Publish local news posts to WordPress automatically
Claude Code agents research local news, write HTML posts, upload them to WordPress, set featured images, verify and log results, and also check Airtable and Gmail.
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- What they did
- Koka Sexton runs Claude Code in a terminal with credentials for WordPress, Airtable and Gmail. The agent researches local news, fetches source articles and writes full HTML posts. It then uploads them with WP-CLI or a script it writes, sets featured images, checks HTTP responses and logs the results. Publishing three articles takes a single request.
- How it went
- He says a 90-minute human process now happens in one conversation turn. The throughput figures come from his own internal benchmarks, and the article gives no independent measurements.
- Worth knowing
- Write the verification script before the first output, because hallucinations can go live otherwise. The article also suggests running the agent in parallel with a human for two weeks.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
Build a workflow that researches recent news about [my town or topic], writes [number] short HTML posts with sources, and prepares them as drafts on my WordPress site [site URL] with a featured image. Afterward, check each draft loads correctly and log the titles and links in [Airtable or a spreadsheet]. Stop with the drafts ready and show me them before anything is published.
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Source: kokasexton.com · Oct 17, 2026 · Submitted by from search gap: marketing
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