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Publishing to your website: WordPress and custom API

What gets transferred, draft versus live, the metadata pitfall, and what to check on the first publish.

Updated: 16 October 20263 min readStarter, Growth, Scale

Short answer

An approved article reaches your website one of two ways: through a WordPress connection, or through a fully configurable custom API connection if you do not use WordPress. Pagioo sends the title, the body, the image, the supported metadata and the synchronised categories and tags, and you can set whether the article arrives as a draft or published. Website connections start at Starter: Free 0, Starter 1, Growth 5, Scale 20 sites.

What gets transferred?

  • Title and body — with the formatting you see in the editor.
  • Header image — if the connection has permission to upload media.
  • Metadata — per the supported settings. On WordPress with an SEO plugin this is plugin-dependent.
  • Category and tags — according to the synchronised taxonomy.
  • State — draft or published, as configured on the connection.

The metadata pitfall

If you do not use WordPress

Custom API publishing is fully configurable: you give the endpoint, the authentication method, and which field Pagioo should put which content into. That makes a custom CMS, a headless system or an internal portal a valid target. The detail is in Custom API connection.

A checklist for the first publish

  1. Is the connection's state Success on the Integrations page?
  2. Is the article approved (where an approval flow exists)?
  3. Is the target state draft or published — deliberately?
  4. Is the category synchronised, and did you pick the right one?
  5. After publishing: did the image appear? Did the SEO title and description appear?
  6. Do the internal links in the article work on the live site too?

Can I publish to a website on the Free plan?

Not directly: Free allows 0 website connections. You can copy the article and post it by hand. Direct publishing starts at Starter.

What happens if I edit the article in Pagioo after publishing?

A change in Pagioo does not automatically reach the already published article. If the website needs updating, publish again or edit it in the target system.

Can I publish to several websites?

Yes, up to your plan's website limit. Each site is a separate connection with its own settings.

Is the article kept if publishing fails?

Yes. The content stays in Pagioo; only the delivery failed. See Publishing failed.

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