obus3000

wpDirectory can show a structured list of categories on a page (home or any), easily customizable via CSS and localized compatible. This plugin can also modify the admin interface for posting articles or listings in the directory, for both contributors and admins in order to gain efficiency when posting entries.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Category description in link title.</li>
<li>Show/Hide Subcategories</li>
<li>Show/Hide Amount of articles in parent and child categories.</li>
<li>Show/Hide empty categories.</li>
<li>Display categories on specified amount of colums with automatic reordering adjusting to user\’s resolution.</li>
<li>Use hierarchy for subcategories.</li>
<li>Exclude selected categories.</li>
</ul>
Special features:
<ul>
<li><code>div</code> powered listing, so design can be easily modified using CSS,a s you need. The parent category is inserted in a <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>Display the specified amount of child categories (2nd level).</li>
<li>Exclude child categories articles from the parent categories archive pages.</li>
<li>You can add icons for parent categories using CSS.</li>
<li>User can access to article’s source code.</li>
</ul>
Future Features:
<ul>
<li>Ability to show all subcategories in listing powered by ajax.</li>
<li>Show domain stats and relevant information about domain (for link directory)</li>
<li>Integration with TDO miniforms</li>
</ul>
Admin interface options:
<ul>
<li>Can prevent the listing have more than one category</li>
<li>Show warning to author, if not selected any category or if selected more than one category.</li>
<li>Hide unnecessary blocks from the “Write/Edit Post” page, if this is not the site administrator. It is “Comments & Pings”, “Excerpt”, “Password Protect” and other blocks. I.e. actually there is only a form of adding the article and the button to send it to moderation.</li>
<li>Specific height of categories block on “Write/Edit Post” page.</li>
<li>Custom “Terms of item publication” on “Write/Edit Post” page.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version history</h3>
Version history and list of changes you can see <a href="http://arielbustillos.com/wpdirectory-wordpress-plugin/#version-history" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.

wpDirectory

A clean structured list of categories, which can be easily customized with CSS. Suitable for articles, links, business directory, etc.

grandranker

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

wpDirectory vs Grandranker