Integrations / WordPress
SerpDad + WordPress: signed articles land as drafts. You press Publish.
Connect WordPress to a SerpDad project and each signed article arrives as a draft post, with its internal links and a meta description already in place. Someone with publish rights on your site reads it and publishes it. SerpDad cannot, by design.
Works with any WordPress site on a public https address.
What flows where. Signed work goes in. Nothing goes live.
Into WordPress: a draft post
The article body, its internal links and a meta description, filed as a draft. Images go to your media library.
From SerpDad: signed work only
In the sign-off path, only a signed article can be staged: zero unsourced sentences, every section drafted, and a named person on that exact version.
Back again: updates stay drafts
Stage the article again and SerpDad updates its own post, but only while WordPress still holds it as an editable draft. Once published, SerpDad leaves it alone.
One honest exception. The outline path skips the separate sign-off. It still lands as a draft.
A project can also go from plan to article with one approval. A person reads each outline, edits headings if needed, and approves it. That approval counts as the sign-off for the article and the approval of its cost estimate.
SerpDad then writes the article from the pages the outline came from, confirms every claim against those pages, removes sentences no page supports, places internal links, and saves it to WordPress as a draft.
Either way, the post waits as a draft until someone on your team publishes it. If the project has no WordPress connection, the article finishes ready to copy or download.
What you need. A site address, a user and an application password.
- A WordPress site on a public https address.
- A WordPress user with the Author, Editor or Administrator role for SerpDad to post as.
- An application password for that user, made in WordPress under Users, then Profile. Name it SerpDad.
- A SerpDad project for the site. Draft targets are set per project.
- A signed article to send. Writers, Editors, Managers, Admins and the Owner can stage one.
Setup. Connect WordPress in three steps.
Make an application password
In WordPress, open Users, then Profile, and add an application password named SerpDad for a user with the Author, Editor or Administrator role.
Add it in Workspace, Draft targets
Pick the project, then enter the site address, the username and the application password. SerpDad checks them with your site before it saves.
Stage a signed article
Open the signed article and send it to WordPress. It appears in your posts list as a draft, ready for review.
The sign-off rules, sentence checks and every draft target: Drafts and sign-off docs.
What it won't do. It never publishes for you.
SerpDad sets every post it sends to draft and drops any status, date or visibility field. It cannot publish a post, schedule one or make one private. No workflow block can publish to any site.
The application password is checked before it is saved, kept encrypted and never shown in logs or error messages. SerpDad does not follow redirects, so the password only ever goes to the address you entered.
To cut the connection, remove it in SerpDad and revoke the application password in WordPress.
Templates. Workflows and jobs that end in WordPress drafts.
Weekly articles (job)
Picks the next pages for each client, 3 a week by default, writes briefs and drafts, and asks your approver to sign off. Signed drafts go to WordPress as drafts.
Keyword pile to WordPress drafts
A workflow template that takes a keyword list through the plan to staged drafts.
Approved outline to finished article
The outline path above, as a workflow template.
Questions and answers.
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Can SerpDad publish to my WordPress site?
No. It creates draft posts only. Every post SerpDad sends is set to draft, and it cannot publish, schedule or make a post private. Someone with publish rights on your site reviews the draft and publishes it.
What do I need to connect WordPress?
Your site address, a WordPress username, and an application password made for SerpDad in Users, Profile. Use a user with the Author, Editor or Administrator role. SerpDad checks the password with your site before it saves it.
What arrives in WordPress?
A draft post with the article, its internal links and a meta description. The article has already passed SerpDad's sentence checks and been signed by a named person.
What if I stage the same article again?
SerpDad updates its own post only while WordPress still holds it as an editable draft. Once someone publishes it, SerpDad leaves it alone.
Who can send articles to WordPress?
Writers, Editors, Managers, Admins and the Owner can stage signed articles. Only a signed article can be staged in the sign-off path.
Drafts in. You publish.
Plan 1,000 keywords free, then send the first drafts to WordPress.
Your first plan is free up to 1,000 keywords, with briefs for the top 5 pages. No card needed.