#1 WordPress Plugin to create self-updating and monetizable News Sites

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What Can You Do With This Plugin?

Welcome to the future. This breakthrough WordPress plugin creates self-updating news websites that pull in fresh content automatically and attract free, organic traffic around the clock. No writers. No manual posting. No constant micromanagement.

Newsomatic Automatic News Post Generator Plugin for WordPress is a cutting-edge news content importer powered by its own dedicated API. It’s built specifically for auto-blogging and large-scale content automation, turning your site into a living, breathing news hub that keeps itself updated. You define the rules once, and the plugin does the rest.

Posts are generated automatically based on flexible rules you control, with deep customization options for titles, content structure, images, categories, tags, and publishing behavior. If you want a closer look at how these rules work and how far you can push them, the full documentation walks you through everything step by step: Newsomatic plugin documentation.

Because it works in virtually any niche, you can turn hobbies, interests, or trending topics into fully automated news sites that keep growing over time. Whether you’re building authority sites, content networks, or monetized blogs, the setup remains simple and scalable. If you want to explore advanced post customization, shortcodes, or content spinning options, you’ll find detailed examples and explanations directly inside the docs here: advanced Newsomatic configuration guide.

What Is NewsomaticAPI?

Newsomatic runs on its own dedicated API, designed specifically for speed, flexibility, and long-term reliability. Integrating the API takes less than two minutes, and once connected, your site can start importing fresh news content immediately.

Because the plugin relies on a dedicated API rather than third-party scrapers, you gain full control over how content is fetched, filtered, and published. This also means the system can evolve over time, with new sources and improvements added as needed. Detailed setup instructions for API access, rule creation, and troubleshooting are covered in the official documentation: NewsomaticAPI setup and usage.

If you ever need deeper insight into logging, scheduling, duplicate handling, or advanced filtering, everything is documented clearly and with practical examples so you’re never guessing how something works.

This is the new reality of fully automated news websites: consistent content, free traffic, and systems that keep running long after the initial setup.

Post Sources:

Other plugin features:

• v3.2.1 update: Added a new feature to the plugin to exclude countries from results
• v3.2.0 update: Use brand new a news aggregator shortcode and Gutenberg block to directly list top news stories from the largest news websites from around the world, directly on your website – check this tutorial video for details
• v3.1.0 update: Use HeadlessBrowserAPI to scrape JavaScript Generated HTML Content from any website on the internet without the need to install anything (besides this plugin) on your server – tutorial video
• v3.0.0 update: now using NewsomaticAPI instead of NewsAPI – the plugin uses this dedicated API to get content from a large range of news sources
• v2.3.5 update: Ability to replace original post images with images imported from Royalty free image sources (Pixabay, Flickr, Pexels, MorgueFile) – Video tutorial
• v2.0.0 update (video about v2 update):
  • Added the ability to search articles by KEYWORD (highly requested feature)
  • Added many new news sources, full list can be viewed here
  • Added the ability to search by article language/country
  • Added the ability to search all articles in API database (not just latest ones)
• Run Regex on content and replace by Regex
• A great alternative for the Google News API
• Google Translate support – select the language in which you want to post your articles
• DeepL Translation support – select the language in which you want to post your articles
• Text Spinner support – automatically modify generated text, changing words with their synonyms – built-in, The Best Spinner, SpinRewriter, SpinnerChief, WordAI and others – great SEO value!
• customizable generated post status (published, draft, pending, private, trash)
• automatically generate post categories or tags from the imported news articles
• manually add post categories or tags to items
• generate post or page or any other custom post type
• option to add to generated posts a “rel=canonical” meta tag linking back to source post
• define publishing constrains: do not publish posts that do not have images, posts with short/long title/content
• automatically generate a featured image for the post
• enable/disable comments, pingbacks or trackbacks for the generated post
• customize post title and content (with the included wide variety of relevant post shortcodes)
• ‘Keyword Replacer Tool’ – It’s purpose is to define keywords that are substituted automatically with your affiliate links, anywhere they appear in the content of your site. For example, you can define a keyword ‘codecanyon’ and have it substituted by a link to http://www.codecanyon.net/?ref=user_name anywhere it appears in your site’s content.
• ‘Random Sentence Generator Tool’ (relevant sentences – as you define them)
• detailed plugin activity logging
• scheduled rule runs
• Maximum/minimum title length post limitation
• Maximum/minimum content length post limitation
• Add post only if predefined required keywords found in title/content
• Add post only if predefined banned keywords are not found in the title/content

