Image generation

Generating images with Aimogen Pro across seven providers, writing effective image prompts, sizing, and where generated images are used.

Settings › AI Images holds the global defaults; most features can override them per rule, per block or per shortcode.

Provider credentials and provider-specific parameters are in Image and video providers.

Global defaults#

Writing image prompts#

Image prompts are not article prompts. They describe a picture.

Weak: An image about coffee machines

Better:

A minimalist product photograph of a stainless steel espresso machine on a
light oak kitchen counter. Soft morning light from the left, shallow depth of
field, warm neutral palette. No text, no people, no logos.

What makes the difference:

Placeholders in image prompts#

Image prompts accept the same placeholders as text prompts, including %%post_title%%, %%post_content%%, %%post_content_plain_text%%, %%post_excerpt%%, %%post_cats%%, %%post_tags%%, %%blog_title%%, %%author_name%%, %%current_date_time%% and %%related_questions_KEYWORD%%.

A prompt that adapts to the article while keeping a house style:

A photorealistic editorial image illustrating: %%post_title%%

Style: natural light, muted colours, shallow depth of field, no text, no people.

Prompt lists#

Where a prompt field accepts multiple lines, one is chosen per run. This is how you get visual variety across a bulk run.

The field can also hold a URL to a .txt file of prompts, one per line, which lets you maintain a large prompt bank outside WordPress and change it without editing rules.

Sizes#

Available sizes depend on the provider and model. Considerations:

• Larger costs more with every provider.
• Aspect ratio matters more than resolution for a featured image — a square image in a wide hero slot gets cropped badly.
• Resize on import. A 1024×1024 PNG is often several megabytes; the resize settings fix that.

Where images are used#

Display shortcodes#

Two families exist and they do different things:

Generate and display inline — [aimogen-image], [aimogen-stable-image], [aimogen-google-image], [aimogen-midjourney-image], [aimogen-replicate-image], [aimogen-ideogram-image], [aimogen-cloudflare-image]. These generate an image when the content renders, and cache the result.

A form for visitors — the -generator-form variants. These render a form the visitor uses.

See Shortcode reference.

Image SEO#

Generated images can have alt text, captions, descriptions and titles written automatically. See Media Library tools.

Royalty-free sources often require attribution; %%royalty_free_image_attribution%% produces the correct credit text.

Common problems#

Images generate but do not appear. Copying is disabled and the provider URL expired. Turn on Copy Royalty Free / AI Images From Post Content.

429 during bulk runs. Image endpoints rate-limit harder than text. Raise the image request delay.

The prompt was rejected. Every provider applies content policy. Rephrase.

Every image looks the same. One prompt line. Add more, or raise variety in the prompt.

Images are enormous. Set the resize width and compression quality.

Text in images is garbled. Expected from most models. Use Ideogram, or exclude text.

Related#

• Image and video providers
• Featured images and in-post media
• Image problems