dbirlew

Like the “Story Highlights” lists on articles at CNN.com and other sites, this adds a bullet list to each post’s content via an edit post page panel. The plugin sets up the code only, styling can be handled by adding the classes provided under the Other Notes to style.css in your theme.
<h3>Use</h3>
Add a new post or edit an existing post. A new panel titled “Story Highlights” appears in the right column of the edit post page. If these fields are all blank, the plugin does nothing. To add a “Story Highlights” bullet list to your post, you MUST add a list title and the first bullet point. Otherwise an empty list appears. You may add up to five bullet points, summarizing your post. To delete a bullet point, clear the field. UPDATE your post to save your bullet points.
<h3>Alignment</h3>
Below the list fields is the option “choose alignment”. By default it is set to “none” which inserts the element as a block above the post. Leave this option if you wish to manually apply your own floats to the element. Otherwise choose “left” or “right” to float the element to the right or the left of the first paragraph of your post. Note that floating the list left or right may break your layout if you insert an image at the start of your post.
<h3>Styling</h3>
This plugin inserts a (mostly) un-styled element above the first paragraph of your post content. The following unique classes and ids can be added to your stylesheet and used to position and style the element, allowing the freedom to style each part individually:
<pre><code>div.shsp
h1.shsp_title
ul#shsp_ul
li.shsp_li1
li.shsp_li2
li.shsp_li3
li.shsp_li4
li.shsp_li5
</code></pre>
As of version 1.4 checking the box labelled “Use default plugin styles?” will add styles to your source code. This can be enabled/disabled on a per-post basis. However, the recommended method of use is to add the classes above to the style.css file of your theme and style the Story Highlights box your own way, to match your look.
<h3>Widget</h3>
This plugin adds the Story Highlights widget to the Appearance > Widgets page. Add this widget to the sidebar that will be displayed on single post pages. This widget has no settings. If the widget is active then the post element is not inserted, and the list appears in the sidebar. Remove the widget from the sidebar if you wish to display the element within the post body.

Story Highlights

Adds a bullet list to the start of the post content.

