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# Blog Writing Automation Agentic AI

Learn how to automate blog content creation with AI. This guide shows you how to set up an automated blog writing workflow.

## 🎥 Video walkthrough

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## Step-by-step guide

<Steps>
  <Step title="Configure Google Sheets">
    * **Trigger:** New Row
    * **Connection:** `google-sheets`
    * **Spreadsheet:** Select the sheet where you add content ideas.
    * **Include Team Drive Sheets:** Choose whether to include Team Drives.
    * **Sheet:** Select the specific sheet to monitor.
    * **Max Rows to Poll:** Set to 10 (maximum) to avoid errors. Additional rows are processed in later runs.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Integrate OpenAI">
    * **Action:** Ask ChatGPT
    * **Connection:** `openai`
    * **Model:** `gpt-3.5-turbo` or similar

    **Example prompts:**

    * Generate a title: "Write a blog title about this idea: '\[Idea]' and ensure it complies with these guidelines: '\[Guidelines]'."
    * Generate a blog post: "Write a blog post about this idea: '\[Idea]' and ensure it complies with these guidelines: '\[Guidelines]'."
    * **Settings:** Temperature: 0.9, Max Tokens: 2048, Presence Penalty: 0.6
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set up WordPress">
    * **Action:** Create Page
    * **Connection:** Connect to your WordPress site.
    * **Title:** Use the title generated by ChatGPT.
    * **Content:** Use the blog content generated by ChatGPT.
    * **Status:** Draft (recommended for review before publishing)
    * **Additional options:** Add slug, excerpt, comments, or publish date as needed.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Send Gmail notifications">
    * **Action:** Send Email
    * **Connection:** Gmail account
    * **Recipient:** Content team's email (e.g., [blog@example.com](mailto:blog@example.com))
    * **Subject:** "Blog Post Ready for Review"
    * **Body:** Notify the team about the draft post and provide review instructions.

    **Example email:**
    Hi content team,
    A new blog post is ready for your review. Please check your WordPress account.
  </Step>
</Steps>

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## Workflow summary

1. **Trigger:** Google Sheets monitors new rows for content ideas.
2. **Generate content:** OpenAI creates blog titles and posts.
3. **Publish draft:** WordPress creates a draft page with the generated content.
4. **Notify team:** Gmail sends a notification to the content team for review.

This end-to-end automation reduces manual effort and helps you maintain a consistent, high-quality content pipeline.