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SEO Articles Publisher connects your WordPress site to your SEO Articles Publisher account. Every day, the SEO Articles Publisher service reads top headline news, rewrites the stories into original, SEO-focused articles that weave in your business — what you do, how you help, and a call to action — and this plugin publishes them to your site on your plan’s schedule.
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<li>Hands-off publishing — articles arrive and publish automatically (or as drafts/pending if you prefer to review).</li>
<li>Tailored to your business — your company profile (capabilities, tone, keywords, call to action) shapes every article.</li>
<li>Daily fresh content — sourced from the day’s top headlines, rewritten as original commentary with attribution to the source story.</li>
<li>Safe by design — content is sanitized on the server and again by WordPress before publishing; you control the publish mode, category, and author.</li>
</ul>
<h4>An account is required</h4>
This plugin is a connector for the SEO Articles Publisher service (<a href="https://seoarticles.abie.com" rel="nofollow ugc">seoarticles.abie.com</a>), a paid subscription service operated by ABIE, LLC. The plugin does nothing without an account. Plans range from 1 article per week (Free) to 5 articles per day.
<h4>External services disclosure</h4>
This plugin communicates with the SEO Articles Publisher service at <code>seoarticles.abie.com</code> (operated by ABIE, LLC) to: register this site using the account email and password you enter (exchanged once for an access token; the password is never stored), fetch generated articles, report published article IDs, and send periodic heartbeats containing the plugin version, WordPress version, and site URL. No post content, user data, or visitor data from your site is sent to the service.
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<li>Terms of service: https://seoarticles.abie.com/terms</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://seoarticles.abie.com/privacy</li>
</ul>

SEO Articles Publisher

Publishes fresh, SEO-optimized articles to your site automatically — written daily from headline news and tailored to your business.

Paul

Dave Goodchild

!! WARNING: Before activating this plugin, please DO NOT deactivate the previous Article Directory plugin if you have it installed !!
If you do deactivate, you will lose your settings. Once you have activated this new plugin, you may go to the plugins page and deactivate the old one. 
That way we make a backup of your settings because the old plugin is set to delete your settings automatically when you deactivate.
Please note: I’m not the original author but I’m open to suggestions on ways to add to and develop out the plugin. Please feel free to leave suggestions in the forums.
This is taken directly from the original <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/article-directory" rel="ugc">Article Directory plugin</a> last updated 3 years ago (2011-1-16), and made compatible with WordPress 3.9 and 
it’s updated database system.
Displays the structured list of categories (like in article directory), which can be easily customized with CSS. Also allows authors to publish articles and change their profile bypassing the admin interface. See an example at <a href="http://articlesss.com/" title="Article Directory" rel="nofollow ugc">Articlesss.com/</a>.
Standard features for categories list:
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<li>Showing an amount of articles in parent and child categories.</li>
<li>Showing a category description in link title.</li>
<li>Showing the empty categories.</li>
<li>Using hierarchy for subcategories.</li>
<li>Excluding a specified categories.</li>
</ul>
Special features for categories list:
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<li>Simple and handy design using CSS. The structure of categories is the multilevel list, which can be altered easily with CSS, as you need. The parent category have the <code><div></code> container to mark it out with CSS as a parent.</li>
<li>Parent category is showing amount of articles in subcategories. The character also include the number of articles in this parent category.</li>
<li>Showing a specified amount of child categories (2nd level).</li>
<li>Showing a categories in specified amount of columns.</li>
<li>Hiding all subcategories.</li>
<li>Adding an icons for each category in the list using CSS.</li>
</ul>
Additional features:
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<li>Authors can add articles and change their profile bypassing the admin interface.</li>
<li>Displaying the “Terms of article publication” on article submission page.</li>
<li>Excluding the child categories articles from the parent categories archive pages.</li>
<li>Ability to get an article source code.</li>
</ul>

Article Directory Redux

Displays the list of categories like in article directory and allows authors to publish articles and change their profile bypassing the admin area.

SEO Articles Publisher vs Article Directory Redux