v2.12 Complete Feature Guide — Blog Auto AI

Every Feature, Explained

One plugin that researches, writes, optimises, illustrates, and publishes blog posts on its own — every day, while you focus on your business.

8
Pipeline Steps
25+
Unique Features
₹0
Running Cost
80
Posts/Day Free
Get Plugin — from ₹399/mo → See how it works ↓

✓ One-time setup  ·  ✓ Works on any WordPress host  ·  ✓ ₹0 running cost with Gemini + Pexels

How It Works

The 8-Step Automation Pipeline

Every 30 minutes the plugin runs this full pipeline automatically — no human input needed after first-time setup.

1 Pick Category
🎯

Category Selection

Scans your categories and picks whichever one is furthest behind its daily post quota — keeping content balanced across your blog.

2 Get Topic
📋

Topic Queue or AI-Generate

Picks the next topic from your queue. If empty, AI auto-generates a fresh niche-relevant topic — avoiding your last 30 published titles.

3 Research
🔍

Live Web Research

Uses Gemini's Google Search grounding to research the topic in real time — facts, stats, content gaps, misconceptions and PAA questions.

4 SEO Plan
🏷️

SEO Metadata Generation

Generates the focus keyword, SEO title, slug, meta description, and H2 outline — optimised for search intent and your niche.

5 Write
✍️

Full Post (1,400–1,800 words)

Writes the complete post with internal links to your existing content and external links to authoritative sources (Wikipedia, .edu, .gov).

6 Image
🖼️

Auto Featured Image

Generates a 2–3 word visual search query, fetches the best match from Pexels (free), and attaches it as the WordPress featured image.

7 Publish
📤

Save Draft or Auto-Publish

Saves as draft by default for your review. One checkbox enables auto-publish. Yoast SEO and Rank Math meta fields are filled automatically.

8 Log
📊

Activity Log

Every cron run is logged with timestamps and status. The last 100 events are kept so you can see exactly what was generated and when.

⚡ This full pipeline runs every 30 minutes (configurable) during your active hours — completely hands-off
Scheduled Automation

Set It Once. Posts Appear Daily.

Configure which categories to post in, how many per day, and when you want the bot to run — then walk away. The plugin handles everything on a rolling cron schedule.

  • Per-category post quotas — assign 1–5 posts per day to each category independently.
  • Active hours window — restrict generation to your preferred time range so it doesn't run at odd hours.
  • Configurable interval — choose 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90, or 120 minutes between runs.
  • Run Now button — trigger a test run instantly without waiting for the cron timer.
  • Live activity log — real-time feed of every run, result, category, and post title.
  • Reliable scheduling — works with WP-Cron or external cron (cron-job.org, cPanel) for guaranteed uptime on shared hosting.
Blog Auto AI → Automation
Automation Status
Automation Engine● Active
Cron intervalEvery 30 min
Active hours08:00 – 22:00
Categories
📝 Technology
2/day✓ On
💡 Marketing
3/day✓ On
🏥 Health
1/day✓ On
Live Log
Activity
Live
14:02OKMarketing — "10 Email Strategies That Convert" → Draft #2841
13:32OKTechnology — "What Is Edge Computing?" → Published #2840
13:02OKHealth — "Morning Routines for Better Focus" → Draft #2839
Topic Management

Never Run Out of Things to Write

A three-layer topic system ensures the plugin always has something new to post — even months after you last logged in.

📋

Per-Category Topic Queues

Paste a list of topics into each category's queue. The plugin works through them in order, one post per run, keeping content focused and deliberate.

Popular
🤖

AI Bulk Queue Generator

Click one button to generate 20+ unique, SEO-friendly topic titles for any category. Fills your queue in seconds without manual brainstorming.

♻️

Auto-Generate When Empty

When your queue runs dry, the AI automatically creates new topics based on your blog niche and category name — the machine never stalls waiting for input.

🚫

Duplicate Avoidance

Stores your last 30 published post titles and guarantees no new post will duplicate them — whether from your queue or AI-generated.

💡

Topic Suggestions Panel

On the manual Generate page, a dedicated panel suggests relevant trending topics based on your niche — useful when you want a specific post now.

New
📰

Trending News Panel

Browse trending news topics in your niche and pick one as the seed for an immediate post — ideal for topical content and news-jacking.

SEO & Keywords

Your Keywords, Enforced. Not Suggested.

