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Thorsten Ott

Jake Goldman

Ben Word

Auto Release Posts for GitHub monitors GitHub repositories for new releases and uses AI to research each release and generate a human-readable blog post about it. Posts can be automatically published or held as drafts for review, with email notifications when new posts are ready.
Built on the AI Client API and Connectors introduced in WordPress 7.0 — configure your AI provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or any other connector) once under Settings → Connectors, and this plugin uses whatever you’ve set up. No AI API keys to manage in the plugin itself.
How it works:
<ol>
<li>Monitor — Add any GitHub repository and the plugin checks for new releases daily via WP-Cron.</li>
<li>Generate — When a new release is detected, the AI researches the release and writes a blog post tailored to your audience.</li>
<li>Publish — Posts are created as drafts for review, or published automatically based on your per-repository settings.</li>
</ol>
You can also generate a post on demand at any time from the Repositories tab.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Monitor multiple GitHub repositories for new releases</li>
<li>AI-powered post generation via WordPress Connectors — works with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and any other configured connector</li>
<li>Significance-aware content — patch, minor, major, and security releases get tailored tone and structure</li>
<li>Choose the research depth — Standard reviews release notes, linked issues and PRs, metadata, and the README; Deep adds commit messages and file changes since the last release</li>
<li>SEO-friendly post slugs and excerpts generated automatically by AI</li>
<li>Configurable publish/draft workflow with per-repository overrides</li>
<li>Per-repository post defaults (categories, tags, post status)</li>
<li>Choose your post title format — prefix with project name and version, version only, or no auto-prefix (let the AI write the full title in single-project sites)</li>
<li>Generate posts on demand for any historical release — pick from a version dropdown when a repo has multiple releases; older releases are automatically backdated to keep the archive in chronological order</li>
<li>Custom prompt instructions to guide AI writing style, tone, and voice</li>
<li>Regenerate posts with feedback — refine AI output directly from the block editor sidebar</li>
<li>Email notifications on draft creation, publication, or both</li>
<li>Source attribution in the block editor — see which GitHub release generated each post</li>
<li>Idempotency — the same release never creates duplicate posts</li>
<li>Optional project link support — enter a URL or WordPress.org slug for download CTAs</li>
<li>Optional pre-release tracking per repository — track stable releases by default, or opt in to include betas, release candidates, and other pre-release versions</li>
</ul>
For developers:
<ul>
<li>Extensible via filter hooks at every stage of the pipeline</li>
<li>Customize preferred AI models via the <code>ghrp_wp_ai_client_model_preferences</code> filter</li>
<li>Override significance classification, prompt content, post terms, and post status per-release</li>
<li>All prompt templates defined in code, versioned with the plugin</li>
</ul>
Requirements:
<ul>
<li>WordPress 7.0 or later</li>
<li>PHP 8.2 or later</li>
<li>At least one AI connector configured under Settings → Connectors (Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google recommended)</li>
</ul>
Auto Release Posts for GitHub is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by GitHub, Inc. or the WordPress Foundation. “GitHub” and “WordPress” are used here for descriptive purposes only.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to external services to fetch release data and (via WordPress Connectors) generate post content. Each service is described below.
GitHub REST API
<ul>
<li>What it is: GitHub’s REST API (<code>https://api.github.com</code>) is used to read release data and repository metadata, and — when a Personal Access Token is configured — to list repositories the token can access.</li>
<li>What is sent: HTTP requests to <code>api.github.com</code> containing the repository owner and name. If a GitHub Personal Access Token is configured (in the Settings tab, or via the <code>GHRP_PAT</code> constant or environment variable), the token is sent in the Authorization header.</li>
<li>When it is sent: Daily via WP-Cron (configurable via the <code>ghrp_check_frequency</code> filter), and on demand when generating, regenerating, or refreshing posts from the plugin’s admin screens.</li>
<li>Terms of Service: <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service</a></li>
<li>Privacy Policy: <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-privacy-statement" rel="nofollow ugc">https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-privacy-statement</a></li>
</ul>
Image sideloading from GitHub-hosted domains
<ul>
<li>What it is: When AI-generated post content references images hosted on <code>github.com</code>, <code>githubusercontent.com</code>, or <code>github.io</code>, the plugin downloads those images to the WordPress Media Library so posts render without external image dependencies.</li>
<li>What is sent: HTTP GET requests to the specific image URLs referenced by the AI output. No data beyond a standard HTTP request.</li>
<li>When it is sent: At post creation or regeneration time, for image URLs included in the AI-generated content. The allowed domains and limits are configurable via the <code>ghrp_sideload_allowed_domains</code>, <code>ghrp_max_sideload_images</code>, <code>ghrp_sideload_time_budget</code>, and related filters.</li>
<li>Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: same as GitHub above.</li>
</ul>
AI providers (via WordPress Connectors)
<ul>
<li>What it is: AI-generated post content is produced by whichever AI connector you have configured under Settings → Connectors in WordPress 7.0+. The plugin does not call AI provider APIs directly — it dispatches prompts through the WordPress AI Client API.</li>
<li>What is sent: The release title, release notes body, repository metadata (owner/name, language, description), and any custom prompt instructions you have configured are sent to the AI provider selected by your connector. Optional Deep research mode additionally sends recent commit messages and file change summaries between releases.</li>
<li>When it is sent: When a new release is detected by the daily scheduled check, when you click “Generate post” or “Regenerate,” and when regenerating from the block editor sidebar.</li>
</ul>
Privacy and terms for the AI provider depend on which connector is configured. Common providers:
<ul>
<li>Anthropic — <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> — <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a></li>
<li>OpenAI — <a href="https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> — <a href="https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a></li>
<li>Google AI — <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms</a> — <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
The complete, human-readable source code for this plugin is published at: 
https://github.com/jakemgold/github-release-posts-wordpress
Bundled JavaScript. The minified files under <code>dist/js/</code> are built from the source files under <code>assets/js/</code> using the @10up/scripts toolkit (which wraps Webpack). To rebuild:
<pre><code>npm install && npm run build
</code></pre>
Source-to-build mapping:
<ul>
<li><code>dist/js/admin.js</code> is built from <code>assets/js/admin/index.js</code></li>
<li><code>dist/js/editor.js</code> is built from <code>assets/js/editor/index.js</code></li>
<li><code>dist/css/admin-style.css</code> is built from <code>assets/css/admin/style.css</code></li>
</ul>
Both source and build outputs ship with the plugin, so the source is available locally as well as in the public repository.
Third-party libraries. The plugin has no third-party PHP dependencies. The <code>vendor/</code> directory only contains Composer’s own PSR-4 autoloader scaffolding generated from the plugin’s own classes — it does not include any external libraries. The <code>composer.json</code> <code>require</code> block requires only <code>php: >=8.2</code>. PAT encryption uses libsodium, which has been part of PHP core since 7.2.
Bundled npm packages used at build time (development only — not shipped at runtime): <code>@10up/scripts</code> (which itself bundles Webpack, ESLint, Babel, and the build-time-only <code>wp-prettier</code> and <code>eslint-plugin-jsdoc</code> overrides). All declared in <code>package.json</code> and <code>package-lock.json</code>. None of these end up in the distributed plugin.

