From Brain to Article in Minutes: My AI-Assisted Newsletter Workflow (Joomla + Claude) - 👀 WMW 337

Written by: Shahbaz Latif Created: 13 May 2026

Category: Watch Me Work Live Streams

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Watch me Work Live Streams

Watch me publish a full edition of my Cybersalt News newsletter live — from a brand-new Claude window, with nothing pre-loaded — using the automation I've built around Joomla and Anthropic's Claude.
I'll show you the skill file that teaches Claude my voice, my opener patterns (Chicken Thursday, Sunday, special-day greetings), my video-thumbnail format, and my exact sign-off line — so a single prompt from me kicks off the whole pipeline:
✅ Claude drafts the article in my voice
✅ Builds the metadata (title, alias, meta description, keywords)
✅ Uploads the YouTube video thumbnail to my site
✅ Posts the article as an unpublished draft via the Joomla Web Services API
✅ Hands me back a link to review and flip live
No copy-paste. No re-formatting. No "let me just fix the HTML." Just review, approve, and publish.
If you publish a newsletter, run a Joomla site, or have ever wondered what "AI agents" can actually do for a small business — this one's for you. 🔗 Links mentioned in the video: Cybersalt News: https://www.cybersalt.org
Anthropic Claude: https://claude.com
Joomla Web Services API docs: https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Using_th...
📬 Subscribe to Cybersalt News: https://www.cybersalt.org

 
00:00:00 – Intro & Sponsors
00:05:53 – Cybersalt Demo
00:12:27 – Claude Access Setup
00:18:37 – Train Claude
00:26:17 – Dictate Inputs
00:32:12 – Claude Writes Article
00:36:09 – Article Live
00:45:08 – Obsidian Time Tracking
00:50:13 – UPS Example
01:03:00 – Time Stats
01:07:03 – New Extensions
01:55:42 – More Extensions
02:06:40 – Wrap-Up

Summary

1. Stream Kickoff & Topic Introduction:
Tim opens with lighting issues, welcomes the community, shares a Chamber of Commerce tour photo, and introduces the day's topic: exploring the Images and Links tabs in Joomla core articles.

2. Staging Site & Claude News:
A staging site is set up using StageIt for safe testing, and Tim shares exciting news about Claude's partnership with SpaceX enabling higher API limits for longer coding sessions.

3. Understanding Intro Images:
Tim inspects a default article, adds an intro image, and demonstrates how to fix image sizing and float issues using CSS left/right classes.

4. Custom CSS for Consistent Styling:
He creates a user.css file for persistent custom styling and shows how to make your own image class (like "Timmy") for reusability across articles.

5. Alt Text, Captions & Image Types:
The difference between alt text and decorative images ("no description") is explained, along with adding and styling captions. Tim clarifies when to use Intro Image vs. Full Article Image.

6. The Links Tab Explained:
Tim dives into the Links tab—where those links actually appear on the front end—and shares strategic uses like mail-to links and contact forms.

7. Menu Item Hierarchy Override:
A critical concept is covered: menu item settings override article settings. Tim demonstrates this hierarchy and shows custom CSS for the links container.

8. Live Coding – "Skip First N Articles" Feature:
Tim live codes a new feature for the articles module. Claude analyzes options, Tim builds a plugin, and after fixing a wrong module target issue, the skip parameter works successfully.

9. Security Review & GitHub Release:
A security review finds no high or medium issues. The extension is published to GitHub as "Articles Module Max" with full versioning and update support.

10. Bonus Features & Wrap-Up:
Tim adds an email alert feature for Joomla updates, demos the Ditto Clipboard Manager, adds Norwegian language support (tribute to Bjorn), tests version 1.1 update successfully, and wraps up with an arm healing update and blessing.

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