Your first campaign
You’ll set up a campaign that produces your first AI-written, SEO-tuned WordPress post — start to finish, in about ten minutes. This page is a quickstart; if you want the full explanation of every setting, see Create a campaign — full walkthrough.
A campaign is the unit of content strategy in Structura. It captures a topic focus, a persona, a posting rhythm, and which AI model writes the posts. Once it’s running, it keeps producing posts on its schedule until you pause or delete it.
Before you start
- Your license is activated (see Activate your license).
- You’ve connected an AI provider marked Default Text on the AI Engine screen (see Connect your AI provider).
You do not need a persona set up in advance — you can create one in the campaign flow, or let Structura build one for you.
Steps
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In WordPress admin, go to Structura → Campaigns and click New Campaign. You’ll land on a five-step form: Setup, Keywords, Authority, Rhythm, Summary.
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Setup. The campaign arrives already drafted from what Structura knows about your site: the Language (your site’s own, unless you pick another), a campaign name and objective, and the writing approach it chose — with a short Why these settings list explaining each decision. On paid plans, Magic suggest at the top of the step lets AI rewrite the name and objective. Edit anything you like; nothing is locked. Scroll down if you want to tweak advanced settings like the writing approach, the AI engine, emoji policy, or image generation — defaults are fine for your first run.
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Keywords. Structura researches target keywords based on your strategy and shows you the list. Review it, tweak anything that looks wrong, and click Looks good — continue. Click Re-discover if you want a fresh list.
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Authority. Structura proposes a set of authoritative sources it’ll cite when writing — reputable articles, studies, or official pages in your niche. Review and click Looks good — continue.
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Rhythm. Pick how often the campaign publishes. You can choose a cadence (daily, weekly, twice a week) or let Structura propose one based on your strategy. Click Continue.
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Summary. Review everything on one page. When you’re ready, click Launch Campaign.
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What happens next
Structura queues the first run immediately. Depending on your schedule, that means one of two things:
- Daily or more often: the first post starts generating within a few minutes. You’ll see it appear on Overview under Active Queue.
- Weekly: the first post runs on the first scheduled slot after the campaign is launched.
To see it happen in real time, open the campaign’s detail page and click the most recent run. Each step shows live status as the run progresses.
When the post is ready, Structura either publishes it directly or saves it as a draft for review — depending on what you chose in the advanced settings. The finished post appears under WP Admin → Posts with a Structura badge and under the Posts tab of your campaign’s detail view.
Run it manually, right now
Don’t want to wait for the schedule? Generate a one-off post on demand:
- From Structura → Overview or Campaigns, click Generate Post.
- Pick your new campaign (or an ad-hoc topic).
- Click Generate & Publish.
This produces a single post without touching the campaign’s schedule — the scheduled run still happens at its next slot. See Running a campaign manually for more.
Common issues
Nothing appears in Active Queue after launching. If your schedule is weekly or longer, that’s expected — nothing runs until the first scheduled slot. To verify it’s working, use Generate Post as described above.
The post generated but the image is missing. You haven’t connected an image provider yet. Go to AI Engine → Available Providers and connect one (OpenAI DALL·E, Google Imagen, or similar), then mark it Default Image. Text-only posts work without one.
The run fails. Open the failed run from the campaign’s detail page and read the step that errored. Common first-run problems also fire a notice in the bell icon with a one-click fix — the most common is “provider returned 402 — billing required,” which means the API key you connected doesn’t have billing set up. Add funds on your provider account and re-run.
Where to next
You have Structura installed, activated, connected to an AI provider, and running. That’s the core loop.
From here, the most common next steps are:
- Connect a channel so new posts fan out to LinkedIn, Slack, Discord, or IndexNow. See How channels work.
- Tune your persona — the voice and tone the campaign writes in. See Create a persona.
- Set up a review step so nothing publishes without your approval. See Reviewing a generated post.