Auto Release Posts for GitHub


We have over dozen plugins and providing detailed updates for each release is a real pain.



Auto Release Posts for GitHub does a great job of making this easy. I highly recommend this as a tool for plugin developers.


Excellent, helpful plugin

Automatically generate blog posts from GitHub releases using AI.

Aaron Bery

This plugin allows a user to insert a Vuelio Canvas into their WYSIWYG editor or in their widgets e.g. sidebar 
and it will render on the front end of the website.
The Canvas is an application that runs on the media company Vuelio’s infrastructure. This plugin essentially hosts a view of a chosen Canvas via an iframe in the users blog.
The iframe when selected is set to be fully responsive.
Ways to use
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You can use the plugin in your editor. Once activated an ‘Insert Vuelio Canvas’ button will appear above the WYSIWYG. Click on this and paste in your canvas address and the plugin will create an iframe with your chosen source.
</li>
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In your administrative navigation under ‘appearance’ -> ‘widgets’, you can drag the ‘Canvas Widget’ into a content panel. Once added you can add the url of your canvas. This becomes your global canas widget URL and this will insert an iframe with this value as the source.
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What is the Vulio Canvas
The Vuelio Canvas allows you to quickly collate all the news, videos and social activity relevant to you in a visual, easy to use hub. Details on signing up can be found here http://email.vuelio.com/vuelio-canvas-free-demo-nov
If you don’t have ownership of a newsroom you can still insert your favourite newsrooms from around the web using this plugin.
Note: There is no obligation to use a URL that is of the order https://canvas.vuelio.co.uk. You can in fact enter the url of any website you like and we render a responsive iframe!

Vuelio Canvas

This plugin allows a user to insert a Vuelio Canvas into their WYSIWYG editor or in their widgets e.g. sidebar

Auto Release Posts for GitHub vs Vuelio Canvas