Publishing new works to website/portfolio

Purpose

1. Automates the process of publishing newly created artworks, projects, or creative content to personal or business websites/portfolios.

2. Standardizes content appearance, metadata, and format across multiple web platforms instantly after creation or approval.

3. Maintains updated portfolios, reducing manual upload, categorization, and announcement tasks for artists.

4. Enables seamless cross-promotion of new works through synchronized posts across blogs, galleries, and social feeds.

5. Supports scheduling, drafts, and multi-format support for image, video, text, and audio creative works.

Trigger Conditions

1. Completion of new artwork file in designated storage (e.g., Google Drive, Dropbox folders).

2. Form submission (e.g., Google Forms, Typeform) containing new project details.

3. Approval workflow completion in project management tool (e.g., Trello, Asana).

4. Receipt of an email or calendar event indicating finalization.

5. Upload or tagging of new media in DAM (Digital Asset Management) system.

6. Scheduled calendar event for routine portfolio updates.

Platform Variants

1. WordPress

• Feature/Setting: REST API or XML-RPC; automate new post creation with JSON payload.
  
• Sample: POST /wp-json/wp/v2/posts with media attachments and metadata fields.
  

2. Squarespace

• Feature/Setting: Public API (beta) or Zapier integration; automator posts to selected page/collection.
  
• Sample: Configure POST /v1/pages/{page-id}/items for portfolio sections.
  

3. Wix

• Feature/Setting: Wix HTTP functions or Wix Automations; automate upload to galleries/blogs.
  
• Sample: POST /_functions/myPortfolio with artwork data.
  

4. Webflow

• Feature/Setting: CMS API; automatically create new CMS items in "Works" or "Projects".
  
• Sample: POST /collections/{collection_id}/items for each new artwork.
  

5. Shopify (for artist stores)

• Feature/Setting: Admin API; automates new product listing in relevant collection.
  
• Sample: POST /admin/api/2023-01/products.json.
  

6. Adobe Portfolio

• Feature/Setting: Portfolio publishing API (via Adobe ID); automating uploads and page updates.
  
• Sample: API endpoint PUSH call on project resource.
  

7. Contentful

• Feature/Setting: Content Management API; automate creation/publish of “Artwork” entries.
  
• Sample: POST /spaces/{space_id}/entries.
  

8. Ghost

• Feature/Setting: Admin API; automates publishing new cards or stories.
  
• Sample: POST /ghost/api/admin/posts/.
  

9. SmugMug

• Feature/Setting: API for creating new galleries/photos.
  
• Sample: POST /api/v2/album/{AlbumKey}!images.
  

10. Behance

• Feature/Setting: Behance API; automates project post via /v2/projects endpoint.
  
• Sample: POST /v2/projects with creatives, description, tags.
  

11. Dribbble

• Feature/Setting: Public API; automates upload of new shot.
  
• Sample: POST /v2/user/shots endpoint.
  

12. ArtStation

• Feature/Setting: API; automates creation of new artwork entries.
  
• Sample: Authenticated POST to /api/projects endpoint.
  

13. DeviantArt

• Feature/Setting: Stash API; automates image post and deviation.
  
• Sample: POST /api/v1/oauth2/stash/submit.
  

14. Tumblr

• Feature/Setting: API v2; automates media post with tags/description.
  
• Sample: POST /v2/blog/{blog-identifier}/post.
  

15. Medium

• Feature/Setting: API; automates publishing new story with artwork details.
  
• Sample: POST /v1/users/{userId}/posts.
  

16. Notion

• Feature/Setting: API for database items automation.
  
• Sample: POST /v1/pages to update portfolio board.
  

17. Airtable

• Feature/Setting: API for record creation in galleries or portfolio base.
  
• Sample: POST /v0/{baseId}/{tableName}.
  

18. Google Sites

• Feature/Setting: Google Sites API; automate page creation and content update.
  
• Sample: BatchUpdateSite call.
  

19. Trello

• Feature/Setting: API to create new cards with artwork file links/metadata for project tracking.
  
• Sample: POST /1/cards.
  

20. Dropbox

• Feature/Setting: API; automates upload to specific Showcase folder and shareable link generation.
  
• Sample: POST /2/files/upload.
  

21. Instagram (via Facebook Graph API)

• Feature/Setting: Graph API for automated image/content sharing.
  
• Sample: POST /{user-id}/media, then publish via /{user-id}/media_publish.
  

22. Facebook Page

• Feature/Setting: Graph API for automated media post to artist’s portfolio page.
  
• Sample: POST /{page-id}/photos or /videos.
  

23. Pinterest

• Feature/Setting: API for automating pin creation in artist portfolio boards.
  
• Sample: POST /v5/pins.
  

Benefits

1. Automates timely content publishing, ensuring up-to-date portfolios with no manual lag.

2. Automates multi-platform content syndication, broadening audience automatically.

3. Automator eliminates repetitive upload tasks, increasing productivity.

4. Enables automation of metadata population for SEO and discoverability.

5. Automates triggering of promotion and sharing workflows upon content publication.

6. Centralizes management for creative professionals, reducing admin work.

7. Allows automated scheduling and embargo for strategic portfolio releases.

8. Improves consistency and professionalism via automation-standardized formatting.

9. Makes the entire portfolio process automatable—from creation to announcement.

10. Reduces error risk in content placement and categorization through automated rules.