Echo RSS Feed Post Generator Free Version

Point Echo RSS at a feed, tell it how often to check and what the posts should look like, and it keeps your site filling itself while you sleep.

This is the free edition of the Echo RSS Feed Post Generator — and it is a complete autoblogging engine, not a teaser. There is no purchase code, no activation step, no limit on rules, no limit on posts per run, and no attribution injected into your content. Nothing phones home.

Built for people who actually run feeds

• Unlimited import rules. Run one feed or two hundred. Each rule gets its own schedule, post status, post type, author, categories, tags and content template.
• Schedules in hours or minutes. Pick the unit once, then set each rule’s interval. A breaking-news feed can run every 5 minutes while a weekly digest runs every 168 hours.
• Unlimited posts per run. Set a rule’s Max # Posts to 0 and it imports everything new it finds.
• Real full-content extraction. Most feeds publish only a summary. Echo fetches the source article and pulls the body out automatically using a bundled Readability engine — no CSS selectors required. When you want manual control, target content by class, ID, XPath or regular expression.
• It will not create duplicates. Every imported item is fingerprinted by its source URL, so re-running a rule picks up where it left off instead of posting the same article twice.

Content that arrives ready to publish

• Featured images pulled from the article, the feed enclosure, or the first image in the content — then copied into your Media Library and resized to your dimensions.
• Free stock photography as a fallback when an article has none, via Pexels, Pixabay, Unsplash, Flickr and MorgueFile, with automatic attribution shortcodes.
• Categories and tags generated from feed metadata, or assigned by hand. Custom fields, custom taxonomies and WPML language are all supported.
• YouTube links converted into responsive embeds, and audio or video enclosures appended to the post body.
• Post titles and bodies built from templates using 30+ shortcodes — %%item_title%%, %%item_content%%, %%item_url%%, %%author%%, %%feed_title%% and more, including custom XML tags you define yourself.
• Comments, pingbacks and trackbacks enabled or disabled per rule.

Filters, so you import only what you want

• Minimum and maximum word counts for titles and for content.
• Required-keyword and banned-keyword lists, globally or per rule.
• Skip articles with no image, or with banned words in the image filename.
• Skip articles older or newer than a date you choose.
• Import as draft or pending first, review, then flip the rule to publish.

Rewriting and translation, included

• Translation into any language via DeepL, Google Translate or Microsoft Bing.
• Text spinner that swaps words for synonyms from a bundled thesaurus, with an adjustable confidence level and a protected-terms list.
• Keyword Replacer — define keywords that are automatically swapped for your affiliate links, anywhere they appear on your site.
• Random Sentence Generator — inject varied, relevant sentences you define into generated posts.
• Append a tracking string to every link in imported content, and control nofollow, target and custom attributes on internal and external links independently.

Publish outward as well as inward

Echo also runs in reverse. The built-in RSS Feed Generator turns your own posts into unlimited named RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0 feeds, each with its own post count, update period and optional WP_Query filter — ideal for syndicating a single category to a partner.

Tools that save you an afternoon

• Crawling Helper — paste any URL and it shows you the class, ID or XPath of the content you want to target.
• Activity & Logging — per-rule run status, a detailed log, and a system-info panel reporting PHP version, memory, cURL and timeouts.
• Backup and restore your entire rule list to a file, so a working setup moves to another site in one step.
• Web proxy support, custom user agents, custom cookies, and a Google Archives fallback for when a source blocks you.
• Run it on your terms — WP-Cron, a real server cron job via a secret-word URL, or an XML-RPC ping that fires the matching rule the moment a publisher notifies you.
• Multisite compatible.

Displaying what you imported

Two shortcodes and two Gutenberg blocks, searchable in the block inserter under “echo”:

• [echo-display-posts posts_per_page="5" include_excerpt="true" include_date="true"]
• [echo-list-posts type="post" posts="20" orderby="title" order="ASC" ruleid="0"]

Use ruleid to show only what one import rule produced, and link_to_source="true" to point headlines at the original article — the usual choice for an aggregator page. A third shortcode, [echo-display-input], renders a front-end form so visitors can submit a URL for import.

Up and running in three steps

1. Activate the plugin and open Echo RSS Feed Post Generator → Main Settings. The master switch is already on.
2. Go to RSS to Post Rules, paste a feed URL into the blank row, set the schedule and a post status of Draft, tick Active, and click Save Settings.
3. Open the rule’s Actions menu and choose Run This Rule Now. Your posts are waiting in Posts → All Posts.

Full documentation ships inside the plugin, in the docs/ folder — open docs/index.html in any browser.

What the full version adds

This free edition covers importing from end to end. The full version is for a different job: finding sources you do not have yet, and handling sites that fight back.

• Feed discovery. Search for feeds by keyword, website URL or topic, and turn the results directly into import rules — instead of hunting for feed URLs by hand.
• HeadlessBrowserAPI. Extract JavaScript-rendered pages through a hosted browser, and select the content visually instead of writing selectors. Nothing to install on your server.
• Live RSS display. Embed an external feed on a page with a shortcode or Gutenberg block, rendered live at page load rather than imported.
• Gutenberg conversion. Have generated content arrive as native blocks your editors can rearrange, instead of an HTML blob.
• Nested tag mapping. Map deeply nested custom RSS tags, and assign categories from keywords found in the title.

To get the full version, visit: Echo RSS Feed Post Generator Plugin for WordPress

HeadlessBrowserAPI is a separate hosted service and may require its own account or API credentials.

Plugin requirements

• PHP 7.2 or higher. PHP 8.0 to 8.2 is fully supported. (The bundled SimplePie library sets the 7.2 floor.)
• WordPress 4.0 or higher. Tested up to WordPress 7.1.
• PHP DOM, plus the XML, XMLReader, PCRE, mbstring and JSON extensions. All are standard on virtually every host — here is how to enable PHP DOM if yours is missing.
• Optional: cURL (recommended — the plugin runs without it and shows a notice), GD for image resizing, and OpenSSL for https:// feeds when cURL is unavailable.
• A PHP memory limit of 256 MB or more is recommended if you use full-content extraction.

A built-in system check lives at Activity & Logging → System Info, so you can confirm all of the above from inside WordPress.

About us

My name is Szabi, from CodeRevolution. We are a small team working on WordPress plugins full time, which is why our items come with real support rather than an autoresponder. Questions before you buy are always welcome — reach us through our knowledge base or support desk.