grandranker

<a href="https://grandranker.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Grandranker</a> is an AI-powered SEO platform that researches your niche, generates high-quality articles optimized for both traditional search engines and AI search (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini), and publishes them directly to your WordPress site.
This plugin connects your WordPress site to Grandranker so articles flow straight from the platform into your blog — no copy-pasting, no manual formatting.
What Grandranker does for you:
<ul>
<li>Researches keywords and competitors in your niche</li>
<li>Generates long-form, SEO-optimized articles with structured data (JSON-LD schema)</li>
<li>Tracks your visibility across Google and AI search engines</li>
<li>Publishes and updates articles on your WordPress site automatically</li>
</ul>
How the plugin works:
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin.</li>
<li>Enter your Grandranker API token in Grandranker settings.</li>
<li>Click Save & Connect.</li>
<li>Articles published in Grandranker appear on your WordPress site automatically — with content, featured images, categories, tags, meta descriptions, and structured data all handled for you.</li>
</ol>
Plugin features:
<ul>
<li>Secure HMAC-SHA256 signature verification on every request</li>
<li>Creates and updates WordPress posts with title, slug, content, excerpt, tags, and featured image</li>
<li>Injects JSON-LD structured data (schema markup) into page head for SEO</li>
<li>Writes meta descriptions to Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or All in One SEO (auto-detected)</li>
<li>Configurable default author and post status (Publish / Draft / Pending Review)</li>
<li>Heartbeat-based delivery polling for near-instant publishing</li>
<li>Unpublish endpoint to remove articles remotely</li>
<li>Diagnostics panel with a manual “Test Poll Now” button</li>
<li>One-click Disconnect that removes all stored credentials</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-Party Service</h3>
This plugin connects your WordPress site to the Grandranker API at <code>https://app.grandranker.com</code> to receive articles, schema markup, and delivery payloads from your Grandranker account.
Data is sent to and received from Grandranker servers when you:
<ul>
<li>Click Save & Connect — your API token is sent in the <code>Authorization: Bearer</code> header to exchange it for an HMAC signing secret.</li>
<li>Receive an article — Grandranker POSTs the article payload (title, content, schema, image URL, tags) to <code>/wp-json/grandranker/v1/articles</code> on your site, signed with <code>X-Grandranker-Signature</code> (HMAC-SHA256).</li>
<li>Poll for queued deliveries — the plugin periodically (via WP-Cron and the WordPress Heartbeat API while admin is open) requests <code>/api/v1/plugin/deliveries</code> from Grandranker to fetch any pending articles.</li>
<li>Click Test Poll Now or Disconnect in plugin settings.</li>
</ul>
No analytics, page content, or visitor data is sent to Grandranker. Only the site URL and authenticated requests for your own articles are transmitted.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://grandranker.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Grandranker Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://grandranker.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://grandranker.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>

Grandranker

Automatically publish and update SEO-optimized articles from Grandranker — the AI content platform that helps you rank higher on Google and AI search  …

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Does your website utilize categories and tags? Does it use custom taxonomies? If so, this plugin will find similar content 
based on all your taxonomies. There are two ways to show related posts within your page.
<ul>
<li>The first way to show related content on your post is to use the widget provided. This only works when is_single() is true</li>
<li>The second way to show similar content on your site is to use the pk_related_return($post->ID); function which can be 
called programmatically anywhere you wish!</li>
</ul>
The Widget included with this plugin gives you the option to limit the amount of posts; it allows you to determine which 
fields to show: Featured Image, Author, Date, and Excerpt (Title is required); it allows you to determine which 
variant of the featured image to show: thumbnail, medium, large, or full. As of version 2.0, you can now decide whether the 
‘similar posts’ sorting prefers posts that are newer or posts that were created closer to the date of the post you’re 
viewing.
If you find the Widget doesn’t meet your needs or is too limiting, you can call the functionality programmatically using 
this function:
<pre><code>pk_related_return($post->ID, $args);
</code></pre>
Where $post->ID is the ID of the post for which you are wanting to show related articles.
The $args parameter is an array with the following values available to you (more coming soon):
<ul>
<li>posts_per_page (int defaults to 5)</li>
<li>thumbnail_size (string consisting of one of these values: “thumbnail”, “medium”, “large”, “full”. Defaults to thumbnail).</li>
<li>sort_prefer (string consisting of one of these values: “newest”, “closest”. Defaults to newest).</li>
</ul>
An example might be:
<pre><code><?php
$args = array (
 'posts_per_page' => 6,
 'thumbnail_size' => 'medium',
 'sort_prefer' => 'closest'
);
</code></pre>
The return value of pk_related_return is an array of objects that includes most of the fields within WordPress’s posts 
table plus permalink and featured image.
Future Additions:
Allow the user to specify only certain content types (posts, pages, custom) in a request. This would allow you to specify 
only products get returned, or only blog posts. This would only be an issue if content types share taxonomies.

Grandranker vs Similar Posts Ontology