Most AI tools generate whatever keywords they feel like. Blog Auto AI gives you hard enforcement — your keywords become the H2 structure, in your exact order, verbatim.

  • Primary keyword — drives the SEO title, slug, meta description, and body placement.
  • Long-tail keywords as H2s — your exact phrases become section headings in the exact order you typed them.
  • Strict Keyword Mode — discards all AI-suggested LSI keywords; only your keywords are targeted.
  • Edit outline before writing — reorder, rename, or remove headings before the article is written.
  • Yoast SEO + Rank Math — all SEO plugin meta fields are filled automatically on post creation.
Blog Auto AI → Generate → Keywords
Keyword Settings
best email marketing software 2025
best email marketing for small business
email marketing with automation
email marketing free plan
🔒 Strict Keyword Mode
Outline Preview ✏️ Editable
Article Structure ✕ Cancel   Continue →
H2 🔒 best email marketing for small business
H2 🔒 email marketing with automation
H2 🔒 email marketing free plan
H2 Pricing Comparison
Content Quality

Posts That Read Like a Human Wrote Them

Six quality controls that transform generic AI output into posts your readers — and Google — will actually value.

Popular
🧑‍💻

Humanize Toggle

Adds personal observations, natural transitions, varied sentence lengths, and avoids telltale AI phrases. The result sounds like a real person wrote it.

📑

Auto Table of Contents

A linked TOC is automatically inserted after the intro, anchoring to every H2. Improves user experience and time-on-page for long posts.

Auto FAQ Section

Four real reader questions generated and answered before the conclusion. Boosts featured snippet eligibility. FAQPage JSON-LD is optionally auto-generated.

📖

Reading Level Selector

Choose from Simple, Conversational, Professional, or Expert. The writing voice adapts precisely to match your audience's expectations.

🎣

Intro Hook Style

Pick how every article opens: Question, Surprising Stat, Mini Story, Bold Claim, or Pain Point — different hooks work better for different niches.

📐

Format Control

Choose: Paragraphs only, Paragraphs + Bullets, Paragraphs + Tables, or all three. Set the percentage of posts that should include comparison tables.

Blog Auto AI → Settings → Content Quality
Quality Toggles
Humanize writing style
Insert Table of Contents
Append FAQ section
Auto-generate FAQPage JSON-LD
Content Defaults
Conversational
Pain Point
Paragraphs + Bullets
Featured Images

Professional Images, Automatically Sourced

Every post gets a relevant, high-quality featured image fetched automatically from Pexels' library of millions of free stock photos. No subscriptions, no manual uploads.

  • AI-generated search query — a 2–3 word visual query crafted per post to find the most relevant image.
  • Pexels free API — completely free at any realistic scale. No credit card needed for the Pexels key.
  • Auto-attach to post — downloaded, added to your media library, and set as featured image in one step.
  • Preview in result panel — see the selected image before publishing.
  • Easily replaceable — standard WordPress featured images; swap any time in the editor.
Blog Auto AI → Result — Featured Image
Post Generated Successfully
✓ Draft saved: "Best Email Marketing Software 2025" → #2849
Featured Image
Query: "email marketing dashboard"
📧
💻
📊
✓ Set as featured image · Photo via Pexels (free)
Post Summary
Word Count
1,642
Category
Marketing
Focus KW
email marketing…
Status
Draft
Manual Generator

Full Control When You Need It

The manual Generate page gives you complete control over a single post — keywords, tone, outline, extra instructions and more.

🎯

Topic + Keyword Input

Enter any topic or target keyword, along with short-tail and long-tail variations. All inputs flow directly into the SEO planning and writing steps.

New
✏️

Editable Outline Preview

Before writing starts, see the planned H2 structure. Edit, reorder, or delete any heading — your changes are locked verbatim before writing begins.

New
🔒

Strict Keyword Mode

One checkbox discards every AI-suggested keyword. Only your typed keywords appear in the article. Zero AI override of your keyword strategy.

📝

Extra Instructions Field

Free-text field for specific instructions ("include a comparison table" or "mention competitor X"). Elevated to highest priority — overrides all built-in defaults.

New

Cancel at Outline Stage

A Cancel button lets you abort after seeing the outline — adjust keywords or instructions without wasting API credits on an unwanted post.

