I built a production-ready blog automation pipeline that turns a post title or brief into a fully formatted, SEO-optimized article with images, metadata, and scheduled publishing.

What it does

• Captures ideas from a form/Google Sheet/Notion and validates the brief • Researches topics and sources (Tavily) and generates long-form content (OpenAI) • Creates SEO assets: title, meta description, slug, outline, FAQs, internal-link suggestions • Generates featured image prompts and uploads media to CDN/S3 • Converts content to clean HTML/Markdown with headings, schema, and CTAs • Publishes to WordPress/Headless CMS (Next.js) via secure webhooks • Schedules posts, updates categories/tags, and pings indexers • Logs every run to Google Sheets/DB and sends Slack/Email notifications

Quality & Security • Dockerized n8n with PostgreSQL, encrypted credentials, and audit logs • Retry logic, timeouts, and error alerts to avoid failed publishes • One-click export/backup; easy to promote from Mac to VPS

Outcome Consistent, high-quality articles delivered in minutes, predictable SEO structure, faster publishing, and clear analytics for continuous improvement.

Keywords: blog automation, n8n workflow, SEO content pipeline, WordPress/Next.js publishing, AI content generation, Docker, PostgreSQL.