Olá, estou enfrentando grandes problemas no plugin, muita das vezes o processo de producao trava e nao volta mais, tive que retornar backups de meu site anterior para resolver diversas vezes, atualmente o erro constante é: circuit_breaker
The “circuit_breaker” message means your task queue was automatically paused after several consecutive errors. This is a safety feature to prevent tasks from failing repeatedly while something needs attention.
To help you troubleshoot, could you please share a few details?
Which AI text provider are you using? (OpenAI, OpenRouter, Anthropic, etc.)
Which image provider are you using? (DALL-E, Stability, Fal, Cloudflare AI, etc.)
Are you on a free or paid plan with your AI provider?
Do you see any specific error message in BotWriter → Logs before the circuit_breaker appeared?
In the meantime, please double-check that your API keys are correctly configured in BotWriter → Settings, and that your AI provider account still has available quota.
Once we know more about your setup, we’ll be able to pinpoint the issue quickly!
I had to delete all my API keys because Botwriter was performing improvements using the API, but the posts weren’t going to my site. Could you check what might be happening simultaneously? I changed the AI model, disabled image generation, but nothing solved the problem. I only incurred a large API charge even without new posts on my site
Api usage exemple;
Logs da API openrouter exemplificandado que o Botwritter realiza a solicitação mesmo sem ter novos posts em meu site overcentral.com/en ou overcentral.com.
Thanks for the details and screenshots — very helpful.
What’s happening: Based on what you describe, the issue is that Cloudflare AI (free plan) is running out of quota (HTTP 429 error). When the image generation fails, the entire post was being marked as an error and retried — which calls OpenRouter again each time (costing you credits), but the image fails again. After many consecutive failures, the circuit breaker activates to stop the loop.
This explains why you see API charges on OpenRouter without new posts on your site: the text was generated each retry, but the post was never published because the image step kept failing.
Good news — we’ve already fixed this in the latest version:
New setting: “Publish without image if image generation fails” — Go to BotWriter → Settings → General → Others. Enable this option so that if the image fails, the post is still published without a featured image instead of retrying.
Smarter circuit breaker — The plugin now stops immediately when the circuit breaker is active, instead of retrying and wasting API credits.
Recommended steps:
Make sure you’re on the latest plugin version
Re-enter your OpenRouter API key in BotWriter → Settings
Enable “Publish without image if image generation fails” in Settings → General → Others
For images, the Cloudflare AI free plan has very low daily limits. I’d recommend either:
Disable AI images in your tasks for now (simplest)
Switch to a different image provider (DALL-E, Stability AI, Fal.ai) with a paid API key
To reset the circuit breaker, go to BotWriter → Settings and look for the notification banner — it should include a link to restart your queue. If you don’t see it, please let me know and I’ll help you reset it manually.
Sorry for the trouble! These fixes should prevent this situation from happening again. Let me know how it goes.
