Just wanted to share the format I'm using for blog posts. A little less spiffy than my product description set up, but not bad, better than plain text
Code:
<style>.container {max-width: 1200px;}</style>
<div class="container">
<span style="font-size: large;">
[st_text_color color="#000000"]
[wps_heading align="left" size="40" font_weight="normal" font_style="normal" margin="20"]Section 1 title[/wps_heading]
Intro paragraphs(1 to 3 paragraphs, depends on how well GPT is cooperating)
[wps_spacer size="20"]
[wps_content_slider style="light" animatein="slideInLeft" animateout="slideOutRight" autoplay="5" arrows="1" arrow_position="center" pagination="1" pagination_position="bottom-middle"]
[wps_content_slide]Fact1[/wps_content_slide]
[wps_content_slide]Fact2[/wps_content_slide]
[wps_content_slide]Fact1[/wps_content_slide]
[/wps_content_slider]
[wps_spacer size="20"]
[wps_heading align="left" size="40" font_weight="normal" font_style="normal" margin="20"]Section 2 title[/wps_heading]
1 to 3 paragraphs
[wps_spacer size="20"]
[wps_table style="hover-dark"]
<table>
<thead>
<tr class="ui-sortable">
<th class="wps-sort-row ui-sortable-handle">Table can be used for pros and cons, comparisons, and other info. GPT will add rows if needed and choose how to use the table, it's good at that. Sometimes data, sometimes definitions other categorized info</th>
<th class="wps-sort-row ui-sortable-handle">table title 2</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>table content</td>
<td>table content</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>table content</td>
<td>table content</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
[/wps_table]
[wps_spacer size="20"]
[st_column size="8"]
[wps_heading align="left" size="40" font_weight="normal" font_style="normal" margin="20"]Section 3[/wps_heading]
2 paragraphs - diplayed on the left
[/st_column]
[st_column size="4"]
[wps_heading align="left" size="25" font_weight="normal" font_style="normal" margin="20"]Bullet Point Section title[/wps_heading]
[wps_lists icon="star" icon_color="#444"]
<ul>
<li>icon bullet point 1</li>
<li>icon bullet point 1</li>
<li>icon bullet point 1</li>
<li>icon bullet point 1 BTW, GPT apparently is familiar with typical naming systems for icon libraries and sometimes on it's own changes the icons in this shortcode to match a theme</li>
</ul>
[/wps_lists]
[/st_column]
[wps_spacer size="20"]
[wps_heading align="center" size="20" font_weight="normal" font_style="normal" margin="20"]Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)</wps_heading]
[wps_faq style="classic" question="question"]answer[/wps_faq]
[wps_faq style="classic" question="question"]answer[/wps_faq]
[wps_faq style="classic" question="question"]answer[/wps_faq]
[wps_spacer size="20"]
[wps_heading align="left" size="40" font_weight="normal" font_style="normal" margin="20"]Section Title[/wps_heading]
A few paragraphs
[/st_text_color]
</span>
</div>
If I remember correctly, at least most of these are shortcodes from the paid "inense" shortcode plugin
I use max width set by the code at the start since my blog section on my theme is set to full width, this looks better
Also, at the start and finish a text color shortcode(I know I can use HTML and CSS, but it seems to be simpler this way), and HTML for text size, since my theme defaults for the blog is grey tiny text(I know I could fix that by modifying the theme, but this is easy and looks fine).
I use the content slider towards the top, which is sorta filler, looks ok
I use the heading shortcodes instead of H2/H3 etc, looks better than my theme defaults
The collumn shortcode allows for a section to be 2/3 width with a 1/3 width bullet point section
The article template includes a shortcode for javascript F.A.Q.
Separately, I have GPT generate title(I use same for SEO title), yoast description, category suggestions(depends if I have existing categories, this is for a newer blog, when I don't want more categories, I can input that myself, or give GPT the list of categories and it'll include the right ones with outputs), tags, and you can have it do a snippet or short excerpt for the short description that shows on your site.
