How to Build an AI-powered Blog Post Generator with ChatGPT PHP in a Custom WordPress Plugin

Posted on 18th June 2023

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to build an AI-powered blog post generator with ChatGPT PHP in a custom WordPress plugin. We’ll cover how to:

Install and activate the plugin
Create a new blog post
Configure the plugin settings
Integrate ChatGPT PHP into your plugin

Install and Activate the Plugin

First, you’ll need to install and activate the plugin. You can do this by going to the WordPress plugin repository and searching for “ChatGPT PHP” or by uploading the plugin ZIP file to your WordPress site.

Once the plugin is activated, you’ll need to create a new blog post. To do this, go to the “Posts” section of your WordPress dashboard and click “Add New”.

Create a New Blog Post

Next, you’ll need to create a new blog post. To do this, go to the “Posts” section of your WordPress dashboard and click “Add New”.

In the “Add New Post” screen, you’ll be able to enter the title and content of your blog post. You’ll also be able to select the “ChatGPT PHP” post format from the “Post Formats” box on the right-hand side of the screen.

Once you’ve entered the title and content of your blog post, click the “Publish” button to publish your post.

Configure the Plugin Settings

Once you’ve published your post, you’ll need to configure the plugin settings. To do this, go to the “Settings” section of your WordPress dashboard and click “ChatGPT PHP”.

In the “ChatGPT PHP Settings” screen, you’ll be able to configure the following settings:

Enable/Disable: This setting allows you to enable or disable the plugin.
API Key: This setting allows you to enter your ChatGPT PHP API key.
Default Template: This setting allows you to select the default template for your blog posts.
Custom Template: This setting allows you to enter a custom template for your blog posts.

Once you’ve configured the plugin settings, click the “Save Changes” button to save your changes.

Integrate ChatGPT PHP into Your Plugin

Finally, you’ll need to integrate ChatGPT PHP into your plugin. To do this, you’ll need to add the following code to your plugin:

getTemplate( ‘BLOG_POST_TEMPLATE_ID’ );

// Render the template.
echo $template->render( array(
‘title’ => ‘How to Build an AI-powered Blog Post Generator with ChatGPT PHP in a Custom WordPress Plugin’,
‘content’ => ‘In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to build an AI-powered blog post generator with ChatGPT PHP in a custom WordPress plugin. We’ll cover how to install and activate the plugin, create a new blog post, configure the plugin settings, and integrate ChatGPT PHP into your plugin.’,
) );
?>

Replace “YOUR_API_KEY” with your ChatGPT PHP API key and “BLOG_POST_TEMPLATE_ID” with the ID of the template you want to use for your blog post.

Once you’ve added the code to your plugin, you’ll be able to generate blog posts with ChatGPT PHP.

If you want to build a WordPress plugin that generates blog posts using AI, then you’ll need to use the ChatGPT PHP SDK. You can find the SDK on GitHub.

To use the SDK, you’ll first need to create a file called “config.php” in your plugin’s directory. The contents of this file will tell the SDK how to connect to your WordPress site. Here’s an example config.php file:

“https://your-wordpress-site.com”,

“api_key” => “your-api-key”,

“api_secret” => “your-api-secret”

);

Once you have your config.php file set up, you can start using the SDK. The first thing you’ll need to do is include the autoloader:

require_once __DIR__ . “/vendor/autoload.php”;

Now that the autoloader is included, you can instantiate the ChatGPT class:

$chatgpt = new ChatGPTChatGPT( $config );

Once you have an instance of the ChatGPT class, you can call the “generateBlogPost” method. This method takes two arguments: the topic of the blog post, and the length of the blog post (in words). For example, to generate a blog post about AI with a length of 1000 words, you would do this:

$result = $chatgpt->generateBlogPost( “ai”, 1000 );

If the blog post generation is successful, the “generateBlogPost” method will return an array with two keys: “title” and “content”. The “title” key will contain the generated title of the blog post, and the “content” key will contain the generated content of the blog post.

You can then take the generated title and content and use them in your WordPress site. For example, you could create a new WordPress post with the title and content:

$post_id = wp_insert_post( array(

“post_title” => $result[“title”],

“post_content” => $result[“content”],

“post_status” => “publish”

) );

You could also save the generated title and content to postmeta:

update_post_meta( $post_id, “generated_title”, $result[“title”] );

update_post_meta( $post_id, “generated_content”, $result[“content”] );

Once you have the generated title and content saved, you can display it on your WordPress site however you like.

If you want to learn more about the ChatGPT PHP SDK, you can check out the documentation on GitHub.

In the final section, we’ll add a few finishing touches to our plugin. First, let’s add a link to our chatbot on the main WordPress admin menu. We can do this by hooking into the ‘admin_menu’ action and adding a new top-level menu item:

add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘my_plugin_admin_menu’ );

function my_plugin_admin_menu() {

add_menu_page(

‘My Plugin’,

‘manage_options’,

‘my-plugin’,

‘my_plugin_admin_page’,

‘dashicons-admin-generic’,

null

);

}

This will add a new menu item called “My Plugin” to the WordPress admin sidebar. When clicked, it will load the ‘my_plugin_admin_page’ function which we’ll define next. This function will simply output a link to our chatbot:

function my_plugin_admin_page() {

echo ‘Launch Chatbot‘;

}

Finally, let’s add a shortcode so that we can embed our chatbot anywhere on our website. Shortcodes are simple WordPress macros that allow you to embed complex functionality in a post or page. To add a shortcode, we’ll first need to define a function that outputs the chatbot code. We can then hook this function into the ‘chatbot’ shortcode:

function my_plugin_shortcode() {

return ”;

}

add_shortcode( ‘chatbot’, ‘my_plugin_shortcode’ );

Now we can embed our chatbot in any post or page by simply adding the [chatbot] shortcode.

That’s it! We now have a fully functioning AI-powered chatbot that can generate blog posts on any topic.

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