Auto-publish PR news articles with images to WordPress

Watches an RSS feed for new PR articles and creates a WordPress draft post with the featured image attached.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Research & Market IntelligenceGeneral Automation
Connects
WordPress

The problem it solves

Copying press release articles into your website by hand, downloading images, and formatting posts takes time your content team doesn't have. Delays in publishing mean your site falls behind the news cycle.

Who it fits

Marketing and PR teams who publish press release content to a WordPress site.

How it works

  1. Checks an RSS feed every minute for new articles
  2. Pulls the article text and the featured image link
  3. Uploads the image to WordPress as a media item
  4. Creates a new draft post with the content and featured image set
  5. Leaves the post as a draft for your team to review before publishing
What you get

Press release drafts ready for your editor to publish

You get new press release articles pulled from your feed and turned into a formatted WordPress draft, featured image included, ready for your team to publish.

What you get

A ready-to-review WordPress draft post with text and a featured image already in place.

What you need

A WordPress site with REST API media upload access.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

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