Hristo Pandjarov

Ignat Georgiev

Stoyan Georgiev

Stanimir Stoyanov

SiteGround

Elena Chavdarova

The AI Agent by SiteGround plugin enables an AI agent for your WordPress and WooCommerce instances, and activates SiteGround AI connector for WordPress.
<h3>Why get this plugin?</h3>
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Brings an AI agent directly into your WordPress workflow to assist you in streamlining site management. Regardless of your WordPress level of expertise, you can simply describe what you want in a chat and the AI agent will do it for you.
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Lets you manage WordPress and WooCommerce through an AI chat – the faster, simpler, smarter way.
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The AI Agent is trained on WordPress and is able to execute real, consequential tasks securely.
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It offers a centralized chat to do all tasks – no screen hopping across the admin.
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Saves you time and reduces manual work.
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It also enables SiteGround AI connector for WordPress, which means you can use native AI functionalities through AI Studio. SiteGround customers get free monthly tokens.
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<h3>🗝️ Key Capabilities</h3>
The AI Agent for WordPress has a <a href="https://siteground.com/kb/ai-agent-for-wordpress/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin-directory&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">wide range of capabilities</a>, covering a large scope of WordPress and WooCommerce tasks:
<h3>Content Management</h3>
Easily generate, edit, publish, and organize content on one site or across your entire portfolio.
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Create or edit posts and pages: Create, update, and delete posts and pages. Draft the actual content with AI-generated text and images.
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Publish or unpublish content: Control when your posts and pages go live, or save them as drafts until they’re ready.
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Add categories and tags: Apply, update, or remove categories and tags to keep your content organized.
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Builds navigation menus, organizes page structure and hierarchy. It handles successfully complete taxonomy restructures – merging categories, creating new hierarchies, and reassigning posts to different tags.
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Moderate comments: Approve, edit, or delete comments to keep discussions clean and relevant.
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Media Library Control: Upload, retrieve, or delete images and files with a single prompt.
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Optimise for search engines: audits for missing SEO meta data, generates meta for new WordPress posts and pages – SEO titles, meta descriptions, keywords, alt text and captions.
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Point it at a media library with 200+ product images, and it adds the needed metadata for each one, maintaining consistent keyword usage throughout. That’s 800+ individual fields – a week and a half of mind-numbing work, finished in an afternoon.
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Translate content: Translate posts, pages, or even your entire WooCommerce product catalogue into any language.
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Perform bulk content changes across sites: Update text, URLs, or meta data across dozens of pages on multiple sites.
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<h3>WooCommerce Management</h3>
Let the AI Agent for WordPress handle key WooCommerce tasks for your store.
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Create and update products: Add new listings or edit product details like price, description, labels and stock.
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Manage inventory: Adjust stock levels and availability across your catalog.
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Handle orders: View, update, cancel, or delete orders. Retrieve customer orders and details instantly for faster order processing and support.
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Track store performance: Ask the agent for sales reports, top-performing products, coupon usage, and trends for any date range.
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Translate your product catalogue: Expand into new markets by translating your full WooCommerce catalogue, with HTML formatting and technical specifications preserved.
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<h3>Plugins & Themes</h3>
Maintain your WordPress installation effortlessly and keep your entire site portfolio up to date at once.
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Install or remove plugins: Add new or clean up unused plugins in seconds.
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Manage themes quickly: Install, update, or delete themes with a single prompt.
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Audit plugins and themes: Ask for a list of all installed plugins or themes with their version numbers and update status, so you can spot outdated or unnecessary extensions.
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Update plugins and themes across all sites: Push updates to your entire portfolio with one command, with no separate wp-admin logins.
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<h3>Site Settings</h3>
Control your WordPress configuration through chat commands and standardize it across every connected site.
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Update core settings: Change site title, tagline, language, timezone, and permalink structure in one step.
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Standardize settings across sites: Apply the same configuration to all your connected WordPress installations instantly.
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<h3>User Management</h3>
Simplify user control and community moderation.
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Add and manage users: Create new accounts, reset passwords, update user details, or adjust roles and permissions.
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Manage users across sites: Add a new editor to all connected sites, review Admin access everywhere, or remove a user’s access across your entire portfolio.
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<h3>🛡️ Power Mode for High-Impact Actions</h3>
To protect your website from accidental or harmful changes, the AI Agent for WordPress includes a built-in safety layer called Power Mode.
Power Mode is disabled by default to ensure that high-impact actions are never executed without your explicit confirmation. When you request a potentially irreversible operation, the Agent will pause and alert you before proceeding.
Actions that require Power Mode ON include:
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Deletions: posts, pages, categories, tags, users, media files, plugins, themes, products, orders.
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Bulk operations: mass-editing post titles, updating URLs across multiple pages, mass-deleting drafts.
