--- title: How to Build a Headless News Aggregator With WordPress... description: WordPress can power a headless news aggregator by handling feed imports while a Cloudflare Worker builds the actual page. The author rebuilt... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-headless-news-aggregator-with-wordpress-and-wp-rss-aggregator-pro-cg4kq7iai twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Build a Headless News Aggregator With WordPress and WP RSS Aggregator Pro | daily.dev og:description: WordPress can power a headless news aggregator by handling feed imports while a Cloudflare Worker builds the actual page. The author rebuilt... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-headless-news-aggregator-with-wordpress-and-wp-rss-aggregator-pro-cg4kq7iai og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Cg4kQ7iAI.png og:image:alt: How to Build a Headless News Aggregator With WordPress and WP RSS Aggregator Pro og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Build a Headless News Aggregator With WordPress and WP RSS Aggregator Pro **[WP Mayor](https://daily.dev/sources/wpmayor)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary WordPress can power a headless news aggregator by handling feed imports while a Cloudflare Worker builds the actual page. The author rebuilt cryptoheadlines.com this way, using WP RSS Aggregator Pro to fetch and dedupe feeds, then a Hono-based Worker syncing into Cloudflare D1 every five minutes. The Worker clusters headlines into stories, ranks them, and uses Llama 3.3 70B to tag sections and sentiment. A second model, GLM 5.3, writes an hourly market summary under code-enforced rules requiring citations and banning invented claims. Claude Code agents wrote most of the code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How can I combine WordPress with a Cloudflare Worker to build a headless news aggregator? Use WordPress with WP RSS Aggregator Pro to import, dedupe, and store feed items with source names and URLs, then expose them via a read-only REST endpoint with a cursor. A Cloudflare Worker, built with Hono, syncs new items every five minutes into Cloudflare D1 (SQLite), then clusters, ranks, and serves the page while passing wp-admin and wp-json requests through untouched. _Developers architecting headless WordPress setups can find more edge-rendering patterns like this on daily.dev._ ### How do you stop an AI-generated news summary from hallucinating facts or citations? Enforce the rules in code, not just the prompt. Every sentence must cite a story with a numbered marker linking to the source, every number in a cited sentence must appear in the source data, and no weekday names or relative terms like 'yesterday' are allowed since sources span time zones. If a draft breaks a rule, the model gets one chance to rewrite; otherwise the previous commentary stays up. _Teams shipping AI-written content with guardrails like these often track emerging patterns on daily.dev._ ### Which AI model is good for classifying news headlines into categories and sentiment at low cost? Llama 3.3 70B, run through Workers AI with few-shot examples, was found to have the best balance of accuracy, speed, and reliability after testing several models on hand-labeled headlines. It classifies each story into a section like markets, bitcoin, regulation, or DeFi, and tags it bullish, bearish, or neutral in the same pass. _Developers comparing LLMs for lightweight classification tasks can keep up with model benchmarks on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Your WordPress Aggregator Site Is Now an AI Product](https://daily.dev/posts/your-wordpress-aggregator-site-is-now-an-ai-product-82ftjnadi) · WP Mayor · 2 upvotes · 1 comments - [How to Build a Headless WordPress Frontend with Astro SSR on Cloudflare Pages](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-headless-wordpress-frontend-with-astro-ssr-on-cloudflare-pages-30hassk3l) · freeCodeCamp · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [I built my own front page out of RSS, and stopped opening five news apps a day](https://daily.dev/posts/i-built-my-own-front-page-out-of-rss-and-stopped-opening-five-news-apps-a-day-n4tqe0trp) · XDA Developers · 6 upvotes · 0 comments - [How to Set Up WordPress as a Headless CMS](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-set-up-wordpress-as-a-headless-cms-s5cdjvowg) · ACF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#wordpress](https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress), [#cloudflare](https://daily.dev/tags/cloudflare), [#cms](https://daily.dev/tags/cms) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-headless-news-aggregator-with-wordpress-and-wp-rss-aggregator-pro-cg4kq7iai) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How to Build a Headless News Aggregator With WordPress and WP RSS Aggregator Pro","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-headless-news-aggregator-with-wordpress-and-wp-rss-aggregator-pro-cg4kq7iai","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-headless-news-aggregator-with-wordpress-and-wp-rss-aggregator-pro-cg4kq7iai"},"datePublished":"2026-10-29T22:33:22.732Z","dateModified":"2026-10-29T22:37:09.959Z","description":"WordPress can power a headless news aggregator by handling feed imports while a Cloudflare Worker builds the actual page. 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