Hide AI features

Some sites do not want AI in their SEO plugin at all: a client who asked for it, a team policy, or just a cleaner screen. Hide AI features removes every AI button, panel, menu item and prompt from RankFlect SEO in one go, and stops every AI request.

Everything else keeps working: titles and meta, schema, sitemaps, redirects, the site audit, analytics and the AI Agents (MCP) screen.

It is off by default.

Turn it on

1. Go to RankFlect SEO → Settings → AI provider.
2. Turn on Hide AI features. It is right below Pause all AI.
3. Click Save changes.

The page reloads, so the menu and screens update straight away. To bring everything back, turn the switch off and save again.

Hide AI features or Pause all AI?

	Pause all AI	Hide AI features
Stops every AI request, including from agents, Autopilot and automatic metadata	Yes	Yes
Hides AI buttons, tabs and menu items	No	Yes
Good for	A short break, unexpected usage, changing keys	Sites that should not show AI at all

With either switch on, AI requests are answered with "AI is paused in RankFlect SEO settings." An agent that calls get_ai_status sees that AI is paused. See AI usage limits, costs and privacy.

What is hidden

Admin screens

• AI Writer in the RankFlect SEO menu and the top navigation.
• Dashboard: the AI requests today tile and the AI assistant module switch.
• Content: the Suggest with AI buttons and the bulk AI bar.
• Site Audit: the Fix with AI and Set up AI buttons. Other fix buttons still work.
• Competitor analysis: the Ask AI for content gaps switch. Compare still works.
• Image SEO: the per-image AI button. Saving and Fill all from file names still work.
• Analytics: the AI insights tab.
• AI Visibility: only the AI crawlers and AI revenue tabs stay, because they make no AI requests.
• The setup wizard: the AI provider (optional) card.

The editor (block editor, Classic Editor and Elementor)

• The Write with AI tab and the AI Assistant card.
• Explain with AI and Suggest with AI buttons.
• AI title ideas in the headline analyzer and the Set up AI hints.
• The FAQ with AI panel.

With RankFlect SEO Pro

• Opportunities: the Rewrite title button.
• Traffic Recovery: the refresh brief buttons and saved briefs. The table of decaying pages stays.
• Focus Pages: the Ask AI button and the saved AI diagnosis.
• SEO Autopilot: the AI title and description jobs. Alt text from file names, internal links and audit setting fixes keep running. See SEO Autopilot.

What stays

These are not AI writing, so they stay as they are:

• The AI provider settings tab, where the switch lives.
• AI crawler switches and tracking, llms.txt and AI referral traffic.
• The AI answer readiness checks in the editor.
• The AI Agents screen and MCP connections. Agent tools that write with AI are refused, the same way they are when AI is paused.

FAQ

Is my AI key deleted?

No. Your provider, key and other AI settings stay saved. When you turn the switch off, AI works again with the same settings.

Can editors turn it back on?

Only users who can change RankFlect SEO settings, which are administrators by default. See Role manager.

What is the difference with turning off the AI assistant module?

The AI assistant module switch on the Dashboard turns AI off too. Hide AI features also removes the AI buttons, menus and prompts that the free plugin and Pro show, such as the AI buttons that lead to Pro upgrade prompts. It is the setting to use when nobody on the site should see AI.

Is this a Pro feature?

No. Hide AI features is free in RankFlect SEO.