Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been doing a ton of experimenting with creating and refining GPTs.
It's been part of the reason why I feel like I haven't posted anything here lately.
My initial goal in refining my GPTs was just to fine-tune them so they could handle tasks exactly the way I wanted - no extra fluff, no guesswork, just reliable outputs.
But while I was working on this, I had a wild thought:
What if I could take a GPT, build in custom actions (in that action section no body uses), and connect it directly to my WordPress site?
Imagine being able to brainstorm, draft, edit, and then push content live, all from inside ChatGPT.
No jumping between apps...
no copy-paste into WordPress...
just one seamless workflow.
Well, here’s the fun part: I actually figured out how to make it happen.
Using ChatGPT to help me vibe code (for those not familiar, think of it basically as a way to make your GPT more functional without needing full-on coding expertise), I managed to build a plugin that syncs content directly from GPT to a test WordPress forum site I'm running.
[attach]2308[/attach]How wild is that?!
I can literally write inside the GPT, tell it to add it to my forum, and the content is scheduled for publishing on the site.
I’ve also been adding in different features to make it smarter and more customized to my specific setup:-
Built-in Writing Style Guide – I’ve put together a large prompt for the GPT to know how I write. Tone, phrasing, structure - all of it. I even included examples from previous forum posts so it remembers how to “sound like me.” Now, when I ask it to draft a post, it’s already 80% aligned with my voice.
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Memory Function – I added a section where it can remember recent conversations and forum posts I made. That way, if I mentioned something last week, it doesn’t forget - it can pick up right where we left off.
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Persona Building - Right now, I can have the GPT build not just memories or my writing style, but who I really am (married, timezone so it knows when best to schedule things, hobbies I like, etc). That way it's able to create a more full picture of who I really am when writing and scheduling stuff for me.
And the cool thing is that all this information lives right on the site, so if anything needs to get changed, I literally just prompt the GPT to update it. No more trying to update instructions, or upload files with more info.
[attach]2309[/attach]Crazy, if you think about it.
So far, I haven’t fully connected it to an actual live Wordpress site other than the one I'm currently testing it on. The plugin I built works (for now) only with a specific forum builder I'm using here on this site.
BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found another plugin someone started that works directly with any Wordpress site, and allows you to build and draft any of your posts in a matter of minutes.
You can check out his here: Connect to GPT
So my plan is to build over the next few weeks to pretty much merge what I've built with his current version, and see if I can't add a ton of value-packed features, like:
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Internal Linking Automation – The GPT could scan my entire site, identify where new content should link, and either suggest or automatically insert those links. Internal linking is such a pain to manage manually, so this could be huge.
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Collaborative Team Setup – Writers wouldn’t even need access to WordPress anymore. They’d just use the GPT interface, create their drafts, and push them as a draft, which I review and publish. Less training and fewer mistakes.
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Content Clustering and SEO Optimization - Imagine GPT analyzing all your site’s posts, grouping them into content clusters, and suggesting improvements, all from inside the same chat window.
To make this more concrete, let me walk you through a real-world use case of how this could work once it’s fully set up:
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A writer logs into GPT and says, “Draft me a 1,200-word post about beginner SEO tips in the same style as our last article.”
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The GPT generates a rough draft, already tailored to our writing style guide.
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The writer tweaks a few sections, asks GPT to improve the intro, and then runs a quick check for SEO keywords.
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Once they’re happy, they type: “Schedule this post for next Tuesday at 9am.”
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The GPT pushes the final draft into WordPress, tags it, assigns it to the right category, and (optionally) sets it live in the schedule.
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Bonus: GPT automatically suggests three internal links to other posts on the site and inserts them.
All of this without ever opening the WordPress dashboard.
That’s the vision I’m working toward.
Right now, I've got a decent foundation - I know how to build a plugin that can get a GPT to draft and schedule things.
The rest is just slowly building features on top of it all.
Once it’s finished, it could seriously change how we all handle content creation.
If I can get it to work, I honestly think this could be a 'game changer' not just for me but for anyone managing multiple sites or a team of writers.
What do you guys think?
Would you use something like this if it worked as described?