Description
PressAI Engine Lite is a focused editorial source monitor for WordPress.
It provides a complete free workflow for:
- Adding unlimited RSS/Atom feeds and WordPress sites with a public REST posts endpoint.
- Manually refreshing sources and monitoring basic source health.
- Reviewing newly discovered items in an editorial inbox.
- Duplicate-safe discovery using normalized source links.
- Creating WordPress drafts manually from selected feed/REST items.
- Optional source attribution on created drafts.
- Arabic-ready, RTL/LTR-compatible WordPress administration.
Lite deliberately does not crawl arbitrary HTML pages and does not include AI rewriting, automated publishing, semantic story intelligence, multi-source intelligence, background queues, historical crawling, self-healing, SEO automation, licensing, or a commercial updater. Those capabilities belong to a separate commercial plugin, PressAI Engine Pro. No Pro implementation is included, locked, downloaded, or installed by Lite.
External requests
The plugin makes outbound HTTP requests only to source URLs that an administrator explicitly adds. These requests are necessary to verify and read the configured RSS/Atom feed or WordPress REST posts endpoint. The plugin does not send site data, usage analytics, article data, or personal data to PressAI servers.
Source code and build notes
All JavaScript and CSS shipped with PressAI Engine Lite is human-readable source and is loaded directly from the assets/ directory. No minification, bundling, transpilation, npm, webpack, or other build step is required to reproduce the distributed assets. The JavaScript executed by the plugin is the readable assets/admin.js file included in this package.
Privacy
PressAI Engine Lite stores configured source URLs and discovered article metadata in the local WordPress database. It makes requests only to sources configured by an administrator. It does not transmit this data to PressAI or analytics services.
Installation
- Upload the
pressai-engine-litefolder to/wp-content/plugins/or install the ZIP from Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin. - Activate PressAI Engine Lite.
- Open PressAI Lite > Sources.
- Add a WordPress site URL or direct RSS/Atom feed URL.
- Refresh the source and review discovered items in Editorial Inbox.
FAQ
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Does Lite require an account or API key?
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No. Lite does not require a PressAI account, license key, or AI provider key.
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Does Lite scrape arbitrary websites?
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No. Lite reads RSS/Atom feeds and public WordPress REST posts endpoints only. For non-WordPress sites, provide a direct RSS/Atom feed URL.
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Does Lite publish automatically?
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No. Creating a WordPress draft is always a manual administrator action in Lite.
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Is PressAI Engine Pro included but disabled?
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No. Pro is a separate commercial plugin with separate code. Lite contains no disabled premium implementation.
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Are there artificial source or article quotas?
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No. Lite is limited by capability, not by a source-count timer or article quota.
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Does the plugin collect telemetry?
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No. Lite does not send usage analytics or site data to PressAI.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“PressAI Engine Lite” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.0.8
- WordPress.org review packaging: WordPress-enqueued admin menu styling, readable distributed JavaScript source, and directory-managed locale translations.
- Rebuilt the Lite & Pro screen as a conversion-focused Pro upgrade experience with outcome-driven feature groups.
- Expanded the detailed Lite vs Pro capability comparison while preserving Lite’s separate-codebase boundary.
- Added responsive and RTL-specific visual treatment for the Pro value, workflow and commercial summary.
- Database version remains 0.1.0.
1.0.7
- Lite now stays dormant when PressAI Engine Pro is active, preventing duplicate admin menus while preserving Lite data for rollback.
1.0.5
- Responsive layout-grid polish for forms, cards and admin controls.
- Preserved Lite feature boundaries and database version.
1.0.4
- Added contextual ? help popovers beside key Lite fields and screens.
- Kept the R20 visual system and Lite/Pro scope boundaries unchanged.
1.0.1
- Added the shared PressAI brand identity across Lite admin pages and the WordPress menu.
- Unified buttons, cards, forms and tables with the final PressAI visual system.
- Added host Select2/SelectWoo compatibility for future enhanced selects without introducing a WooCommerce or CDN dependency.
- Kept Lite database version 0.1.0 with no migration.
1.0.0
- Finalized the Lite 1.0 product scope as a standalone manual source-monitoring plugin.
- Kept RSS/Atom and WordPress REST discovery with manual refresh only.
- Strengthened normalized-link duplicate protection across configured sources and created drafts.
- Added duplicate source-endpoint protection.
- Reworked Dashboard, Sources, Editorial Inbox, Settings and Lite/Pro scope UI.
- Improved responsive, RTL and accessibility behavior.
- Expanded opt-in uninstall cleanup to remove Lite-owned post metadata while preserving created posts.
- Kept the Lite database schema unchanged from 0.1.0.
- Confirmed that no Pro implementation, AI, automation, licensing or updater code is bundled.
0.1.0
- Initial WordPress.org-oriented Lite release.
- RSS/Atom and WordPress REST source monitoring.
- Duplicate-safe editorial inbox.
- Manual draft curation and source attribution.