8/8/25
I am so beyond done with trying to work between n8n, Make.com and WP REST API. I have tried for over a month to get them all to play nice in creating tags and extracting tag Ids. Its just not going to happen. Rest API is super limited in its need to have IDs in the first place, but n8n and Make.com needing every node to pass forward every piece of needed data instead of being able to reference it from previous nodes is ridiculous. Gemini and ChatGPT are only mildly helpful when building this way because they always think they have an answer, when sometimes the software just wont work that way. Going back and fourth trying to find solutions sometimes works when one gets stuck, but right now its time to recognize that this is making me stuck too. New plan. I can curate the images, manually set the categories after auto image processing and allow WP to make the posts. Its not complete automation, but I think with this workflow I can make 100’s of days of content fairly quickly. Next will be to see if I can get the images to post up anywhere else through automation. It looks like Artstation cant, Deviant art is a potential, and Insta and Pinterest should be good. I don’t want to fill up a short form social feed like X with daily images, so I will have to make a spreadsheet to just post the galleries, then automate that.
Other than posting the images I kind of lost the point, and need to regroup to remember the direction of this whole thing.
6/28/25
In the spirit of starting small, we begin by learning a new tool and putting it to practical use for an e-commerce business. Make.com is an automation tool, not like others that have been around for a long time. The first thing we decided to build is an automated Pinterest posting tool. This isn’t particularly unique in that tools that can automate social media posts have been around for a long time. This one does use ChatGPT to add an interesting spin. The biggest use of time was setting up the spreadsheet that feeds the automation. We gathered hundreds of unposted product images from an e-commerce site. Exported their listings from Shopify to grab the listing titles, descriptions, links etc, and assigned each image to their listings. The automation grabs the image from Dropbox, and makes it downloadable. The title and description are sent to ChatGPT to re-write them, that way we aren’t duplicating the text info, then it sends the new title, description, image, and website link to Pinterest for a new post. Bam, now this business has enough daily posts queued up for 1 year. Because they weren’t posting regularly, this output increased their monthly traffic by 50% in the first month. This is particularly powerful for e-commerce because unlike other social media platforms, Pinterest is a search engine that doesn’t require a constant feed of new content. Old content can still be found, used and shared by its users.
This automation workflow could be improved for others by automatically grabbing the images from the product page, and adding their download links to the spreadsheet. Less prep needed.
6/24/25
Starting something new. Lightweav is a collaborative effort between human and AI. An effort to explore automation, thought experiments, and creativity using the tools of today. #Automation #HumanAI #PromptEngineering #CreativeCoding