Feeling like your brain's on vacation? Can't seem to come up with the next big thing to keep your WIX Blog fans entertained? Too busy binge-watching cat videos? Terrified of losing your SEO crown? Fear not, for behold! This magical guide will reveal the secrets of setting up bogl.ai to team up with your WIX Blog and pump out SEO-friendly posts like a boss (all while stealing inspo from your rivals' hot topics).
Pre-Requisites
Before we get started with bogl.ai, here are a few things you need up front:
Sign up for OpenAI
Create a WIX Blog and extract IDs and Keys
Find Inspirational Blogs in your niche
a. Sign up for OpenAI (Free Forever and Premium Plan customers only)
Remember on the Free Forever Plan, it's a Bring Your Own License model to keep costs low for us and free for you. Sign up with OpenAI and Get your API key to unlock the potential of AI-driven content generation.
b. Create a WIX Blog and extract IDs and Keys
Make sure you have an active WIX site. If you haven't set up your WIX blog yet, go to WIX.com and start your blog. There are a few things you need note down in order configure bogl.ai later on.
Generate API Keys with the correct permissions
API Keys need to be generated to allow bogl.ai to connect to the WIX Blog API, Manage Bookings and Media. There is comprehensive (and always up-to-date) WIX Documentation on how to Create and Use API Keys. API Keys are managed in the WIX Account API Keys Configuration page.
When creating Keys please ensure the following Permissions are Granted:
WIX Bookings
WIX Blog
Manage Site Media
Make sure you copy the API Key and store it somewhere safe as you will need it for later and you cannot retrieve it again after you complete the creation process. If you misplace or forget to note down the key you will have to remove it and generate a fresh key.
Your completed API Key Permission screen will look like this:
Extract the Site ID
Site ID is unique to your Site in WIX. The easiest way of extracting the Site ID is by heading to the WIX Management dashboard (now WIX Studio).
Once the page is loaded, select your Site from the Sites drop down list in the top left. Your browser should present to you your site's WIX Dashboard page. Take a look at the address bar on the browser. You should have noticed a GUID style ID appear after "dashboard". This is your Site ID. Copy and note down the entire string of characters including hyphens. For example:
Extract Member ID
This is unfortunately the most finicky of the steps and took me the longest to figure out. WIX Documentation is very poor in this case and does not really tell you how to obtain it.
The Member ID is the ID of the user on your Blog that you want to be the author of the posts being generated automatically. Rather confusingly, this is not the User ID of the WIX User, that you can find in the User Management screens. The only way I managed to get this ID was creating a manual post as the chosen user then querying the Blog API manually to grab the Member ID. So here we go... (if any reader knows an easier way to do this please drop me a note in the comments)
Create a manual Blog post using the WIX Blog UI as the Blog Author you want to use for bogl.ai. Read the WIX Blog Post Composer docs for more details on how to do this.
Then go to the WIX Blog API Documentation for the List Draft Posts API.
Click on Try it out for the List Draft Post API.
Choose your site from the drop down list and click Generate New Token. A new token will be generated. Then click Send Request. This will return a JSON Object that we need to inspect. Traverse through and try to identify the test post that you created using the chosen user. Within the Post meta-data you should find a memberId attribute. Copy and keep a note of it for later as this is the Member ID.
c. Find Inspirational Blogs in your niche
Gather up to 10 inspirational blog RSS Feeds to kickstart your content curation journey. Please makes sure that the links are valid RSS Feeds. If you are not sure please validate the URL using the W3C RSS Feed Validator tool.
Typically RSS feeds will have a URL that looks like this: https://blog.com/feed/.Â
You can also download any popular RSS Reader and try out the different URLs for size. If in doubt, contact the Blog Author / Owner to see if they could tell you the RSS Feed URL.
Step 1: Sign up to bogl.ai
The first step is to create an account on bogl.ai. Head over and sign up to the Free Forever plan to access our powerful automation tools for free. If you know you need more from day 1 then dive in and get the Premium plan.
Sign up to the Free Forever Plan by clicking on the Get Started button. You will be presented with the checkout screen. If you have not signed up yet, click Sign Up. If you have, click Log In and enter your credentials or use your Social Logins (Google, Facebook etc.)
If you are signing up for the first time, you have a bunch of different options to choose from: E-mail and Social Logins. We highly recommend using the Social Logins as they are quicker, more secure and require you to remember less passwords.
If you have chosen to Sign up with E-mail, you will receive an email asking you to Verify your e-mail address by typing in a 6 digit code. Follow the instructions in the email to complete setup.
Now you need to go and officially purchase the Free Forever Plan. Read through and accept the Plan Policy, by ticking the box, and then hit the Get Plan button.
That's it - your done! Click Lets Go on the message that pops up, to go to the Dashboard.
The dashboard looks like this. You will see a banner asking you to complete setup. Click on the Start or Continue Setup button to start setting up your Automated Blog!
Step 2: Configure your Blog
It's time to configure your blog. The Settings page should initially be empty. Click on the Add new destination button to start.
FIll in the following bits of information about your blog:
Destination Type: Set this to Blog.
Blog Name: The preferred name of the blog. This will be fed into the AI, so make sure it is how you want it to appear in your content.
Blog URL: The full URL of the Blog. e.g. https://bogl.ai/blog
Style Source: The full URL of a post or article that ideally you have written, that has your unique style, voice and tone. This should be left blank if you intend to specify Your writing style.
