Create SEO blog drafts in WordPress from trending topics with Perplexity and HuggingFace

Automatically discover trending developer and security topics, generate SEO-optimized blog posts, and publish them to WordPress as drafts — complete with AI-generated featured images.

How it works

1. Discover trends — Perplexity AI identifies the hottest topic from the last 24-48 hours
2. Queue topics — Topics are saved to Google Sheets for tracking and management
3. Generate content — Perplexity creates complete blog posts with titles, sections, keywords, and meta descriptions
4. Create draft — Content is published as a WordPress draft for your review
5. Generate image — HuggingFace FLUX creates a featured image based on the content
6. Attach media — The image is uploaded to WordPress and assigned to the post

Setup steps

1. Add credentials for Perplexity AI, Google Sheets, WordPress, and HuggingFace
2. Create a Google Sheet with columns: Topic, is_generated, title, content, keywords, meta_description
3. Replace YOUR_GOOGLE_SHEET_ID in the Google Sheets nodes with your sheet ID
4. Replace your-site.com with your WordPress site URL
5. Replace YOUR_TOKEN_HERE with your HuggingFace API token
6. Update the authorId in the WordPress node to match your author

Tools used

• Perplexity AI — Trend discovery and content generation
• Google Sheets — Topic queue and workflow tracking
• WordPress REST API — Post creation and media uploads
• HuggingFace FLUX — AI image generation

Ideal for developers, content marketers, and agencies who want automated content pipelines with editorial control.