Frequently Asked Questions

AutoPilot AI Post is an AI-powered News Portal plugin that automatically fetches content from 20+ sources (RSS, YouTube, Amazon, Reddit, Google News, etc.), rewrites it using GPT-4 or Claude AI into 100% unique articles, optimizes them for SEO, generates featured images, and publishes them to your News Portal site — all on complete autopilot, 24/7.

Yes, AutoPilot AI Post works similarly to WP Auto Pro but with significantly more powerful AI capabilities. We use the latest GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet for rewriting (vs older AI models), include DALL-E 3 image generation, a cleaner dashboard, and support for more content sources including Telegram, Podcasts, and Custom APIs.

AutoPilot AI Post is perfect for:

• News portal operators who need continuous content flow
• Affiliate marketers building content-heavy product review sites
• Digital agencies managing multiple client News Portal sites
• Bloggers who want passive traffic without constant writing
• E-commerce store owners using WooCommerce for product imports

No technical skills required at all. If you can install a standard News Portal plugin and fill in a settings form, you can run AutoPilot AI Post fully. The setup wizard guides you through each step in plain English. Most users are up and running in under 5 minutes.

The Starter plan supports up to 50 posts/day. Professional and Agency plans have unlimited posts/day. The actual speed depends on your News Portal server speed and your OpenAI/Anthropic API rate limits — most users on Pro/Agency publish 100—500+ posts per day without issues.

Yes! We offer a 7-day free trial on the Professional plan with full access to all features. No credit card required to start. You can also use the Starter plan free for the first 14 days before needing to upgrade.

Yes. AutoPilot AI Post supports auto-translation via DeepL and Google Translate (100+ languages). You can import content in English and have it published in any language, or import and rewrite in the same language. This works with WPML and Polylang for multilingual News Portal sites.

AutoPilot AI Post requires News Portal 5.0 or higher and PHP 7.4+. It works with all major hosting providers including WPEngine, SiteGround, Cloudways, HostGator, and more. There are no special server configurations needed.

Installation takes under 2 minutes:

• Download the plugin ZIP file from your account dashboard
• Go to News Portal Admin ? Plugins ? Add New ? Upload Plugin
• Upload the ZIP file and click "Install Now"
• Click "Activate Plugin"
• Follow the on-screen setup wizard to connect your first source

Yes. You'll need your own OpenAI API key (for GPT-4) or Anthropic API key (for Claude) for AI rewriting. This puts the AI costs directly under your control. Most users spend $2—10/month on API calls depending on post volume. You can get a free OpenAI API key at platform.openai.com.

Absolutely. AutoPilot AI Post works perfectly on brand new News Portal installations. In fact, most users start a fresh News Portal site specifically to use AutoPilot AI Post as the content engine. Within the first 24 hours of setup, you can have hundreds of AI-written, SEO-optimized posts published.

Yes. AutoPilot AI Post publishes standard News Portal posts (not custom page builder pages). This means it works perfectly with any theme or page builder — the posts will use your theme's default post template. If you want a custom post layout, you can assign a template in your page builder's theme settings.

We have a migration tool in the plugin settings that can import your RSS sources and basic configurations from WP Auto Pro and similar plugins. Complex custom settings may need to be reconfigured manually, but our support team can assist with migrations.

Yes! After activation, you'll see an interactive setup wizard that walks you through: (1) connecting your first content source, (2) entering your AI API key, (3) setting your posting schedule, and (4) running a test post. The wizard takes about 3 minutes to complete.

Adding an RSS feed takes under 30 seconds:

• In your News Portal admin, go to AutoPilot AI Post → Sources → Add New
• Select 'RSS Feed' as the source type
• Paste the full RSS URL (must start with http:// or https://)
• Click 'Test Feed' to verify the plugin can read it
• Pick a category, set the fetch interval, and save

Most News Portal sites expose their feed at /feed (e.g., example.com/feed). Try adding /feed, /rss, or /feed.xml to the homepage URL. For category-specific feeds, use /category/sports/feed. If the site doesn't publicly link the feed, view its page source and search for 'application/rss+xml' — the href value is the feed URL. News sites and major publishers almost always have public feeds.

