Trendly AI Post – AI Content Generator, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Google News Auto Blog vs XML Sitemap & Google News

Trendly AI Post is a free AI content generator for WordPress. It picks up real trending topics from Google News and writes a full blog post for you in one click, with the title, headings, featured image, internal links, FAQ section and schema already in place. You bring your own API key from any one of these three AI services: Google Gemini (free tier available) OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-4o mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1) Anthropic Claude (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus) And pick how you want the images: Pexels stock photos (free) DALL-E 3 by OpenAI Google Imagen 3 That is it. No subscription, no premium tier, no hidden upsells. The whole plugin is GPL and stays free forever. Built and maintained by Nitish Sharma (WordPress Developer). See my WordPress.org profile for other plugins and support. What you get One-click SEO post. The plugin writes the full article with title, intro, H2 and H3 headings, FAQ, internal links, featured image and JSON-LD schema. Ready to publish. Trending topics from 25+ regions (India, US, UK, AU, DE, FR, IT, ES, BR, JP and more). Fetched live from Google News every cron run and deduped so you never write the same story twice. Three AI brains. Gemini for free and fast. GPT-4o or Claude Sonnet for premium long-form. Claude Opus for the most nuanced output. Configure all three at once and switch per post if you want. Automatic featured images. Free Pexels stock photos, or AI-generated images using DALL-E 3 or Imagen 3 with smart prompt rewriting so they look editorial. Auto schedule or manual. Set 1 or 2 posts per day on autopilot, or generate manually from the Generate page. Drafts can go to a Review Queue so you stay in control. SEO built in. Article and FAQPage JSON-LD schema, OpenGraph and Twitter Card meta, auto Table of Contents, reading-time badge, internal linking automation and a Related Articles grid. No extra SEO plugin needed. Brand Voice trainer. Paste 3 paragraphs of your own writing, click Analyze and every new post will sound like you. Custom prompt templates. News, How-to, Listicle and Opinion ship built-in. Clone any one of them and tweak the tone, length and structure. Analytics page. See exactly how many posts you have generated, which AI wrote them, how features are landing and what your top source topics are. Privacy first. No telemetry, no tracking pixels, no third-party CDN, no OAuth. Your API keys live in your own database and never leave your server. How it works Pick your AI provider (Gemini, OpenAI or Claude) and paste your API key. Free tiers are available for all three. Pick your image source (Pexels, DALL-E 3 or Imagen 3). Choose a region and a writing style (News, How-to, Listicle, Opinion or your own template). Turn on auto-schedule, or generate manually from a trending topic or your own idea. Each post comes out with a featured image, internal links, FAQ accordion, JSON-LD schema and social captions. Fully SEO-ready. Who is this for Bloggers, niche site owners, news publishers, affiliate marketers, agencies, SaaS founders and ecommerce store owners. Basically anyone who wants a steady content schedule without spending hours every day brainstorming and writing. If you run a tech blog, a sports news site, a finance affiliate site or a lifestyle niche site, this plugin will keep your archive fresh and Google happy. External Services This plugin connects to the following external services: Google News RSS – to fetch trending news data Data sent: region parameter for news feed Terms: https://news.google.com/ Gemini API (by Google AI) – to generate AI-based post content (when Gemini is the selected text provider) and optionally AI-generated featured images via Imagen Data sent: text prompts; image prompts derived from your post topic Terms: https://ai.google.dev/terms Privacy: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms OpenAI API – to generate AI-based post content (when OpenAI is the selected text provider) and optionally AI-generated featured images via DALL-E Data sent: text prompts; image prompts derived from your post topic Terms: https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/ Privacy: https://openai.com/policies/row-privacy-policy/ Anthropic Claude API – to generate AI-based post content (when Claude is the selected provider) Data sent: text prompts Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms Privacy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy Pexels API – to fetch and download stock images Data sent: search keywords Terms: https://www.pexels.com/api/terms/ Features AI writers (pick any): * Google Gemini (2.5 Flash / 2.5 Pro) – free tier, fast, recommended for most users * OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-4o mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1) – paid, best for long-form quality * Anthropic Claude (Haiku 4.5 / Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.7) – paid, best for nuanced writing Image sources (pick any): * Pexels – free stock photos, no usage cost * OpenAI DALL-E 3 / gpt-image-1 – AI-generated images * Google Imagen 3 (via Gemini) – AI-generated images Content automation: * Trending topic discovery from Google News across 25+ regions * Custom prompt templates – News, How-to, Listicle, Opinion ship built-in, plus your own with variable substitution * Brand Voice trainer – paste 3 writing samples and every new post mimics your style * Auto-schedule 1-2 posts per day, or generate manually * Auto-publish or send to a Review Queue with bulk approve / discard * Duplicate prevention – recognizes the same trending topic even when worded differently On-page SEO (built-in, no extra plugin needed): * JSON-LD Article / NewsArticle schema in * JSON-LD FAQPage schema for Google rich results * OpenGraph + Twitter Card meta (og:image, og:type, article:published_time, etc.) * Auto Table of Contents from H2/H3 headings with jump-link IDs * Reading-time badge (“X min read”) * AI-generated FAQ accordion (3-8 Q&A pairs per post) * Related Articles grid using internal-linking matches * Internal linking automation – Dice-coefficient relevance scoring + word-boundary anchor placement Social: * AI-generated captions for X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Facebook * Optional frontend share buttons (X, LinkedIn, Facebook, WhatsApp, Reddit) – privacy-first, no OAuth, no auto-posting Analytics: * All-time / 30-day / 7-day / today generation counts * 14-day generation timeline bar chart * AI provider mix + image source mix * Feature adoption rings (featured image / internal links / social captions) * Status distribution + top source topics Privacy & compliance: * No telemetry, no tracking, no external CDN * API keys stored encrypted in your wp_options * Per-user hourly rate limit prevents runaway AI calls * Fully GPL-compatible – no premium tier, no upsells

Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap. Compatible with WordPress Multisite, Polylang and WPML and most caching plugins. There are no static files created. NEW: Connect your site to your Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors. NEW: Submit your sitemaps right from the WordPress admin. Yes, you read that correctly: Sitemap Pings are back! Features Control the WordPress core XML Sitemaps. Add a Google News Sitemap. Connect your site to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors. Submit/ping sitemaps to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools for fast reindexation. Add custom robots.txt rules. XML Sitemap Option to disable the main XML Sitemap Index. Select sitemaps to include in the sitemap index: post types, taxonomies, authors and google news. Select which (custom) post types, taxonomy archives and users to include in respective sitemaps. Exclude specific posts, pages and custom post type posts from sitemaps. Add a custom sitemap with external URLs. Add external sitemaps. Choose the sitemap server/generator: WordPress core or Plugin. Plugin server: Include featured images or attached images with title. Choose to update Last modification date only on post modification (default) or also on comments. Sitemap stylesheet templates can be overridden by theme template files. Google News Sitemap Optionally activate the Google News Sitemap. Includes the required news sitemap tags: Publication name, language, title and publication date. Set a News Publication Name (site name by default). Supports custom post types. Limit inclusion of certain post categories. Google News Sitemap stylesheet template can be overridden by theme template files. Pro Extensions XML Sitemap Advanced Sitemap notifier: Automatic XML Sitemap Index update notification to Google and Bing. Sitemap notifier log Set a custom sitemap URL (slug) Exclude posts and pages in the Bulk Editor. Optionally include empty taxonomy term and empty author archives Yoast SEO and Rank Math compatibility: exclude posts set to noindex Google News Advanced Sitemap norifier: Automatic Google News Sitemap update notification to Google. Sitemap notifier log Multiple post types – Include more than one post type in the same News Sitemap. Keywords – Add the keywords tag to your News Sitemap. Keywords can be created from Tags, Categories or a dedicated Keywords taxonomy. Stock tickers – Add stock tickers tag to your News Sitemap. A dedicated Stock Tickers taxonomy will be available to manage them. Privacy / GDPR This plugin does not collect any user or visitor data nor set browser cookies. Using this plugin should not impact your site privacy policy in any way. Data that is published An XML Sitemap index, referencing other sitemaps containing your web site’s public post URLs of selected post types that are already public, along with their last modification date and associated image URLs, and any selected public archive URLs. An author sitemap can be included, which will contain links to author archive pages. These urls contain author/user slugs, and the author archives can contain author bio information. If you wish to keep this out of public domain, then deactivate the author sitemap and use an SEO plugin to add noindex headers to the respective archive pages. A Google News Sitemap containing your web site’s public and recent (last 48 hours) URLs of selected news post type, along with their publication time stamp and associated image URL. Data that is transmitted when a connection between your site and Google Search Console is configured in this plugin, the sitemap index and google news sitemap can be submitted to Google. No data is transmitted to any third party. Contribute If you’re happy with this plugin as it is, please consider writing a quick rating or helping other users out on the support forum. If you wish to help build this plugin, you’re very welcome to translate it into your language or contribute code on Github. Credits XML Sitemap Feed was originally based on the discontinued plugin Standard XML Sitemap Generator by Patrick Chia. Since then, it has been completely rewritten and extended in many ways. NOTES: If you do not use fancy URL’s or you have WordPress site running in a subdirectory, a dynamic robots.txt will NOT be generated. On large sites, it is advised to use a good caching plugin to improve your site and sitemap performance.