AI-Ready Wordpress Plugin: Installation and Setup Guide

The ITI Digital AI-Ready Events & Places delivers structured, real-time Events and Places content to WordPress websites with built-in support for AI discoverability, SEO, and search visibility.

The plugin helps organizations publish destination content that is easier for search engines, AI platforms, and travelers to find, understand, and engage with through schema-ready, dynamically updated content delivery.

Designed for Destination Marketing Organizations, Chambers of Commerce, and Economic Development Organizations, the plugin supports modern content strategies focused on discoverability, governance, and real-time visitor engagement.

Content is delivered as fully rendered HTML during the initial page request, allowing search engines and AI platforms including Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI-assisted discovery systems to read and understand Event and Place content without requiring JavaScript execution.

In this article, you will find:

• Install and activate the plugin on your site 
• Set the account Hubname and API key
• Share the generated Webhook URL and key with the ITI Digital Support Team
• Create Detail Page Templates and add Shortcodes
• Add Shortcodes to your Event Calendar and Business Listing site pages
• Apply filters as needed to Shortcodes

Complete Installation Video

View the complete installation in this video, or scroll down further to view specific sections.

 Step by Step Tutorials

1. Install and Activate the ITI Digital AI-Ready Events & Places Plugin

• Install and activate the plugin on your site 
• Set the account Hubname and API key
• Submit the XML sitemap URL to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools
• Share the generated Webhook URL and key with the ITI Support Team

2. Create Detail Page Templates:

• Create and publish template pages to define detail page layouts for individual Event and Place listings

3. Embed the full Event Calendar:

• Copy and paste the appropriate shortcodes to the Event pages on your website.
• Enable search integration in the WordPress search bar.

• Apply filters to your Event Calendar Shortcodes.

4. Embed a Business Listing Module:

• Copy and paste Smart Business Listing (Places) shortcodes to your business listing website pages such as hotels, dining, and other directories.
• Apply shortcode filters to create Featured Listings and Custom Categories
• Enable search integration with the WordPress search bar

Common FAQs

Our team has listed common frequently asked questions that may arise during installation and review of the AI-Ready WordPress Plugin. If your question is not addressed in this list, please let us know, and our team will provide dedicated support as needed. 

• FAQs: https://iti-digital.com/docs/itidi-ai-events-places/documentation.html#faq

Complete Technical Documentation - For Agencies & Developers

For developers and technical agencies implementing or customizing this plugin, the resources below cover installation, configuration, shortcode usage, SEO/canonical URL handling, and analytics integration in full detail.

• Technical Documentation: https://iti-digital.com/docs/itidi-ai-events-places/documentation.html 
• Download WordPress Plugin Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/itidi-ai-events-places/#description  

Need Help?

If you run into any questions or technical issues while installing the plugin, our support team is happy to help. Reach out to us by submitting a ticket through this portal, and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. 

To better identify potential technical issues with the installation, we may require temporary access to your WordPress CMS, with admin credentials. Please feel free to include those in the ticket submission if available.