Images
AIP can automatically find or generate relevant images and insert them into your articles, including a featured image. This saves time and makes your content more visually appealing.
Enabling Image Generation
You can enable image generation for two separate areas:

- In-Content Images: Adds one or more images directly within the body of the article.
- Featured Image: Creates and sets the post's featured image.
Image Providers
You can choose between generating new, unique images with an AI or searching for free stock photos.
OpenAI
OpenAI offers high-quality image generation with models like DALL-E 3 and GPT-4o.
- Setup: To use OpenAI, simply enter your API key in the main dashboard under AIP > Dashboard > Providers > OpenAI. The Content Writer will automatically use this key.
- Usage: In the Images accordion, select OpenAI as the provider and choose your desired model (e.g.,
dall-e-3
).
Google
Google's models, like Imagen, offer another option for AI image generation.
- Setup: To use Google, enter your API key in the main dashboard under AIP > Dashboard > Providers > Google.
- Usage: Select Google as the provider in the Images accordion and choose a model (e.g.,
imagen-3.0-generate-002
).
Replicate
Replicate provides access to a wide variety of open-source models, including Stable Diffusion and more.
- Go to AIP > Add-ons and enable the Replicate addon.

- Go to AIP > Dashboard > Integrations and enter your Replicate API key.

- Click Sync Models to fetch the latest list of available models.
Select Replicate as the provider. The Model dropdown will now be populated with all the text-to-image models from your Replicate account.
Pexels
Pexels allows you to automatically search and insert high-quality, free stock photos into your content.
- Go to AIP > Add-ons and enable the Stock Images addon.

- Go to AIP > Dashboard > Integrations and enter your Pexels API key.

When you select Pexels as the provider, a new set of options appears:

- Orientation: Filter images by layout (Landscape, Portrait, Square).
- Size: Filter images by general size (Large, Medium, Small).
- Color: Select a dominant color to filter the search results.
Pixabay
Pixabay is another excellent source for free stock photos that can be integrated directly into your workflow.
- Go to AIP > Add-ons and enable the Stock Images addon (if not already enabled).

- Go to AIP > Dashboard > Integrations and enter your Pixabay API key.

When you select Pixabay as the provider, you can use the following filters:

- Orientation: Choose between
horizontal
orvertical
layouts. - Image Type: Filter by
photo
,illustration
, orvector
. - Category: Narrow your search to a specific category, such as
nature
,business
, ortravel
.
Prompts
Image Prompt: This is the instruction used to generate for your in-content images. You can use {topic}
and {keywords}
placeholders.

- Featured Image Prompt: A separate prompt specifically for the featured image. If left blank, the main Image Prompt will be used.
Image Settings
- Number of Images: The number of in-content images to generate and insert.
- Placement: Where to insert the images (e.g., after the first H2 heading, after every 3 paragraphs).
- Size: The WordPress image size to use (e.g., Thumbnail, Medium, Large, Full).
- Alignment: How to align the image in the content (None, Left, Center, Right).