Meguro Writer

Meguro Writer uses the Google Gemini API and Google Search grounding to discover current information, generate news articles, and publish them to WordPress on a configurable schedule.

The plugin is designed for general-purpose use across different media sites. You can configure the target countries and regions, article language, search language, editorial style, post type, taxonomy, publishing status, author, image generation, and publishing schedule.

Main features:

• Discover current news with Google Search grounding.
• Configure custom search topics such as technology, business, finance, real estate, entertainment, politics, and local news.
• Configure the media name, AI role, target audience, article purpose, tone, and additional instructions.
• Select article language and search language independently.
• Target up to 10 countries or regions at the same time.
• Use regional groups such as Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, North America, Europe, Russia/CIS, Latin America, Africa, and Oceania.
• Use a global mode that searches worldwide while prioritizing selected countries and regions.
• Target the United States nationally or by state and Washington, D.C.
• Target China nationally or by province, municipality, or autonomous region.
• Treat Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao as separate selectable targets in the plugin’s news-targeting interface.
• Adjust editorial selection with six 10-level sliders: entertainment, politics, freshness, regional focus, audience gender balance, and tone.
• Configure excluded topics, source preferences, and additional AI prompts.
• Choose a WordPress post type as the publishing destination.
• Enter a custom post type slug manually when it is not listed automatically.
• Auto-detect, select, or manually enter a taxonomy slug.
• Choose Publish, Draft, Pending Review, or Private as the target post status.
• Choose the WordPress author account used for generated posts.
• Configure a separate schedule for each day of the week, with up to 15 publishing times per day.
• Use the Monthly Publishing Plan to override individual date/time slots with a specific topic, skip action, or extra one-time post.
• Detect duplicate source URLs and similar titles.
• Configure minimum relevance, confidence, and news freshness.
• Configure minimum article length and structured H2 sections.
• Write Yoast SEO meta description and focus keyphrase data when applicable.
• Enable or disable the summary-points block and source box.
• Generate 16:9 featured images with Gemini image generation.
• Optionally use up to three reference images for image generation.
• Use a common featured image as a fallback when image generation is unavailable.
• Optionally map data to ACF or postmeta custom fields.
• Export and import the complete plugin configuration and Monthly Publishing Plan as JSON.
• View execution logs, send failure notifications, run a manual post, and test the Gemini API connection.

Support contact: kenget0616@gmail.com

Updating from earlier versions

Starting with version 3.1.3, the official distribution folder and main plugin file are meguro-writer/meguro-writer.php.

When Meguro Writer is activated while an earlier kt-ai-news or livplus-ai-news plugin is active, Meguro Writer deactivates the earlier plugin. Existing settings, monthly-plan data, log tables, and generated-post metadata are retained.

After confirming that the new plugin works correctly, the old kt-ai-news and/or livplus-ai-news folder can be removed.

Some internal option names, database table names, legacy metadata keys, and compatibility aliases remain available to avoid breaking existing installations.

Settings backup and restore

Open Meguro Writer > Settings Backup to export or import the plugin configuration in JSON format.

The backup includes:

• General settings and publishing destination.
• AI editorial rules and slider values.
• Article language, search language, target countries and regions, and United States/China subregion settings.
• Search topics, image settings, SEO settings, and notifications.
• Weekly publishing schedule.
• Monthly Publishing Plan.
• Custom-field mappings.

The Gemini API key is excluded by default. It is included only when the administrator explicitly enables the option to export it.

When importing settings into another site, WordPress user IDs, media attachment IDs, post types, taxonomies, and custom-field structures may differ. Review the settings after import.

External services

Meguro Writer uses Google Gemini API / Google AI services for news discovery, article generation, image generation, and API connection tests.

Activating the plugin alone does not send requests to Google. Requests are made when an administrator configures an API key and runs a connection test, manual generation, or scheduled generation.

Data that may be sent to Google includes administrator-configured search topics, prompts and editorial instructions, selected language and geographic targeting, news information gathered for article generation, optional reference URLs, image-generation instructions, and reference images when the reference-image feature is enabled.

Meguro Writer is not designed to collect ordinary site visitors’ personal information and send it to Gemini.

Service: Google AI for Developers / Gemini API
https://ai.google.dev/

Gemini API Additional Terms of Service:
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms

Google Privacy Policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google may apply different data-handling terms depending on the Gemini API plan or service tier. Review the current terms and privacy policy before using the service with confidential or personal information.

Privacy

Meguro Writer does not include its own analytics, telemetry, or usage tracking.

When Gemini API features are used, data described in the External services section is sent to Google for generation or search-related processing.

If a settings backup is exported with the Gemini API key included, the resulting JSON file contains confidential credentials and must be stored securely.