Automate WordPress with Claude Cowork

Create WordPress posts and pages, set featured images, and manage your content — all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup Guide

Please make sure there is always a human in the loop.

Publish to WordPress in Seconds

Terminal

# Install the skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Find your WordPress integration
postiz integrations:list

# Create a WordPress post
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Post content..." \
  -s "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"title":"My Blog Post","type":"post"}' \
  -i "wordpress-id"

WordPress-Specific Features

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Posts & Pages

Create both blog posts and static pages from the same CLI. Switch between content types with a single setting.

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Featured Images

Upload and set featured images for your posts and pages. Eye-catching thumbnails drive more clicks from your site.

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Content Management

Manage your WordPress content programmatically. Create, schedule, and organize posts without touching the admin panel.

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Scheduled Publishing

Schedule posts and pages for future publication with precise timestamps. Plan your content calendar in advance.

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AI-Powered Workflows

Let AI agents draft, format, and publish your WordPress content. From idea to published post without manual intervention.

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Multi-Site Support

Connect multiple WordPress sites and publish to any of them. Manage all your sites from a single Postiz account.

How It Works

Find Your WordPress Integration

List your connected accounts and grab your WordPress integration ID. You can also fetch available settings to see what options are supported.

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Filter for WordPress
postiz integrations:list | jq \
  '.[] | select(.identifier=="wordpress")'

# Get WordPress settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <wordpress-id>

Prepare Your Content

Write your content and optionally upload a featured image. WordPress supports HTML content for rich formatting.

Upload

# Upload a featured image (optional)
RESULT=$(postiz upload featured.jpg)
IMAGE_PATH=$(echo "$RESULT" | jq -r '.path')
IMAGE_ID=$(echo "$RESULT" | jq -r '.id')

echo "Featured: $IMAGE_PATH"
# https://uploads.postiz.com/featured.jpg

Create Your Post

Create a WordPress post or page with your content, title, featured image, and content type settings.

Publish

postiz posts:create \
  -c "Post content..." \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "title": "10 Tips for Better Code Reviews",
    "main_image": {
      "id": "img-id",
      "path": "https://uploads.postiz.com/featured.jpg"
    },
    "type": "post"
  }' \
  -i "wordpress-id"

WordPress Settings Reference

Every WordPress post accepts these platform-specific settings via the --settings flag.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "wordpress"
`title`	string	Yes	Post or page title (min 2 characters)
`main_image`	object	No	Featured image: {id: string, path: string}
`type`	string	Yes	Content type: "post" or "page"

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common WordPress publishing scenarios.

Simple Blog Post

settings.json

{
  "title": "Getting Started with WordPress Automation",
  "type": "post"
}

Blog Post with Featured Image

settings.json

{
  "title": "10 Tips for Better Code Reviews",
  "main_image": {
    "id": "img-abc123",
    "path": "https://uploads.postiz.com/code-reviews.jpg"
  },
  "type": "post"
}

Static Page

settings.json

{
  "title": "About Our Company",
  "main_image": {
    "id": "img-xyz789",
    "path": "https://uploads.postiz.com/about-hero.jpg"
  },
  "type": "page"
}

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agentic AI tool for knowledge workers. It runs on your desktop, connects to local files and apps like Google Drive, Gmail, and DocuSign, and completes multi-step tasks autonomously.

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Desktop Native

Claude Cowork runs directly on your desktop, connecting to your local files and apps. No browser or cloud setup needed to manage your social media workflow.

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App Integrations

Connects to Google Drive, Gmail, DocuSign, and more. Pull content from your existing tools and publish it to social media seamlessly.

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Autonomous Tasks

Schedule recurring tasks with cron jobs. Claude Cowork can publish your WordPress content on a schedule without you having to ask each time.

How Postiz Works with Claude Cowork

Claude Cowork discovers Postiz through MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool integration. Once configured, it can call Postiz commands directly from your desktop — no terminal needed.

