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Articles to Sidebar allow you to put some articles into the sidebar of pages.
When you use WP as a “normal” CMS, you could want to add some custom boxes into the pages’ sidebars. 
Whith “Articles to Sidebar” you can write articles, put them into :
<ul>
<li>a special category (in order to display to all pages)</li>
<li>a category called the same as the current page</li>
<li>both special category and category called the same as the curent page</li>
</ul>
When the article is displayed into the sidebar, the fist images it contains is used to illustrate. 
The displayed content is the article’s excerpt. If there is no excerpt, the extend (before the <code></code> tag) is used and if there is no extend, one is computed (55 first words) and used.
You can choose to put a link to the article or not. That behavior can be chanched for each articles by using a custom boolean var (articles2sidebar_display_link : 1 force link | force no link).
<h3>Versions</h3>
1 first public release 
1.1 better handling of little images ; adding the link to image when present
<h3>Translations</h3>
Actually, there are no translations, but the plugin code is ready for them.

article2sidebar

Articles to Sidebar allow you to put some articles into the sidebar of pages.

grandranker

<a href="https://grandranker.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Grandranker</a> is an AI-powered SEO platform that researches your niche, generates high-quality articles optimized for both traditional search engines and AI search (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini), and publishes them directly to your WordPress site.
This plugin connects your WordPress site to Grandranker so articles flow straight from the platform into your blog — no copy-pasting, no manual formatting.
What Grandranker does for you:
<ul>
<li>Researches keywords and competitors in your niche</li>
<li>Generates long-form, SEO-optimized articles with structured data (JSON-LD schema)</li>
<li>Tracks your visibility across Google and AI search engines</li>
<li>Publishes and updates articles on your WordPress site automatically</li>
</ul>
How the plugin works:
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin.</li>
<li>Enter your Grandranker API token in Grandranker settings.</li>
<li>Click Save & Connect.</li>
<li>Articles published in Grandranker appear on your WordPress site automatically — with content, featured images, categories, tags, meta descriptions, and structured data all handled for you.</li>
</ol>
Plugin features:
<ul>
<li>Secure HMAC-SHA256 signature verification on every request</li>
<li>Creates and updates WordPress posts with title, slug, content, excerpt, tags, and featured image</li>
<li>Injects JSON-LD structured data (schema markup) into page head for SEO</li>
<li>Writes meta descriptions to Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or All in One SEO (auto-detected)</li>
<li>Configurable default author and post status (Publish / Draft / Pending Review)</li>
<li>Heartbeat-based delivery polling for near-instant publishing</li>
<li>Unpublish endpoint to remove articles remotely</li>
<li>Diagnostics panel with a manual “Test Poll Now” button</li>
<li>One-click Disconnect that removes all stored credentials</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-Party Service</h3>
This plugin connects your WordPress site to the Grandranker API at <code>https://app.grandranker.com</code> to receive articles, schema markup, and delivery payloads from your Grandranker account.
Data is sent to and received from Grandranker servers when you:
<ul>
<li>Click Save & Connect — your API token is sent in the <code>Authorization: Bearer</code> header to exchange it for an HMAC signing secret.</li>
<li>Receive an article — Grandranker POSTs the article payload (title, content, schema, image URL, tags) to <code>/wp-json/grandranker/v1/articles</code> on your site, signed with <code>X-Grandranker-Signature</code> (HMAC-SHA256).</li>
<li>Poll for queued deliveries — the plugin periodically (via WP-Cron and the WordPress Heartbeat API while admin is open) requests <code>/api/v1/plugin/deliveries</code> from Grandranker to fetch any pending articles.</li>
<li>Click Test Poll Now or Disconnect in plugin settings.</li>
</ul>
No analytics, page content, or visitor data is sent to Grandranker. Only the site URL and authenticated requests for your own articles are transmitted.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://grandranker.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Grandranker Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://grandranker.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://grandranker.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>

Grandranker

Automatically publish and update SEO-optimized articles from Grandranker — the AI content platform that helps you rank higher on Google and AI search  …

article2sidebar vs Grandranker