Cover Artist: Automated AI-Generated Art for Your WordPress Blog

Are you tired of spending hours searching for the perfect stock images or spending too much time creating photos to accompany your blog posts? Well, Cover Artist is the answer to that.

I used to have a tedious process of finding images, modifying them, cropping them and so on. With AI, I still had to use ChatGPT to create an image, download it, convert the type from Webp to something editable, change the size, edit it, compress it… it was tedious.

That’s why I made Cover Artist, a WordPress plugin that automates the creation of AI-generated cover art and inline images for your articles.

And yes, the cover art for this blog post came from the same plugin.

Download Latest Version

Below is a link to the latest version, v1.21. I have added flux-dev as an engine.

I also tweaked some of the image prompts in v1.1.

What is Cover Artist? How does it work?

Cover Artist uses OpenAI (the backbone of ChatGPT) to create image descriptions and then create art.

To create image descriptions, it reads your article as a whole and figures out what an appropriate image would be for the cover art.

Robots that use Lightsabers

You can also create inline images, for example for images under headings. For those sections, Cover Artist reads the relevant context — only from the heading down to the one below.

For example, if you suddenly start a section about something totally different, like lightsaber-wielding robots battling Jedi on a stark alien battlefield, Cover Artist helps create artwork that’s relevant to just that section, but keeping the purpose of the article in context.

Once the image is created, you can either use it right away, or delete it and request a new one.

How to Install Cover Artist

Installing Cover Artist is a breeze:

1. Download Cover Artist here
2. Log in to your WordPress admin panel
3. Navigate to Plugins > Add New
4. Click “Install Now” and then “Activate”
5. Once activated, go to Settings > Cover Artist
6. Enter your OpenAI API key (you’ll need to obtain this from OpenAI)
7. Save your settings, and you’re ready to go!

In future versions published on the App Store, I’ll introduce my own credit system so you don’t have to get an OpenAI key if you don’t want to.

Using Cover Artist

Using Cover Artist is just as easy as installing it:

1. When creating or editing a post, click the “Add Media” button
2. In the media library modal, you’ll see a new “Cover Artist” tab
3. Click on the “Cover Artist” tab
4. The plugin will automatically analyze your post content and generate image suggestions
5. Hit the “Generate” button and wait (typically around 10-20 seconds)
6. If you approve the image, insert into your post with a single click

If you don’t like the description that Cover Artist comes up with, you can create your own.

With Cover Artist, you can say goodbye to generic stock photos and hello to unique, AI-generated art that perfectly complements your writing. Give it a try!

Questions

“Do I own the license to the photos?”

Yes, you own the license to the photos. Neither Cover Artist nor its author ever even sees the photo.

“What about privacy?”

Cover Artist logs all requests made, but does not keep any PII (personally identifiable information) attached to them.

“How do you avoid abuse?”

You use your own API key when making requests. If you abuse your OpenAI credentials, they’ll deal with you directly. See their terms here.