Publish to WordPress automatically
For self-hosted WordPress, and WordPress.com sites on the Business plan. Articles are posted through WordPress's built-in REST API using an application password, so there is no plugin to install and your login password is never shared.
How to connect
- 1
Add your website. Content Autopilot reads it and plans the first two weeks of articles.
- 2
Open Settings, go to the Publishing tab and choose WordPress.
- 3
Fill in the 4 required fields below and press Connect. The connection is tested before it is saved, and you are told what WordPress answered if it fails.
- 4
From then on, each article is published there on its scheduled day. Switch on "Hold articles for my approval" first if you want to read each one before it goes out.
What you will be asked for
- WordPress address
- Username
- Application password
- Create one in WordPress under Users → Profile → Application Passwords.
- Publish as
- Choose: Published post or Draft.
Worth knowing first
- Create the application password in WordPress under Users, Profile, Application Passwords. You can revoke it there at any time.
- Choose whether articles arrive published or as drafts. Drafts suit a site where someone reads each article in WordPress before it goes out.
- When an article is refreshed later, the existing post is updated. It is found by the post we created, or by its slug for older articles.
- If a security plugin blocks the REST API or application passwords, the connection test will fail and say what WordPress answered.
What arrives
One article a day by default: a title, a slug, the body with headings and links to your own pages, a meta description, and a cover image when images are switched on. The same article is always published to your hosted blog too, so there is a copy with a sitemap and structured data whatever your CMS does with it.