Getting started guides
Write articles and publish them to WordPress
Plan an article, write it, check it, approve it and send it to your WordPress site as a draft or live.
Connect your WordPress site
Open Connections, choose Add connection, then WordPress. First choose how your site is hosted.
One connection is one site. You can connect more than one and choose which site each article goes to.
- WordPress.com: sign in with WordPress.com and choose which of your sites to connect.
- A site you host yourself: enter the site address, your WordPress username and an application password. You create one in WordPress under Users, Profile, Application Passwords. The site must use https.
Plan the article
In Content Engine, add your website, then open Briefs and type the keyword you want to write about. Any keyword works. If you research it first in Keywords, the brief also shows how many people search for it.
A brief is the plan for one article: a title, an outline, questions people ask and sources. Edit the outline before you write. If a brief says it has a starter outline, rewrite the headings or create the brief again.
Write, check and approve
Create the article from the brief. The price is shown before you start, and it uses your credits.
Run checks to see what must be fixed before publishing, such as a missing search description or a link that is needed. Then read the whole article and approve it. Editing an approved article removes the approval, so you always approve the version that goes out.
Publish to WordPress
Choose Publish, pick the site, and choose Save as draft or Publish now. Draft is the default: the post waits in WordPress for you to review. Publish now makes it live.
The post gets the article title, the body, a short summary and, when the article has one, its featured image in your media library. Saving again updates the same draft. It never creates a second post.
To take a live post down, choose Move to draft on the article. To remove an article from Charigent, choose Delete. Deleting here does not delete a post that is already on your site.
If something goes wrong
If the receipt says the featured image could not be added, the post itself was saved. Add the image in WordPress.
WordPress rejected your username or application password. Check both and try again.
- Credentials rejected: reconnect the site in Connections.
- Site unreachable: check that the site is online, then try again.