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Create, edit, and delete users
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Updating global site settings
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Creating, updating, or deleting WooCommerce products and orders
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By combining AI automation with built-in safeguards, SiteGround ensures you get speed and convenience without compromising safety.
<h3>🌐 Manage Multiple Sites in Bulk</h3>
Connect any number of WordPress sites to SiteGround AI Studio and manage them all from a single AI-powered workspace. Turn repetitive wp-admin logins into one set of instructions that instantly runs across your connected sites.
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Push plugin and theme updates across your entire portfolio with one command.
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Add or remove users across all sites at once, onboard a new team member or revoke access when someone leaves.
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Perform bulk content changes such as updating text or URLs across dozens of pages on multiple sites.
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Standardize WordPress settings like site title or timezone across all connected sites instantly.
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<h3>✨ AI Connector</h3>
The plugin also enables SiteGround AI as an AI connector for your WordPress. SiteGround AI is a multi-model AI service that intelligently routes each task to the best-suited LLM, optimizing for output quality and cost efficiency. It powers WordPress AI features, including text, image, and code generation, translation, research, analysis, and more. It orchestrates several models – Gemini, Nano Banana, ChatGPT, GPT-Image, Claude – and automatically selects the best one for each job.
Install the AI Agent by SiteGround plugin, create a free account for SiteGround AI Studio service, and the connector activates automatically. No API key is needed to activate.
In the plugin you have separate settings to activate and deactivate the SiteGround AI Connector separately from the AI agent. If you deactivate the Connector it will stop powering up AI features in the WP admin, enabled by the AI plugin. Disconnecting the SiteGround AI Connector will not affect the work of the AI agent – it will remain active until you disable this plugin entirely. <a href="https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/ai-agent-wordpress/enable-siteground-ai-provider/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn More.</a>
<h3>🚀 Getting Started</h3>
To start using the AI Agent for WordPress, you need to sign up for <a href="https://www.siteground.com/ai-studio/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin-directory&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">SiteGround AI Studio</a> and activate the AI Agent by SiteGround plugin. 
The plugin works with any WordPress site, regardless of where it is hosted. 
If your WordPress site is hosted on SiteGround servers, you can <a href="https://www.siteground.com/kb/connect-ai-studio-with-wordpress/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin-directory&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">enable the connection</a> in a click. 
<h3>What is AI Studio by SiteGround?</h3>
SiteGround <a href="https://www.siteground.com/ai-studio/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin-directory&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Studio</a> is the connector that powers the AI Agent by SiteGround plugin with AI capabilities. 
By signing up for AI Studio you not only enable the AI Agent for WordPress, but also get a unified platform to chat with multiple LLMs: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Imagen, Nano Banana, and gives you access to 14+ agents that perform different business and marketing tasks.
<h3>How to get started? </h3>
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Sign up for <a href="https://www.siteground.com/ai-studio/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin-directory&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">SiteGround AI Studio</a>
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Log into your WordPress admin and <a href="https://www.siteground.com/kb/use-wordpress-ai-agent-external-sites/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin-directory&utm_content=description" rel="nofollow ugc">activate AI Agent by SiteGround plugin</a>.
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Paste the connection key from your AI Studio account to link your site. 
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Once connected, chat with the agent from the SiteGround’s AI Studio interface or directly inside your WordPress Admin via a built-in chat pop-up.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to SiteGround’s AI Studio API (api.studio.siteground.ai) to provide AI-powered WordPress site management features. The plugin transmits data to the following endpoints:
AI Chat Service 
– Purpose: Process user requests and generate AI-powered content, site management commands, and responses 
– Endpoint: https://api.studio.siteground.ai/api/v1/* (various chat and generation endpoints) 
– Data sent: User prompts/queries, site context (WordPress version, active plugins, theme info), content being edited 
– When: Every time you interact with the AI assistant chat interface or use AI generation features
Authentication & Key Management 
– Purpose: Securely authenticate the plugin and manage API access credentials 
– Endpoint: https://api.studio.siteground.ai/[service]/v1/sign/token 
– Data sent: Site URL, authentication tokens, plugin version 
– When: During initial plugin setup, when connecting/reconnecting the service, and during automatic token refresh
Key Refresh Service 
– Purpose: Periodically refresh authentication keys to maintain secure access 
– Endpoint: https://api.studio.siteground.ai/dynamic-keys/v1/key-refresh 
– Data sent: Current authentication credentials, site URL 
– When: Automatically when authentication keys need renewal
Usage Analytics 
– Purpose: Track feature usage and display usage statistics in the plugin dashboard 
– Endpoint: https://api.studio.siteground.ai/api/v1/usage (analytics endpoints) 
– Data sent: Usage metrics requests 
– When: When viewing the plugin dashboard or usage statistics
Access Control 
– Purpose: Retrieve and verify user permissions for plugin features 
– Endpoint: https://api.studio.siteground.ai/api/v1/acl/wp-acl 
– Data sent: User/site identification data 
– When: During feature access verification and permission checks
Connection Management 
– Purpose: Establish and terminate plugin connections to the AI Studio service 
– Endpoint: https://api.studio.siteground.ai/api/v1/wp/wp-disconnect 
– Data sent: Site URL, connection credentials 
– When: When connecting or disconnecting the plugin from AI Studio service
Service provider: SiteGround 
<a href="https://www.siteground.com/viewtos/siteground_terms_of_service" rel="nofollow ugc">SiteGround Terms of Service</a> 
<a href="https://www.siteground.com/viewtos/ai_studio_service_terms" rel="nofollow ugc">SiteGround AI Studio Terms</a> 
<a href="https://www.siteground.com/viewtos/privacy_policy" rel="nofollow ugc">SiteGround Privacy Policy</a> 
<a href="https://www.siteground.com/viewtos/siteground_plugins_privacy_notice" rel="nofollow ugc">SiteGround Plugins Privacy Notice</a>

