# Your First Article in 5 Minutes

> **What it does:** Walks you through generating your first complete, SEO-ready article — title, content, focus keyword, meta title, meta description, and a featured image.
>
> *Applies to Antradus AI Lite & Pro v2.0.0 · Last updated 2026-07-24*

## Before you start

- License activated ([guide](installation-and-license.md)) and a provider connected ([guide](connect-your-ai-provider.md)).

## Where to find the panel

- **Classic editor:** the **Antradus AI** panel appears under the content area of any post or page.
- **Block editor (Gutenberg):** click the **anchor ⚓ icon** in the top toolbar (or the three-dots menu → Antradus AI). The panel opens in the right-hand sidebar.

The plugin detects which editor each post uses automatically — same features in both.

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## Step by step

1. Create a **new post** and give it any working title (or none — the AI writes one).
2. Open the Antradus AI panel.
3. In the topic box, describe what you want: *"why electric cars are winning"* works better than just *"electric cars"* — a sentence gives the AI direction.
4. Pick a **Style** (Blog, News, Listicle, How-To, Opinion), a **Tone** (Formal, Conversational, Friendly, Authoritative, Humorous), and your **Language** (17 available).
5. Leave **Generate Meta Title & Description** ticked.
6. Click **Start Writing**. Status messages show each step; a full article typically takes 30–90 seconds depending on the model.
7. The article is inserted straight into the editor — with the SEO title, focus keyword, and meta description filled into Yoast SEO or Rank Math automatically if you use them.
8. Want a matching image? Scroll to the image section of the panel and generate one — one click sets it as the **featured image**. ([Full guide](../images/featured-image-generation.md))
9. Review, adjust anything you like (it's a normal WordPress post), and publish.

## What you get from one click

| Piece | Where it lands |
|---|---|
| Article (headings, paragraphs, lists) | The editor content |
| Post title | The title field |
| URL slug | The permalink (only while the post is still a draft) |
| Focus keyword | Yoast / Rank Math |
| SEO meta title + description | Yoast / Rank Math + stored on the post |

## Tips & gotchas

- **Drafts first:** generate while the post is a draft — the slug can only be set on drafts.
- If the AI doesn't know your subject at all (a very obscure local business, a person with no public record), it will say so and ask you for a source link instead of inventing facts. Paste a URL into the source field and run again — see [Rewrite from a URL](../writing/rewrite-from-url.md).
- Undo works: content insertion is a normal editor action, Ctrl+Z brings back what was there.
