Descripción
TheReader.AI is a news curation and automation tool that connects your WordPress site to the TheReader.AI cloud service. It allows site owners to display curated news headlines and AI-generated summaries tailored to specific industries or custom niche topics.
💡 Service Tiers
The plugin requires an API key to connect to the TheReader.AI service. We offer two levels of access:
* Standard Mode (Free): Fetch summarized news from general categories (e.g., Technology, Sports, Business). This is available at no cost after generating a free API key.
* AI Custom News (Premium): Provides targeted news curation for specific niches or custom prompts (e.g., “Real Estate trends in Bangalore”). This tier requires a paid subscription to cover the high-resource AI processing costs.
🚀 Core Features:
- Context-Aware Summaries: Our service processes full-length articles into concise bullet points relevant to your selected niche or category.
- Source Transparency: Every news card includes the original publisher’s name and a direct link to the source article for full attribution.
- Structured Data: Automatically injects JSON-LD
NewsArticleschema to signal content freshness to search engines. - Automated Refresh: Uses WP-Cron to update your feed automatically based on your preferred frequency.
🔒 Privacy & Service Disclosure
This plugin is “Service-ware” and requires a connection to the TheReader.AI API.
* External Service: TheReader.AI (https://thereader.ai)
* Functionality: The external service handles global news monitoring, niche filtering, and AI summarization.
* Data Transmission: The plugin sends your API key and niche configuration (categories or custom prompt) to our servers to retrieve relevant data.
* Privacy: No personal user data or WordPress database information is shared with the external service.
* Terms of Service | Privacy Policy
Capturas
The administrative settings dashboard showing the selection between Standard and Custom modes. 
Example of a premium ‘Niche’ news feed with custom AI summaries. 
Example of a free ‘Technology’ category news grid. 
The auto-sync status and shortcode instructions.
Instalación
- Upload the plugin folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin via the Plugins menu.
- Get your API Key: Visit TheReader.AI to register or log in.
- Navigate to TheReader.AI in your WordPress admin sidebar.
- Enter your API key and click Verify.
- Select a Standard Category (Free) or enter a Custom Niche (Premium).
- Use the
[thereader_news]shortcode on any page or post to display the feed.
Preguntas frecuentes
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Is there a cost to use this plugin?
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The plugin itself and the “Standard Mode” (general category news) are free to use after registering for an API key. The “AI Custom News” feature, which provides hyper-targeted niche curation, requires a paid subscription.
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Why does “AI Custom News” cost money?
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Unlike general categories, custom niche requests require our servers to perform real-time AI filtering and summarization on a per-request basis across 50,000+ sources, which involves significant computing costs.
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Where do I get my API key?
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You can generate both free and premium keys at thereader.ai/api-integration.
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Registro de cambios
1.1.1
- Maintenance: Verified sync workflow and stabilized plugin action links.
1.1.0
- UI Enhancement: Added convenient ‘Settings’ and ‘Go Premium’ quick links directly to the Plugins page action row.
1.0.9
- Feature: Automatically purge frontend cache mechanisms (LiteSpeed, WP Rocket, Elementor, W3, SG Optimizer, etc.) after a successful news sync so that the new headlines are immediately visible to site visitors, even on heavily cached sites.
1.0.8
- Bugfix: Fixed an issue where WP-Cron schedules might drop due to third-party conflict.
- Feature: Added Last Sync Time and Status logging to the admin dashboard for easier debugging.
1.0.7
- Security: Implemented nonce verification and input sanitization.
- Compliance: Renamed functions and options with tread_ prefix.
- Feature: Distinguished between Free (Standard) and Premium (Custom Niche) service tiers.
- Feature: Enhanced JSON-LD metadata injection.
- Documentation: Updated Service Disclosure per Guideline 6.