Hudson Atwell

GBTI Network

<p>Radle is a service integration plugin that connects your WordPress site with Reddit’s platform. It enables two-way communication between WordPress and Reddit’s servers, allowing you to publish posts to Reddit and display Reddit’s comment threads directly on your WordPress posts.</p>
<h4>Account Requirements</h4>
<p>To use this plugin, you need:<br />
1. A Reddit account<br />
2. Reddit API credentials (Client ID and Client Secret)<br />
3. Authorization via Reddit’s OAuth system</p>
<p>The plugin guides you through obtaining these credentials during setup.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<p>As of version 2.0.0, every feature that was previously part of Radle Pro is now built into Radle — free, with no license, no account gate, and no upsell.</p>
<ul>
<li>Quick publishing to a subreddit or your Reddit user profile</li>
<li>Per-post destination override (publish individual posts to a different subreddit or your profile)</li>
<li>Reddit comments integration with configurable thread depth (up to 10 levels) and expanded replies (up to 30 per level)</li>
<li>Real-time comment search</li>
<li>Seven comment sort modes: Newest, Most Popular, Oldest, Least Popular, Most Engaged, Most Balanced, and Q&A</li>
<li>Author badges for Original Poster, Moderator, and Pinned comments</li>
<li>Pinned (stickied) comments surfaced at the top of the thread</li>
<li>Configurable comment caching (5 minutes to 24 hours) with automatic cache clearing</li>
<li>Customizable publishing templates with SEO meta tokens for Yoast SEO and Rank Math</li>
<li>Per-post comment system override</li>
<li>Option to hide the legacy WordPress comments menu</li>
<li>Rate limit monitoring</li>
<li>Comprehensive settings management</li>
<li>User-friendly setup wizard</li>
<li>Available in 15 languages (machine-assisted; community improvements welcome)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Data Exchange</h4>
<p>The plugin communicates with Reddit’s servers to:<br />
* Fetch and display comment threads<br />
* Retrieve user profile information (including avatars)<br />
* Submit posts to Reddit<br />
* Monitor API usage and rate limits</p>
<p>All Reddit data is served directly from Reddit’s infrastructure, ensuring real-time updates and compliance with Reddit’s platform requirements.</p>
<h4>Installation</h4>
<ol>
<li>Upload the plugin files to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/radle-lite</code> directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.</li>
<li>Go to the Radle settings page to configure your Reddit API credentials.</li>
<li>Follow the setup wizard to complete the configuration.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Join the GBTI Network</h3>
<p>Radle is built and maintained by the <a href="https://gbti.network/?ref=atwellpub&utm_source=radle-lite&utm_medium=wordpress-plugin&utm_campaign=community" rel="nofollow ugc">GBTI Network</a>, a professional community and co-op for WordPress developers, builders, and site owners.</p>
<p>Membership is about people, not paywalls. As a member you get:</p>
<ul>
<li>A private Discord community of working professionals</li>
<li>Direct input into Radle’s roadmap and other GBTI open-source projects</li>
<li>Early access to tools, betas, and member-built resources</li>
<li>A collaborative, co-op model where members share work, knowledge, and opportunities</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://gbti.network/?ref=atwellpub&utm_source=radle-lite&utm_medium=wordpress-plugin&utm_campaign=community" rel="nofollow ugc">Join the GBTI Network</a></p>
