Do the automated blog posts publish themselves?
No. Every piece arrives as a draft in your WordPress admin. You read it, change what you want and publish it, or you do not. This is a deliberate design decision rather than a limitation: the moment a pipeline can publish unattended, the thing protecting your site from an embarrassing sentence is a language model having a good day. Plenty of services will offer you the other arrangement. We would not run our own site that way.
What happens when there is nothing worth writing about?
The pipeline stops and tells you, rather than writing filler. Subjects are scored before anything is drafted, and a run that finds nothing passing the test stops with exactly that message rather than producing something to fill the slot. This is the most unusual thing about the arrangement. A blog writing service paid per article has every incentive to write the marginal one; a pipeline that stops tells you when the useful subjects in your field have been covered, which is information you can act on.
How is each draft checked before you see it?
Against a written list of rules, in a review stage that runs before anything reaches you. Every draft passes through a review stage that knows what machine-written prose looks like, because the tells are enumerated. Twenty-one specific phrasings each carry a defined repair: "delve into" becomes "look at", "harness the power of" becomes "use", "in today's digital landscape" is simply deleted. American spelling is converted to Australian, carefully: "optimize" becomes "optimise", while "program" and the noun "licence" are left alone because the naive substitution is wrong in both cases. A placeholder link left in the text, or a second h1 in the body, blocks the draft rather than being noted.
How are blog subjects chosen for your site?
Subjects are chosen against what your site already covers, so a draft is not quietly competing with a page you published two years ago. That check matters more than it sounds: the most common self-inflicted SEO problem we see is three thin pages on one subject where there should be one good one, and a content service working from a keyword list will happily create the fourth. Anything already covered here fails the test and never reaches a writer.
Why will you not sell content by volume?
Because volume is where the risk lives. Google's spam policies name scaled content abuse specifically: producing many pages primarily to manipulate rankings, regardless of whether a human or a machine wrote them. The risk is not theoretical and it does not distinguish between your intent and an obvious content farm. So the offer is deliberately small: a sustainable number of pieces that each earn their place, on subjects that pass a test. If a supplier is quoting you per-article at volume, that is the pricing model creating the risk, not the technology.
Where do the featured images come from?
They are generated for each post rather than taken from stock. Each piece gets a featured image made for it rather than a photograph everyone else is also using. The colour is derived from the title, so the same article always gets the same card and the set looks deliberate across an archive, and the text colour is chosen by measuring contrast against the background rather than being assumed, which means the type stays legible on every card rather than on most of them. Where a photograph genuinely suits the subject better, it uses one and credits it.
What stays your job?
Deciding what publishes, supplying the specifics, and correcting drafts stay with you. You decide what publishes, because you know which claims your business can stand behind. You supply the specifics a model cannot invent: your prices, your process, the thing you do differently. And you tell us when a draft is wrong, because the correction improves the subsequent ones. What you are buying is the research, the drafting and the checking, not the removal of your judgement from the process.
How much does managed WordPress content cost?
Setup is a fixed quote and the ongoing fee depends on how many posts you want. Setting it up on your site: connecting it, teaching it what you already cover, tuning the rules to your voice and running the first pieces through with you: starts at $300. After that it is a monthly arrangement priced on how many pieces you actually want, which we will work out on a call rather than putting a number on a page that assumes your situation. Ad-hoc editorial work is $100 an hour. If you would rather just have your existing content reviewed first, that is $249.