Testing this plugin

• You can test the plugin’s functionality using the ‘Test Site Generator’. Here you can try the plugin’s full functionality. Note that the generated testing blog will be deleted automatically after 24 hours.

Plugin Requirements

• PHP curl
• PHP 7.4 or newer

Need support?

Please check our knowledge base, it may have the answer to your question or a solution for your issue. If not, just email me at support@coderevolution.ro and I will respond as soon as I can.

Changelog:

Version 1.0 Release Date 2017-06-02

First version released!

Version 1.1 Release Date 2017-06-03

Added an option to disable excerpt generation
Added an option to require only one word from the 'Required Words List'
Minor fixes

Version 1.2 Release Date 2017-06-12

Fixed an issue with some WP installs not running rules correctly

Version 1.3 Release Date 2017-06-14

Fixed rules failing when specific sorting values where selected for some news feed sources

Version 1.4 Release Date 2017-06-29

Fixed issue with Google Translate

Version 1.5 Release Date 2017-07-07

Added a new feature to leave only a percentage of the full article content (to obey copyright restrictions)

Version 1.6 Release Date 2017-07-09

Added the ability to select multiple default categories for generated posts

Version 1.7 Release Date 2017-07-12

Added the ability to remove WordPress's default post category

Version 1.8 Release Date 2017-08-03

Added the ability to not translate links automatically (when translating content)

Version 1.8.1 Release Date 2017-08-04

Fixed a small issue related rule running

Version 1.8.2 Release Date 2017-08-22

Removed the need to specify a html class or id when grabbing full post content

Version 1.8.3 Release Date 2017-08-28

Fixed rule running issue

Version 1.8.4 Release Date 2017-09-05

Fixed some issues

Version 1.8.5 Release Date 2017-09-12

Reorganized plugin's main menu

Version 1.8.6 Release Date 2017-09-23

Added a new option to automatically add post categories only if they already exist

Version 1.8.7 Release Date 2017-09-25

Fixed some bugs

Version 1.8.8 Release Date 2017-09-26

Added the ability to limit content word count

Version 1.8.9 Release Date 2017-09-27

Fixed automatic translation

Version 1.9.0 Release Date 2017-10-22

Added crawler helper module

Version 1.9.1 Release Date 2017-11-07

Bugfixes

Version 1.9.2 Release Date 2017-11-10

Added the ability to duplicate rules
Added the ability to not spin article title

Version 1.9.3 Release Date 2017-11-16

Added the ability to set random post author

Version 2.0.0 Release Date 2017-12-15

Major Update:
Added the ability to search articles by KEYWORD (highly requested feature)
Added many new news sources, full list can be viewed <a href="https://newsomaticapi.com/sources">here</a>
Added the ability to search by article language/country
Added the ability to search all articles in API database (not just latest ones)
Many other fixes and enhancements

Version 2.0.1 Release Date 2017-12-23

Fixed issue when grabbing content from some sources

Version 2.0.2 Release Date 2018-01-08

Added the ability to add proxies

Version 2.0.3 Release Date 2018-01-20

Added support for new text spinners: WordAI and SpinRewriter

Version 2.0.4 Release Date 2018-01-25

Bugfixes

Version 2.0.5 Release Date 2018-02-05

Fixed SpinRewriter spinning

Version 2.0.6 Release Date 2018-02-06

Added paging for imported posts (latest)

