How To Create A New WordPress Blog Post From Alfred

This little shortcut can save you lots of time if you run a wordpress blog and use Alfred.

It’s just a simple workflow to open up a link to the default “new post” page on your wordpress site.

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How To Create A New WordPress Blog Post From Alfred (Step by Step)

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Step 1: Create a New “Keyword” Trigger Workflow

This will be very simple:

Create a new workflow input from “keyword”

Name it “New Post | {Blog Name}”

(you’ll have to create a new version of this for each individual blog you want to use it with.

(Optional) – you can download an image of the WordPress logo and drag it onto the icon square for a little more visual appeal.

You can choose whichever keyword you want

Step 2: Select Action: “Open URL”

For the next workflow step, you’ll want to select “actions – Open URL”

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Step 3: Point To The Default WordPress “Post-New” Address

Every WordPress blog has a dynamic page of “https://yourblogname.com/wp-admin/post-new.php” that will open up a new blog post.

Simply set the “url” of the workflow to https://yourblogname.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

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Step 4: That’s It

There you go – now whenever you have a great idea and want to create a new blog post, you can just summon alfred with a couple keystrokes, type “new post” and hit enter – and you’ll go right to the blank writing screen on the wordpress gutenberg editor.

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