AI Agent by SiteGround


siteground installed this plugin plugin automatically when 7.0 rolled out, without my consent. That’s a huge security issue and I’ll be moving hosts. 


Auto installed without consent


Siteground have no right to add plugins to my sites, and certainly not without my consent, without any notification and without the ability to opt-out.



I am paying you to provide hosting, not so you can randomly deploy your own software onto my domains. I find it wholly unnacceptable that you've done this, and can’t believe that anyone internally signed this off as acceptable. 


Auto-installed without consent, or notification


I found this plugin installed, activated and connected to SiteGround AI Studio on all my WordPress sites, without a clear explicit opt-in from me.



This is not acceptable.



I manage client websites, including WooCommerce stores, and I need full control over every plugin and external connector added to them.



An AI agent connected to WordPress is not a minor feature. It should be something users actively choose to install and connect, not something they discover afterwards.



I removed it from my sites.



The problem is not AI. The problem is trust. This should be strictly opt-in.


Auto-installed, auto-activated and auto-connected. Why?


This plugin has been installed and activated on all my Siteground-hosted sites without my authorization or even knowledge.



Once confronted about this, Siteground support tried to lie about it, stating that they did send out a notice and allowed users to opt out. That is a lie, nothing beyond default update notice for 7.0 WP Core update was sent. 



Initially the support refused to clean up this mess, trying to shift the burden on me, but after some pushback agreed to remove the plugin themselves. As of time of publication this has not happened yet.



I believe this plugin should be banned from the repository for trying to game usage stats by sneakily boosting user numbers without site owners' consent. It might even qualify as a cybersecurity incident.


Unauthorized installation and activation


Again, another voice to the hundreds to say this plugin was auto installed, connected and setup without consent. There was an email saying so, but yeah not great.


Auto Installed, connected and setup


THIS WAS AUTO INSTALLED ON MY SIITE! I DID NOT ASK OR WANT FOR THIS TO BE INSTALLED EVER!!!



You need to give the clients the ability to opt-in to having this plugin on their site, not just opt-in everyone if you have hosting services with SiteGround! That is very very bad! 



It also was unstable and caused an error to be displayed in the WP Admin. I removed it immediately and installed a plugin to disable all Wordpress AI features. Removing the plugin caused the error to go away and all related errors in the debug log have been resolved.



I do not trust SiteGround anymore.


Did not ask for this to be installed automatically


You should never, ever FREAKING EVER!!! install a plugin on an existing site without the customer's permission!!!!! 



Additionally, it broke the website with fatal errors.



Siteground has really gone down the tubes in the last bunch of years. They were THE BEST when they launched, now I struggle to recommend them at all.



Note the only acceptable reply to this is, "We are sorry. We will not do something like this again."


Siteground installed this without permission, crashes site


THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!Seriously though, you should know better.


WHEN WILL YOU LEARN.


Installed without consent. Are you kidding me?


Installed without consent.


For site owners, especially organizations in regulated industries, adding AI functionality is not a minor change. It raises real concerns around privacy, compliance, data handling, user trust, accessibility, security review, and governance. Anything AI-related needs to be intentionally evaluated before it is added to a production website. Absolute joke of a decision.


This is a disaster. Should never have been a thought


This was installed and activated without consent.


Auto installed without permission


Forced install. We did not want this plugin. Caused support work.


Thought site was hacked first but it was a forced install


Installing this completely useless plugin without consent is just typical SiteGround. Like with SiteGround Central and all the other bloat. Deserved 1 star.


Typical SiteGround

Manage your WordPress site with AI - create content, install plugins, and perform site management tasks effortlessly.

Story Highlights vs AI Agent by SiteGround