- Build a Fully Automated Blog
- What “Fully Automated” Means in Aimogen
- Requirements
- Installation and First Run
- Connect Your AI Provider
- Set Your Brand Voice Once, Then Reuse It Everywhere
- Choose Your Automation Mode
- Create a Campaign That Runs Your Blog
- Build Your Topic Engine
- Define Content Templates That Don’t Collapse Under Automation
- Metadata and SEO Settings
- Images and Featured Images
- Internal Linking That Actually Helps
- Quality Gates You Should Enable Before Autopublish
- Scheduling and Publishing Cadence
- Enabling Full Automation Safely
- Maintenance Mode: Updating Old Posts Automatically
- Safety, Compliance, and Risk Controls
- Performance Considerations
- Troubleshooting
- Developer Notes: Extending Aimogen in a Production Site
- Recommended “First Week” Operating Procedure
- Appendix: Prompt Blocks You Can Reuse
Build a Fully Automated Blog #
This page explains how to set up Aimogen so your WordPress site can plan, write, enrich, publish, and maintain posts automatically with minimal supervision. It’s written as a practical guide you can paste into a documentation site and it assumes a standard WordPress install with editor support (Block Editor or Classic Editor).
If your Aimogen build uses different labels than the ones shown here (for example “Projects” instead of “Campaigns”), map the concepts one-to-one. The workflow remains the same: define sources and goals, define rules, generate drafts, review the first batch, then enable autopublish with guardrails.
What “Fully Automated” Means in Aimogen #
Aimogen automation is not just “write a post with AI.” A truly automated blog needs five moving parts that work together:
Content planning decides what to write next and why, based on your niche and targets.
Content generation writes the post in a consistent voice, with internal structure and metadata.
Enrichment adds images, SEO fields, internal links, schema where applicable, and featured image selection.
Publishing schedules the post at the right time and updates older posts when needed.
Governance prevents junk output by enforcing rules, citations where required, brand tone, safe topics, and quality thresholds.
Aimogen is designed around these phases. When you set it up correctly, you’re not “generating posts.” You’re operating a pipeline.
Requirements #
Aimogen needs WordPress cron to fire reliably. If your traffic is low, configure a real cron job on the server to hit wp-cron.php on a schedule; otherwise WordPress “pseudo-cron” may delay generation and publishing.
If Aimogen uses an external LLM provider, you’ll also need an API key and enough quota to support your publishing cadence.
For image generation or stock lookup, you may need a separate provider key depending on your configuration.
Installation and First Run #
Install Aimogen like any other plugin. After activation, open the Aimogen admin area. On first run you should see a setup flow that guides you through connecting your AI provider and creating your first automation.
If you don’t see a setup flow, look for a settings page under the WordPress admin menu. Aimogen typically organizes settings around three areas: provider connection, content rules, and automation scheduling.
Connect Your AI Provider #
Open Aimogen settings and locate the provider configuration. Add your API key and choose the model (or tier) you want Aimogen to use.
For long-form content, choose a model that supports larger context windows if your workflow includes source notes, brand voice documents, internal linking maps, or style examples. For lower cost, choose a mid-tier model and keep the system prompt tight.
After saving, run the built-in “connection test” if available. A successful test should confirm authentication and show the model is reachable.
If Aimogen supports separate models for separate tasks, use a strong writing model for article bodies and a cheaper/faster model for titles, tags, excerpts, and rewriting.
Set Your Brand Voice Once, Then Reuse It Everywhere #
Automation breaks when the voice is inconsistent. The goal is to make Aimogen sound like your site, every time, without manually correcting output.
Create a “Brand Voice” profile in Aimogen. If Aimogen supports storing it as a reusable asset, do it there. Otherwise store it inside your global prompt settings.
A strong voice profile describes your audience, tone, taboo phrases, formatting preferences, how you handle uncertainty, and how you reference products or tools. It also defines what you never do.
Here’s a compact example you can adapt. Keep it short, direct, and enforceable.
You are writing for a practical, no-hype audience.
Tone: confident, clear, slightly opinionated, never salesy.
Style: short paragraphs, strong topic sentences, no filler.
Formatting: use headings; avoid bullet lists unless explicitly requested.
Accuracy: do not invent facts; if unsure, say so and propose how to verify.
Brand rules: avoid “game-changer”, “ultimate”, “in today’s world”, emojis, excessive exclamation.
If Aimogen allows multiple voices per category, create a separate voice for each major topic cluster, but keep the same baseline rules.
Choose Your Automation Mode #
Aimogen workflows usually fall into one of these patterns:
Draft-only pipeline generates drafts and leaves them for review.
Review-then-autopublish pipeline reviews the first batch manually, then enables autopublish.
