Luis Rita AI Blog Writer with Sources

Luis Rita AI Blog Writer with Sources is a draft-first AI blog writer. It creates normal WordPress block content from your brief and selected sources, and never publishes automatically. This plugin is bring-your-own-key only and needs no account. An optional paid add-on, AI Blog Writer Pro, is sold separately.

• Use your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or xAI API key and choose a GPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok model.
• Get topic ideas for your subject, and a primary phrase, supporting terms, and reader questions for your topic.
• Choose a Delegated or Guided workflow, supply up to eight source URLs, and review the outline in Guided mode.
• Get a normal WordPress draft with sources, warnings, metadata suggestions, and provenance.
• Save writer profiles linked to WordPress author accounts, preview their style, and get drafts written in the profile's voice.
• Rewrite one section of a draft, or regenerate it from the sources you choose.
• Reopen the brief behind any job and reuse it for a new version.
• See related published posts to link to, and track provider usage with costs estimated from each model's list price and optional monthly cost ceilings.
• Use the plugin's screens in English, German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, or Japanese, following each user's WordPress language.

Generated content can contain errors, unsupported claims, or bias. Human review is required before publication. No ranking, traffic, accuracy, or legal-safety guarantee is made. AI Blog Writer Pro (optional) The free plugin is complete on its own. AI Blog Writer Pro is a separate paid add-on that finds sources automatically, checks every factual claim in the draft against its sources, checks citations and links, offers an optional second-model fact-check, and applies SEO suggestions to Yoast SEO, All in One SEO, and SEOPress. It runs on your own AI key, with a 14-day free trial. The plugin's screens mention it in a few places until it is installed; each mention can be dismissed, and the aibcg_show_pro_prompts filter turns them all off. External services This plugin sends data to up to three kinds of external destinations. The first two happen only after an administrator configures an API key or a user supplies URLs; the third only if an administrator turns on usage data. Nothing is sent during installation or activation. 1. Your selected AI provider Requests go to the provider matching the configured API key:

• OpenAI — https://api.openai.com/v1/models, https://api.openai.com/v1/responses
• Anthropic — https://api.anthropic.com/v1/models, https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages
• Google — https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models, .../v1beta/models/{model}:generateContent
• xAI — https://api.x.ai/v1/models, https://api.x.ai/v1/chat/completions

What is sent, and when:

• Test connection (Settings → Test connection, and automatically once when an administrator submits a new article brief): the API key and a request for the provider's model list. No content is sent.
• Outline stage (after a job reaches the outline stage): the API key, selected model, your brief fields (topic, talking points, audience, search intent, keyword phrases, tone, length, language, market, call to action, include/avoid notes), today's date, the selected writer profile, and extracted notes plus titles and URLs of the selected sources.
• Draft stage (after the outline is generated in Delegated mode, or approved in Guided mode): the same brief, date, writer profile, and source notes, plus the approved outline.
• Topic ideas (New article → Need a topic?): the API key, the subject you type, the brief's audience, language, and market, today's date, and the titles of up to 50 recent posts (published, scheduled, pending, and drafts) so the ideas avoid them.
• Keyword ideas (New article → Suggest keywords for this topic): the API key, the topic, the brief's audience, language, and market, and today's date.
• Propose writer profile (Writer profiles → Propose editable profile): the API key, your prompt text, and any writing sample you paste.
• Preview a writer profile's style (Writer profiles → Preview this style): the API key, the profile fields in the form, today's date, and the sample topic.
• Rewrite section (block editor sidebar): the API key, the section content, your instruction, and the notes of the draft's sources, or of the sources you tick for "Regenerate using selected sources".

Never sent: WordPress credentials, other database contents, visitor data, or payment data. API keys stay server-side and are never exposed to the browser or the REST API. Provider terms and data policies apply to everything sent:

• https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/
• https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/
• https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/your-data
• https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms
• https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
• https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms
• https://policies.google.com/privacy
• https://x.ai/legal/terms-of-service
• https://x.ai/legal/privacy-policy

2. Source URLs you supply During research, your server fetches each URL in the brief with a plain HTTP request identified as Luis-Rita-AI-Blog-Writer/<version>; <your site URL>. No brief content, key, or user data is sent. Private addresses are rejected, redirects are limited to three, and responses are capped at 1 MB. 3. Usage data (optional, off by default) Only if an administrator turns on "Share anonymous usage data" (on the first-run screen or in Settings → Usage data), the plugin sends anonymous statistics about its own use to https://telemetry.sourcedwriter.com/v1/batch, run by the plugin author, once a day and when the plugin is deactivated.

• What is sent: a random install ID created when usage data is turned on; the plugin, WordPress, and PHP versions; the site language; the provider and model in use; whether jobs complete or fail, at which stage, and with which error code; ranges for article length, sources, duration, and token use; the estimated cost per draft; and which features are used (Guided mode, writer profiles, section rewrites, Rank Math). Settings → Usage data lists every event, and Diagnostics shows the exact data waiting to be sent.
• Never sent: the site address, names, emails, user or post IDs, API keys, briefs, topics, keywords, source URLs, outlines, article text, writer profiles, or error messages. The server does not store IP addresses or request headers, and keeps events for 24 months.
• Turning it off deletes the install ID and anything not yet sent. Diagnostics → Usage data → Delete data on server deletes everything already sent. Defining AIBCG_DISABLE_TELEMETRY as true in wp-config.php keeps it off and hides the option.
• Privacy policy: https://sourcedwriter.com/privacy/ — full list: https://sourcedwriter.com/docs/privacy-and-external-services/#usage-data

1. Copy the plugin directory into /wp-content/plugins/ and activate it.
2. Open AI Blog Writer → Settings.
3. Choose a provider and model, enter its API key, save, and test the connection.
4. Open New article, review the acknowledgement, and create a draft.

