Send blog posts to WordPress

Connect your WordPress site once with an application password. Then send any finished post from its own page, as a draft or published. Nothing is installed on your site, and sending is free.

Before you start

You need WordPress 5.6 or newer, served over HTTPS, and a user with the Author, Editor or Administrator role. Some security plugins switch application passwords off.

Create an application password

1. Sign in to your site's admin (yoursite.com/wp-admin) as the user the posts should belong to.
2. In the left menu, open Users, then Profile.
3. Scroll down to Application Passwords, near the bottom of the page.
4. Type a name you will recognise, such as SimpleCopywriter, and press Add New Application Password.
5. Copy the 24-character password, spaces included. WordPress shows it only once.

An application password only lets an app act on your behalf. Your sign-in password stays with you, and you can revoke this one in WordPress at any time.

Connect

1. On the blog, press Connect on the WordPress card (Settings once a site is connected).
2. Enter the Site address, the WordPress username and the Application password.
3. Press Connect and test. We test the details before saving. The password is stored encrypted and never shown again.
4. Under Send posts as, choose Draft or Published as the default.

Enter the exact address your site opens at, starting with https. If the address you enter redirects somewhere else, for example from www to no www, the connection is refused.

Send a post

On a finished post:

• Send as draft. The post arrives unpublished. Check the layout and add categories and tags in WordPress before anyone sees it.
• Publish now. After you confirm, the post goes live straight away. A post sent as a draft can be published later the same way.
• Send update. If you change the post here after sending, this replaces the text of the same WordPress post. Edits made inside WordPress are overwritten too.

The title, the body, the address and the meta description (as the excerpt) go along. Add the cover image in WordPress.

If the WordPress post was deleted or trashed, or you have since connected a different site, the next send creates a new post instead.

If something goes wrong

• Couldn't reach that site. Check the address and that the site is online. Only HTTPS addresses on the public internet can be connected.
• This URL doesn't look like a WordPress site. The address is not the site's main address, it redirects, or the WordPress REST API is switched off.
• WordPress rejected the username or application password. Check both. If the password was revoked, create a new one in WordPress, then use Change details.
• This WordPress user doesn't have permission to manage posts. Use a user with the Author, Editor or Administrator role.
• The connection timed out. Check the address and try again.

Test again in the settings checks a saved connection. Disconnect deletes the saved details; posts already sent stay on your site, and you can reconnect at any time.