Title: Flexa SEO – AEO | AI SEO & Answer Engine Optimization
Author: FlexaTech
Published: September 2, 2026
Last modified: September 25, 2026
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# Flexa SEO – AEO | AI SEO & Answer Engine Optimization
By [FlexaTech](https://profiles.wordpress.org/flexatech/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/flexa-seo-aeo.0.5.0.zip)
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## Description
Flexa SEO is a complete, privacy-first SEO plugin: title & meta templating, JSON-
LD schema, XML sitemaps, Open Graph, `robots.txt`, IndexNow, and one-click migration
from Yoast, Rank Math and SEOPress. It covers the SEO baseline you expect, and then
goes one step further than any of them.
A guided **Setup Assistant** takes you from activation to a configured, answer-engine-
ready site in a few minutes: it detects your setup, recommends the SEO and AEO settings
that fit, and applies them in one click. Every recommendation is compared against
the defaults, so you see exactly which settings will change before anything is applied
and any value you set yourself is kept.
**What makes it different: the Answer-Engine Readiness Score**
AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews) now decide
whether your content gets _quoted_, not just ranked. Dozens of plugins will generate
an `llms.txt` file and stop there. Flexa SEO is the only one that **measures and
scores how quotable each post actually is**, right in the block editor:
* A live **0–100 readiness score** with a letter grade for the post you’re editing,
refreshed on every save.
* An **actionable checklist** across eight signals answer engines rely on: structured
data, a concise meta description, an answer-first opening paragraph, question-
style headings, FAQ/Q&A blocks, `llms.txt` inclusion, a Markdown alternate for
crawlers, and content depth.
* Each item comes with a plain-English fix, so writers know _exactly_ what to change
to become citable, with no guesswork and no external tool.
* A site-wide **health Dashboard** rolls those scores up across your content: overall
SEO / AEO / Technical scores, an issues overview, health breakdowns, prioritised
actions, and a “Pages needing attention” list where each page reveals what to
fix, with a one-click **Enable site-wide** button on the checks that are just
a settings toggle away (structured data, llms.txt, Markdown alternate).
* Extensible via the `flexa_seo_aeo/aeo/readiness_checks` filter for themes and
add-ons.
This turns “AEO” from a file you generate once into a workflow your team improves
post by post: the gap the crowded llms.txt category leaves wide open.
**Core SEO**
* Title & meta description templating with a token engine (site, post, term, author,
date, pagination variables).
* JSON-LD structured data (`@graph`): Article / BlogPosting / WebPage, WebSite
+ SearchAction, Organization / Person publisher, and automatic FAQPage from core
FAQ blocks.
* Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, canonical URLs, and configurable robots directives(
AEO-friendly defaults: `max-snippet:-1`, `max-image-preview:large`).
* XML sitemaps (index + per-type sub-sitemaps, image entries) with a branded XSL
stylesheet, plus an HTML sitemap shortcode `[flexa_seo_aeo_sitemap]` and a sitemap
block.
* Per-post editing in a classic metabox **and** a Gutenberg editor sidebar, with
one-click **migration from Yoast / Rank Math / SEOPress** (and read-fallback
so nothing breaks mid-move).
* `robots.txt` management and optional **IndexNow** ping on publish/update (see
_External services_ below).
* **Links** controls: strip the category base from archive URLs, redirect attachment
pages to their parent (with an orphan fallback), and add `nofollow` / `target
="_blank"` to external links at display time.
**AI answer-engine tooling**
* Native **`/llms.txt`** endpoint describing your site for large language models.
* **Agent Readiness**: advertises a Markdown alternate of each post (`?flexa-aeo
=md`) via a `Link` header and ``, and serves a clean, token-
cheap Markdown rendering for AI crawlers and coding agents.
* No cloud account and no per-request AI fees: the readiness score and every AEO
feature run entirely on your own server.
**WooCommerce (optional)**
* When WooCommerce is active, emits Product / Offer / AggregateOffer JSON-LD (price,
availability, rating) and Open Graph product tags for AI shopping surfaces.
**Privacy**
* No account, no telemetry, no phone-home. The only outbound request is the optional
IndexNow ping you enable yourself (disclosed below).
### External services
This plugin connects to two external services: IndexNow, only when you explicitly
enable it, and an optional deactivation feedback survey that runs only in the admin.
**IndexNow (optional, “IndexNow ping” setting)**
When the IndexNow feature is turned on, the plugin notifies the IndexNow API each
time you publish or update a post so participating search engines (e.g. Microsoft
Bing, Yandex) can recrawl the changed URL quickly.
