Editions
Free vs Paid
Every upgrade link in the plugin points at one WPBay listing — the Full version action link on the Plugins screen, the prompts on each admin screen, and both buttons on the Upgrade to Full Version page.
View the full version on WPBay ↗
Pricing, screenshots, the complete feature list and the changelog live there. The table below is the same comparison shown inside the dashboard, so the two never drift apart.
What you get in this free edition
This is not a crippled trial. The free edition is fully functional for importing:
- Unlimited import rules. No cap on how many feeds you run.
- Unlimited posts per run. Set a rule's Max # Posts to
0. - Hour or minute scheduling, switchable in Main Settings.
- No purchase code and no activation step. Nothing to register, nothing phones home.
- No forced attribution in generated posts, and no promotional widgets in your dashboard.
- Full-content extraction, image and featured-image importing, royalty-free image sources, text spinning, translation, duplicate detection, word-count and keyword filtering, custom fields and taxonomies, per-rule content templates.
- Post-to-RSS custom feed generation.
- Rule backup and restore.
Workflow comparison
| Workflow | Free edition | Full version |
|---|---|---|
| Find RSS sources | Paste a feed URL, or a website URL and let feed autodiscovery find it | Search by keyword, website URL, or topic, then create rules straight from the results |
| Extract dynamic (JavaScript) pages | Install and configure PhantomJS or Puppeteer on your own server | HeadlessBrowserAPI, with visual content selection and screenshot tools — no local browser to install |
| Display feed content | Display posts on the front end after they have been imported | Embed a live external RSS feed with a shortcode or Gutenberg block |
| Generated post format | Build content with customisable HTML templates | Optionally convert generated content into Gutenberg blocks |
| Advanced field mapping | Use the existing feed fields and template variables | Map nested custom RSS tags, and assign categories from title keywords |
HeadlessBrowserAPI is a separate hosted service and may require its own account or API credentials, in addition to the plugin licence.
Which one do you need?
Stay on the free edition if
- You already know which feeds you want to import.
- Your source sites serve their content in plain HTML.
- You are happy building post layouts with HTML templates.
- You want imported content stored as real WordPress posts, not embedded live.
Upgrade if
- You are researching sources rather than importing known ones, and want feed search built into the rule-creation flow.
- Your sources render content with JavaScript and you cannot install PhantomJS or Puppeteer on your host — or you would rather pick the content visually than hunt for CSS selectors.
- You want to display an external feed live on a page instead of importing it.
- You want generated posts to arrive as native Gutenberg blocks that editors can rearrange.
- Your feeds use nested custom XML tags that the standard field mapping cannot reach.
Nothing is blocked while you decide
The free edition does not gate, time-limit, or nag. The upgrade prompts are static links: nothing is contacted until you click one. Developers can hide them entirely:
// Hide all in-dashboard upgrade prompts.
add_filter( 'echo_show_upgrade_prompt', '__return_false' );You can also retarget the URL if you resell or bundle the plugin:
add_filter( 'echo_upgrade_url', function ( $url, $placement ) {
return 'https://example.com/my-echo-landing-page/';
}, 10, 2 );