⚙️

Per-Post Quality Overrides

Override global defaults for this post: different reading level, hook style, or format — ideal when one post needs a different treatment.

Multi-Key & Reliability

Scale Beyond Free-Tier Limits

Stack multiple Gemini API keys to multiply your daily quota — and let auto-failover handle rate limits invisibly.

🔑

Up to 4 API Keys

Add up to 4 Google Gemini API keys from separate Google accounts. Each gets its own free-tier quota, effectively multiplying your free daily post allowance by 4.

🔄

True Round-Robin Rotation

Keys rotate in order across every request with a persistent cursor — quota is consumed evenly so you don't burn through one key first.

Auto-Failover on Rate Limits

If any key hits a 429, quota error, or becomes invalid, the plugin silently retries with the next key. Posts are never skipped due to a single exhausted key.

Blog Auto AI → Settings → API Keys
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+ Add 4th key (optional)
💡 3 keys = ~240 free-tier posts/day · Auto-failover enabled · Round-robin active
AI Provider

Gemini (Free) or Claude (Paid)

Switch AI providers with a single toggle. Start free, upgrade only if you need more writing quality.

🆓
Google Gemini
Free API key from Google AI Studio — no credit card. Handles up to ~80 posts/day at zero cost with Google Search grounding for live web research.
₹0 / month
Recommended for most users
  • Free API key, no credit card
  • Live web research via Google Search
  • Up to 4 keys for quota stacking
  • ~80 posts/day on free tier
Anthropic Claude
Claude Sonnet or Haiku for premium writing quality. Best for niches that demand exceptional prose or complex content structures.
Pay-as-you-go via Anthropic
~₹3–8 per post (Sonnet)
  • Premium writing quality
  • Same pipeline, same features
  • Paid Anthropic API key required
  • Switch back to Gemini any time

Running Cost

₹0/month Even at 15 Posts a Day

With Gemini + Pexels free tiers, there are no running API costs at all for most blogs.

✓ Gemini API — Free
✓ Pexels API — Free
✓ WP-Cron — Free
Testimonials

What Users Are Saying

WordPress bloggers and content teams who run Blog Auto AI every day.

RS
Rahul S.
Saved me 20+ hours a week

I was manually writing 2 posts a week. Now Blog Auto AI publishes 3 a day across 4 categories. The quality is genuinely good — my traffic is up 60% in 6 weeks.

PK
Priya K.
Worth every rupee

The ₹0 running cost claim is real. I've been running it for 2 months on Gemini + Pexels and haven't paid a single API charge. Plugin cost paid back in week 1.

MV
Marco V.
Keyword enforcement is a game changer

Finally a tool that actually uses my keywords instead of making up its own. The strict mode + locked H2s means every post hits exactly the targets I set.

AS
Ananya S.
My blog runs itself now

Set it up on a Sunday evening. By Monday morning there were 6 new draft posts waiting for me to review. I approved 5 of them straight away — barely needed edits.

TN
Tom N.
Posts don't sound like AI

I was sceptical about the Humanize toggle but it makes a real difference. My readers have commented that posts feel more personal. No one has guessed they're automated.

DM
Divya M.
Pexels images are spot on

The auto-image feature surprised me most. It doesn't just grab any random photo — the 2-word query it generates gets genuinely relevant results almost every time.

KJ
Kevin J.
Great for affiliate blogs

Running 3 affiliate blogs. Each has its own niche and category setup. Blog Auto AI handles all three simultaneously — I just check the drafts on weekends.

RS
Rahul S.
Saved me 20+ hours a week

I was manually writing 2 posts a week. Now Blog Auto AI publishes 3 a day across 4 categories. The quality is genuinely good — my traffic is up 60% in 6 weeks.

PK
Priya K.
Worth every rupee

The ₹0 running cost claim is real. I've been running it for 2 months on Gemini + Pexels and haven't paid a single API charge. Plugin cost paid back in week 1.

MV
Marco V.
Keyword enforcement is a game changer

Finally a tool that actually uses my keywords instead of making up its own. The strict mode + locked H2s means every post hits exactly the targets I set.

AS
Ananya S.
My blog runs itself now

Set it up on a Sunday evening. By Monday morning there were 6 new draft posts waiting for me to review. I approved 5 of them straight away — barely needed edits.

TN
Tom N.
Posts don't sound like AI

I was sceptical about the Humanize toggle but it makes a real difference. My readers have commented that posts feel more personal. No one has guessed they're automated.

