Create WordPress drafts with Claude Haiku and Pexels images

Quick overview This workflow takes a blog post title and content, generates a short Pexels search phrase with Anthropic Claude, downloads a matching stock photo from Pexels, uploads it to your WordPress media library, creates a draft WordPress post, and sets the uploaded image as the featured image. How it works 1. Runs when you manually execute the workflow. 2. Sets a sample WordPress post title and HTML content to use as input. 3. Sends the post title to Anthropic Claude to generate a short photo search phrase and cleans it for use as keywords. 4. Searches the Pexels API for a landscape image matching the generated keywords and downloads the top result. 5. Uploads the downloaded image to your WordPress site via the WordPress REST API as a media item. 6. Creates a new WordPress post as a draft with the provided title and content, then updates the post to set the uploaded media item as its featured image. Setup 1. Add an Anthropic API credential and select a Claude model in the keyword-generation step. 2. Create a Pexels API key and configure it as an HTTP Header Auth credential for the Pexels search request. 3. Create a WordPress Application Password and configure the WordPress API credential, then replace https://your-site.com with your WordPress site URL in the media upload and post update requests. 4. Replace the sample title and content with your own input source (or connect your content-generation step) and adjust the post status if you want to publish instead of saving drafts. Requirements - Pexels API key (free) and WordPress Application Passwords Customization - Searches Pexels for a landscape photo matching that phrase. - Change post Status from Draft to Publish if you want fully automated publishing Additional info This is one piece of a larger daily content automation pipeline. For the full system (AI article generation, topic rotation, single CONFIG node, 9 documented production pitfalls): meridianiainc.gumroad.com/l/ai-blog-autopilot Suggested title: "Auto-publish WordPress posts with a matching Pexels image" (the auto-generated title overemphasizes the specific AI model used, which is an implementation detail, not the core value of the workflow)