Blog Automation Skill

Overview

Scheduled blog publishing system that publishes generated articles to WordPress.

Purpose

• Convert articles to WordPress HTML format
• Schedule posts for optimal timing
• Handle image embeds and SEO tags
• Publish via WordPress REST API

Input Variables

Workflow

1. Load article JSON from generator
2. Convert markdown to HTML
3. Upload images (if any) to WordPress media
4. Create WordPress post via REST API
5. Log result to memory file

Triggers

• Cron schedule (e.g., daily at 8am)
• Manual CLI execution
• Post-generation webhook from article generator

APIs & Dependencies

• WordPress REST API v2
• requests library for HTTP
• markdown2 or mistletoe for MD->HTML

Output

{
  "status": "published|scheduled|failed",
  "wordpress_id": 12345,
  "url": "https://site.com/blog/post",
  "timestamp": "2025-03-02T05:03:19"
}

Files

• index.py - Publishing logic
• formatter.py - MD to HTML conversion
• scheduler.py - Cron/schedule management