=== AutoBlogging Pro ===
Contributors: thewebmaster
Tags: ai, content, blogging, openai, deepseek, claude, pexels, automation
Requires at least: 5.8
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 3.1.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Drafts SEO-structured articles with the AI provider of your choice and saves them as drafts for a human to review before publishing.

== Description ==

AutoBlogging Pro writes article drafts using DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude, or any OpenAI-compatible
endpoint, adds real photographs from Pexels or generated illustrations from Stability AI, and files
everything **as a draft for a person to check**.

It is deliberately not an unattended publishing system.

**Read this before installing.** This plugin can hurt your search rankings if you use it badly.
Search engines do not penalise AI writing as such — they penalise unreviewed, unhelpful content
published at scale to manipulate rankings. A plugin that publishes 500 unread articles builds
exactly that. The same plugin used to draft 20 articles a person then fact-checks and improves is an
ordinary productivity tool. The difference is entirely in what you do between generation and
publication, which is why draft-first, spend ceilings and a review queue are the defaults.

= What it does =

* **Draft by default.** Publishing takes a deliberate human click.
* **Review queue** flagging short articles, unverified statistics, invented prices, model
  boilerplate, missing headings, missing images and missing links.
* **Spend ceilings** per day, per month, per lifetime, plus an estimated monthly cap — all checked
  *before* any paid API call.
* **Real block output.** Articles are built from core Gutenberg blocks — headings, lists, tables,
  callouts, pull quotes, FAQ accordions, images — not one undifferentiated slab of HTML.
* **Images** from Pexels (free, real photographs) or Stability AI (generated), placed both as the
  featured image and inside the article.
* **Topic clusters** from a single seed, de-duplicated.
* **SEO** that actually ships: meta description and JSON-LD including FAQPage schema. Rank Math,
  Yoast, SEOPress, AIOSEO and Slim SEO are detected and deferred to.
* **WP-CLI, REST API, and the WordPress Abilities API** so MCP clients can drive it.

= Providers =

You supply your own API keys and pay the provider directly. There is no account, no licence key and
no site limit.

* DeepSeek — cheapest for volume
* Anthropic Claude — best draft quality
* Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — OpenRouter, Groq, Together, a local model
* Pexels — free images
* Stability AI — generated images, roughly $0.03 each

== Installation ==

1. Upload the ZIP under Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, and activate.
2. Go to Auto-Blogger, pick a provider, paste your key, press Test connection.
3. Enter a seed subject, generate topics, **read the list**, save.
4. **Generate one article and read all of it.** Do not skip this.
5. Only then set a schedule.

On activation nothing is scheduled and nothing publishes itself.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Is it really free? =
Yes, GPL v2. No account, no licence key, no site limit. You pay only your AI provider.

= Will Google penalise my site? =
Not for using AI. The policy that matters is scaled content abuse: mass-producing unhelpful content
to game rankings. Publishing unread articles at volume lands there; publishing reviewed, corrected
articles does not.

= How many articles a day? =
The default cap is 5, and that is already a lot if you review them properly. The limiting factor is
your reviewing capacity, not the plugin.

= Do I need WordPress 6.9? =
Only for the Abilities/MCP layer. Everything else works from 5.8. On older versions the MCP layer
simply does not register.

= Does it work with my SEO plugin? =
Rank Math, Yoast, SEOPress, AIOSEO and Slim SEO are detected. The description is written into their
fields and no duplicate tags are emitted.

== Changelog ==

= 3.1.0 =
* Articles are now built from core Gutenberg blocks instead of raw HTML — editable in the block
  editor, and visually varied instead of a wall of text
* Pexels image source added alongside Stability AI, with attribution
* Inline in-article images, not just a featured image
* Typed section generation (intro, steps, comparison, callout, quote, verdict, FAQ)
* Over-long paragraphs are split automatically
* Fixed: checkbox settings defaulting to on could never be switched off

= 3.0.0 =
* Draft-first publishing, review queue, spend ceilings
* Multi-provider support; progressive JSON repair
* Categories, tags, slug, excerpt, internal linking, duplicate-title guard
* Meta description and JSON-LD are actually emitted; SEO plugin detection
* WP-CLI, REST API, Abilities/MCP