Always-on autopublish publishes continuously using hard rules and quality gates.
If you want a truly automated blog, start with review-then-autopublish. The difference between a clean automated site and a spammy one is the quality gates you put in before you let it publish unattended.
Create a Campaign That Runs Your Blog #
In Aimogen, a “Campaign” (or “Project”) should contain everything needed to run indefinitely:
Topic universe defines what you will and won’t cover.
Editorial goals define the purpose: informational, comparison, troubleshooting, news, evergreen.
Publishing plan defines cadence, days, time window, and limits.
SEO rules define title structure, headings, metadata, internal links, and excerpt style.
Monetization rules define how to mention products, CTAs, affiliate disclosures.
Write your campaign description as if you’re briefing an editor. The more specific the boundaries, the better the automation behaves.
Build Your Topic Engine #
Automation needs a steady stream of ideas. Aimogen usually supports one or more of the following:
Seed keywords you provide and Aimogen expands them.
A taxonomy map using your categories and tags.
A prompt-driven idea generator that creates outlines from themes.
Import from a CSV list of topics.
Scrape or ingest from feeds or sources you define, if your build supports it.
If you have no existing content, start with seed keywords plus category mapping. If you have existing content, use your site taxonomy and instruct Aimogen to fill content gaps and create supporting posts that strengthen internal linking.
A reliable method is to define a “pillar and cluster” structure. You decide the pillars manually, then let Aimogen create clusters that link back to pillars and cross-link among themselves.
If Aimogen supports “avoid duplicates,” enable it and make sure it checks against your existing post titles and slugs, not just a list inside Aimogen.
Define Content Templates That Don’t Collapse Under Automation #
A template is the difference between readable output and random rambling.
Aimogen templates should specify:
The job of the post, not just the topic.
The target reader and their context.
The required sections and what each must accomplish.
The minimum depth: examples, edge cases, common mistakes.
The closing: what the reader should do next on your site.
If Aimogen uses a structured template format, use it. If it only supports a freeform prompt, write the structure into the prompt. Keep it strict.
Example template prompt, written to be automation-safe:
Write an evergreen tutorial for a reader who wants practical steps and tradeoffs.
Use H2 sections for major stages and H3 for sub-steps.
Include a short “Why this matters” section near the beginning.
Include a “Common mistakes” section near the end.
Do not use bullet lists unless the user asked for them.
No fluff. No invented stats. If a claim needs a source and you don’t have one, state the uncertainty.
End with a short next-step that suggests one related internal article topic.
If Aimogen supports storing multiple templates per campaign, create separate templates for tutorials, comparisons, glossaries, and troubleshooting posts. Automation becomes more stable when each template has a narrow job.
Metadata and SEO Settings #
Aimogen should be configured to consistently generate these fields:
Title that matches your style and avoids clickbait.
Slug that’s short and stable.
Excerpt that reads naturally and does not repeat the title.
Categories and tags that match your taxonomy.
Meta description if you use an SEO plugin.
Featured image behavior, either generated or selected.
If Aimogen integrates with common SEO plugins, map the fields directly. If it does not, Aimogen can still fill core WordPress fields and you can handle SEO plugin mapping via hooks.
Important: automated SEO fails when tags explode. Constrain tag creation. Prefer a fixed tag list or a rule like “use up to X tags from an allowlist.”
Images and Featured Images #
If Aimogen supports image generation, set strict rules:
Define a consistent visual style so the site doesn’t look random.
Set dimensions and compression behavior.
Define what is not allowed in images (logos, celebrity lookalikes, copyrighted characters).
Decide when an image is required and when it is optional.
If your build supports stock image search instead, define acceptable sources and attribution behavior.
If you want fully automated publishing, make sure every post can be published without manual image work. That means either always generate a featured image or always choose a fallback default.
Internal Linking That Actually Helps #
Automated internal links should be constrained and purposeful. Aimogen should link:
From new cluster posts to the pillar page.
Between related cluster posts when the relationship is direct.
To your key commercial pages only when relevant.
If Aimogen supports a “link map” or “internal link targets,” feed it your pillar URLs and a handful of must-link pages.
If it can search your site content, configure it to use only published posts and to avoid linking to thin pages.
When internal linking is automated, enforce a small maximum number of links per post. Too many links reads like spam.
Quality Gates You Should Enable Before Autopublish #
The safest way to autopublish is to require a post to pass checks. If Aimogen offers these, enable them:
Minimum word count per post type.
Minimum number of headings.
Readability or repetition checks.
Banned phrases list.
Duplicate detection against existing posts.
Fact-safety mode that discourages hallucinated specifics.
Sensitive topic blocking.