Version 2.0.7 Release Date 2018-02-07

Bugfixes

Version 2.0.8 Release Date 2018-02-10

Added the ability to use remote featured images for generated posts

Version 2.0.9 Release Date 2018-02-17

Fixed some theme incompatibilities

Version 2.1.0 Release Date 2018-03-07

Added the ability to use the %%author%% shortcode in the post title

Version 2.1.1 Release Date 2018-03-12

Added the ability to replace words from the imported article title or from their content

Version 2.1.2 Release Date 2018-03-13

Fixed URL translation issue

Version 2.1.3 Release Date 2018-03-18

Fixed some invalid rule parameter combinations

Version 2.1.4 Release Date 2018-03-19

Fixed some small issues with translation

Version 2.1.5 Release Date 2018-03-20

Added the ability to skip posts from spinning/translating

Version 2.1.6 Release Date 2018-03-24

Added imported rule based translation settings (kept the main translation settings as global)

Version 2.1.7 Release Date 2018-03-25

Added many more countries/languages to import content from

Version 2.1.8 Release Date 2018-04-03

Fixed issue with CNN full content importing

Version 2.1.9 Release Date 2018-05-04

Bugfixes

Version 2.2.0 Release Date 2018-06-12

Fixed issue featured image creation
Major performance improvement

Version 2.2.1 Release Date 2018-07-13

Updated built-in readability module

Version 2.2.2 Release Date 2018-07-31

Bugfix release

Version 2.2.3 Release Date 2018-09-03

Added the ability to add to generated posts a 'rel=canonical' meta tag linking back to source pages

Version 2.2.4 Release Date 2018-09-13

Improved plugin performance

Version 2.2.5 Release Date 2018-09-28

Fixed a bug in rule importing

Version 2.2.6 Release Date 2018-10-05

Fixed phrase query string search, in news importing

Version 2.2.7 Release Date 2018-10-23

Added the ability to change displayed date format

Version 2.2.8 Release Date 2018-10-24

Added the ability to shorten links

Version 2.2.9 Release Date 2018-10-26

Fixed rare translation issue

Version 2.3.0 Release Date 2018-11-01

Bugfix release

Version 2.3.1 Release Date 2018-11-15

Added more languages for Google Translate

Version 2.3.2 Release Date 2018-12-09

Added Japanese as supported importing language

Version 2.3.3 Release Date 2018-12-16

Added nested importing support - import mixed content into a single post, from multiple plugins created by CodeRevolution

Version 2.3.4 Release Date 2018-12-26

Bugfixes

Version 2.3.5 Release Date 2019-01-07

Added the ability to import royalty free images for created posts

Version 2.3.6 Release Date 2019-01-11

Added Gutenberg block counterparts for shortcodes from the plugin

Version 2.3.7 Release Date 2019-02-20

Added the ability to import the post source name and ID
Many performance improvements

Version 2.3.8 Release Date 2019-04-05

Bugfix release

Version 2.3.9 Release Date 2019-04-19

Security update

Version 2.4.0 Release Date 2019-04-23

Performance update

Version 2.4.1 Release Date 2019-05-14

Added the ability to restrict news search to domain list
Added the ability to ban domain list from news search

Version 2.4.2 Release Date 2019-08-05

Fixed issue with Google Translate
Other minor fixes

Version 2.4.3 Release Date 2019-08-14

Styling update
Added the ability to run Regex on imported content and to replace by Regex

Version 2.4.4 Release Date 2019-11-15

WordPress 5.3 compatibility update

Version 2.4.5 Release Date 2019-11-25

Added the ability to set posts as draft and auto publish them afterwards - to increase compatibility with third party auto publishing plugins

Version 2.4.6 Release Date 2019-11-26

Option to not allow posting of content from sources that are known to create DMCA take down requests for their reposted content

Version 2.4.7 Release Date 2020-05-11

New features added for content templates
Bugfix update

Version 3.0.0 Release Date 2020-05-28

Using a new decicated API to get content: NewsomaticAPI

Version 3.0.1 Release Date 2020-09-15

Fixed all reported bugs
Improved functionality and features

Version 3.0.2 Release Date 2020-10-15

Added the ability to filter news by country and by language on both 'Top News to Posts' and 'Latest News to Posts' plugin menus

