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Connect WordPress

Connect your WordPress site so PingAura can publish articles to it as drafts or live posts.

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Connect WordPress to publish the articles you write in PingAura straight to your site, as a draft for review or as a live post.

Before you begin

You need a WordPress user that can write posts (Editor or Administrator is best). How you connect depends on where your site is hosted:

  • Your own WordPress install, or WordPress.com Business and above: you will use an Application Password.
  • WordPress.com Free, Personal or Premium: you will sign in with your WordPress.com account instead.

Connect

  1. Go to Workspace settings → Integrations and click + on the WordPress card. You can use Categories → CMS & Publishing to find it.
  2. Pick the Domain in PingAura that this WordPress site belongs to.
  3. Enter the WordPress Site URL: the home address of your site, such as https://example.com.
  4. Then either:
    • Enter your Username and an Application Password (see below), and click Connect, or
    • If your site is on WordPress.com Free, Personal or Premium, click Connect with wordpress.com → and approve access on WordPress.com.

PingAura checks it can reach your site before saving the connection.

Create an Application Password

An Application Password is a separate password just for PingAura. You can revoke it in WordPress at any time without changing your own password.

On your own WordPress install:

  1. Sign in to WordPress admin.
  2. Go to Users → Profile.
  3. Scroll to Application Passwords, type PingAura as the name, and click Add New Application Password.
  4. Copy the password. WordPress only shows it once.

On WordPress.com Business and above:

  1. Go to wordpress.com/me/security.
  2. Under Application Passwords, create one named PingAura.
  3. Copy the password.

If your WordPress admin has no Application Passwords section, a security plugin or your host has probably turned it off. Ask whoever manages your site to turn it back on for your user.

Publish an article

Open an article in Content and click Publish to WP. Choose As Draft to review it in WordPress first, or Publish Now to make it live. You can also ask AI Coworker to publish an article for you.

If connecting fails

  • "Site URL returned an HTML page": the address is not the WordPress site itself, or a security plugin or firewall is blocking PingAura. Check the address, then ask whoever manages your site to allow PingAura.
  • "Authentication failed": the username or Application Password is wrong. Create a new Application Password and try again. Your normal WordPress password will not work.
  • The request times out: your site was too slow to answer. Try again in a few minutes.

If it still fails, contact us with the exact message from the dialog.

Disconnect

Open the WordPress card in Integrations and click the trash icon next to the connection. Posts already published stay on your site; only the link between PingAura and WordPress is removed.