Walk through these checks in order:

• Open the feed URL in your browser — does it show XML or an error page?
• In the source settings, click 'Test Feed' and read the error message — most issues are 403/404 (blocked or wrong URL) or SSL certificate errors
• If you see 403, the source is blocking server-side requests — try adding a custom User-Agent in source advanced settings
• Make sure the duplicate-skip threshold isn't filtering out everything as 'too similar'
• Confirm WP-Cron is running — go to AutoPilot AI Post → Activity Log to see when the last fetch ran

The default fetch interval is 60 minutes per source, but you can set it per source from 5 minutes to 24 hours. Be reasonable — checking every 5 minutes on a feed that updates twice a day just wastes server resources and can get your IP rate-limited by the source. For breaking-news feeds, 15—30 minutes is a good balance. For blogs that publish daily, 2—6 hours is plenty.

Yes, on every plan. There's no hard cap on the number of sources, only on posts/day. Most users run between 5 and 30 RSS feeds in parallel — each feed publishes into the category you assign it. You can also chain a single source into multiple categories or apply different prompts per source so the writing style varies by topic.

Enable 'Full Content Fetch' in the source's advanced settings. The plugin will follow each item's link, scrape the article body from the page, and feed that to the AI for rewriting instead of just the excerpt. This works on most public news sites. For paywalled or login-protected sources, the plugin can only use what the feed provides — it won't bypass paywalls.

AutoPilot AI Post supports the following AI models:

• OpenAI: GPT-4o, GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-3.5 Turbo
• Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Haiku
• Google: Gemini Pro (via API)

You can select different models for different purposes — e.g., use GPT-4o for main rewrites and Claude Haiku for shorter descriptions to save costs.

Very unique. AutoPilot AI Post uses a "full rewrite" mode by default, where the AI doesn't just paraphrase — it reads the source content and writes a completely new article on the same topic from scratch. Copyscape tests consistently show 95—100% uniqueness. You can also enable our built-in similarity checker to auto-skip content that's too similar to existing posts.

Yes, extensively. You can write custom AI prompts for every source, set the tone (professional, casual, technical, friendly), target word count, content structure, which sections to include (intro, FAQ, conclusion, etc.), and even provide style examples. Advanced users can build very specific prompt templates per source type.

AI models can occasionally add inaccurate details when generating content from scratch. AutoPilot AI Post mitigates this by using a "grounded rewrite" mode — the AI is instructed to only use information from the original source article and not add unverified claims. For sensitive niches (medical, legal, financial), we recommend enabling human review mode where posts are saved as drafts before publishing.

Yes! AutoPilot AI Post includes DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion image generation. For each post, it auto-generates a unique featured image based on the article title and topic. You can also import images from the source article, use Unsplash/Pexels stock images, or generate AI art with custom style presets (photorealistic, illustration, flat design, etc.).

API costs vary by model and usage. On average: GPT-4o costs about $0.005—0.015 per rewritten article. For 100 posts/day, that's approximately $0.50—1.50/day or $15—45/month in API costs. Using Claude Haiku or GPT-3.5 Turbo reduces this by 80—90%. Most users find the total API cost to be $5—30/month.

Yes. You can configure AutoPilot AI Post to automatically translate all content using DeepL (highest quality, recommended) or Google Translate (100+ languages). This works for both the main content and meta descriptions. For multilingual sites using WPML, it can publish translated versions to the correct language trees automatically.

A prompt is the set of instructions you give the AI before it rewrites a source article. It tells the model what tone to use, what structure to follow, what to keep, what to skip, and what audience the post is for. The same source article rewritten with different prompts produces very different output — a sharp prompt is the single biggest lever you have over the quality, voice, and SEO performance of your auto-published content.

A solid prompt has 4 ingredients:

• Role: who the AI is writing as ('You are a senior tech journalist…')
• Audience: who the post is for ('…for first-time DIY investors in India')
• Structure: required sections — intro, H2 headings, FAQ, conclusion, word count
• Constraints: do/don't list — 'don't invent statistics', 'use Indian English spelling', 'no first person'

Keep it under 300 words. Longer prompts cost more per call and the AI starts ignoring details past a point.

Yes — and you should. Per-source prompts are one of the plugin's most underused features. A finance-news source needs a serious, factual tone; a celebrity-gossip RSS needs short, punchy paragraphs; an Amazon product source needs review-style copy with pros and cons. Set the global default prompt for everything, then override it on individual sources where you need a different voice. The override happens in Source Settings → AI Prompt.