* **What is sent:** your site host, the changed URL(s), and an IndexNow verification
key (a random key the plugin generates and serves at `/{key}.txt` on your own
site). No personal data and no post content are transmitted; only the public
URL that changed.
* **When:** on the `publish`/update transition of a post, as a non-blocking background
request. Nothing is sent while the feature is disabled (it is off by default).
* **Endpoint:** `https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow` (operated by Microsoft).
IndexNow is an open protocol. Documentation and terms: https://www.indexnow.org/
documentation (privacy statement for Microsoft, the endpoint operator: https://privacy.
microsoft.com/privacystatement).
**Deactivation feedback (Flexa Product Intelligence)**
When you go to deactivate Flexa SEO on the Plugins screen, a short optional survey
asks why. It is served by Flexa’s product intelligence service at `https://product-
intelligence.flexacommerce.com`. It runs only on `wp-admin/plugins.php`, never on
the front end, and never blocks or delays deactivation.
* **What is sent, and when:** on opening the Plugins screen, a request to `/api/
v1/config` (the product slug and tier) loads the survey configuration, cached
for 6 hours. When you deactivate or interact with the survey, the reason you
pick and any optional message you type are sent to `/api/v1/deactivations`, `/
api/v1/events`, `/api/v1/feedback`, `/api/v1/feature-requests`, and `/api/v1/
recovery-events`. If you later reactivate the plugin, a single `/api/v1/recovery-
events` request records the reactivation and how long the plugin was inactive.
* **What is included:** an anonymous per-site identifier (a random UUID), the plugin
version and tier, and by default your WordPress/PHP version and locale. No email,
site domain, user identity, or raw IP is collected.
* **Opt out:** turn the environment data off with `add_filter( 'flexa_seo_aeo/deactivation_survey/
config', fn( $c ) => array( 'collect_environment' => false ) + $c );`, or disable
the whole survey with `add_filter( 'flexa_seo_aeo/deactivation_survey/enabled','
__return_false' );`.
Service terms and privacy policy: https://flexacommerce.com/pages/terms and https://
flexacommerce.com/pages/privacy
### Source code
The plugin ships compiled JavaScript/CSS for its admin app in `assets/dist/`. The
human-readable source (`apps/admin/src/`) and its build configuration are **included
in the plugin package**, so no external download is required.
The admin app is built with pnpm, Vite, React and TypeScript:
1. `pnpm install`
2. `pnpm build` (or `pnpm dev` for a watched build)
The `.pot` translation template is regenerated with `pnpm i18n:pot` (PHP + vanilla
JS via WP-CLI, React strings via a TypeScript-AST extractor in `tools/i18n/`).
## Screenshots
[⌊Health Dashboard: overall SEO, AEO and Technical SEO scores, an SEO & AEO score
trend, an issues overview (critical, warnings, opportunities, passed), and SEO Health
and AEO Health breakdowns.⌉⌊Health Dashboard: overall SEO, AEO and Technical SEO
scores, an SEO & AEO score trend, an issues overview (critical, warnings, opportunities,
passed), and SEO Health and AEO Health breakdowns.⌉[
Health Dashboard: overall SEO, AEO and Technical SEO scores, an SEO & AEO score
trend, an issues overview (critical, warnings, opportunities, passed), and SEO Health
and AEO Health breakdowns.
[⌊"Pages needing attention" list: per-page AEO score and issue count, expandable
to show exactly what to fix, with a link straight to the editor.⌉⌊"Pages needing
attention" list: per-page AEO score and issue count, expandable to show exactly
what to fix, with a link straight to the editor.⌉[
“Pages needing attention” list: per-page AEO score and issue count, expandable to
show exactly what to fix, with a link straight to the editor.
[⌊Settings: title and meta description templating with the token engine, plus site-
wide title and meta defaults.⌉⌊Settings: title and meta description templating with
the token engine, plus site-wide title and meta defaults.⌉[
Settings: title and meta description templating with the token engine, plus site-
wide title and meta defaults.
[⌊Settings: Organization identity used for the knowledge-graph (Organization/Person)
schema.⌉⌊Settings: Organization identity used for the knowledge-graph (Organization/
Person) schema.⌉[
Settings: Organization identity used for the knowledge-graph (Organization/Person)
schema.
[⌊Settings: XML and HTML sitemaps, with per-post-type and per-taxonomy inclusion.⌉⌊
Settings: XML and HTML sitemaps, with per-post-type and per-taxonomy inclusion.⌉[
Settings: XML and HTML sitemaps, with per-post-type and per-taxonomy inclusion.
