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Setting up a WordPress connection

The connection steps, permissions, category sync, and the SEO metadata pitfall.

Updated: 16 October 20263 min readStarter, Growth, Scale

Short answer

For a WordPress connection you give your site's address and an access credential that lets Pagioo create articles. After that you choose whether articles arrive as drafts or published, synchronise the categories and tags, and verify everything transfers with a test publish. The most common pitfall is not the connection but the SEO metadata: whether it transfers depends on which SEO plugin you use.

The connection steps

  1. Open the Integrations page

    Choose to add a website connection and give your WordPress site's address.

  2. Provide the credential

    Pagioo works with a separate application credential you generate in WordPress — not your login password. Grant only the permission needed to create an article and upload media.

  3. Choose the target state

    Draft or published. For the first few articles, draft is the safe choice.

  4. Synchronise categories and tags

    That way Pagioo can place the article into your existing taxonomy rather than creating new entries.

  5. Send a test article

    Look at it on the live site: did the image, the formatting, the category and the SEO title come through?

The SEO metadata

This is the most misunderstood part of WordPress publishing. The SEO title and description are not stored by WordPress but by the installed SEO plugin — and every plugin stores them somewhere different. So the article can be created flawlessly, the response can be a success, and the SEO fields can still come out empty.

  1. Publish a test article as a draft.
  2. Open it in WordPress's editor and look at the SEO plugin's fields.
  3. If they are empty, the connection settings need to say which plugin you use.
  4. If your plugin is not supported, the SEO fields have to be filled in by hand — the article's text and image transfer regardless.

Does the connection work on a password-protected or development site?

If the site is not reachable from the internet, or is password-protected, Pagioo cannot connect to it. On a development environment that is the most common cause.

What happens if I change my WordPress password?

It generally does not affect the separately generated application credential. If you revoke the credential itself, the connection goes to expired state and has to be reconnected.

Does Pagioo overwrite my existing articles?

No, it creates a new article. Later edits in Pagioo do not update an already published article either.

Can I connect several WordPress sites?

Yes, up to your plan's website limit, and with separate connections per brand.

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