ClimbrIQ

ClimbrIQ plans, writes and refreshes SEO articles for your business. This plugin is the WordPress end of that: it receives each finished article and publishes it on your site, so there is nothing to copy and paste.

What it does

• Publishes each article as a live post, or as a draft if you prefer to publish yourself.

• Sets the title, excerpt, featured image and slug, and fills in the SEO title and meta description for Yoast SEO, Rank Math or SEOPress when one of them is active.

• Updates the same post when ClimbrIQ refreshes an article — without changing whether it is published, and never touching a post you have moved to the bin.

• Lets Bing and other IndexNow search engines know about each new or refreshed article straight away (you can turn this off).

• Shows recent activity under Settings → ClimbrIQ, so you can see what arrived and why anything failed.

How it stays safe

• ClimbrIQ can only reach this plugin’s two endpoints, and every request must carry a valid signature from ClimbrIQ’s private key. The plugin checks it with ClimbrIQ’s public key, which is built into the plugin.

• Requests are tied to your connection and expire after five minutes, so they cannot be replayed or redirected to another site.

• The plugin can create and update only the posts it created itself. It cannot read, change or delete anything else on your site.

• Your connection token is never stored — only a fingerprint of it.

A ClimbrIQ account is required. Publishing to WordPress is part of the Autopilot plan.

External services

This plugin connects your site to ClimbrIQ, an SEO content service run by Think Commerce Ltd (trading as ClimbrIQ).

• What is received: ClimbrIQ sends article content (title, body, excerpt, SEO title and description, slug and the address of a featured image) to this site’s REST API when an article is published or refreshed, together with this site’s IndexNow key, and a connection test when you click Test connection in ClimbrIQ.

• What is sent back: the ID, address and status of the post created or updated, the address of the IndexNow key file (when IndexNow is on), and — for the connection test — the plugin and WordPress versions, the site name, the chosen author’s display name, the publishing mode and which SEO plugin is active.

• IndexNow: when a live post is published or refreshed, ClimbrIQ’s servers (not this plugin) send its address to IndexNow at api.indexnow.org, which shares it with Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver and Yep so they can crawl it sooner. The search engines then fetch one public file from this site, <your site>/<key>.txt, which the plugin serves, to confirm the site agreed. Only post addresses are sent. IndexNow terms. Turn it off under Settings → ClimbrIQ.

• Featured images: when an article has a featured image, this site downloads it from the address ClimbrIQ provides (ClimbrIQ’s image storage).

• The plugin makes no other outgoing requests and sends no analytics.

ClimbrIQ terms of service and privacy policy.