What it does
Wavefront publishes approved articles to a WordPress.com site, or a self-hosted site connected through Jetpack, through WordPress.com's API. It works like the self-hosted WordPress connection: drafts, live posts and scheduled posts, with images and terms.
You connect with your WordPress.com account, and WordPress.com asks for access to that one site only.
Before you start
- A WordPress.com site, or a self-hosted site connected through Jetpack
- A WordPress.com account that can edit and publish posts on the site
How to connect WordPress.com
- In Wavefront, open Settings → Publishing and choose Add destination. Pick WordPress.com.
- Enter the site's address (example.wordpress.com or its own domain) or its numeric ID.
- Choose Connect with WordPress.com and approve access to that site.
- Optionally set the author by user ID, limit posts to existing categories and tags, or set a canonical origin.
- Choose Test connection. Wavefront checks the account can edit and publish posts and upload media, then you save.
What Wavefront sends
- Title, slug, clean HTML body and excerpt
- The hero image as the featured image, and body images uploaded to the media library
- Categories and tags, found by name and created if missing
- SEO title and description for Jetpack SEO on plans with SEO tools, or Yoast SEO and Rank Math where the plan allows plugins
- Updates to the same post when a later version is approved
Good to know
- WordPress.com issues no refresh token. If it refuses the connection, the destination shows Reconnect needed and you connect again.
- JSON-LD in the post needs an Administrator on a plan with plugins; elsewhere it is skipped.
- Withdraw moves the post to the trash.