The plus is that it can do it in 1 output. Though even using API GPT models, it still struggles to keep content long, I keep telling it to keep it longer and more paragraphs, but inevitably it reverts to short paragraphs. My articles are based on sources I provide(I paste in a few article I want it to use to create my article with, it doesn't plagiarize at all, and it understands the topic - it doesn't just spin sentences), but the issue is that that seems to take up a lot of tokens when I provide my own info. I just use the playground version on the openapi site and spend tokens, as it seems to do a little better job than the subscription GPT4. Though some of the API models seem to be better than what I get from the subscription GPT4, like more natural writing to me.
Even on a 8,000 token API GPT model, it can't do any longer than this, and it'll stuggle if I ask it to make each section 3 paragraphs.(I was imagining the API GPT would be able to do 10 articles like this in one output, supposed to be up to 300 page outputs, but that's plain text, I can only get it to do this much, which is like 6-10 paragraphs and my shortcodes configured)
The nice thing is it's one output, and I can just paste it into a spreadsheet with the metadata(and do feature image separate, and put the URL for it in the spreadsheet, I could put file path and have it upload with the blog post import, but that's just as much work really)
It looks pretty good, but I want it to be able to do more. If anyone has a their own set up, please share. I'm trying to figure out how to get it to do bigger outputs, though it seems to spend tokens on processing the formatting.
I can ask GPT to do two outputs, the first with all the shortcode sections populated, and the second with just body paragraphs. It will remember the template, I can continue to just paste in 2-3 full articles, then it can do everything besides the body paragraphs - still faster than manually inputting the question and answers for F.A.Q. and the rest the shortcode sections, then I just tell it to "go on" and then it will do the paragraphs in a separate output, so that way I can get more like 15 paragraph articles - and then after that, I can just paste in a few articles for it to use for info and top for the next one and will start the next one with the same template(just have to be specific to do it in 2 separate outputs, and to pause after the first part, since it will start trying to do both parts in one output, but it will be more brief.
I think I will do the 2 output method for now, so it does more paragraphs, and I just have to paste the paragraphs into the code which isn't too much time. But I still wish it could do much larger outputs. It also seems to save everything from each article topic(all the articles I paste into it during a coversation, even when moving on to the next one), and will just not be able to continue after maxed out(chatgpt version can go much longer, seems it clears at least some stuff from catch, but API version hypothetically has a higher capacity per output).
It's working ok, the first article I did like this ranked #10 24 hours after publishing, which for my site is great so my overall rankings aren't good. Really, I could get some decent traffic by just doing a few hundred more articles like this(which is what I'm doing still).
I would like to do batch outputs, but would need to include the template and general instructions(with 2-3 full text of articles from other sites with the specific niche info I want it to discuss, database info usually isn't specific enough for the niche topics I'm doing) in the prompts, would be very long prompts, might as do them one by one. Main snag is that I have to start a new GPT thread after about 5 articles, which is a pain, have to give it the structure over again.
What I like is it usually picks good info organised in a cool way for the table section(which is set on dark theme with hover effect, looks fancy), good F.A.Q. questions, and good bullet points. Though I wish it could do much larger outputs, I feel like there may be something I'm missing.
Anyway, if people have their own templates(even HTML and CSS no shortcodes) please share. The only problem I've had with straight up CSS and HTML it's more for it to write and then it is too brief on the paragraph contents. Of course, can do some of it more manually, by doing parts, but I'd really like to be able to do longer format articles(with shortcode sections so it's not a wall of plain text) with one output. Also, the shortcodes seem easier for mobile responsive, you can configure that with CSS, but doesn't always work great and got to tweak it, that "columns" shortcode can make any side by side content mobile responsive and always works perfectly without having to have that extra CSS written by GPT. I could do a much bigger output with lots of image sections, but need to still provide image urls(btw, it will do the alt tags and stuff).
I really think GPT friendly templates based on shortcodes can become a good alternative to elementor page templates, since populating things with a visual editor is so tedious, but there's a long way to go.