Installation and Setup

Installation and Setup

Install

From a release zip

1. Download jat-search-intel.zip from the latest release. Each release also has a .sha256 file if you want to check the download.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now.
3. Click Activate.

From WordPress.org: once the plugin is listed, search for "JAT Search Intel" under Plugins → Add New.

The setup wizard

After activation, a notice offers Run setup. You can also open it any time at JAT Search Intel → Tools → Setup Wizard. It has three steps:

1. Who you are: organization or person, name, logo and official profiles. These feed the Organization / Person node of the schema graph and the brand checks in Readiness.
2. Search engines: whether the site may be indexed, the XML sitemap and IndexNow.
3. AI assistants: choose how AI crawlers are treated:
   • Allow AI search, block training (recommended for a new site)
   • Allow everything
   • Block AI crawlers
   • Keep my current crawler rules (shown when your existing rules don't match a preset; nothing is changed)

The wizard ends on your Readiness score.

After setup

• Open JAT Search Intel → Readiness and click Fix next to anything the plugin can fix for you. See AI Search.
• Edit any post: the JAT Search Intel sidebar shows live scores and fields, and Passage Coach in the Post tab lists the passages to improve. See Editor Tools.
• Switch on optional modules under Settings → General → Module Toggles. Modules you leave off are never loaded.

The admin menu

Everything lives under six entries. Pages inside each one appear as tabs.

Entry	Tabs
Readiness	AI Search Readiness score and Refresh Queue
Settings	General (incl. module toggles and data management), SEO, AEO, GEO, Sitemap, Social, Robots.txt, AI Engine
Redirects	Redirects and 404 log, Broken Links
AI Search	AI crawler rules and Content Signals, AI Visibility, Citation Graph, Authority Map
Reports	Page Performance, Rank Tracker, Analytics, GA4, Core Web Vitals, Content Decay, Cannibalization, Scheduled Reports
Tools	Bulk Tools, Bulk Editor, Internal Linking, Migration, Setup Wizard

Tabs for optional modules only appear once the module is switched on. Add-ons can change the grouping with the jat_search_intel_admin_menu_groups filter.

Switching from another SEO plugin

Use Tools → Migration (or wp jat-search-intel migrate, see WP-CLI) to import titles, descriptions and focus keywords from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, SEOPress or The SEO Framework, then deactivate the old plugin. Running two SEO plugins prints duplicate meta tags and schema, and JAT Search Intel shows a notice if it detects one.

Upgrading from "Search Intel"

Versions before 3.5.0 were called Search Intel and used search-intel / search_intel names. The first time 3.5.0 runs, it moves your settings, post meta, custom tables and scheduled events to the new jat_search_intel names automatically. Nothing needs to be done by hand.

Uninstalling

Deleting the plugin keeps your data, so nothing is lost if you reinstall. To remove everything, tick Delete all plugin data under Settings → General → Data Management before deleting.