[⌊Settings: indexing controls, IndexNow, and custom robots.txt rules.⌉⌊Settings:
indexing controls, IndexNow, and custom robots.txt rules.⌉[
Settings: indexing controls, IndexNow, and custom robots.txt rules.
[⌊Settings: AEO Core options: llms.txt, the plain-text and Markdown alternates for
AI crawlers, Agent Readiness, and JSON-LD schema.⌉⌊Settings: AEO Core options: llms.
txt, the plain-text and Markdown alternates for AI crawlers, Agent Readiness, and
JSON-LD schema.⌉[
Settings: AEO Core options: llms.txt, the plain-text and Markdown alternates for
AI crawlers, Agent Readiness, and JSON-LD schema.
[⌊Settings: branding and white-label, to replace the plugin name across the admin.⌉⌊
Settings: branding and white-label, to replace the plugin name across the admin.⌉[
Settings: branding and white-label, to replace the plugin name across the admin.
[⌊Settings: one-click migration of titles, meta and settings from Yoast SEO or Rank
Math.⌉⌊Settings: one-click migration of titles, meta and settings from Yoast SEO
or Rank Math.⌉[
Settings: one-click migration of titles, meta and settings from Yoast SEO or Rank
Math.
[⌊Settings: import and export the full plugin configuration to move it between sites.⌉⌊
Settings: import and export the full plugin configuration to move it between sites
.⌉[
Settings: import and export the full plugin configuration to move it between sites.
[⌊Settings: Danger Zone, to restore defaults and clear per-post SEO overrides.⌉⌊
Settings: Danger Zone, to restore defaults and clear per-post SEO overrides.⌉[
Settings: Danger Zone, to restore defaults and clear per-post SEO overrides.
[⌊Block editor: the Search & AI panel, editing title, meta description and canonical
URL per page.⌉⌊Block editor: the Search & AI panel, editing title, meta description
and canonical URL per page.⌉[
Block editor: the Search & AI panel, editing title, meta description and canonical
URL per page.
[⌊Block editor: the Social panel, editing Open Graph title, description and share
image per page.⌉⌊Block editor: the Social panel, editing Open Graph title, description
and share image per page.⌉[
Block editor: the Social panel, editing Open Graph title, description and share
image per page.
[⌊Settings: social sharing with Open Graph and X (Twitter) Cards, card type, and
a default share image.⌉⌊Settings: social sharing with Open Graph and X (Twitter)
Cards, card type, and a default share image.⌉[
Settings: social sharing with Open Graph and X (Twitter) Cards, card type, and a
default share image.
## Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
* Flexa SEO Sitemap An HTML sitemap of your published content, grouped by type.
Rendered server-side so it always reflects the live site.
## Installation
1. Upload the `flexa-seo-aeo` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`, or install it through
the Plugins screen.
2. Activate the plugin through the _Plugins_ screen in WordPress.
3. Open **Flexa SEO** in the admin menu to configure titles, social, sitemaps, indexing,
and the AEO Core options.
## FAQ
### What is the Answer-Engine Readiness Score?
It is a per-post grade (0–100) shown in the block-editor sidebar that measures how
ready the post is to be quoted by AI answer engines. It checks eight signals (structured
data, meta description, an answer-first opening, question-style headings, FAQ blocks,
llms.txt inclusion, a Markdown alternate, and content depth) and gives a plain-English
fix for each. It runs entirely on your server, with no AI account or API key.
### How is this different from the many llms.txt plugins?
Most of those generate a single `llms.txt` file and stop. Flexa SEO does that too,
but its focus is _measuring and improving_ how quotable each page is, post by post,
plus a full SEO baseline (schema, sitemaps, meta, migration). The readiness score
is the workflow those file-only tools don’t offer.
### Does this plugin require an account or send my data anywhere?
No account is required, and no content is sent anywhere. There are only two optional
outbound requests, both covered under _External services_: the IndexNow ping, which
you enable yourself and which sends only changed public URLs, and a short deactivation
feedback survey on the Plugins screen, which is anonymous and which you can disable
with a filter.
### Will it conflict with Yoast, Rank Math, or SEOPress?
Run one SEO plugin at a time. Flexa SEO can read existing per-post meta from those
plugins as a fallback, easing migration.
### Does it work without WooCommerce?
Yes. WooCommerce product schema is an optional layer that activates only when WooCommerce
is installed.
## Reviews
There are no reviews for this plugin.
## Contributors & Developers
“Flexa SEO – AEO | AI SEO & Answer Engine Optimization” is open source software.
