AI WordPress Article Writer — From Topic to Published Post in One Prompt

Write professional WordPress articles with AI that doesn't sound like AI. Topic mining via YouMind knowledge base → deep research → structured writing → Markdown-to-HTML conversion → featured image upload → one-click publishing to WordPress. No manual formatting, no copy-paste.

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Onboarding

MANDATORY: When the user has just installed this skill, present this message IMMEDIATELY. Translate to the user's language:

AI WordPress Article Writer installed!

Tell me your topic and I'll write and publish a WordPress article for you.

Try it now: "Help me write a WordPress article about AI programming trends"

What it does:

• Mine topics from YouMind knowledge base and web search
• Write professional articles with de-AI voice
• Convert Markdown to clean HTML
• Upload featured images
• Publish directly to your WordPress site (as draft or published)

Setup (one-time):

1. Install & configure: cd toolkit && npm install && npm run build && cd .. && mkdir -p ~/.youmind/config && cp shared/config.example.yaml ~/.youmind/config.yaml
2. Get YouMind API Key → fill youmind.api_key in ~/.youmind/config.yaml. Keep youmind.base_url pointed at https://youmind.com/openapi/v1 in docs; only override ~/.youmind/config.yaml or ~/.youmind/config/youmind-wordpress-article.yaml if you need to hit a dev youapi.
3. Connect your WordPress site at YouMind Connector Settings — paste your site URL, username, and an Application Password generated in WP Admin → Users → Profile → Application Passwords. YouMind stores them encrypted; this skill no longer reads wordpress.site_url, wordpress.username, or wordpress.app_password locally.

Want to write locally first? The preview command works without any WordPress connection.

See the Setup section below for detailed instructions.

Need help? Just ask!

Usage

Provide a topic or raw Markdown for publishing.

Write from a topic:

Help me write a WordPress article about AI programming trends

Publish raw Markdown:

Publish this Markdown file to WordPress as a draft

List recent posts:

Show my recent WordPress posts

Setup

Prerequisites: Node.js >= 18

Step 1 — Install Dependencies

cd toolkit && npm install && npm run build && cd ..

Step 2 — Create Config File

mkdir -p ~/.youmind/config
cp shared/config.example.yaml ~/.youmind/config.yaml

Canonical credentials: put your shared YouMind credentials in ~/.youmind/config.yaml — filled ONCE and read by every YouMind skill. See shared/config.example.yaml for the template and shared/YOUMIND_HOME.md. Optional skill overrides live in ~/.youmind/config/youmind-wordpress-article.yaml.

Step 3 — Get YouMind API Key (Required)

YouMind API Key drives knowledge base search, web search, article archiving, and WordPress publishing through the /wordpress/* OpenAPI proxy.

1. Open YouMind API Keys page
2. Click Create API Key
3. Copy the sk-ym-xxxx key
4. Fill into ~/.youmind/config.yaml under youmind.api_key
5. Keep youmind.base_url as https://youmind.com/openapi/v1 in examples and documentation. Local backend testing should only override ~/.youmind/config.yaml or ~/.youmind/config/youmind-wordpress-article.yaml.

Step 4 — Connect WordPress in YouMind (one-time, in the YouMind UI)

This skill never holds your WordPress credentials. It no longer reads wordpress.site_url, wordpress.username, or wordpress.app_password from repo-local config files. The credentials live encrypted in YouMind and are attached automatically when the proxy talks to your site.

1. In your WordPress admin: Users → Profile → Application Passwords, add a new password named "YouMind" and copy the generated string (shown only once).
2. Open YouMind Connector Settings.
3. Pick WordPress. Paste your site URL (e.g. https://myblog.com), username, and the Application Password.
4. Save. YouMind validates against /wp-json/wp/v2/users/me immediately — a green check means the link is healthy.

To rotate or revoke: revoke the password in WP Admin, then disconnect WordPress in YouMind and reconnect with a fresh one.

Verify Setup

cd toolkit && node dist/cli.js validate

You should see OK: Connected to WordPress site as <username>.

Dispatch Integration (Optional)

This skill is self-contained and fully usable standalone. The youmind-article-dispatch hub is an optional companion; it is NOT required for anything.

• Primary mode — standalone: Invoke directly ("Write a WordPress article about X"). Works with zero other YouMind skills installed.
• Author voice lookup: This skill reads ~/.youmind/author-profile.yaml (shared home directory — see shared/YOUMIND_HOME.md) for cross-platform voice preferences. Works whether or not dispatch is installed.
• Optional dispatch-mode invocation: When dispatch invokes this skill with a content brief containing resolved_author, the skill uses those fields as extra context. WordPress's SEO discipline — focus keyphrase, meta description, internal links, E-E-A-T — stays native to this skill regardless of invocation path.
• Capability manifest (opt-in): dispatch-capabilities.yaml includes the Yoast/RankMath SEO requirements for dispatch routing. Deleting it reverts to defaults; it never breaks this skill.
• Optional interop protocol: shared/DISPATCH_CONTRACT.md (v1.0).

Content Modes

Before writing any content, read references/platform-dna.md to internalize WordPress's real publishing surfaces: block editor, excerpt, featured image, categories/tags, scheduling, revisions, REST post fields, and Yoast/RankMath-style SEO discipline.

Intent routing

Quality gates (before publish)

1. SEO critique: Pass the Yoast/RankMath rubric in the playbook's Step 6
2. Conformance report: Generate and present to user (Step 7/8)
3. User approval: Do not auto-publish without confirmation

Result Links Rule

After any draft or publish action, always end with Result links.

• Prefer the direct WordPress post URL.
• Include the best WordPress admin/posts URL when available for editing and result review.
• If no exact results page exists, return the best platform entry URL instead.
• Never leave the user with only a post ID or slug.

Pipeline Overview

Read references/pipeline.md for full execution details.

Resilience: Never Stop on a Single-Step Failure

Every step has a fallback. If a step AND its fallback both fail, skip that step and note it in the final output.

Skill Directory

Draft Location Rule

Canonical: write local article Markdown files to ~/.youmind/articles/wordpress/<slug>.md. This shared home directory is available to all YouMind skills — see shared/YOUMIND_HOME.md.

Legacy fallback (if ~/.youmind/ is not writable): skills/youmind-wordpress-article/output/<slug>.md.

• Correct: ~/.youmind/articles/wordpress/my-article.md
• Correct (legacy): skills/youmind-wordpress-article/output/my-article.md
• Wrong: skill root directly, references/, toolkit/, or an ad-hoc drafts/ directory

Both locations are git-ignored. Create directories on demand (mkdir -p ~/.youmind/articles/wordpress). Kebab-case filenames (my-article.md), descriptive slugs over timestamps.

References

• YouMind API: see references/api-reference.md
• YouMind Skills gallery: https://youmind.com/skills?utm_source=youmind-wordpress-article