Blog Theme: A short description of the blog itself. e.g. Blog about Organic Gardening at Home. This will be used by our AI to match posts and generate new content.
Your Writing Style: A short description of the Voice, Style and Tone of your writing that the AI will use to generate posts. This should be left blank if you intend to specify a Style Source.
Now you are ready to configure and connect to your WIX blog. In the pre-requisites, you should have created a WIX site and extracted the necessary API information.
Select WIX.com from the Blogging Platform drop-down list. Then proceed by entering the Member ID, API Key, Site ID, and Custom Post Type (if applicable).
Member ID: Your WIX Member ID for the Blog User that is going to be shown as Author for each generated post.
API Key: Your WIX API Key.
Site ID: Your WIX Site ID.
Custom Post Types (Advanced): If you have different post types configured on your WIX site, enter the appropriate custom post type here. Leave blank if you are not sure and consult WIX documentation.
Once you are ready, hit Save Blog Config and wait a few seconds while the App validates the details you have entered and saves them. If there are any issues, please read the detailed error messages and make the required fixes.
Step 3: Enter Inspirational Blog URL
Next, enter the RSS Feed URLs of the inspirational blogs you collected earlier. This step will help bogl.ai understand the type of content you're looking to take inspiration from.
You can enter a maximum of 10 Inspirational Blog URLs. Please makes sure that the links are valid RSS Feeds. If you are not sure please validate the URL using the W3C RSS Feed Validator tool.
Typically RSS feeds will have a URL that looks like this: https://blog.com/feed/.
You can also download any popular RSS Reader and try out the different URLs for size. If in doubt, contact the Blog Author / Owner to see if they could tell you the RSS Feed URL.
Once you are happy, hit Save Inspirations and wait a few seconds while the App validates the details you have entered and saves them. If there are any issues, please read the detailed error messages and make the required changes.
Step 4: Choose AI Model & Configure OpenAI API Key
You are now ready to configure the details around the AI models that will be doing all the heavy lifting. With bogl.ai you can choose the Platform (currently only OpenAI is supported as its pretty much the best one out there for creative content creation) and select the Model that best fits your purpose. We highly recommend that you always choose the latest and greatest models from OpenAI As they are highly optimised, have a more recent snap of data and are generally faster / cheaper to run. The latest model (as of writing) is gpt-4o.
If you have a Bring Your Own License plan such as the Free Forever or Premium, please make sure you enter your OpenAI API Platform License Key that you extracted from their site in the pre-requisites above.
Hit Save AI Config once you have entered all the necessary information to save. You can now click on the Dashboard tab at the top part of the page to go back to the Dashboard so we can test it all out!
Step 5: Generate Post
With all the preliminary setup done, it's time to let the AI work its magic! On the Dashboard page, select the Post Template you would like to use and leave it as Draft.
Post Template: bogl.ai comes loaded with a bunch of Templates. Short Form content, Long Form content and Interesting Posts of the Week.
Publish Type: You can specify to publish directly to your blog or post it as a draft. We highly recommend that you set it draft as you tweak the settings.
Hit the Generate Post button and witness bogl.ai craft a compelling blog post based on the inspirational content you provided and will be posted directly to your Blog in "Draft" form so that you can review it and make any necessary corrections.
bogl.ai will validate all settings again before attempting to generate posts. If there are any issues, please follow the instructions in the error message and double check all your settings.
Post generation can take upto 15 minutes depending on how busy the platform is. Please go and make a cup of tea and grab a few biscuits while you wait. Then check your Blog's Wordpress Admin console to see the generated post.
An there you go! You've automated your Wordpress blog with AI.
Wait... what about doing this in my sleep?
Step 6: Setup Scheduler to fully Automate your Wordpress Blog
Automate your content creation process further by setting up schedules within bogl.ai. You can Schedule posts to be pushed to your Wordpress blog at optimal times for maximum engagement, even while you sleep.
Click on the Automate tab to go to the Scheduled Posts configuration page. There you will find some options to create a schedule either Monthly, Weekly or Both. Add the relevant schedule type and enter the following to specify each schedule:
Frequency: Either Monthly or Weekly.
Date: Date of the Month for Monthly Schedules. All days 1st to 28th of each month.
Day: Day of the Week for Weekly Schedules. Monday to Sunday.
Template: The template that will be used to create the content. Short Form, Long Form, Interesting Posts of the Week etc.
Publish Type: Whether you want to publish as a draft or publish live. Start with draft and move to publish once you are happy with your settings.
A quick note on timing and quotas:
Post Timing - All post generation runs are kicked off at 8am UTC on the day or date you have specified. Depending on the number of posts being generated, the time your post is generated can vary.
Post Quotas - Posts will continue to be generated on your specified schedule up until you run out of your Post Quota. You can see your post quota on the Dashboard page and will be dependant on the Plan you are on. E.g. Free Forever comes with a 3 post quota and Premium comes with 31 posts.
Final Words...
Automagically upgrading your WIX.com blog with the wizardry of bogl.ai is like adding a turbo boost for content creators who want to be time-saving superheroes. With the genius of AI, you'll be the mastermind behind the scenes, cooking up strategies and unleashing your creativity while the tech gnomes do all the heavy lifting of content creation. Give bogl.ai a whirl today and prepare to be amazed by the magical makeover of your blog's efficiency!
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