Description
Assured SEO is the official companion plugin for the Assured SEO platform, the automated SEO content service built for British small and medium businesses.
Once connected, the plugin receives ready-to-publish blog posts from your Assured SEO dashboard and creates them on your WordPress site automatically. No copy-pasting, no manual uploads, no logging in every time you want to publish.
What it does
- Receives posts from your Assured SEO account via a secure, HMAC-signed REST endpoint
- Creates the post on your site with title, full HTML body, and featured image
- Honours your chosen default category, author, post status (publish, draft, pending), post format, and comment settings
- Writes meta fields for Yoast SEO and Rank Math (SEO title, meta description, focus keyword) when supplied
- Accepts featured images either as base64 inline data or by URL sideload
- Keeps a rolling delivery log of the last 50 attempts so you can see exactly what arrived and when
Why you might want it
- Save hours every month — your content goes live without you touching WordPress
- No risky API keys or admin passwords leave your site — only a signed webhook with a secret you control
- Works alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and any standard WordPress theme
Requires an Assured SEO account
This plugin is the receiving end of the Assured SEO service. You will need an active Assured SEO account at www.assured-seo.com to send posts to it. Without an account, the plugin will sit idle — it does nothing on its own.
Privacy
This plugin does not collect or transmit any data on its own. It only receives data sent to it by your Assured SEO account, which you authorise by pasting your webhook secret. See the Assured SEO privacy policy at www.assured-seo.com for details on how Assured SEO itself handles your data.
Installation
- In WordPress, go to Plugins Add New and search for “Assured SEO”.
- Click Install Now, then Activate.
- Go to Settings Assured SEO.
- Copy the Webhook Secret from your Assured SEO dashboard (Settings Integration WordPress Plugin) and paste it into the plugin settings.
- Choose your default category, author, post status, post format, and comments preference, then click Save Settings.
- Back in your Assured SEO dashboard, click Test Connection — a temporary draft will appear and disappear, confirming everything is wired up.
That is it. From now on, every post Assured SEO generates for you will land on your site automatically.
FAQ
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Do I need an Assured SEO account to use this plugin?
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Yes. The plugin is the receiver — your content is generated and dispatched from your Assured SEO account at www.assured-seo.com. Without an account, the plugin has nothing to receive.
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Is the connection secure?
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Yes. Every incoming request is signed with HMAC-SHA256 using a secret only you and Assured SEO know. Requests with a missing, mismatched, or tampered signature are rejected and recorded in the delivery log.
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Where do the posts appear?
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They appear in your normal Posts list in WordPress, with the category, author, status, and format you selected in the plugin settings.
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Will it overwrite my existing posts?
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No. Every delivery creates a brand-new post. The plugin never edits or deletes anything that is already on your site.
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Can I send posts as drafts first, instead of going live immediately?
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Yes. Set Default Post Status to “Save as draft” or “Pending review” on the plugin settings page.
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Does it work with Yoast SEO or Rank Math?
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Yes. If your Assured SEO post includes an SEO title, meta description, or focus keyword, the plugin writes them into the appropriate Yoast and Rank Math meta fields automatically.
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What happens if a delivery fails?
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The plugin records the failure (and a short reason) in the Delivery Log tab on the settings page, so you can see what went wrong without digging through server logs.
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Will it slow down my site?
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No. The plugin only does work when a webhook arrives — typically a few times a week. The rest of the time it is dormant.
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Contributors & Developers
“Assured SEO” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.1.0
- Added support for inline base64 featured images (no outbound HTTP required)
- Added Yoast SEO and Rank Math meta field support
- Added Delivery Log tab showing the last 50 attempts
- Added “Settings” shortcut to the plugins list row
- Improved signature verification error messages
1.0.0
- Initial release.