Pilotdeck Connector

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If you have ever published to WordPress from an external tool and found the SEO fields
empty afterwards — no meta description, no focus keyword, no canonical — this plugin
exists for that exact problem.

Pilotdeck Connector publishes content from Pilotdeck into this
WordPress site with the meta title, meta description, focus keyword, canonical URL and
FAQ structured data all intact, written into whichever SEO plugin you already use.

Why a plugin is needed at all

WordPress core already exposes /wp/v2/posts, so creating a post remotely needs no
plugin. What core cannot do is write SEO meta. Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO and
SEOPress store their fields as post meta that is not registered with show_in_rest,
so core accepts the request, returns 201 Created, and discards those fields without
an error. For an SEO workflow that is a broken publish, not a partial one.

This plugin closes that single gap. Its surface is deliberately small.

What it does

• Creates and updates posts sent from your Pilotdeck account.
• Writes meta title, meta description and focus keyword to whichever supported SEO
  plugin is installed — Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO or SEOPress. If none is
  installed, posts still publish normally.
• Writes the canonical URL for Yoast, Rank Math and SEOPress.
• Outputs FAQPage (schema.org) structured data in the page head, which SEO plugins
  do not generate because they cannot infer questions and answers from prose.
• Sets the featured image from a remote URL, including images served by CDNs from
  paths with no file extension.
• Assigns categories and tags, creating any that do not already exist.
• Honours a future publish date by scheduling the post rather than publishing it.

How connecting works

On activation the plugin generates a random 48-character key and stores it on your
site. Settings → Pilotdeck shows an Integration Key that packs your site address and
that key together, so you paste one value into Pilotdeck instead of two. You can
regenerate the key at any time, which immediately stops any previous copy from working.

Requests arrive over your site’s REST API and must present that key. Nothing else can
publish through this plugin.

External services

This plugin is a connector for Pilotdeck (https://pilotdeck.co), a paid third-party
content and SEO platform from Aveo Software. The plugin is not useful on its own — it
exists so that a Pilotdeck account can publish into this site.

How data flows

The plugin does not send your site’s content, credentials or visitor data anywhere.
It does not phone home, collect analytics, or contact Pilotdeck on its own. It only
listens.

Pilotdeck connects inbound to your site’s REST API and sends the content you have
asked it to publish. When it does, the plugin returns:

• the created or updated post ID, its public URL and status;
• your site name, site URL and WordPress version;
• which SEO plugin is installed, and the user ID configured as the post author.

That information is returned only in response to a request that already carries your
Integration Key, and only to whoever made that request.

One outbound request

When a publish request includes a featured image URL, your site downloads that image
so it can be added to your media library. The request goes to whatever host that image
is on — normally Pilotdeck’s own storage or your image CDN. No other outbound requests
are made.

Terms and privacy

• Pilotdeck: https://pilotdeck.co
• Terms of Service: https://pilotdeck.co/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://pilotdeck.co/privacy

By connecting this site to Pilotdeck you are subject to those terms. A Pilotdeck account
is required to use this plugin.