What the connection does
The connection holds your site URL, the WordPress username whose application password it uses, and whether an article should arrive published or as a draft. Publishing an approved article creates a post; publishing the same article again updates the post it created rather than making a duplicate.
The post body is the article's document rendered as HTML, so the headings, lists, quotes and images keep their structure. WordPress's REST API exposes no featured-image field to this integration, so the cover travels inside the HTML as the first figure, and every section image is referenced from the body with the alt text you approved. The images are served from PrismDraft's storage rather than copied into your media library.
A publication date is sent as GMT, which matters more than it sounds: a naive date is read in the site's own timezone and a scheduled post can land on the wrong day.
- Needs: your site URL, a WordPress username, and an application password for that user.
- Sends: title, slug, HTML body (cover and section images inside it), and the meta description as the post excerpt.
- Does not send: a meta title for an SEO plugin, categories, or tags — the REST API does not expose the first, and the other two are left to you.
From your website to WordPress
- 01
Your website becomes a project
One address. PrismDraft reads your pages and drafts the project, the audience, the brand voice and the image style, which you edit before saving.
- 02
A topic with a keyword and an intent
Suggestions arrive on a planning board, each with a working title, a primary keyword, a search intent and a cluster. A keyword the project covers is not proposed twice.
- 03
An outline you approve
A heading per section with its job, its keywords and a target length. Free to generate and free to change, and the thing the draft is written against.
- 04
The run, priced first
About 7 credits for 1,200 words and three images, shown before you start. Each section is written against its heading, with an image prompted from the paragraphs beside it and alt text.
- 05
Approve, then publish to WordPress
Review with versions and comments, edit by hand or with AI, then approve. Publishing is only available from the approved state.
What arrives in the post
Field by field, so there is no surprise on the first publish. Anything not listed here is not sent.
| Article field | WordPress field | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Title | title | As approved |
| Slug | slug | Editable before approval |
| Body | content | HTML, with the cover as the first figure |
| Section images | inside content | Referenced by URL, with alt text |
| Meta description | excerpt | Also what most themes show in listings |
| Publication date | date_gmt | Sent as GMT so it cannot drift |
| Draft or live | status | Set on the connection, not per article |
| Categories and tags | — | Not sent |
| Meta title | — | Not exposed by the REST API |
Setting it up
In WordPress, open your own user profile and create an application password named for this connection. Copy it once — WordPress will not show it again. In PrismDraft, open the project's integrations, choose WordPress, and paste the site URL, the username and that password. Choose whether articles should arrive published or as drafts.
Publish one article to check it before you rely on it. The things worth looking at are the headings (they should be real h2 and h3 elements), the images (they should load, with your alt text), and the excerpt. If your theme shows a featured image in listings, set one in WordPress for that first post and decide whether you mind.
Questions
Does this need a plugin?
No. It uses the REST API that WordPress ships with, authenticated by an application password you create on your own user. Nothing is installed on your site.
Does WordPress.com work?
Only if the REST API with application passwords is available on your plan. Where it is not, publish through the signed webhook or export the article and paste it.
What if I edit the post inside WordPress?
Publishing the article again from PrismDraft updates that post, so an edit made only in WordPress can be overwritten. Either edit in PrismDraft and republish, or treat WordPress as the final home and stop republishing.
Can different projects publish to different sites?
Yes. A connection belongs to a project, so an agency can keep a WordPress connection per client and an article can only reach the site its project belongs to.
Are the images copied to my media library?
No. They are generated, resized, stripped of metadata, compressed, and served from PrismDraft's storage; the post references them. Moving off PrismDraft means rehosting them.
Can it publish without me approving?
Only through a publishing plan whose Autopilot you switched on, which writes, approves and publishes that plan's entries on their day up to its credit cap. Otherwise approval is required.