A collection of tools for reusing content from NPR.org, now maintained and updated by NPR member station developers.
As of April 2026, NPR Content Distribution Service is a WordPress api plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 5.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 8.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2024. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: WP Consent API.
The NPR Content Distribution System (CDS) Plugin provides push and pull functionality with the NPR CDS along with a user-friendly administrative interface.
NPR’s CDS is a content API, which essentially provides a structured way for other computer applications to get NPR stories in a predictable, flexible and powerful way. The content that is available includes audio from most NPR programs dating back to 1995 as well as text, images and other web-only content from NPR and NPR member stations. This archive consists of over 250,000 stories that are grouped into more than 5,000 different aggregations.
This plugin also allows you to push your content to the NPR CDS, so that it can be republished by NPR or other NPR member stations.
Access to the NPR CDS requires a bearer token, provided…
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 8.0+ required |
npr_cds_add_header_meta() that called a non-existent function (it’s get_coauthors(), not coauthors()) (h/t Hayden Pierce)Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.