Jorge Castro — WordPress Plugin
The WordPress.org plugin that connects a WordPress or WooCommerce site to the Jorge Castro AI SEO platform so it can publish posts, products and SEO metadata automatically.
Tech Stack
Project Overview
Overview
The JorgeCastro AI plugin connects WordPress to the Jorge Castro SEO platform and is distributed through the WordPress.org plugin directory. A site owner pastes an API key and clicks Connect. The plugin registers the site with the platform and opens a versioned REST namespace that the platform calls to list, create, update and delete posts, pages, WooCommerce products and categories, manage authors, and read or write SEO titles and descriptions.
My role
The plugin was started by other engineers on the team. I took it from version 1.1.7 to 1.3.0. I designed and built multilingual support (1.2.0 to 1.2.2), then shipped 1.2.3 and 1.3.0, which are tagged in the WordPress.org SVN release.
What it does
- One-click connect and disconnect using an API key from the platform dashboard
- REST endpoints for posts, pages, WooCommerce products and categories, and authors
- Writes meta titles and descriptions to Yoast SEO or Rank Math, and outputs them itself when neither is installed
- Publishes into the right language on Polylang and WPML sites
- Lets a site send articles to its theme's custom blog post type instead of standard Posts
- An admin filter that lists only platform-generated posts
How it's built
The plugin is plain PHP (7.2 and up) organized into namespaced classes: a REST router with a permission callback, handlers for blog posts, pages, WooCommerce and authors, an SEO meta handler and an API client for the platform. Requests are authorized with the connected API key, compared in constant time, or with an administrator session. Translation support sits behind a small driver interface with Polylang, WPML and null implementations, so a site without a translation plugin behaves exactly as before. Releases go out through the WordPress.org SVN repository as versioned tags.
Highlights
- Every listing response carries the site's language map and each item's translation group. Content in a language the site lacks falls back to the default language instead of failing.
- WPML stops returning all languages when a query covers several post types, so I made the plugin query each language in turn and merge the results. Pagination now reaches every language.
- Version 1.3.0 fixed connections on sites that install WordPress in a subdirectory by registering the site's real REST address.