Waypoint SEO Content Generator

https://youtu.be/FVgE6cU7gYg Waypoint SEO Content Generator is an AI content generator that drafts articles for your site using the AI provider you connect to WordPress. Everything runs on your own hosting. There is no content pipeline through anyone else's servers, no account to create, and this version sends no data to the plugin author at all. It is built around a simple position: automated content is only worth publishing if it is grounded in a real business and read by a real person before it goes live. The plugin enforces both mechanically rather than asking you to promise them. At a glance

• Works with Yoast SEO, Rank Math and SEOPress. Title, meta description and focus keyword are written straight into whichever one you use.
• Supports OpenAI, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, through the AI client built into WordPress. No API key field, because the plugin never handles your key.
• Writes long-form articles, not summaries. Sections are written against a word budget and expanded when they come up short.
• Adds internal links from your own published content, using an index it builds of your site.
• Creates drafts, never published posts, unless you explicitly turn auto-publish on.
• Nothing is metered. No article limit, no credits, no trial.

How it works

1. You fill in a site profile — what your business does, who it serves, and the firsthand experience only you have. This is injected into every prompt. Generation is disabled until it is complete.
2. The plugin indexes your existing content so it knows what you have already covered and can link to it.
3. You give it a title, keyword, and angle on the dashboard and start a run.
4. The article is written section by section, measured against a word target and expanded where it comes up short, so the result is a long-form SEO article rather than a thin summary.
5. A draft is created. Never a published post.

What makes this different

• No external backend. All logic runs in the plugin, on your host.
• No API key handling. This AI writer uses WordPress's built-in AI client and whatever provider you connect under Settings → Connectors. It never asks for, stores, or transmits a provider key.
• Long-form by construction. Sections are written against a word budget and expanded when short, rather than asking a model for an article and hoping.
• Gutenberg blocks, not HTML soup. Output is real blocks you can edit normally.
• SEO fields written for you. Title, description, and focus keyword are written to Yoast, Rank Math, or SEOPress if you use one, with the plugin's own Article JSON-LD as a fallback when you do not.
• Internal links from your own index. Drafts link to relevant posts you have already published.
• Near-duplicate prevention. Every published post gets a similarity fingerprint. A draft too close to existing content is blocked before it is created.
• Draft by default. Auto-publish is an explicit, off-by-default opt-in.
• Human review gate. On by default: a generated post cannot be published until a person has opened and saved it.
• Review notifications. Your site emails you when drafts are waiting — immediately, daily, or weekly. A review gate nobody knows about is not a review gate.
• Real author attribution. Drafts are attributed to an actual user account. The plugin does not create expert personas or fake bylines.
• Cost visible up front. An estimate per article sits next to the frequency controls, so nothing is a surprise on your provider's bill.
• Recovery tools from day one. Bulk noindex and bulk unpublish for all generated content, in one click.

Nothing in this version is metered, counted, or waiting for a key. It writes as many articles as you configure, to any public post type. Articles are written as text; you add your own images in the editor. Please read this before you use it Google's spam policies on scaled content abuse apply to your whole site, not just to generated pages. Publishing large volumes of unhelpful content can affect how your entire domain is treated in search. This plugin gives you tools to publish content that is genuinely useful. It cannot judge whether any particular article is. That judgement is yours, and it is why the review gate is on by default and the shipped frequency is two posts per week rather than one a day. The honest advice: publish fewer, better articles. Read every draft. Add what only you know. If a draft does not deserve to exist, delete it. External services AI provider (required). Generated text comes from whichever AI provider you have connected to WordPress under Settings → Connectors. WordPress core owns that connection; this plugin does not choose the provider, never sees or stores its credentials, and has no relationship with it. What is sent, and when: each time you start a run, the plugin sends your site profile, the title, keyword and angle you entered, the headings of the outline it is working through, and the titles of your own existing posts it is considering linking to. Nothing is sent unless you start a run. The provider is whichever one you installed and connected. Review that provider's terms and privacy policy before use — the common choices are:

• Google (AI Provider for Google) — terms: https://policies.google.com/terms — privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• OpenAI (AI Provider for OpenAI) — terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use — privacy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
• Anthropic (AI Provider for Anthropic) — terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms — privacy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