Version 3.0.3 Release Date 2020-12-30

Importing rule pagination update - makes much easier to manage multiple rules that are setup in the plugin

Version 3.0.4 Release Date 2021-01-03

Added the ability to strip content by HTML id or class in the rule settings (not just globally)

Version 3.0.5 Release Date 2021-01-16

PHP 8 compatibility update

Version 3.1.0 Release Date 2021-01-17

Added support for HeadlessBrowserAPI to scrape JavaScript rendered content with ease
Added support for PhantomJS and Puppeteer to scrape content from sites (if they are installed on the server)

Version 3.1.1 Release Date 2021-03-29

(Highly requested update) Added visual content selector when selecting full content source for articles

Version 3.1.2 Release Date 2021-05-04

(Highly requested update) Added autocomplete keyword suggestions to keyword search query input fields

Version 3.1.3 Release Date 2021-07-15

(Highly requested update) Added multiple Regex expression support (for content stripping and replacing)

Version 3.1.4 Release Date 2021-07-18

Added Microsoft Translator support to the plugin (next to Google Translate and DeepL Translator)

Version 3.1.5 Release Date 2021-08-30

Added the ability to skip spinning of content for posts imported by specific rules

Version 3.1.6 Release Date 2021-09-15

Added the ability to set the WPML language to created posts

Version 3.1.7 Release Date 2021-09-30

Featured image importing improvements

Version 3.1.8 Release Date 2021-11-25

Added the ability to assign categories to posts, based on keywords from content and title

Version 3.1.9 Release Date 2022-01-15

Fixed some bugs

Version 3.2.0 Release Date 2022-02-24

Added a new feature to Newsomatic: News Aggregator shortcode and Gutenberg block. Check details about the update, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KyzZLXICWs

Version 3.2.0.1 Release Date 2022-03-21

Bugfix update

Version 3.2.1 Release Date 2022-04-07

Added a new feature to Newsomatic: filter posts by Excluded Countries

Version 3.2.2 Release Date 2022-04-20

Fixed Google Translator problem caused by a recent Google API update

Version 3.2.3 Release Date 2022-06-14

Added the ability to translate posts a third time (acting like a Word Spinner, if the content is translated back to the original language

Version 3.2.4 Release Date 2022-06-27

Added more translation languages to Google Translate, Bing Translate and DeepL

Version 3.2.5 Release Date 2022-11-11

Improved results paging queries in the plugin, resulting in more seamless post importing when post caching is used

Version 3.2.6 Release Date 2022-11-29

Added an option to apply banned/required words before spinning and translating posts
Fixed all reported bugs (including translation formatting issues)

Version 3.2.7 Release Date 2022-12-28

Added Croatia as a supported country

Version 3.2.8 Release Date 2023-02-10

Fixed Google News scraping after recent changes

Version 3.2.9.1 Release Date 2023-03-27

Added Kenya as a supported country for news sources
Fixed all reported issues

Version 3.2.9.2 Release Date 2023-07-28

Fixed Google Translate integration, working with latest changes

Version 3.2.9.3 Release Date 2023-10-18

Fixed PHP 8.2 related errors

Version 3.3.0 Release Date 2024-02-16

Fixed an issue with rule saving

Version 3.3.1 Release Date 2024-04-18

Compatibility update with latest WordPress version

Version 3.3.2 Release Date 2025-07-12

Bugfix update
Purchase code verification is now required for the plugin to function

Version 3.3.3 Release Date 2025-09-06

Functionality update

Version 3.3.4 Release Date 2025-11-17

Added the ability to convert created posts to Gutenberg blocks

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Disclaimer
Through this plugin you are able to grab content from different news websites that does not necessary belong to you or which are not under your control. Also, the plugin’s developer has no control over the nature, content and availability of grabbed material.

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