DM
Divya M.
Pexels images are spot on

The auto-image feature surprised me most. It doesn't just grab any random photo — the 2-word query it generates gets genuinely relevant results almost every time.

KJ
Kevin J.
Great for affiliate blogs

Running 3 affiliate blogs. Each has its own niche and category setup. Blog Auto AI handles all three simultaneously — I just check the drafts on weekends.

SL
Sara L.
Setup took under 30 minutes

Uploaded the plugin, added my Gemini key, set up 3 categories with 5 topics each, clicked Run Now. First post was in drafts within 4 minutes. Incredibly easy.

VR
Vikram R.
Multi-key rotation is smart

Added 3 Gemini keys from different Google accounts. Now I'm generating 15 posts a day for free across all three. The round-robin rotation works perfectly.

JL
Julia L.
My Yoast scores are all green

Every post comes out with Yoast fully filled in — focus keyword, meta description, everything. I haven't had to manually edit SEO settings on a single post.

NB
Nikhil B.
TOC and FAQ are brilliant touches

The automatic Table of Contents and FAQ section are things I used to add manually to every post. Now they just appear. Time saved per post: about 25 minutes.

EW
Emma W.
Editable outline is exactly what I needed

I love that I can see the H2 structure before the article is written and tweak it. Gives me confidence that the post will cover exactly what I want it to cover.

AP
Arjun P.
Best WordPress plugin I've bought

I've tried a lot of AI writing plugins. Most just wrap ChatGPT with a bad UI. This one has a real workflow — research, keywords, images, scheduling — built properly.

LT
Lena T.
Organic traffic up 3x in 2 months

I went from 12 posts to 180 in 8 weeks. Google started indexing aggressively. My organic sessions tripled. The consistent publishing schedule is what made the difference.

SL
Sara L.
Setup took under 30 minutes

Uploaded the plugin, added my Gemini key, set up 3 categories with 5 topics each, clicked Run Now. First post was in drafts within 4 minutes. Incredibly easy.

VR
Vikram R.
Multi-key rotation is smart

Added 3 Gemini keys from different Google accounts. Now I'm generating 15 posts a day for free across all three. The round-robin rotation works perfectly.

JL
Julia L.
My Yoast scores are all green

Every post comes out with Yoast fully filled in — focus keyword, meta description, everything. I haven't had to manually edit SEO settings on a single post.

NB
Nikhil B.
TOC and FAQ are brilliant touches

The automatic Table of Contents and FAQ section are things I used to add manually to every post. Now they just appear. Time saved per post: about 25 minutes.

EW
Emma W.
Editable outline is exactly what I needed

I love that I can see the H2 structure before the article is written and tweak it. Gives me confidence that the post will cover exactly what I want it to cover.

AP
Arjun P.
Best WordPress plugin I've bought

I've tried a lot of AI writing plugins. Most just wrap ChatGPT with a bad UI. This one has a real workflow — research, keywords, images, scheduling — built properly.

LT
Lena T.
Organic traffic up 3x in 2 months

I went from 12 posts to 180 in 8 weeks. Google started indexing aggressively. My organic sessions tripled. The consistent publishing schedule is what made the difference.

Integrations & Requirements

Works With What You Already Have

No new hosting needed. If you have a WordPress site, you're already 90% of the way there.

🔗

WordPress 6.0+

Requires WordPress 6.0 or higher and PHP 7.4+. Tested up to WordPress 6.8. Works on any shared, VPS, or managed WordPress host.

Yoast SEO + Rank Math

Detects which SEO plugin you have installed and automatically fills focus keyword, meta title, meta description, and canonical URL for every generated post.

Reliable Cron Scheduling

Works with native WP-Cron. For guaranteed scheduling on shared hosting, the Automation page provides step-by-step setup for cron-job.org (free) or cPanel cron.

🖼️

Pexels Free Image API

Free API key from pexels.com — optional but recommended. Millions of professional stock photos, with a free tier that covers any volume this plugin needs.

🤖

Google AI Studio Key

Free Gemini API key from aistudio.google.com. No credit card required. Activates immediately and setup takes under 2 minutes.

📁

Standard WordPress Posts

Generated posts are standard WordPress posts — compatible with any theme, page builder, or social sharing plugin. No custom post types, no lock-in.