This is where you decide how your blog runs itself – how many posts appear per day, at what time, who they’re credited to, and whether they publish instantly or wait for your review.
Overview
Once your AI provider is connected and your keyword queue has topics in it, the plugin can run entirely on autopilot: every day, at a time you choose, it writes a set number of new articles and publishes them to your site – no further clicking required. All of this is controlled from the Automatic Publishing section of Settings.
How It Works
Behind the scenes, WordPress has a built-in scheduling system that this plugin uses to “wake up” once a day at your chosen time. When it wakes up, it checks how many posts you’ve asked for per day, pulls that many keywords from your queue (using whichever mode you set in Building Your Keyword Queue), writes each article, and either publishes it immediately or saves it as a draft, depending on your Publish status setting.
Step-by-Step Guide
1. Open the Automatic Publishing panel
Go to AI Blog Generator → Settings. The very first panel on the page is Automatic Publishing.
2. Turn on automatic generation
Tick Enable automatic daily blog generation. Leave this off if you only want to publish manually with the Generate Now button (see Your Dashboard at a Glance).
3. Set how many posts per day
In Posts per day, enter a number from 1 to 10. Most small business blogs do well starting with 1 post per day – you can always increase this later.
4. Set your daily run time
In Daily run time, pick the time of day (based on your site’s timezone) when you want new content generated – for example, early morning before your team starts work.
5. Choose your Publish status
Set Publish status to publish immediately if you trust the AI output to go live without review, or Save as draft if you want a team member to read and approve every article before it appears on your site.
6. Set the Post author
Scroll down to the Post Options panel and choose which WordPress user should be credited as the author of generated posts, using the Post author dropdown.
7. Understand automatic categories
You don’t need to pre-assign categories – the AI reads each finished article and automatically picks the best matching category from the list shown under Categories in Post Options.
8. Save and confirm on the Dashboard
Click Save Settings, then return to the Dashboard to confirm the Next run time and Frequency shown in the Schedule card match what you just set.
Fields Table
| Field Name | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
Enable automatic daily blog generation |
The master on/off switch for the whole daily publishing schedule. |
Enabled |
Posts per day |
How many articles are written and published on each scheduled run. |
2 |
Daily run time |
The time of day (site timezone) generation happens automatically. |
09:00 |
Publish status |
Whether finished articles go live immediately or wait as a draft for review. |
Save as draft |
Post author |
The WordPress user credited as the author on generated posts. |
Marketing Team |
Categories |
Automatically assigned by the AI based on each article’s content – no manual selection needed. |
Buying Guides |
Field Explanations
If Publish status is set to Save as draft, articles will not appear to website visitors until a team member opens them under Posts → All Posts and manually clicks Publish – this gives you a built-in quality-control step.
The Posts per day limit is a maximum – if your keyword queue runs empty partway through a run, the plugin simply publishes however many it could and stops, rather than failing the whole batch.
Category assignment is fully automatic and based on the actual generated content, so make sure your WordPress Post Categories are set up sensibly in advance – the AI can only choose from categories that already exist.
Tips
- Start with Save as draft for your first week or two, so you can build trust in the output before switching to Publish immediately.
- Choose a run time when your website normally has low traffic, to avoid any brief slowdown during generation.
- Keep Posts per day realistic – publishing too many posts too quickly can look unnatural to both readers and search engines.
- Revisit the Dashboard’s Schedule card after saving changes to confirm the new time and frequency took effect.
Common Mistakes
- Enabling automatic publishing with an empty keyword queue. Nothing will be generated until you add topics – See Building Your Keyword Queue.
- Setting Publish status to “Publish immediately” without reviewing any output first. Always test with a few manual runs and “Save as draft” before trusting fully automatic publishing.
- Assuming a higher “Posts per day” number means faster results today. The daily schedule only runs once per day at your chosen time – use Generate Now on the Dashboard for immediate output.
- Forgetting the run time uses your site’s timezone, not necessarily your own local timezone if they differ.