The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ FlexaTech ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/flexatech/)
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## Changelog
#### 0.5.0
* New: a **Links** settings section for cleaning up URLs and controlling link behavior
on the front end. Strip Category Base removes `/category/` from category archive
URLs (with a 301 from the old URL); Redirect Attachments sends media attachment
pages to their parent post, with an optional fallback URL for attachments that
have no parent. It also adds `rel="nofollow"` to external links, `rel="nofollow"`
to links pointing at external image files, and `target="_blank"` to open external
links in a new tab. The link attributes are applied when content is displayed,
so your stored content is never changed.
#### 0.4.1
* Fix: the deactivation feedback survey no longer opens more than one “Before you
go” dialog. With several Flexa plugins active at once, each bundled its own copy
of the survey script and every copy added a handler to the Deactivate link, so
the dialog stacked and needed one click to dismiss each copy. Each Deactivate
link now opens a single dialog.
#### 0.4.0
* New: an optional deactivation feedback survey. If you deactivate the plugin from
the Plugins screen, a short survey asks why, so we can fix what is not working.
It is anonymous (a random per-site id, no email or domain), runs only in the
admin, and never blocks or delays deactivation. If you reactivate later, that
win-back is recorded too (anonymously). Disable it all with `add_filter( 'flexa_seo_aeo/
deactivation_survey/enabled', '__return_false' );`. See _External services_ for
exactly what is sent.
#### 0.3.0
* New: **Setup Assistant**, a guided onboarding wizard. It detects your site, recommends
the SEO and AEO settings that fit, and applies them in one click. The flow covers
search essentials, AI readiness, a quick content-readiness scan of your recent
pages, optional migration from Yoast or Rank Math, and a final readiness report
that seeds your Dashboard. Nothing is ever overwritten: recommendations are compared
against the defaults, you see every setting that will change before applying,
and any value you already customized is kept.
* New: re-enter the Setup Assistant any time from the Dashboard card, from Settings›
Tools, or from the command palette. A re-run only proposes settings that are
still at their defaults, so it is safe to run repeatedly.
* Security: running a full site scan now requires the “edit others’ posts” capability(
Editors and Administrators), so lower-privileged roles can no longer trigger
the site-wide scan through the REST API. Viewing the cached Dashboard report
is unchanged.
#### 0.2.0
* New: **SEO/AEO health Dashboard**: overall SEO, AEO and Technical scores, an
issues overview, SEO & AEO health breakdowns, prioritised recommended actions,
and a “Pages needing attention” list. Each listed page expands to show exactly
which readiness checks fail (with a plain-English fix), links straight to the
editor, and can be re-scanned on its own after an edit, with no full site scan
needed.
* New: **one-click “Enable site-wide” fix**: readiness checks that fail only because
a global toggle is off (structured data, llms.txt, Markdown alternate) get a
Fix button on the dashboard and in the block-editor sidebar; it flips the setting
and re-scores your pages. Shown only to users who can manage settings. No AI,
no external calls.
* New: score trend, a lightweight history of your SEO/AEO scores, captured each
time you run a scan (no cron, no external analytics).
* Fix: migration source detection could run an extremely slow database query on
large sites (a multi-key meta lookup), which under a small PHP-FPM pool could
tie up all workers. Rewritten as a single indexed query so opening the plugin(
and running a migration) stays fast.
* Improved: the plugin now opens on the Dashboard, with a Dashboard / Settings
switch in the header.
#### 0.1.0
* Initial release: **Answer-Engine Readiness Score** (per-post 0–100 grade + actionable
checklist in the block editor), title/meta templating, Open Graph & Twitter,
canonical & robots, XML/HTML sitemaps, robots.txt, IndexNow, llms.txt, Agent
Readiness Markdown export, JSON-LD schema (Article/WebPage/WebSite/Organization/
FAQ), one-click migration from Yoast/Rank Math/SEOPress, optional WooCommerce
Product schema, and a React admin app.
## Meta
* Version **0.5.0**
* Last updated **2 days ago**
* Active installations **Fewer than 10**
* WordPress version ** 6.5 or higher **
* Tested up to **7.1.2**
* PHP version ** 8.2 or higher **
* Language
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flexa-seo-aeo/)
* Tags
* [aeo](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/aeo/)[schema](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/schema/)
[seo](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)[sitemap](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sitemap/)
[woocommerce](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/)
* [Advanced View](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/flexa-seo-aeo/advanced/)
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## Contributors
* [ FlexaTech ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/flexatech/)
## Support
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