zimpliScribe

zimpliScribe brings AI-assisted writing directly into the WordPress editor — proofread existing copy, translate to your target language, expand or shorten passages, or generate drafts from a prompt. Works in the Gutenberg sidebar, on a dedicated admin page, and as a Quick Capture widget for jotting ideas straight from your dashboard or your phone. No AI provider keys in WordPress. The plugin connects to the zimplico.de API service, which holds the provider credentials server-side. You register your site once via a domain-ownership challenge (the same pattern Let's Encrypt uses — no API keys to copy around), and you're done. Per-credit billing. Each request costs one credit. New sites get 25 welcome credits (these never expire) plus 5 free credits every month. Top up via the billing portal — no charges happen without your explicit action. Features

• Content Tool — text + intent prompt + suggestion chips (Proofread, Translate, Make shorter / longer). Combine chips as you go.
• Quick Capture — a simplified, voice-friendly box (Memo · Proofread · Translate, then Save Draft) as a Dashboard widget and the default view on mobile. Record quick drafts from anywhere, hands-free with your keyboard's dictation.
• Image input — attach any image from the WordPress media library, or upload directly (mobile camera supported via OS picker). Sent alongside your text.
• Insert image — adds attached images to the result as Markdown links; resolves to real <img> tags when saved.
• Maximize mode — give the result panel the full width when you're reviewing long output.
• Save as Draft — create a WordPress post or page directly from the result.
• Gutenberg sidebar — work on selected blocks: Send to AI, Replace Block, Insert After.
• Per-site credits widget — current balance and renewal date in the admin header.

How it works

1. Install and activate the plugin.
2. Visit WP admin → zimpliScribe → Register Site. The plugin generates a one-time challenge token.
3. The API verifies the token by calling back to your site's public REST endpoint — same approach as Let's Encrypt's HTTP-01 challenge.
4. Your site goes active with 25 welcome credits plus 5 free every month.
5. Use the Content Tool tab or the Gutenberg sidebar.

No API keys are stored in WordPress at any point. The plugin holds an opaque site_id that the API validates per-request against the registered domain via the browser's Origin header. Privacy Text and images submitted via zimpliScribe are sent to the zimplico.de API and forwarded to the AI provider for processing. Content is not stored long-term by zimplico.de — see the privacy policy at https://zimplico.de/privacy.html for specifics on retention, processing, and provider details. External services This plugin relies on external services to provide its functionality. No data is sent before you actively register your site, and no AI request is sent until you submit one. zimplico.de API (https://api.zimplico.de/zimpliscribe)

• Purpose: site registration, credit accounting, AI request proxying, and billing portal links.
• Data sent: site URL (during registration), opaque per-site token (on every request), the text and any images you submit for processing.
• When sent: registration is triggered when you click Register Site. AI requests are sent only when you click Send to AI or Generate page.
• Terms of service: https://zimplico.de/terms.html
• Privacy policy: https://zimplico.de/privacy.html xAI Grok (https://api.x.ai)
• Purpose: AI model that processes your text and image prompts. zimplico.de forwards your request to xAI on your behalf — the plugin does not call xAI directly and no xAI credentials are stored in WordPress.
• Data sent: the text and any images included in your AI request, plus an internal system prompt.
• When sent: only when zimplico.de receives an AI request from your site.
• Terms of service: https://x.ai/legal/terms-of-service
• Privacy policy: https://x.ai/legal/privacy-policy

Data we do NOT store

• No AI provider API keys are ever held in WordPress.
• No personal data about WordPress users (authors, admins, commenters) is sent — only the content you explicitly submit in the plugin UI.

1.15.4

• Fix a rendering artifact in the admin menu icon (a stray triangle in the top of the Z), caused by WordPress recoloring SVG menu icons. The brand mark is now built from clean closed shapes.

1.15.3

• New Quick Capture: jot an idea fast — a dictation-friendly box with Memo (saves a free draft), Proofread, and Translate, plus one big Save Draft button. It appears as a Dashboard widget (pinned to the top) and becomes the default view when you open the plugin on a phone, so you can record quick drafts from anywhere — hands-free with your keyboard's voice dictation.

1.15.2

• Updated the credits information for the current model: a 25-credit welcome bonus plus 5 free credits every month, with your welcome, purchased, and gifted credits never expiring. The header credits breakdown now labels the non-expiring balance as "saved" rather than "paid."

1.15.1

• Add a one-time, dismissible review request that appears only after several successful generations — never before you've gotten value — linking straight to the WordPress.org reviews page. "Maybe later" snoozes it; dismissing hides it for good.
• Polished the plugin directory icon and refined the listing description.

1.15.0

• Fix a fatal error on the admin screen: a botched escaping pass had mangled every esc_attr_e() into the non-existent esc_attresc_html_e(), which crashed the Content Tool / Settings / Contact tabs (and prevented site registration, since the page died before its JavaScript loaded). Restored to esc_attr_e().
• Brand refresh of the admin screen: the Split-Z mark and a two-tone wordmark now lead the page header, the menu icon is the brand mark, and the slate + cyan palette replaces the stock-WordPress blue across the credits widget, status badges, tabs, suggestion chips, mode toggle, and primary buttons.
• Block editor: the sidebar panel is rebranded to the same slate + cyan palette (including Gutenberg's own buttons and focus states), its toolbar/menu icon is now the Split-Z brand mark instead of a generic pencil, and the Settings tab explains how to reopen and pin the panel from the editor's Options menu.

1.14.3

• Move /* translators: */ comments to sit immediately above their __() calls inside wp_kses() wrappers, so the WPCS i18n sniff picks them up. No functional or text changes.

1.14.2

• WordPress Coding Standards pass: escape all _e() output with esc_html_e(); wrap intentional inline HTML strings with wp_kses(__()); add /* translators: */ comments for placeholder-bearing translations; wp_unslash() superglobals before sanitization; cache attachment-by-filename lookup. No functional changes.

1.14.1

• API base URL bumped to https://api.zimplico.de/zimpliscribe (was …/zimplscribe) to match the renamed Go service. Pairs with the 1.14.0 plugin rename; both ends now use the consistent zimpliscribe path.

1.14.0

• Plugin renamed to zimpliscribe throughout (folder, file names, Text Domain, internal identifiers) to match the brand and the wordpress.org slug. Breaking change for sites running the dev zimplscribe version: deactivate and delete the old plugin folder, install fresh, and re-register the site. WP options (zimplscribe_* → zimpliscribe_*), REST namespace (zimplscribe/v1 → zimpliscribe/v1), and AJAX action names were all renamed; the previous installation's stored data is not migrated.

1.13.3

• English-language Privacy Policy and Terms of Service published at https://zimplico.de/privacy.html and https://zimplico.de/terms.html — plugin disclosure and imprint links now point at these.
• Remote API calls now verify TLS certificates (removed legacy sslverify => false from all wp_remote_* calls).

1.13.2

• Inline disclosure on the Register Site screen explaining what data is sent to the zimplico.de API and when.
• Imprint links updated to point to the live (German) Terms and Privacy pages; English translations in progress.

1.13.1

• Stability and UX improvements in the content tool result panel.

1.13.0

• Image input + insert-image support.

1.10.0

• Gutenberg sidebar with Use Selected Block / Send to AI / Replace Block / Insert After.

1.0.0

• Initial public release.