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Trending Now A WordPress plugin that renders a server-side Trending Now block of links aggregated from owned WordPress sites and third-party news, plus a paginated archive at /trending/. The goal is crawl discovery: giving every newly published URL across a network a guaranteed window of exposure in an internally-linked, server-rendered block on higher-authority properties. Contents - Why this exists - Requirements - Install - Quick start - Sources - Manual links - Subscribing to a feed - Displaying the widget - The archive - How selection works - Scheduling and triggering - REST API - Admin reference - WP-CLI - Operating modes - Network footprint - Settings reference - Hooks - Development - Troubleshooting - What this deliberately does not do Why this exists Search engines have to find a URL before they can index it. On a network of sites, new articles often sit unlinked from anywhere crawled frequently, so discovery lags publishing by days. This plugin puts every new URL into a plain, server-rendered list on pages that get crawled often — the homepage and top-level section pages — and keeps it there for a guaranteed number of days rather than letting the next day's publis