grandranker

<p><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.</p>
<p>This plugin connects your WordPress site to Grandranker so articles flow straight from the platform into your blog — no copy-pasting, no manual formatting.</p>
<p><strong>What Grandranker does for you:</strong></p>
<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>
<p><strong>How the plugin works:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin.</li>
<li>Enter your Grandranker API token in <strong>Grandranker</strong> settings.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Save & Connect</strong>.</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>
<p><strong>Plugin features:</strong></p>
<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>
<p>This plugin connects your WordPress site to the <strong>Grandranker API</strong> at <code>https://app.grandranker.com</code> to receive articles, schema markup, and delivery payloads from your Grandranker account.</p>
<p>Data is sent to and received from Grandranker servers when you:</p>
<ul>
<li>Click <strong>Save & Connect</strong> — 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 <strong>Test Poll Now</strong> or <strong>Disconnect</strong> in plugin settings.</li>
</ul>
<p>No analytics, page content, or visitor data is sent to Grandranker. Only the site URL and authenticated requests for your own articles are transmitted.</p>
<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  …

yutonet

<p>Advanced Footnotes lets you add footnotes on articles via shortcodes. Advanced Footnotes is is extremely customizable, therefore it can be implemented on any theme.</p>
<p>With its internal functions, you can also implement Advanced Footnotes on your own theme in any form you like.</p>
<p>Main Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Easy & flexible implementation.</li>
<li>Implemented WYSIWYG editor button.</li>
<li>Footnotes  can be implemented with shortcode or function.</li>
<li>Animated scroll effect (can be disabled)</li>
<li>Lightweight CSS (can be disabled)</li>
<li>Custom CSS styling</li>
<li>Dynamically changeable interface options (JS can be fully disabled)</li>
</ul>
<p>Usage</p>
<h3>Inserting a Footnote:</h3>
<p>In order to insert a footnote, you can either use the “Insert Footnote” button added on your WYSIWYG editor, or use the [footnote]your-footnote-here[/footnote] shortcode.</p>
<h3>Shortcode Parameters:</h3>
<p><em>“type”:</em> Determines the type of the reference. <strong>Options:</strong> <em>numeric</em> / <em>non-numeric</em>.</p>
<h3>Listing Footnotes:</h3>
<p>You can display the footnotes in two methods:</p>
<h3>Listing by Shortcode:</h3>
<p>By simply inserting the <em>[footnotes]</em> shortcode in your post content, you can display footnotes wherever you want in your posts.</p>
<h4>Shortcode Parameters:</h4>
<p><em>“title”:</em> Determines the title for the footnotes list. Default value can be set through plugin settings.</p>
<h4>Shortcode Usage:</h4>
<pre><code>[footnotes title="My Custom Footnotes Title"]
// or
[footnotes title="false"]
</code></pre>
<h3>Listing by Theme Inclusion:</h3>
<p>You can print the footnotes by calling <em>print_refs</em> function from the advanced_footnotes class.</p>
<h4>Simple Function Usage:</h4>
<pre><code>call_user_func(array('advanced_footnotes', 'print_refs'));
</code></pre>
<h4>Additional Parameters:</h4>
<ul>
<li>First parameter: “Print”, whether print or return the footnotes content. (Default: “true”)</li>
<li>Second parameter: “Title”, determines the title for the footnotes content. (Default: “false”)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Function Usage with Parameters:</h4>
<pre><code>$footnotes = call_user_func_array(array('advanced_footnotes', 'print_refs'), array(false, 'Custom Footnotes Title'));<h3>Plugin Options:</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>You can access the plugin options through “Options/Advanced Footnotes”.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Include Plugin CSS:</strong> Determines whether to include the default plugin css files. Disable this if you want to re-style the plugin within your theme.</li>
<li><strong>Custom CSS:</strong> Provides a field for custom CSS styling.</li>
<li><strong>Include Plugin JS:</strong> Determines whether to include the plugin javascript files on the theme output. Disable this if you want to customize plugin interactions or just to use native HTML anchors.</li>
<li><strong>Default Title for Footnotes:</strong> Sets the default title used on the “[footnotes]” shortcode.</li>
<li><strong>Footnote Symbol:</strong> Sets the symbol used for non-numeric footnotes.</li>
<li><strong>Disable JS Options:</strong> Determines whether to apply options to the plugin JS files or not.</li>
<li><strong>Footnotes Scroll Gap:</strong> This sets the scroll margin when clicked on a footnote. Set this when you have a fixed header or any other element blocking some part of the window area.</li>
<li><strong>Footnote Scroll Speed:</strong> Sets the animation speed when a footnote is clicked. Set 0 for no animation.</li>
</ul>
<h3>HTML Structure & Classes</h3>
<h3>Anchors:</h3>
<h4>Numeric Anchor:</h4>
<pre><code><a id="{unique id}" class="afn-footnotes-ref hook numeric" name="{unique id}" href="#{unique id of the reference}">{number - automatically incremented by the order}</a>
</code></pre>
<h4>Non-numeric Anchor:</h4>
<pre><code><a id="{unique id}" class="afn-footnotes-ref hook non-numeric" name="{unique id}" href="#{unique id of the reference}">footnote symbol</a>
</code></pre>
<h3>References:</h3>
<p>Non-numbered references are listed before the numbered references on the list.</p>
<pre><code>
<div class="afn-footnotes">

    
    <h3 class="afn-footnotes-title">{Title}</h3>

    
    <ul class="afn-footnotes-list">

        
        <li class="footnote-item afn-textarea">
            <a id="{unique id}" class="afn-footnotes-ref reference non-numeric" name="{unique id}" href="#{unique id of the anchor}">{footnote symbol}</a>
        </li>

        
        <li class="footnote-item afn-textarea">
            <a id="{unique id}" class="afn-footnotes-ref reference numeric" name="{unique id}" href="#{unique id of the anchor}">{number - automatically incremented by the order}</a>
        </li>

    </ul>

</div>
</code></pre>
<p>Known Issues</p>
<ul>
<li>WYSIWYG Button doesn’t work on the plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/" rel="ugc">TinyMCE Advanced</a> (and probably on some other -WYSIWYG editor modifying- plugins).</li>
</ul>
<p>Contribution</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/yutonet/wp_advanced_footnotes" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/yutonet/wp_advanced_footnotes</a></p>

Advanced Footnotes

Advanced Footnotes lets you add footnotes on articles via shortcodes.

Grandranker vs Advanced Footnotes