OutscoreAgent Publisher vs Auto Publish for Google My Business

OutscoreAgent is an AI content generator that creates SEO-optimized articles and publishes them directly to your WordPress site. It handles the entire content lifecycle — from keyword research and topic clustering through SERP competitor analysis, article generation, and ongoing content refresh to combat SEO decay. This plugin is the WordPress-side bridge: it creates a secure REST API endpoint that the OutscoreAgent platform uses to push finished articles. Once configured, articles are automatically published to your site with their correct title, content, featured image, and metadata. What OutscoreAgent brings to your WordPress site: AI content generation — topic research, competitor analysis, and publish-ready articles SEO optimization — keyword targeting informed by SERP analysis and topic clusters Content refresh — detect SEO decay (ranking drops, outdated content) and automatically update articles Scheduled publishing — set a daily publish time and articles go live on your schedule Featured images with proper photographer attribution (Pexels / Unsplash) IndexNow integration — notify search engines the moment an article is published What the plugin handles: Secure bearer token authentication — only OutscoreAgent can publish to your site HTTPS enforcement — tokens are never transmitted over plain HTTP Per-site configuration — each WordPress site has its own independent token Featured image sideloading into the WordPress media library Structured error logging — detailed logs available in the admin panel Clean uninstall — removing the plugin deletes all its data from your database How it works: Install and activate the plugin Generate an API token from the OutscoreAgent settings page Enter the token and your site’s REST API URL in the OutscoreAgent platform Articles are published automatically when they finish generating OutscoreAgent offers a free tier with core features included, so you can connect your site and start publishing without a paid subscription. A free trial of premium features is available for new accounts. Third-party service requirement: This plugin is the WordPress-side companion of the OutscoreAgent platform and requires an active OutscoreAgent account to be useful. The plugin itself does nothing on its own — it exposes a secure REST endpoint that the OutscoreAgent platform calls to publish generated articles, and it sends post-status updates back to the platform so article state stays in sync. Without an OutscoreAgent account, no data is ever sent anywhere; the plugin simply remains idle. Data transmitted to OutscoreAgent: When you configure a callback URL in the plugin settings (provided to you by the OutscoreAgent platform), the plugin will transmit the following information to OutscoreAgent each time a post it originally published changes status (draft → publish, publish → trash, etc.): The post’s WordPress ID The post’s public permalink and WP admin edit link The new post status (e.g. publish, draft, trash) The OutscoreAgent external article ID the post is linked to A UTC timestamp No post content, user personal data, or WordPress credentials are ever sent. See the External services section below for the full disclosure. By using this plugin you agree to the OutscoreAgent Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. External services This plugin relies on the OutscoreAgent platform at https://outscoreagent.com/ to function. An OutscoreAgent account is required — without one, the plugin stays idle and no data leaves your site. Service used: OutscoreAgent (operated by OutscoreAgent, the plugin author). What the service does: Generates SEO-optimised articles with AI on OutscoreAgent’s servers, then publishes them to your WordPress site via the REST endpoint this plugin exposes. Tracks the post-status lifecycle (draft / published / trashed) for its own content dashboard. When data is sent to the service: Whenever a WordPress post that was originally published by OutscoreAgent changes status (e.g. the editor moves it from draft to publish, or trashes it). Sending is triggered by WordPress’s transition_post_status hook. No data is sent for posts the plugin did not create. No data is sent before you configure the callback URL in Settings → OutscoreAgent Publisher. What data is sent: A single JSON payload containing: event — the literal string post_status_changed external_id — the OutscoreAgent article ID this post is linked to wp_post_id — the numeric WordPress post ID wp_post_url — the public permalink of the post wp_post_status — the new WordPress post status (e.g. publish, draft, trash) wp_edit_url — the WordPress admin edit URL for the post timestamp — ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of the transition No post content, user personal data, comments, WordPress credentials, or IP addresses are transmitted. Transport: HTTPS POST to the callback URL the OutscoreAgent platform configures in the plugin settings. The plugin refuses to send callbacks over plain HTTP (localhost is exempt for development only). Terms and Privacy: The OutscoreAgent service is governed by its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. By connecting this plugin to your OutscoreAgent account you agree to both.

Auto Publishing Auto Publish for Google My Business lets you publish posts, custom posts and pages automatically from WordPress to your Google My Business page. Posts can be scheduled as well! Creating content on Google My Business is becoming an increasingly important SEO factor. But the problem is it can be a hassle creating new content and easy to forget. With Auto Publish for Google My Business you can start getting more content on your, or your clients’ business page on Google without having to do any additional operations. The plugin is simple, lightweight and FULLY free. You can also setup a default share message (which includes time saving shortcodes) and an action type for all your posts which you can override on the individual post page as well. You can also filter items to be published based on categories selected on the plugin settings page. You can choose whether you want to share posts, custom posts and pages. The plugin utilises the official Google My Business API so your posts featured image will automatically be used as the Google My Business post image and your post link will be set as the call to action link in Google My Business. You can also create event posts with a start and end date. Every post will automatically be published to Google My Business, however on each post there is a checkbox which enables you to not share a particular post or you can change the default to not publish posts automatically from the plugin settings. On the ‘All Posts/Pages/Custom Post Type’ screen you will also see a share history timeline for each post. From the plugin settings you can also create a manual new post which isn’t tied to any WordPress post/page/custom post type and you can also edit and remove past posts without even having to go to your Google My Business page. In version 1.2 of the plugin we have introduced full multiple location support! So you can select to use the plugin with multiple Google My Business locations, set your default locations and choose what locations to share to for each post! There is no limit to the amount of posts you can create! Reviews Display reviews on any post, page or in a sidebar widget using the review shortcode builder in the plugin settings. Simply change the settings and get a live preview of your review slider or grid. Then copy and paste the shortcode into the desired position on your website. There are heaps of options to customise the look of the reviews and you can even manually exclude specific reviews from displaying. Reviews will be updated automatically once every day so there’s no maintenance. Great Support The plugin comes with an FAQ section accessible from the plugin settings page and it’s transation friendly. Announcing AutoSocial Please check out the pro version called AutoSocial which provides the same functionality as Auto Publish for Google My Business but adds Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. AutoSocial has many other cool features you will love as well! Learn more