If Aimogen supports a “human review threshold,” keep it on for the first week. Let the system learn your boundaries through adjustments, then reduce manual review.
Scheduling and Publishing Cadence #
Set a cadence that matches your niche and your site’s ability to maintain quality. For evergreen sites, consistency matters more than frequency.
Configure Aimogen to generate ahead of schedule. A reliable pattern is to maintain a draft buffer so publication does not depend on a generation run happening at the exact moment.
If Aimogen supports time windows, publish during the hours your audience is active. If you don’t know, pick a stable window and avoid random times; consistency helps analytics interpretation.
Enabling Full Automation Safely #
Once drafts look consistently correct, turn on autopublish and keep the guardrails strict.
A good “always-on” configuration behaves like this:
Aimogen generates ideas continuously but only selects publishable topics that fit your campaign universe.
Aimogen writes drafts and runs quality gates.
Passing posts enter a scheduled queue with a buffer.
Aimogen publishes, then runs a post-publish task to add internal links and ensure metadata exists.
Aimogen periodically refreshes older posts if you enable maintenance mode.
If Aimogen supports separate schedules for generation and publishing, use them. Generation can happen more often than publishing, which maintains the buffer.
Maintenance Mode: Updating Old Posts Automatically #
Full automation is not only about new posts. Maintenance is where automated blogs win.
If Aimogen offers refresh rules, configure them carefully:
Evergreen refresh revisits posts after a set number of days and improves clarity, expands sections, and updates internal links.
SEO refresh rewrites titles and meta descriptions only if performance is below a threshold.
Content consolidation detects overlapping posts and proposes merges rather than creating duplicates.
Avoid letting maintenance rewrite URLs or slugs unless you have a redirect strategy.
Safety, Compliance, and Risk Controls #
If your site touches regulated topics, do not rely on generic prompts. Add explicit constraints.
For health, finance, or legal: require disclaimers and avoid definitive advice.
For news: require dated context and avoid inventing “recent events.”
For affiliate content: ensure disclosure text is inserted consistently.
For GDPR: avoid storing sensitive personal data in prompts or logs.
If Aimogen stores generation logs, decide how long you retain them and whether they include provider request/response content.
Performance Considerations #
Automation can become heavy on CPU, memory, and database writes.
If Aimogen runs generation through WP-Cron, avoid running too frequently on small servers.
If Aimogen stores long prompts, keep an eye on options table bloat and post meta size.
If Aimogen generates images, ensure you compress and generate only the sizes you actually need.
If your hosting has strict execution time limits, configure Aimogen to generate in smaller batches and resume on the next cron run.
Troubleshooting #
When automation doesn’t behave, it’s usually one of these:
Cron isn’t firing reliably, so generation and publishing stalls.
API quota is exhausted or provider errors are occurring.
Prompt scope is too broad, so Aimogen generates off-topic content.
Quality gates are too strict, so nothing passes.
Taxonomy is unconstrained, so tags and categories become noisy.
If Aimogen has logs, start there. Look for a clear separation between provider errors, validation failures, and scheduling issues.
If you see repeated near-duplicate posts, tighten duplicate detection and feed Aimogen your canonical pillar structure so it knows what already exists.
Developer Notes: Extending Aimogen in a Production Site #
If Aimogen exposes WordPress hooks, treat them as part of your governance layer. The most useful extension points usually include:
A filter that modifies the final prompt before sending.
An action that fires after draft creation so you can attach metadata, add custom fields, or push to third-party systems.
A filter that validates content before publish.
A hook that runs post-publish for internal links, schema insertion, or caching.
Even if Aimogen doesn’t ship these hooks, you can still wrap it externally by listening to save_post for Aimogen-created posts and applying your own rules based on author, post meta, or a custom flag.
A simple pattern for marking Aimogen posts is to store a post meta key such as _aimogen_generated = 1 and then build your tooling around it.
Recommended “First Week” Operating Procedure #
The fastest path to stable full automation is to treat the first week as calibration.
You run Aimogen in draft mode and generate a batch.
You edit prompts and constraints based on the real output, not assumptions.
You lock taxonomy and internal linking rules.
You enable autopublish with a low cadence and keep the buffer.
You only increase cadence after the pipeline is boringly consistent.
After that, Aimogen becomes infrastructure.
Appendix: Prompt Blocks You Can Reuse #
Global safety block:
Do not invent facts, statistics, quotes, or references.
If uncertain, say what would need verification.
Avoid sensitive or disallowed content.
Keep the writing practical and specific.
Consistency block:
Use short paragraphs and clear headings.
Avoid hype and filler.
Prefer concrete examples over abstract claims.
SEO block:
Write a clear title without clickbait.
Create a slug that is short and stable.
Write a meta description that summarizes the post without repeating the title.