✓Install Postiz Agent and set your POSTIZ_API_KEY
✓Claude Cowork discovers Postiz through MCP integration
✓All Postiz commands become available as tools
✓Claude Cowork autonomously chains commands for complex workflows
✓Works seamlessly with your existing desktop apps and files

Install Postiz

# Install the Postiz skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Claude Cowork discovers Postiz
# through MCP tool integration
# and can call all commands directly

WordPress Publishing with Claude Cowork

Message Claude Cowork from any platform — it reads the Postiz skill, discovers your WordPress integration, and handles the entire publishing workflow autonomously.

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From Any Chat App

Tell Claude Cowork what to post from you...

Send a message to Claude Cowork from your favorite chat app. It runs as a persistent daemon on your machine, so it picks up your message, discovers your WordPress site via Postiz, formats the post, and publishes it — all while you go about your day.

Claude Cowork

You: Post to WordPress about our new
  feature launch, schedule for tomorrow
  at 9am

Claude Cowork: I'll handle that for you.
  1. Found your WordPress integration
  2. Composing your post
  3. Scheduling for tomorrow at 9:00 AM

  Done! Your post is scheduled.
  Post ID: abc-123

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Scheduled & Proactive

Claude Cowork can be asked to perfo...

Claude Cowork supports cron-based heartbeat tasks. Set up a recurring job that checks a folder for new drafts and publishes them to WordPress automatically — no manual trigger needed.

Claude Cowork Task

Tell Claude Cowork:

"Every weekday morning, check my
~/content/drafts folder for new posts
and schedule them to WordPress
for noon today. Move published drafts
to ~/content/published."

Claude Cowork will autonomously:
  1. Monitor your drafts folder
  2. Read and format each post
  3. Schedule via Postiz
  4. Move files when done

Why Claude Cowork + Postiz for WordPress

Claude Cowork makes Postiz a natural fit for your WordPress workflow. The agent discovers all available commands and autonomously chains them together.

✓Desktop-native — no terminal or CLI knowledge needed
✓Connects to your local files to pull content for WordPress posts
✓Multi-step autonomy — handles discovery, composition, and scheduling
✓Works with Google Drive, Gmail, and other desktop apps
✓Cross-post to WordPress + other platforms in a single request
✓Powered by Claude — Anthropic's most capable AI model

SKILL.md (auto-discovered)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including WordPress
metadata:
  claude-cowork:
    requirements:
      env:
        - POSTIZ_API_KEY
      binaries:
        - postiz
---

# Available Commands
- postiz integrations:list
- postiz integrations:settings <id>
- postiz posts:create
- postiz upload <file>
- postiz analytics:platform <id>

# WordPress Settings
title, main_image, type

Also Works with OpenClaw

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands — including OpenClaw, the open-source personal AI agent.

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OpenClaw

Open-source AI agent

Claude reads the SKILL.md file to learn all available Postiz commands, then autonomously discovers your WordPress integration, uploads your featured image, sets the content type, and publishes the post.

OpenClaw

> Publish my code review tips article
  to WordPress as a blog post with
  a featured image

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz upload ./featured.jpg
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "$(cat code-review-tips.md)" \
    -s "2025-03-02T09:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"title":
      "10 Tips for Better Code Reviews",
      "main_image":{"id":"...",
        "path":"uploaded-url"},
      "type":"post"}' \
    -i "wordpress-id"

WordPress + Other Platforms

Publish the same content to WordPress and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Cross-post an article to WordPress and Medium
postiz posts:create \
  -c "$(cat article.md)" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "title": "Building Scalable APIs",
    "main_image": {
      "id": "img-id",
      "path": "https://uploads.postiz.com/api-cover.jpg"
    },
    "type": "post"
  }' \
  -i "wordpress-id,medium-id"

# Batch schedule a week of WordPress posts
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "$(cat posts/day${day}.md)" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T08:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"title":"Day '"$day"' Tips","type":"post"}' \
    -i "wordpress-id"
done

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