was not saved when updating/publishing a post. The select sanitizer lowercased the value, discarding valid CamelCase options (Article, BlogPosting, HowTo, FAQPage).
1.5.0
- Security fix (important): removed the
INNOGAI22_MOCK_LICENSE / INNOGAI22_MOCK_TIER / INNOGAI22_MOCK_AI constants entirely. Their true default meant any production install that did not redefine them in wp-config.php ran in mock mode, granting a fake Premium Unlimited license to every well-formed key. The plugin now always validates the license against the real geocite22.com server — there is no longer any way to enable development mode with a local define().
- Changed: development mode is now the
premium_unlimited license tier. A dev license issued by a geocite22.com admin unlocks unlimited credits/sites and makes "Generate with AI" return zero-cost mock payloads. It replaces both removed mock constants.
- UX: Removed the technical "Mock license active" banner from the License admin page and the Mock diagnostics rows from the Support page.
- UX: the "API Keys Provider AI" box (Settings) now shows Advanced licenses a link to a step-by-step guide for creating the provider API keys.
- Compatibility: updated "Tested up to" flag to WordPress 7.0.
1.4.6
- UX: The Premium tier "Generate with AI" provider dropdown now lists only providers that the geocite22.com proxy actually has configured server-side (managed API keys with active budget). The license validation response now includes
available_managed_providers, persisted in the license cache and consumed by the metabox. If the webapp temporarily has no managed key for a provider, that option disappears from the dropdown — no more failed AI calls due to a missing managed key surfacing only after the request. Backward compatible: legacy cached license states default to all 5 providers until the next refresh (~12h cron).
1.4.5
- UX: The "Generate with AI" provider dropdown on the post editor now lists only providers with a configured API key (Advanced/BYOK). Premium tier still shows all five providers (the proxy handles keys server-side). When no provider is configured, the dropdown is replaced by a notice with a direct link to Settings, and the "Generate with AI" button is disabled. No more confusing "missing_api_key" errors after picking an unconfigured provider.
1.4.4
- Hardening: annotated the last 2 residual Plugin Check warnings on the GEO fields coverage query in
Support\ContentStats (DirectQuery + NoCaching on a JOIN over wp_posts/wp_postmeta — live aggregate for the dashboard, no caching is useful here).
1.4.3
- Hardening (Plugin Check warnings cleanup): annotated direct $wpdb queries on the plugin's custom tables (innogai22_ai_log, innogai22_credits_log) and admin-only diagnostics with phpcs:ignore + motivation; explicit phpcs:ignore on $_POST arrays sanitized downstream and on read-only $_GET flash params; removed the explicit load_plugin_textdomain() call (WP 4.6+ auto-loads translations from the Domain Path header). composer.json is now included in the distribution zip to prevent the "missing composer.json" Plugin Check warning. No functional changes for the user.
1.4.2
- Compatibility: Updated "Tested up to" flag to WordPress 6.9.
- Hardening: Added translators: comments next to i18n calls with placeholders; revised output escaping in multi-stack JSON-LD and llms.txt; SQL LIKE queries now use $wpdb->esc_like() with prepared statements; enum-only files now include the ABSPATH guard. No functional changes for the user — cleanup required by the official WordPress.org Plugin Check.
1.4.1
- Fix: The "Interface Language" setting now takes effect immediately. On WordPress 6.7+, "just-in-time" translation loading bypasses the plugin_locale filter; added a second filter on load_textdomain_mofile that always intercepts the .mo path, regardless of how WP loads the domain.
1.4.0
- New: English translation for the plugin. The interface language automatically follows WordPress (Italian if WP is in Italian, English otherwise). You can force English or Italian from Settings → "Interface Language".
- New: AI generation now automatically detects the post language (compatible with multilingual plugins via the
innogai22_post_language filter) and instructs the model to respond in the same language.
1.3.1
- Added 4 screenshots to the plugin's "View details" panel.
- Added a link to support development (optional Stripe donation).
1.3.0
- Expanded JSON-LD coverage: Direct Definition becomes
description, Key Takeaways are added to abstract, and Key Statistics appear as Claim alongside Cited Sources.
- "Generate with AI" now always populates Related Entities and Cited Sources with at least 3 relevant items.
1.2.3
- Fix: "× Remove" and "+ Add" buttons in FAQ / Statistics / Sources / Entities lists now respond to clicks in all contexts, including the block editor.
1.2.2
- Fix: Repeater object rows (FAQ, Statistics, Cited Sources, Related Entities) no longer expand to abnormal heights.
1.2.1
- Fix: "Generate with AI" on BYOK (Advanced) tiers now correctly populates metabox fields for all 5 supported providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, Kimi).
1.2.0
- New: 30-day Advanced Starter free trial upon registration at geocite22.com.
- License panel and Dashboard show trial status and remaining days. Automatic downgrade to Base plan upon expiration without interruptions.
1.1.0
- The "Disconnect" button now notifies the geocite22.com server and immediately frees the plan slot in the user dashboard. Previously required a periodic cron job.
1.0.0
First stable release. 14 post-level GEO fields, multi-stack JSON-LD in the
<head>, automatic
llms.txt generation, multi-provider AI integration, three tiers (Base / Advanced / Premium), AI generation audit log, and at-rest API key encryption.