This is where you decide how your news feed runs itself – how many articles appear per day, at what time, who they’re credited to, and whether they publish instantly or wait for editorial 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 Story Topic Queue), writes each article in your chosen content type and language, 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 News Publisher → 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 Newsroom Dashboard).
3. Set how many posts per day
In Posts per day, enter a number from 1 to 10. A news feed publishing several times daily might start with 2–3; a smaller blog might start with 1.
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 – many news sites choose early morning so fresh content is ready before peak reading hours.
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 an editor to read and approve every article before it appears on your site – strongly recommended for news and financial content.
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 categories shown 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. |
3 |
Daily run time |
The time of day (site timezone) generation happens automatically. |
06:00 |
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. |
Newsroom Team |
Categories |
Automatically assigned by the AI based on each article’s content – no manual selection needed. |
World News |
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 editorial-review step, which is especially important for news and financial content where factual accuracy matters.
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 – especially for news, finance, or any factual content – before switching to Publish immediately.
- Choose a run time before your typical morning traffic peak so fresh content is already live when readers arrive.
- Keep Posts per day realistic – publishing too many articles 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 Story Topic Queue.
- Publishing news or financial content immediately without any review. Always test with “Save as draft” first, especially before trusting fully automatic publishing on factual topics.
- 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.