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Articles & scheduling

Configure your title queue, publishing interval and optional reusable title variations.

Campaign name

In this field, you can enter a unique name for your campaign that reflects its content. This will help you easily find the needed campaign in the overall list displayed on the main panel of AI Autoblogger.

Automatic mode

By checking this box, the campaign you are editing will switch to automatic operation based on a scheduler. Remember that enabling Automatic mode will trigger the creation of new posts at the intervals specified in the Publication period. Please ensure you have sufficient funds and understand the costs associated with the AI services used to generate content. Continuous use without monitoring may result in significant charges.

Publication period

If the "Automatic mode" checkbox is enabled, the value of this field, given in minutes, sets the frequency at which each new article is generated for the campaign.

Variable interval

This option varies the target interval by up to ±30% of the base Publication period. It does not change the cron-check frequency or guarantee an exact publishing time.

Article titles

In this text field, you can edit your list of titles for the articles to be generated. Each entry follows a CSV-like, pipe-delimited format:

title|keywords|custom data|...

The format begins with title, which is a mandatory component. The second element, keywords, is optional and can contain a comma-separated list of keywords. Following that, you can add any number of custom data elements, which can be used for various purposes within your plugin settings.

For example, a valid entry might look like:

My Awesome Article Title|keyword1, keyword2|tag 1, tag 2|HTML code to be placed below the article|my image prompt

Each element in a line is accessible as placeholders in different text fields of the plugin settings. These placeholders follow the format %%csv_fieldN%%, where N is the index of the element, starting from 0. Here's how the placeholders are mapped:

%%csv_field0%%: Always contains the title.
%%csv_field1%%: Contains keywords, if provided.
%%csv_field2%%, %%csv_field3%%, and so on: Represent the additional custom data fields.

These placeholders can be used in fields like text generation prompts and image generation prompts, wherever you see the description "Spintax and CSV placeholders are allowed here." This makes it possible to integrate your custom data into your automated content creation workflow.

The "Article Titles" text field supports Spintax, allowing you to generate multiple random titles from a single template. Here’s an example:

{Paris|London|San Francisco|New York|Madrid|Barcelona|Prague|Budapest|Bratislava|Rio de Janeiro|Venice} {travel|shopping|adventure} tips

Using this template, the plugin could generate titles like:

New York shopping tips
London travel tips
Barcelona adventure tips

For additional customization, you can use custom data fields to assign unique tags to each article that are different from the keywords. Simply list these tags as part of the custom data. You can also specify styles for entire image generation prompts for each article, which can be used in the "Image prompt" to customize the visual content. These custom data fields are highly flexible and can be integrated into various plugin settings, such as "HTML before content" and supported prompts. HTML after content supports Spintax only in this source.

The most obvious use of custom CSV data fields is in prompts for article text generation. For example, you can provide specific instructions for each article, highlighting key topics that the AI should emphasize. You might want an article written in a fun, engaging style that focuses on certain topics, or a more formal, technical article that includes detailed tables and highlights specific application areas. This allows you to direct the AI to generate content tailored to your needs, ensuring that each article is perfectly aligned with your vision and desired style.

The plugin supports any number of these custom CSV data fields, making them accessible in your campaign settings using placeholders like %%csv_field2%%, %%csv_field3%%, and beyond. However, avoid using %%csv_field0%% and %%csv_field1%% in prompts for generating text section lists or in the prompts for the text sections themselves. The plugin already handles article titles and keywords intelligently, so there’s no need to reference them explicitly in these contexts.

Keep titles

If this option is checked, the used article titles will not be removed from the list. Normally, when the article title is used, the plugin removes it from the list. However, if the article titles are written with Spintax, they can be kept in the list to be reused in their alternative versions.

How the scheduler runs

The plugin registers aiab_cron_hook on a five-minute WordPress Cron interval. Each check runs due campaigns with Automatic mode enabled. The stored Publication period defaults to 1440 minutes; the UI minimum is 5 minutes.

WordPress Cron normally runs when requests reach your site. For reliable operation on a low-traffic site, configure your host to trigger WordPress Cron. Do not disable WordPress Cron without supplying a replacement trigger.

Title queues and duplicate checks

The plugin skips exact titles already present in WordPress, excluding trashed content, attachments, revisions and navigation-menu items. With Keep titles off, a successfully generated title is removed from the queue. Keep titles shuffles entries before selection; it does not bypass duplicate checks.

With Spintax titles, leave the Use Spintax option enabled beneath the campaign tabs. Keep titles alone does not enable Spintax expansion.

Budget for each campaign

Each run normally generates one article. Several automatic campaigns can become due together. Allow for provider calls for outlines, sections, images, translated content, excerpts and SEO. Run small tests and check usage in your provider accounts.