Create WordPress drafts with Claude Haiku and Pexels images
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Meridian IA
Description
Quick overview
This workflow takes a blog post title and content, generates a short Pexels search phrase with Anthropic Claude, downloads a matching stock photo from Pexels, uploads it to your WordPress media library, creates a draft WordPress post, and sets the uploaded image as the featured image.
How it works
Runs when you manually execute the workflow.
Sets a sample WordPress post title and HTML content to use as input.
Sends the post title to Anthropic Claude to generate a short photo search phrase and cleans it for use as keywords.
Searches the Pexels API for a landscape image matching the generated keywords and downloads the top result.
Uploads the downloaded image to your WordPress site via the WordPress REST API as a media item.
Creates a new WordPress post as a draft with the provided title and content, then updates the post to set the uploaded media item as its featured image.
Setup
Add an Anthropic API credential and select a Claude model in the keyword-generation step.
Create a Pexels API key and configure it as an HTTP Header Auth credential for the Pexels search request.
Create a WordPress Application Password and configure the WordPress API credential, then replace https://your-site.com with your WordPress site URL in the media upload and post update requests.
Replace the sample title and content with your own input source (or connect your content-generation step) and adjust the post status if you want to publish instead of saving drafts.
Requirements
Pexels API key (free) and WordPress Application Passwords
Customization
Searches Pexels for a landscape photo matching that phrase.
Change post Status from Draft to Publish if you want fully automated publishing
Additional info
This is one piece of a larger daily content automation pipeline. For the full system (AI article generation, topic rotation, single CONFIG node, 9 documented production pitfalls): meridianiainc.gumroad.com/l/ai-blog-autopilot
Suggested title: "Auto-publish WordPress posts with a matching Pexels image"
(the auto-generated title overemphasizes the specific AI model used, which is
an implementation detail, not the core value of the workflow)
This workflow was created by Meridian IA and shared publicly on the n8n community template library. n8nFind indexes it for discovery — the workflow remains the property of its original creator.