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Offers a widget that enables visitors to subscribe for receiving by email a weekly digest 
of newly added posts. This keeps the users closer to your site and doesn’t force them to 
“poll” for updates.
The widget only shows an input field for the email address and a ‘Subscribe’ button. 
Then a short procedure is started to confirm the subscription:
<ul>
<li>
No validation is performed on the entered email address.
</li>
<li>
After clicking on ‘Subscribe’, the user is presented a virtual page in which she is 
asked to re-enter the email address and click again on a ‘Subscribe’ button. 
This is a simple measure against robots placing subscription requests.
</li>
<li>
Again, no validation is performed on the entered email address except it is matched with 
the one previously entered. In case of a match, an email message is sent to the user 
containing a link with a unique code, on which the user has to click to confirm her 
request. The user is informed by this in a new virtual page.
</li>
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After the user clicks on the link in the email, the email address is considered 
subscribed and it will receive weekly messages containing a digest of new posts from the 
previous week, with direct links to the respective pages. In each message there is also 
a link to allow the user to unsubscribe.
</li>
</ul>
Unsubscribing follows a similar pattern in which the user will first receive an email to 
confirm the request, with a link containing a unique code.
To keep it simple, no check is performed as to whether a user is already registered or 
not. Any request can be performed in any phase of the process.
Weekly emails are sent using wp_mail(), on a configurable weekday at a configurable time. 
Even when no posts have been added, the user will still receive and email to inform her of 
that.
The emails will all contain the heading image of the theme at the top.
Until support is provided for selecting subscriptions, all subscribers will be subscribed 
for the weekly digest and the newsletter.
Warning!
Only tested with the permalink format set as 
“/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/” on a Windows server. Don’t know if it 
works with other formats, although the implementation is quite generic.
Options page
The plugin registers an option page that enables admins to:
<ul>
<li>configure the weekday and time-of-day when the digests are sent</li>
<li>(re)send the digest(s) to subscribers or to given email addresses</li>
<li>send a newsletter to subscribers or to given email addresses</li>
</ul>
Wishlist
Some features to be added in some future version:
<ul>
<li>Daily and maybe monthly digest.</li>
<li>Timed removal of unconfirmed requests.</li>
<li>Configurable messages and format(s) of digest(s)</li>
<li>Support for selecting subscription options (digest, newsletter)</li>
</ul>

Keep in Touch

Nice effort for making your first plugin.



Regards for your first plugin

Allows visitors to register for receiving a weekly digest of the newly added posts.

Ashish Kumar

Save & Summarize helps your readers stay engaged with your content. Users can save articles with one click and later receive a personalized weekly digest of their saved posts.
If the site admin connects an AI provider (OpenAI or compatible API), the digest can optionally include AI-generated summaries of saved posts — completely optional and triggered only when configured.
This plugin is fully usable without AI, and all AI features require explicit configuration by the site administrator.
<h3>✨ Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>🔖 Save posts for later (bookmark button on each post)</li>
<li>🗂 “My Saved Posts” page (via shortcode)</li>
<li>📬 Weekly email digest of saved articles</li>
<li>🤖 Optional AI-powered summaries (admin must enter their own API key)</li>
<li>🧩 Works with any theme</li>
<li>🔐 Privacy-friendly (no data collected by us; AI calls only with admin consent)</li>
<li>🪶 Lightweight and clean code</li>
</ul>
<h3>💡 Perfect for</h3>
Blogs • News sites • Education sites • Documentation • Tutorial platforms • Content-heavy sites that want higher user retention.
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li>
On any Page or Post, enable the option “Allow users to save this page” using the checkbox in the editor sidebar. 
This automatically displays the Save for Later button for that content.
</li>
<li>
(Optional) You can also manually insert the Save button anywhere using the shortcode: 
[saveamsu_save_button]
</li>
<li>
Create a My Saved Articles page and insert the shortcode: 
[saveamsu_saved_posts]
</li>
<li>
Enable the weekly digest email in: 
Settings → Save & Summarize
</li>
<li>
(Optional) Enter an AI API key to include AI-generated summaries in user digests.
</li>
</ol>
AI features remain disabled unless the admin explicitly adds an API key.
<h3>AI Usage & Privacy</h3>
This plugin includes optional AI features.
<ul>
<li>The plugin works fully without AI.</li>
<li>AI is used only if the website administrator manually enters and stores their own API key.</li>
<li>Only public post content is sent to the AI provider for the purpose of generating summaries.</li>
<li>No personal user data (email, name, preferences, IP) is ever sent to any AI service.</li>
<li>The plugin developers do not store or transmit any data.</li>
</ul>
Admins are responsible for choosing a compliant AI provider and understanding their data policies.
<h3>External services</h3>
<ul>
<li>OpenAI Chat Completions API — used to generate optional summaries for saved posts.
<ul>
<li>Data sent: public post content and a system prompt, only when generating a summary (e.g., when the weekly digest is being built). No user-identifying data is sent. </li>
<li>When it is used: only after the site administrator enters their own API key in the plugin settings; the plugin functions without this. </li>
<li>Provider policies: <a href="https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a>, <a href="https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h3>1. Enabling “Save for Later” on Pages and Posts</h3>
Each Page and Post includes a checkbox titled: 
Allow users to save this page
Turn it on to display the Save button automatically on that content.
<h3>2. Using the Save Button Shortcode</h3>
If you prefer manual placement, insert: 
[saveamsu_save_button]
<h3>3. Creating the Saved Articles Page</h3>
Create a new page (e.g., “My Saved Articles”) and add: 
[saveamsu_saved_posts]
Logged-in users will see a clean list of all articles they’ve saved.
<h3>4. Enabling Weekly Summary Emails</h3>
Go to Settings → Save & Summarize and:
<ul>
<li>Turn on weekly digests </li>
<li>Customize the email subject and introduction </li>
<li>(Optional) Add an AI key to include smart summaries </li>
</ul>
<h3>Developers</h3>
Developed by Ashish Kumar 
GitHub: https://github.com/ashishforgive

Save & Summarize – AI Digest for Saved Articles

Let users save posts for later and get a weekly digest — with optional AI-generated summaries.

Keep in Touch vs Save & Summarize – AI Digest for Saved Articles