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Send AI-generated WordPress newsletters using OpenAI and SMTP

Ready for 3.0

by AI Solutions ✓ · 10 views · created 2026-09-10 · Social Media, Multimodal AI

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 30 nodes and runs on a schedule (every hour). Along the way it connects OpenAI Chat Model and OpenAI.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every hour).

  1. Set — Site Config (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 3 fields: wpBaseUrl, bccBatchSize, smtpFromEmail
  2. HTTP — Get Due Newsletters (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  3. Split — Due Newsletters (Split Out): splits a list into separate items
  4. Loop — Newsletters (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
  5. Set — Newsletter Config (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 12 fields: newsletter_id, topic, subreddit…
  6. RSS — Fetch Reddit (RSS Read): reads an RSS feed
  7. RSS — Fetch Google News (RSS Read): reads an RSS feed
  8. HTTP — Fetch Yahoo Sports (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  9. RSS — Fetch NCAA (RSS Read): reads an RSS feed
  10. HTTP — Fetch BBC Sport (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API

…plus 18 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

OpenAI Chat ModelOpenAI

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

Nodes used (12)

From the author

Quick Overview This workflow runs hourly to find due newsletters in WordPress (AIS Newsletter Manager), pulls articles from Reddit, Google News, Yahoo Sports, NCAA.com, and BBC Sport, uses OpenAI to summarize content and generate a feature image, then emails…

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