<h3>Need Custom Development?</h3>
<p>Want Radle (or any WordPress project) tailored to your needs? Hire a vetted expert through <a href="https://codeable.io/?ref=99TG1&utm_source=radle-lite&utm_medium=wordpress-plugin&utm_campaign=customizations" rel="nofollow ugc">Codeable</a> for a free, no-obligation estimate.</p>
<h3>Service Integration</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to one external service:</p>
<h4>Reddit API Service</h4>
<ul>
<li>Service Provider: Reddit</li>
<li>Purpose: Fetch comments and publish content (text, links, images, galleries)</li>
<li>Endpoints Used:
<ul>
<li>https://oauth.reddit.com/r/subreddit/about/moderators (Moderator info)</li>
<li>https://oauth.reddit.com/subreddits/mine/moderator (Moderated subreddits)</li>
<li>https://oauth.reddit.com/subreddits/mine/subscriber (Subscribed subreddits)</li>
<li>https://oauth.reddit.com/api/submit (Submit posts – text, link, image)</li>
<li>https://oauth.reddit.com/api/submit_gallery_post.json (Submit multi-image gallery posts)</li>
<li>https://oauth.reddit.com/api/media/asset.json (Request image upload credentials)</li>
<li>https://reddit-uploaded-media.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/ (Upload images to Reddit CDN)</li>
<li>wss://reddit.com/… (WebSocket connections for real-time post processing status)</li>
<li>https://www.redditstatic.com/avatars/defaults/v2/avatar_default_1.png (Default avatar)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Data Transmitted:
<ul>
<li>Post content (title, text, links) when publishing to Reddit</li>
<li>Images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF) when publishing image/gallery posts</li>
<li>OAuth credentials for authentication</li>
<li>API requests for fetching comments and user data</li>
<li>User profile information for displaying comments</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>When Data is Sent:
<ul>
<li>During initial OAuth authentication</li>
<li>When publishing posts to Reddit (text, link, image, or gallery)</li>
<li>When uploading images to Reddit’s CDN</li>
<li>When monitoring post processing status via WebSocket</li>
<li>When loading Reddit comments on posts</li>
<li>When fetching user profile information</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Terms of Service: <a href="https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement" rel="nofollow ugc">Reddit Terms</a></li>
<li>Privacy Policy: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Reddit Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>Radle ships with translations for 15 languages (Arabic, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish), generated automatically and refreshed with each release.</p>
<p>These are intended as a helpful starting point. If you notice a translation that could be more natural, improvements are very welcome through the WordPress.org translation platform at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/radle-lite/.</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Radle connects to the Reddit API and stores the following data:</p>
<ul>
<li>Reddit API credentials (encrypted)</li>
<li>Rate limit usage statistics</li>
<li>Comment display preferences</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information, visit our <a href="https://gbti.network/privacy/?ref=atwellpub&utm_source=radle-lite&utm_medium=wordpress-plugin&utm_campaign=privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy policy</a>.</p>


