If you run one or more WordPress sites, you already know the problem:
- Coming up with new content ideas every week
- Writing long-form, SEO-friendly posts
- Formatting them in WordPress
- Scheduling them at the right time, across multiple sites
Doing this manually is slow and expensive. The good news: with modern AI and the right workflow, you can automate a huge part of this process—without sacrificing quality.
In this guide, you'll learn how to automate WordPress blog posts with AI using a practical, Fortune-500 style workflow powered by Crevio, an AI WordPress content automation platform.
What “automation” really means (and what it doesn't)
Before we dive in, let's be clear about what we're automating.
You can automate:
- Generating first drafts of SEO-optimized posts
- Expanding outlines into full articles
- Creating multiple versions for different sites and niches
- Formatting content for WordPress (headings, lists, internal links)
- Scheduling and publishing posts automatically
You should not fully automate:
- Compliance and legal review
- Sensitive or regulated topics
- Final brand and tone check for your most important pages
Think of AI as a scalable content team that works 24/7, with humans doing quality control and strategy.
Step 1: Define your WordPress content strategy
AI works best when you point it in the right direction. Spend a little time on strategy up front:
- Choose your primary topics and clusters — for example:
- AI content for WordPress
- SEO-optimized blogging
- Scaling niche sites
- Content calendars and automation
- Decide your publishing cadence — e.g., 2–3 posts per week for one site, or dozens per month across multiple sites.
- Define your audience and tone — for example, “WordPress agency owners who manage 10+ sites” with a professional but friendly tone.
You can then encode these into your AI prompts and templates inside Crevio so every post stays on-brand.
Step 2: Connect your WordPress sites to Crevio
To automate publishing, you need your AI engine connected directly to WordPress.
- Create your Crevio account and log in to your dashboard.
- Connect your WordPress site(s) using Crevio's integration flow and test the connection.
- Map categories and tags so Crevio knows where to publish specific types of content.
Once connected, Crevio can publish posts with the right categories, tags, and featured images without you logging into WordPress for every article.
Step 3: Set up AI content templates and topics
Next, you'll define what kind of posts you want the AI to generate.
Good candidates include:
- How-to guides (like this article)
- Comparison posts (“Best AI tools for WordPress content”)
- Playbooks (“0 to 100 posts/month with AI”)
- Case-study style articles
In Crevio, you can configure settings such as title, meta description, target audience, tone and length, and SEO keywords or tags. These settings guide the AI so each post matches your strategy.
Step 4: Generate and refine AI-powered drafts
Once your templates and topics are ready, you can start generating content.
- Generate first drafts — let Crevio create a full outline and article for each topic.
- Check structure and SEO basics — ensure the H1 matches your target keyword and headings read naturally.
- Edit for brand voice and accuracy — tweak intros and conclusions, fix any factual issues, and add your own insights or data.
Automation gets you from zero to a strong first draft; a brief human editing pass gets you production-ready posts.
Step 5: Schedule and publish to WordPress automatically
Here's where the real automation power shows up.
- Assign posts to sites and categories so each article goes to the right WordPress blog.
- Set your schedule for each post or use a content calendar (for example, publishing on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays).
- Let Crevio handle the publishing so posts go live at the right time with the correct metadata and formatting.
Your role shifts from manually posting every article to reviewing the pipeline once or twice a week.
Step 6: Monitor performance and refine your prompts
Automation isn't “set and forget.” The best teams iterate based on data.
- Track organic traffic, time on page, and engagement for AI-generated posts.
- Identify which topics, formats, and headlines perform best.
- Refine your prompts and templates in Crevio to double down on what works.
Over time you build a compounding engine: AI generates content, you fine-tune the system, and performance improves month after month.
A simple weekly automation plan
Here's a realistic, low-maintenance setup:
- Monday: Review AI-generated drafts in Crevio, edit and approve 2–3 posts.
- Tuesday & Thursday: Crevio publishes approved posts to your WordPress sites automatically.
- Friday: Spend 30 minutes checking analytics and adding new topics to the backlog.
Total human time: 1–2 hours per week, while publishing like a much larger team.
Final thoughts: Why automate WordPress content now
AI won't replace a strong content strategy—but it absolutely replaces blank-page anxiety and manual scheduling for every single post.
By combining a clear strategy with a platform like Crevio, you can:
- Publish more high-quality, SEO-optimized posts
- Keep multiple WordPress sites active and growing
- Free your time to work on product, sales, and higher-level marketing
If you're ready to see this in action, head to crevio.ai and start setting up your first AI-powered WordPress content pipeline.