Here's a balanced starter that works for most news/blog sources. Tweak the role and audience for your niche:

You are an experienced news editor writing for general English-speaking readers. Rewrite the source article into a fresh, original news post. Rules: - 600—900 words - Start with a 2—3 sentence hook (no clichés like "In today's world") - Use 4—6 H2 subheadings - Add one short FAQ section (3 questions) at the end - Plain, conversational sentences — no jargon - Do NOT invent statistics, names, dates, or quotes that aren't in the source - Output clean HTML using only <h2>, <p>, <ul>, <li>, <strong> tags

Three common causes:

• Conflicting instructions — e.g., 'write 1500 words' AND 'be concise' will produce inconsistent length. Pick one.
• Buried rules — important constraints at the end of a long prompt get diluted. Put your hard rules at the very top.
• Wrong model — GPT-3.5 and Claude Haiku will skip nuanced instructions far more than GPT-4o or Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Upgrade the model on sources where prompt fidelity matters.

If a specific rule is being ignored, prefix it with 'IMPORTANT:' or 'NEVER:' and move it to the top of the prompt.

Use the 'Test Prompt' button in Source Settings. It runs your prompt against the latest item in the feed using a cheaper model (GPT-3.5 by default) and shows the output without publishing. Iterate there until the output looks right, then switch the source back to your production model. This typically saves 70—90% of the prompt-tuning cost compared to publishing real posts and discarding them.

Yes — when done correctly. Google's Helpful Content guidelines focus on whether content is useful, original, and written for humans. AutoPilot AI Post's full-rewrite mode creates unique, readable articles that add context and value beyond the source. Thousands of our users rank well on Google. The key is using good AI rewriting (full rewrite, not just paraphrase) and focusing on a specific niche.

Google penalizes low-quality, repetitive, or spammy content — not AI-generated content per se. Our AI produces well-structured, unique articles with proper headings, internal links, and schema markup. We recommend publishing at a natural frequency (not 500 posts/day on a brand new site) and focusing on your specific niche for topical authority.

Yes. Every post auto-generates: SEO title (with focus keyword), meta description (under 160 chars), focus keyword (set in Yoast/RankMath), Open Graph tags for social sharing, NewsArticle or Article schema markup, and canonical URLs. It integrates directly with Yoast SEO, RankMath, and All in One SEO plugins.

Yes. AutoPilot AI Post has an auto-internal-linking feature that scans your existing posts and automatically inserts relevant internal links into new content. This significantly improves SEO link equity distribution and helps Google crawl your site more effectively.

Yes, fully compatible with both. AutoPilot AI Post writes directly to Yoast SEO and RankMath meta fields — including focus keyword, SEO title, meta description, and advanced settings. Your SEO plugin score will show as "Good" on most auto-generated posts without any manual intervention.

The Starter plan ($19/month) includes: 1 News Portal site, up to 50 posts/day, all 20+ content sources, AI content rewriting (GPT-4 & Claude), basic SEO optimization, RSS & YouTube sources, email support, and 1 year of updates.

Yes! The Lifetime plan is available for a one-time payment of $299 and includes all features, unlimited sites, unlimited posts, and lifetime updates with no recurring fees. This is our most popular plan for serious users and agencies.

Yes. Monthly and yearly plans can be cancelled at any time from your account dashboard. No cancellation fees, no questions asked. Your plugin will continue working until the end of the current billing period.

We accept all major credit and debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, Amex), PayPal, and cryptocurrency payments (Bitcoin, USDT). All payments are processed securely via Stripe or PayPal.

No. The AutoPilot AI Post plugin license is separate from your AI API costs. You use your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key, so AI costs go directly to OpenAI/Anthropic at their standard rates. This keeps costs transparent and gives you full control over AI usage.

Minimum requirements:

• News Portal 5.0 or higher
• PHP 7.4+ (PHP 8.0+ recommended)
• MySQL 5.6+ or MariaDB 10.0+
• At least 256MB PHP memory limit
• Outbound HTTP requests enabled (most hosts allow this by default)
• WP-Cron enabled or server cron configured

No. AutoPilot AI Post runs all background processing via News Portal cron (scheduled tasks) and processes content asynchronously. It has no impact on your website's front-end loading speed. The plugin itself adds less than 5ms to admin page load times.

Yes, fully compatible. AutoPilot AI Post can import Amazon and other product listings directly as WooCommerce products — with product images, descriptions, prices, categories, and affiliate links all auto-populated. It's ideal for building affiliate product review sites and dropshipping stores.

Yes. The AutoPilot AI Post dashboard includes a detailed activity log showing every fetch, rewrite, and publish action with timestamps. Any errors (API failures, source timeouts, etc.) are highlighted with explanations. You can also configure email alerts for specific error types.

AutoPilot AI Post has a built-in similarity detection engine that checks each new article against your existing posts before publishing. You can set a similarity threshold (e.g., skip if 70%+ similar). It also cross-checks across all sources to prevent the same story from multiple RSS feeds being published twice.