Radle – A Reddit Comments Engine


Hi everyone, I'm the lead contributor for this plugin and I wanted to leave the first review to help it get started. I put a lot of love into developing this one, and its the first product I've contributed to in over five years. If you have any trouble at all please create a Github issue and I'll take a look at it as soon as possible. Thanks and I hope others end up using this. Kind regards,Hudson Atwell


Enjoyed developing this!


I recommend it, I tested it on my FSE theme and it worked well...


Works with FSE

Seamlessly integrate Reddit discussions and publishing capabilities into your WordPress site. Every Radle feature is now free and open source.

sydream

<p>Whether you own a subreddit channel and wants to showcase the images posted, or you are passionate about some of the many topics discussed in a subreddit and wants to show some images from there in your posts or your website,<br />
this plugin is for you. It will scrape images from a subreddit channel of your choice, and display it on your website through a text widget or in any of your post where you would use the shortcodes available. The images are fetched<br />
based on criteria you can setup in the settings, you can choose between two layout or simply grab the image url and use it anywhere you want.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Image scraping from selected subreddit channel</li>
<li>Image resolution and aspect ratio definition</li>
<li>Allow to select safe content as marked by Reddit (see Privacy note below for more information)</li>
<li>Image metadata and scraping is cached</li>
<li>Various method of image selection (daily, random, etc.)</li>
<li>Custom CSS override option</li>
<li>Various layout options to display the widget</li>
<li>All metadata can be extracted individually and integrated in posts and pages</li>
<li>Multi language support (translators are welcome)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ul>
<li>Activate the Plugin, this will initialize all the settings to default</li>
<li>Visit the <em>Plugin Setting</em> page from the sidebar <strong>RIOTD > Settings</strong></li>
<li>Configure the subReddit channel you want to select images from in <em>Settings > Configure Reddit Channel</em></li>
<li>Configure all other options relevant to your needs or leave the default</li>
<li>Add the shortcode <strong>[RIOTD]</strong> to a text-widget to show the image box on your page or in a post</li>
<li>Add the shortcode <strong>[RIOTD-DATA key=”xxx”]</strong> to a posts to show the related metadata (including the image url) in any post or widget</li>
<li>Visit the <strong>RIOTD > How To Use</strong> page from the sidebar for the full documentation</li>
</ul>
<h3>Screenshots</h3>
<ol>
<li>Configure subReddit channel in Settings</li>
<li>Configure image resolution and aspect ratio</li>
<li>Configure layout options and custom CSS</li>
<li>Configure general settings</li>
<li>Show widget preview</li>
<li>Show cache content</li>
<li>Show reddit compliant widget preview</li>
</ol>
<h3>Help and Support</h3>
<p>Although a lot of care has gone into thoroughly testing this plugin, we couldn’t possibly cover all cases and different setup scenario, so please bear with us while we improve and fix any issues that you will report.</p>
<p>Would you have any issue with the plugin, or if you want to request a new feature to be implemented, please open a <a href="https://github.com/tommasodargenio/wp-riotd/issues/new/choose" rel="nofollow ugc">new ticket</a> on the repository issue’s section.</p>
<p>Support is provided on best-effort basis, please upload screenshots to show the issue, the debug information shown in the column below called Debug Checkup, and any relevant information to help expedite troubleshooting and resolution.</p>
<p>We would love to hear any feedback and constructive criticisms that could help us improve this plugin and create new one, feature requests will be assessed based on the project’s roadmap and mission statement and feedback provided if we decide to implement it or else.</p>
<h3>Disclaimer</h3>
<p>This plugin and its code is provided <em>as-is</em> without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including any implied warranties or fitness for a particular purpose, merchantibility, or non-infringement.</p>
<p>Reddit is a copyright of Reddit Inc., please refer to Reddit user agreement <a href="https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement" rel="nofollow ugc">website</a> for further details</p>
<p>It is your responsibility to follow Reddit <a href="https://www.redditinc.com/brand" rel="nofollow ugc">branding</a> <a href="https://www.redditinc.com/assets/press-resources/broadcast_2020.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">guidelines</a> when posting data from their feed, RIOTD has a preformatted widget style compliant with the afore mentioned guidelines however it is up to you whether to use it or not</p>
<p><em>If you are looking to feature any content from a post as standalone asset, you’ll need to contact the original poster</em></p>
<h3>Privacy Statement</h3>
<ul>
<li>We do not collect or store any personal or usage information, the data fetched from Reddit is publicly available and exported via Reddit JSON RSS feed.</li>
<li>The post from Reddit where the image is selected, contains the username of the post’s author which you can choose not to display on your Website. <strong>(always read and respect the author’s copyright terms)</strong></li>
<li>Images not stored on Reddit but on 3rd party hosting sites will not be selected</li>
<li>Galleries and Videos will not be selected</li>
<li>The image’s content is never analyzed, we rely on Reddit’s flags to determine whether or not the image has adult content, you can choose to display such content or not with the related flag (<em>Allow NSFW content</em>) in the general settings area. The content of images shown on your website and fetched through this plugin is your sole responsibility</li>
<li>All data is stored on your Website at all time (in the wp_options table within the WordPress database), the lifetime of the data within this table is limited and it can be purged at anytime by using the control on the general settings page.</li>
<li>The plugin do not transfer or send any of the data collected (in its entirity or partially) anywhere outside your website.</li>
<li>
<p>If you would like to check the data that the plugin has collected from Reddit and stored in the database, you can use the <em>Show Cache Content</em> button on general settings page</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Reddit Inc. has the ownership of the post from which the image has been fetched, please refer to <a href="https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Reddit</a> privacy policies for more information on how this data is treated.</p>
</li>
</ul>


RIOTD – Reddit Image Of The Day

Image of The Day from any sub/Reddit in your WordPress widgets and posts

Radle – A Reddit Comments Engine vs RIOTD – Reddit Image Of The Day