Automated WordPress Blog Posting from Airtable

Content Creators: Individuals or teams who regularly produce blog posts and need a streamlined way to publish on WordPress.

Marketers: Professionals looking to automate content posting and image uploading to enhance their marketing strategies.

Businesses: Companies that want to maintain an active blog presence without dedicating extensive time to manual posting.

Developers: Those looking to integrate Airtable with WordPress for automated content management and publishing.

This workflow addresses the time-consuming process of manually posting content to WordPress. By automating the integration between Airtable and WordPress, users can efficiently publish blog posts with images and HTML formatting without repetitive manual tasks. It ensures that content is consistently updated and reduces the risk of errors during posting.

1. Schedule Trigger: The workflow is initiated based on a defined schedule, allowing for regular content checks.
2. Get content to post: It retrieves content from an Airtable base, filtering for entries marked as 'To Post'.
3. Filter by existing Blogs: Ensures that only new and relevant content is processed by checking if the blog post already exists.
4. Edit Fields: Prepares the content by assigning necessary fields like Title, Keyword, and Blog Body.
5. Markdown to HTML: Converts the Markdown formatted blog content into HTML for proper display on WordPress.
6. Post on Wordpress: Publishes the blog post as a draft on WordPress with the prepared content.
7. Get Image: Searches for a relevant image based on the Keyword provided in the blog post.
8. Download the image: Retrieves the selected image for uploading.
9. Upload Media: Uploads the downloaded image to WordPress.
10. Set Featured Image: Sets the uploaded image as the featured image for the blog post.
11. Update POST on Airtable: Finally, updates the Airtable entry to reflect that the post has been published.