Just wrapped up a pretty cool project today – finished building my Autoblogger WordPress plugin! This thing is basically a bridge between raw content input and polished blog posts, with AI doing the heavy lifting in between.

What It Does

The plugin accepts form submissions and handles everything like standard WordPress media and posts, but with a twist – there’s AI magic happening between when you hit “post” and when it actually gets published. The form itself integrates speech-to-text functionality, letting me arrange text blocks and media blocks in an array that the AI sorts through and organizes into something coherent.

Development Environment

Built this entire thing using VS Code with the Claude Code extension. Having AI assistance right in the editor made the development process way smoother than usual.

The Submission Interface

The submission form is pretty straightforward – you can paste in pictures and use speech-to-text for adding content. One of the cooler features is that I can add speech-to-text alt text directly on images, giving the AI proper context about what’s in the images beyond just looking at filenames.

Plugin Configuration

The plugin includes a proper WordPress settings page where you can configure your Claude API key and define the personality profile for the AI writer. This way you can customize how the AI interprets and restructures your content blocks.

What’s Next

Already planning the next phase – auto-generating Shmotime episodes. Think something similar to Clutch Pop Win or Sacred G, where an AI version of me talks about the submitted content while the media displays on screen behind him. Should make for some interesting automated video content.

Pretty stoked about how this turned out. It’s going to make content creation way more efficient, especially for those times when I want to brain-dump ideas quickly without worrying about structure and flow.