{"id":15102117,"date":"2026-05-12T08:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/new-yoast-ai-content-planner-turns-a-blank-post-into-a-structured-draft\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:11:13","slug":"new-yoast-ai-content-planner-turns-a-blank-post-into-a-structured-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/new-yoast-ai-content-planner-turns-a-blank-post-into-a-structured-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"New: Yoast AI Content Planner turns a blank post into a structured draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If&nbsp;you&#8217;ve&nbsp;ever opened a new post and&nbsp;immediately&nbsp;closed it again because you had no idea what to write, this&nbsp;one&#8217;s&nbsp;for you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yoast.com\/features\/content-planner\/\">Yoast AI Content Planner <\/a>is now available for Yoast SEO Premium users. Open a new post in your WordPress editor and\u00a0you&#8217;ll\u00a0find five relevant post ideas waiting for you, built from your existing site content. Pick one and Yoast\u00a0builds out\u00a0a structured draft, ready to write into.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-does-it-do-nbsp\">What does it do?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>Yoast AI Content Planner scans your existing site content, spots the gaps that matter, and gives you five relevant post ideas, right inside the WordPress editor. Pick the one that feels&nbsp;right&nbsp;and Yoast turns it into a structured starter draft, complete with a title, an outline, a focus&nbsp;keyphrase, a meta description, and content notes for each section.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You go from\u00a0blank\u00a0page to ready-to-write\u00a0in\u00a0minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-do-you-get-nbsp\">What do you get?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s&nbsp;what Yoast builds for you once you choose an idea:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Site-specific post ideas.<\/strong>\u00a0The suggestions come from your existing content and site structure, so\u00a0they&#8217;re\u00a0relevant to what\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0already built, not generic topics that could apply to anyone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A structured starter draft.<\/strong>\u00a0Your chosen idea becomes a full draft framework: title, H2 outline, focus\u00a0keyphrase, meta description, and content notes for each section. The structure is already there. You just fill it in. <\/li>\n<li><strong>A\u00a0focus\u00a0keyphrase\u00a0suggestion.<\/strong>\u00a0Yoast suggests a\u00a0keyphrase\u00a0for you, giving your post a strong SEO foundation from the very first step, without requiring you to research one yourself. A focus\u00a0keyphrase\u00a0is simply the main word or phrase you want your post to be\u00a0found for\u00a0in search.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Idea regeneration.<\/strong>\u00a0If the first set of five ideas\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0feel right, you can generate a fresh set with one\u00a0additional\u00a0spark per session.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-couple-of-things-worth-knowing-nbsp\">A couple of things worth knowing&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>Yoast AI Content Planner lives inside the WordPress post editor. You access it from any new empty post.&nbsp;There&#8217;s&nbsp;nothing new to install, no separate login, and no&nbsp;additional&nbsp;setup&nbsp;required.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/yoast.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/05\/the-content-planner-feature-when-opening-a-new-post-600x345.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"content-visible wp-image-4578557\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Content Planner feature appears when you create a new post.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the feature to work well, your site needs to have enough published content for Yoast to build a meaningful picture of what you already cover. If there&nbsp;isn&#8217;t&nbsp;quite enough yet,&nbsp;you&#8217;ll&nbsp;see a low-confidence warning rather than suggestions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-get-it-nbsp\">How to get it&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p>Yoast AI Content Planner is available now for Yoast SEO Premium users. Open a new post in your WordPress editor to get started.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not on Premium yet?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/\">Find out more about Yoast SEO Premium here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/yoast.com\/yoast-seo-premium-may-12-2026\/\">New: Yoast AI Content Planner turns a blank post into a structured draft<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/yoast.com\">Yoast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/yoast.com\/yoast-seo-premium-may-12-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Money \u2013 Digital Marketing \u2013 yoast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If&#160;you&#8217;ve&#160;ever opened a new post and&#160;immediately&#160;closed it again because you had no idea what to write, this&#160;one&#8217;s&#160;for you.&#160; Yoast AI Content Planner is now available for Yoast SEO Premium users. 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