How to: Auto-Generate WordPress Summaries Using OpenAI

OpenAI shouldn’t need any introduction. Most of us are familiar with it through ChatGPT. You can do a whole lot more with it if you use the OpenAI API. For example, you can write a piece of code that uses AI to auto generate summaries. For this model, we are using a cheaper GPT model but you can always change that. It is also possible to change temperature and max_tokens option.

Once your summaries are generated, you will want to display them in a new section on your site. This code takes care of that:

When you publish or update a post, OpenAI’s API is used to create a 2-sentence summary of your work. It is saved as a custom field. You can use this code snippet to add the appropriate meta box to the WordPress editor:

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