WP Auto Publish | Installation & setup guide

WP Auto Publish automates your editorial production (articles, images, SEO meta) while respecting your quality rules. This guide covers installation, licence activation, and every available setting.

2) Prerequisites & compatibility

• WordPress 6.0+ (PHP 8.0+ recommended, PHP 8.2/8.3 ideal)
• Compatible SEO plugins: Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress
• Outgoing HTTP access (cURL) for AI providers and licence validation
• Active CRON (wp-cron or system cron)

3) Installation

A) Through the WordPress interface

1. Go to Plugins > Add New
2. Click Upload and select the plugin ZIP
3. Install then Activate the extension

B) Via FTP/SFTP

1. Extract the ZIP locally
2. Upload the folder to wp-content/plugins/
3. Activate the plugin from Plugins in the admin

4) Licence activation & management

Open Settings > WP Auto Publish > Licence, paste your key, and validate.

5) Sources & generation modes

WP Auto Publish can publish from multiple sources, configurable per section.

• Generated topics: themes/keywords with categories and tags
• RSS feeds: category-based ingestion, URL filters, dedicated frequency
• Existing drafts: enrichment, review, and updates
• Manual generation: trigger an article on demand

6) Automation (cadence, windows & quotas)

Inside the Automation tab you define pace and constraints.

• Cadence (e.g. every 10 minutes)
• Time windows (e.g. 08:00–20:00, business days)
• Daily quota (e.g. 30 posts/day)
• Posts per run (control throughput)
• Parallelism (run X tasks at once)
• Async mode to offload long tasks

Tip: start modestly (15-minute cadence, 10 posts/day). Increase progressively based on hosting stability and your API limits.

7) AI providers & prompt templates

Configure your AI provider (API key, model) and create prompt templates with variables (e.g. {theme}, {date}, {word_count}, {section_count}, {paragraph_min_words}, {paragraph_max_words}, {focuskw}).

<h2>Topic: {keyword}</h2>
- Tone: {style}
- Language: {lang}
- Constraints: {constraints}
- Sections: Introduction, 4x H2, FAQ JSON-LD

• Included templates: structured article, news flash, cooking, storytelling
• Quality blocks: auto FAQ, mini-glossary, “What changes” callout
• Discover-friendly titles + unique excerpts

8) Automatic images

Enable image generation through your preferred service (e.g. Ideogram). Configure:

• API key and a global style prefix
• Style (realistic, flat, illustration)
• Aspect ratio (16:9, 4:3, square)
• Royalty-free fallback (if the API is unavailable)
• Featured image + insertion inside the content

9) Anti-duplication & history

Every draft/URL/title candidate is compared against the publication history.

• Strict mode: skip when a collision is detected
• Regenerate mode: trigger a fresh generation
• Anti-duplicate cache + unique excerpts to prevent repetition
• Clear or inspect the history from the interface

10) SEO & metadata

Automatically fill titles, meta descriptions, FAQ JSON-LD, and image tags.

• Compatibility with Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress
• Optional focus keyword field
• Clean slugs + automatic categories

11) Logs & diagnostics

Review execution logs and prompt/response history, filter by status, export CSV.

• Task status (OK, queued, failed)
• API latency, generation time
• Explicit failure reasons

12) Webhooks & API

Receive callbacks (publication/failure) and connect your pipelines.

POST https://your-domain.com/webhooks/wpap
{
  "event": "post_published",
  "post_id": 123,
  "lang": "en",
  "meta": { "source": "auto" }
}

13) Multisite & roles

• Network ready (WordPress Multisite)
• Dedicated capabilities (e.g. wpap_manage)
• Per-site log plus network aggregation

14) Performance & best practices

• Start small (cadence/quotas) then scale
• On managed hosting, prefer a system cron
• Enable AI response caching when available

15) Quick troubleshooting

16) FAQ