Nothing else. This version contacts no server belonging to Waypoint Software USA under any configuration, and makes no other outbound request of its own. Bundled libraries This plugin bundles Action Scheduler (https://actionscheduler.org/), a GPLv3 background-processing library, to run generation as a chain of small background jobs. Because Action Scheduler is GPLv3, the combined distributed package is effectively GPLv3. The plugin's own code is licensed GPL-2.0-or-later, whose "or later" clause makes that combination permitted. Pro version A separately distributed paid version, sold at waypointsoftwareusa.com and not part of this download, adds unattended scheduling so drafts arrive without anyone clicking; batch topic planning and keyword suggestions drawn from your content index; competitor topic-gap analysis; researched citations that are searched, fetched, and verified live before they are rendered as links; and generated featured and inline images, sideloaded into your media library with alt text. Those modules' code is not in this version at all — this is a smaller plugin, not a restricted one. The paid version also updates itself from our servers rather than from WordPress.org, and it is the only version that contacts a server of ours or contains a license key field.

1. Install and activate Waypoint SEO Content Generator.
2. Connect an AI provider. WordPress supplies the AI plumbing but no providers — each one is a separate free plugin. The simplest option is AI Provider for Google: it has a free tier you can test on without entering card details. Install it, get a key at aistudio.google.com, and paste the key under Settings → Connectors.
3. Go to Waypoint SEO → Settings and complete the site profile. Generation stays disabled until you do.
4. Use Generate one now on the dashboard to produce your first draft and see what the output looks like.

Choosing a provider Any provider WordPress can connect to will work. This version only needs text generation, which every provider offers, so pick on writing quality and price:

• AI Provider for Google — free tier, no card required to start. The easiest place to begin.
• AI Provider for OpenAI — billing must be set up first.
• AI Provider for Anthropic — strong long-form output.

Whatever you choose, the key is entered once in Settings → Connectors and belongs to you. This plugin never stores or transmits it, and the provider bills you directly. Low-traffic sites: WordPress only runs scheduled work when someone visits the site. An article is generated as a chain of steps, and those steps continue within a single request wherever there is time for them, so a draft usually finishes in one or two visits rather than waiting on the scheduler for each step. A quiet site can still fall behind, and a real server cron remains the reliable fix. See Tools → Site Health — the plugin adds a check that tells you if jobs have stalled, with the exact commands to fix it.

1.9.3

• Readme only. Clearer statement of which SEO plugins and which AI providers are supported, and new FAQ entries answering those questions directly.

1.9.2

• Fixed articles failing part-written on sites connected to Google. Body sections were being sent to a slow preview model that regularly took longer to answer than the request was allowed to wait, so the section failed with a network timeout even though the connection and the API key were fine.
• Requests to an AI provider now wait up to 90 seconds instead of 30, capped to whatever the host's PHP execution limit actually permits.
• A section that runs out of execution time now keeps its shorter draft and says so in the log, rather than being cut off mid-write with nothing recorded.
• The default model preference no longer ends in a preview model.

1.9.1

• Added a "Leave a review" link to the plugin's row on the Plugins screen, and a one-time review request on the plugin dashboard once it has written five drafts for you. Dismiss it and it does not come back.

1.9.0

• Generated featured and inline images moved into the separately distributed paid version. Their code is not included in this download.
• Articles are written as text in this version; add your own images in the editor as you would on any post.
• The maintenance buttons on the dashboard now say what they do, and the dashboard states plainly what this version does and does not include.

1.8.0

• Renamed to Waypoint SEO Content Generator. Existing installs migrate their settings, tables, and post markers automatically on first activation.
• Removed the weekly volume cap and the post type restriction. This version writes as much as you configure, to any public post type.
• Scheduling, batch topic planning, competitor gap analysis, and verified citations moved into a separately distributed paid version. Their code is not included in this download, and this version contains no licensing code and contacts no server of ours.
• The frequency setting now says what is actually in force rather than only what the field accepts.

1.2.1

• The search provider dropdown now says what distinguishes each option, so the choice can be made without leaving the page.

1.2.0

• Added keyword suggestions on the dashboard, drawn from the site's own content index. Ranked by two- and three-word phrases that recur across several posts but that no post is actually about — the coverage gaps, not what you already rank for.
• Suggestions already used as a focus keyword by an existing post are flagged, so you do not accidentally write two articles competing for the same term.
• Database version 2: the content index gains a phrases column. A reindex is queued automatically on upgrade.

1.1.0

• Added review notification emails: immediate, daily, or weekly, to addresses you choose. Digests are only sent when a new draft has appeared.
• Fixed the dashboard screen rendering its contents twice.
• The "no AI provider connected" notice now links to the provider plugin search, since Settings → Connectors is empty until a provider plugin is installed.

1.0.0

• Initial release.