User Guide
Everything you need to get started
From connecting WordPress to publishing your first AI-generated article, with instructions for each feature.
Start a Free TrialGetting Started
Step 1: Create Your Account
Visit the registration page and sign up with your email address. You start on the Free plan (1 English article a month). To try a paid plan, start a free trial from the pricing page — no credit card required: 7 days on Starter, 14 days on Pro and Business.
Step 2: Create an Application Password
Log in to WordPress as the user Artikolo will publish as — we recommend a dedicated user with the Editor role, which can create the categories and tags Artikolo adds. Go to Users → Profile, find Application Passwords, enter the name Artikolo and click Add New Application Password. Copy the password; WordPress shows it only once. Your site must use HTTPS.
Step 3: Connect Your WordPress Site
In Artikolo, open the WordPress Configuration page and enter your site address, the WordPress username and the Application Password, then click Save WordPress Configuration. Under Content Generation Settings, save the topic and keywords you want articles about.
Step 4: Generate Your First Article
Open Content Tools in your dashboard. Enter any topic — for example, 'beginner guide to container gardening' — and click Generate Article. Writing takes a few minutes; when it is done, Artikolo publishes the article to your WordPress site, with a meta description, featured image and internal links.
Optional: The WordPress Plugin
To generate articles from inside WordPress and save them as drafts, install the Artikolo plugin from the download page, create an API key on the API Keys page, and enter it under Artikolo → Settings in WordPress. Click Test to check the connection.
Content Generation
Article from Prompt
Enter a topic or a sentence in Content Tools. Artikolo writes an article of about 1,500 words or more around a primary keyword, with H2 and H3 headings and a short FAQ section, and adds a meta description, a featured image and links to related posts on your site.
Content from URL (Skyscraper Method)
Paste the address of a competitor's article. Artikolo writes a new, longer article (at least 2,000 words) on the same subject that aims to cover what the original misses, and compares it with the source for word overlap — a basic check, not a plagiarism-detection service.
Full Automation
Switch on automatic scheduling and Artikolo writes about your saved keywords, one keyword per article (then your saved topic): weekly on Starter, three times a week on Pro and daily on Business, within your monthly article credits. These articles are published as soon as they are written.
SEO Autopilot
Add up to three competitor domains and Artikolo lists the keywords they rank for and you do not, with volume, difficulty and an opportunity category. Select keywords to generate a cluster of articles; they wait for you to preview and publish them. See the SEO Autopilot page for a full walkthrough.
Anti-Slop Quality System
The writing instructions ban a list of overused AI words ("delve", "landscape", "game-changer" and more), and banned words are checked again before publishing. Business plan users also get a second editing pass that rewrites sentences that sound machine-written, including on scheduled and automatic articles.
Reviewing Articles
Articles created in the Artikolo app are published as soon as they are written; edit, unpublish or delete them in WordPress like any post. SEO Autopilot clusters wait for you to publish them, and the Artikolo WordPress plugin can save articles as drafts.
Keyword Research
Competitor Gap Analysis
Keyword research in Artikolo happens in SEO Autopilot. Enter up to three competitor domains to see the keywords they rank for that your connected site does not, with monthly search volume, a difficulty score (0-100) and an opportunity category (Quick Win, Growth, Strategic). The data is Google's, in your content language and for that language's country (the United Kingdom for English).
Lookups
Each analysis uses one keyword lookup for your site plus one per competitor. Monthly allowances: Free 10, Starter 100, Pro 150, Business 300 lookups.
From Research to Article
Select keywords from the results and generate. Artikolo writes a cluster of articles targeting them, ready to preview and publish.
Rankings
No Rank Tracking in Artikolo
Artikolo does not show your Google positions or rank history. Use Google Search Console, which is free, to see the queries your posts appear for and their average position.
SEO Audit
Run an Audit
Open SEO Audit, enter a URL and start the audit. It runs Google Lighthouse on that URL twice, on mobile and on desktop, and usually takes a few minutes. Starter includes 1 audit a month, Pro 2 and Business 4.
Understand Your Scores
Each audit returns Lighthouse scores out of 100 for performance (including LCP, FCP, CLS and TBT), accessibility, best practices and SEO, for mobile and desktop, plus a combined score weighted 60% mobile and 40% desktop.
Fix Recommendations
Every audit includes AI-written recommendations based on its findings, in priority order. Work through the highest-priority items first.
Schema Markup
From the WordPress Plugin
Artikolo does not add schema markup to its articles. The Artikolo WordPress plugin, with its SEO tags setting on and no other SEO plugin active, adds Article, WebSite, Organization and breadcrumb JSON-LD to your pages. See Schema Markup for details.
Validate Your Schema
Test your pages with Google's Rich Results Test to see which structured data Google finds.
Account & Billing
Manage Your Subscription
Your subscription page shows your plan, remaining credits and billing period. Upgrades take effect immediately and are charged the prorated difference. To move to a cheaper plan, cancel and subscribe again when the current period ends. Article credits renew every 30 days and do not roll over.
Change Your Password
Go to Profile > Edit Profile. Enter your current password and new password (minimum 8 characters). Click Save Changes.
One Site per Account
The Artikolo app publishes to one connected WordPress site per account. The Artikolo plugin can be installed on other sites with an API key from your account; all articles use your account's credits.
Cancel Your Subscription
On your subscription page, click Cancel Subscription and confirm. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for, and you keep access until then. Before that date you can undo it with Resume Subscription.
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