Rankwell AI is a professional-grade AI writing assistant purpose-built for journalists, editors, and newsrooms. It integrates directly into the WordPress editor, putting powerful AI tools exactly where you write.
Multi-Provider AI Engine
Choose from six leading AI providers — Google AI (Gemini), DeepSeek, ChatGPT (OpenAI), Groq, Mistral AI, and OpenRouter — with automatic failover. If your primary provider is unavailable, Rankwell AI seamlessly switches to your backup. Free providers are prioritized first to minimize costs.
Six Powerful Actions
Rewrite
Improve clarity, flow, and journalistic style while preserving all facts, names, dates, quotes, and attributions exactly. HTML formatting, links, and embeds are fully preserved.
Fix Grammar
Correct only spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors without changing your wording, tone, or sentence structure. Surgical precision editing.
Improve Readability
Break up long paragraphs, simplify complex sentences, and vary sentence length for better flow — all without shortening your content.
Write Article
Generate comprehensive, publication-ready articles from a topic or source material. Uses accurate general knowledge for evergreen content while maintaining strict factual guardrails for news reporting.
SEO Optimize
Naturally weave keywords into your content without changing tone, style, or structure. Includes optional SEO titles, URL slugs, and keyword suggestions.
Chat with AI
Interactive chat with headline analysis, title optimization, A/B testing, and audience matching. Includes a full headline scorecard system with clickability, clarity, and mobile-friendliness ratings.
Journalistic Standards
Built from the ground up for newsroom workflows:
- AP Style support — Strict AP Style rules for numerals, abbreviations, titles, and punctuation
- Attribution rules — Automatic self-attribution for original reporting
- Factual guardrails — Never invents facts, names, dates, statistics, or quotes
- Active voice enforcement — Prioritizes subject-verb-object sentence structure
- Inverted pyramid — Most newsworthy information first
- E-E-A-T compliance — Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness
- Smart heading limits — H2/H3 rules based on word count to prevent AI-looking fragmentation
Eight Professional Tones
Professional, Casual, AP Style (News), British Style (UK), Editorial/Opinion, Breaking News, Feature Story, and Interview/Q&A.
Five Writing Styles
Inverted Pyramid, Narrative, Explainer, Listicle, and Live Blog.
Editor Integration
Works in both the Gutenberg Block Editor and the Classic Editor (TinyMCE). A single click from your editor toolbar opens the AI Assistant popup. Highlight text and the popup grabs it automatically — Replace swaps your selection, Insert Below adds after it.
Developer Friendly
- Clean, namespaced PHP 8.0+ code following WordPress coding standards
- All strings are internationalization-ready
- Extensible with action and filter hooks
- Dark mode support for the editor popup
- No jQuery dependency — vanilla JavaScript
- Upload the
rankwell-ai folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress.
- Go to Rankwell AI in the WordPress admin menu to configure your API keys.
- Choose your preferred AI provider and enter your API key.
- Start writing! The AI Assistant button appears in your post editor toolbar.
API Key Setup
Google AI (Gemini) — Generous free tier. Get your key at
Google AI Studio.
Groq — Generous free tier with ultra-fast inference. Get your key at
Groq Console.
Mistral AI — European AI with free tier. Get your key at
Mistral Console.
DeepSeek — Competitive pricing. Get your key at
DeepSeek Platform.
OpenRouter — One key for hundreds of models including free options. Get your key at
OpenRouter.
ChatGPT (OpenAI) — Industry-standard AI. Get your key at
OpenAI Platform.