For strongest secret isolation, define this in wp-config.php instead of saving a key: define( 'AIBCG_OPENAI_API_KEY', 'your-key' ); For other providers, use AIBCG_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, AIBCG_GOOGLE_API_KEY, or AIBCG_XAI_API_KEY. Saved keys are encrypted with Sodium using AIBCG_ENCRYPTION_KEY, or AUTH_KEY if undefined. Define a stable AIBCG_ENCRYPTION_KEY so rotating AUTH_KEY does not invalidate saved keys. Generation runs as resumable WP-Cron stages. See the FAQ for sites with low traffic or DISABLE_WP_CRON.

1.6.0

• New: the editor sidebar's SEO suggestions list up to five published posts on the same subject to link to, found from the brief's primary phrase, supporting terms, and topic.
• New: costs are estimated from each model's list price, so Usage and cost, each job's estimated cost, and the monthly cost ceilings work without entering prices. Prices entered in Settings still apply to every model.
• New: newer models to choose from: GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Haiku 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Grok 4.7. The recommended model for each provider is unchanged.
• New: every AI Blog Writer screen has a link to rate the plugin on WordPress.org, at the top until you hide it, and in the footer.
• Improved: job pages show readable names for the job's status and for each line of provider usage, including the add-on's checks.
• Fix: "GPT-5.6" is now GPT-5.6 Sol, the name OpenAI uses for that model; sites set to it switch automatically. Gemini 3.5 Flash, which Google no longer offers, leaves the model list.

1.5.0

• New: "Need a topic? Get ideas" on New article suggests six specific topics for your subject that your recent posts don't already cover, and "Suggest keywords for this topic" proposes a primary phrase, supporting terms, the search intent, and reader questions.
• New: "Regenerate using selected sources" in the editor sidebar's Rewrite one section rebuilds a section from the sources you tick, cites them, and lists any claim it removed. Rewrite previews now show their warnings.
• New: "Preview this style" on Writer profiles writes a short opening in the profile's voice before you use it for a whole article.
• New: error messages link to "How to fix this" on the Troubleshooting page, and a job that waits more than two minutes to start points to the WP-Cron help.
• New: the plugin's screens are available in German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese, following each user's WordPress language. Articles are still written in the language set in the brief.
• New: optional, anonymous usage data, off by default. An administrator can turn it on from the first-run screen or Settings → Usage data; Diagnostics shows exactly what is waiting to be sent and can delete what was sent. See External services.
• Improved: in Checks, unsupported claims and broken links come first, and weakly supported claims are folded under a count.
• Fix: in Guided mode, "Approve and draft" now keeps outline edits that were not saved first.

1.4.1

• Improved: drafts give opinions as the writer profile's author, in the first person when the profile suits it. They still never claim test rides, trips, or other experiences that did not happen.
• Improved: sections no longer all end the same way, and the article ends once, with the author's verdict, instead of a summary followed by another conclusion.
• Fix: no call-to-action section is added when the brief's Call to action field is empty.

1.4.0

• Improved: drafts read more like a specialist wrote them. They are written in the selected writer profile's voice (matching its writing sample), avoid common AI phrasing, and name real products and examples. Notes about missing sources or unconfirmed figures go to the draft's warnings instead of the article text.
• New: tips on New article and Writer profiles explain how source URLs and a specific writer profile improve the result, and the profile fields show example answers.
• New: every job has its own page that lists the brief it was created from, and the job list shows each topic. "Reuse this brief" opens New article with that brief filled in, ready to adjust.
• Improved: the AI Blog Writer panels in the post editor's Post tab open the first time you see them.

1.3.0

• New: Posts → Add New points to AI Blog Writer. A notice at the top and an "AI Blog Writer" panel in the Post tab open the New article brief, with the post title carried over as the topic. The notice can be turned off for good with "Don't show again".
• New: on a generated post, the Post tab shows the job number and a button that opens the AI Blog Writer sidebar with sources, checks, and section rewrites.

1.2.1

• Fix: no more "Translation loading for the luis-rita-ai-blog-writer domain was triggered too early" notice on WordPress 6.7 and later when debugging is on.

1.2.0

• New: the plugin's screens mention the optional AI Blog Writer Pro add-on where it helps (New article, a finished draft, Settings, and the Plugins screen). Each mention can be dismissed, they disappear once the add-on is installed, and the aibcg_show_pro_prompts filter turns them off. Nothing is sent anywhere.

1.1.0

• New: other plugins can extend AI Blog Writer with extra brief fields, automatic research, post-draft checks, and more SEO integrations. Nothing changes until such a plugin is installed.
• New: after your third completed draft, a one-time prompt asks for a WordPress.org review. Either answer hides it for good.

1.0.1

• Fix: editors can now save writer profiles. They link a profile to an existing Author account; administrators can also create a new author account or link an existing one.
• New author accounts get hyphenated logins instead of logins with spaces.
• Add Documentation and Support links to the plugin's row on the Plugins screen.
• Link the plugin's homepage to sourcedwriter.com.

1.0.0

• Initial public release.
• Bring-your-own-key drafting with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI models.
• Delegated and Guided workflows with user-supplied sources, outline review, and provenance.
• Writer profiles linked to WordPress author accounts.
• Optional Rank Math metadata integration.
• Usage tracking with optional estimated cost ceilings.
• Retention cleanup, privacy export and erasure, and opt-in data removal on uninstall.
• Single-site and network activation support.