Manage Rank Math SEO with AI

What we learned testing it

Behavior the ability descriptions do not mention.

• Rank Math's robots.txt fix replaces the file Rank Math generates with a short default that has no Sitemap line and drops rules other plugins add, such as WooCommerce's. To undo it, empty the Edit robots.txt field in Rank Math's General Settings (shown in Advanced mode, to administrators); a physical robots.txt file on the server overrides it either way. If the audit says robots.txt is missing, check the URL first: on some servers it is the host, not Rank Math, that stops the file being served.
• The focus_keywords and post_titles fixes set focus keywords on up to 100 posts, pages and other content per run by default (500 if asked), built from the first three words of each title, with no preview; post_titles replaces keywords you already set. The permalink_structure fix switches the site to /%postname%/ and changes every URL on a site with another structure. Writing keywords per post with the recipe gives better ones.
• No ability writes the SEO title, description, focus keyword or robots of a post you choose, except set-homepage-seo for a static homepage. The AI saves those through Rank Math's own update route, the one its editor panel uses; sending an empty value deletes that field, and object ID 0 writes the homepage settings.
• Rank Math calculates a post's SEO score in the editor. A post changed any other way keeps its old score until someone opens it and clicks Update, and get-seo-scores shows never-scored posts as not available.
• get-redirections fails while the Redirections module is off, and get-404-logs is empty until the 404 Monitor module is on. Switch the module on first.
• A post type's description template is the last fallback: a post's own SEO description comes first, then its excerpt.
• Rank Math caches the sitemap and only rebuilds it after a save in wp-admin, so a change made through the AI, including a sitemap setting, does not show there until you open the Pages or Posts list and use Quick Edit, then Update, on one item of each post type the change affects (a password-protected item does not count); for a category or tag sitemap, Quick Edit one term of that taxonomy. On a plain install, saving in the block editor does not count, because it saves through the REST API. The robots tag on the page itself changes on the next load.
• set-sitemap-settings replaces the whole exclude_posts and exclude_terms lists with what you send, so adding one ID means sending the existing IDs too.
• WPVibe asks for your approval before permanent or security-sensitive steps, such as deleting something, running code or changing a user's role. Rank Math's settings writes and automatic fixes are none of those, so they run as soon as the AI calls them. Each one changes only the fields you name (we diffed every option before and after), but ask the AI to show you the change and wait for your go.
• Top keywords needs Google Search Console connected in Rank Math, and the AI Visibility abilities need a Rank Math account with AI Visibility (trial or paid). We did not verify those five.