Connect your WordPress site

This connection is newly opened. You can connect it today; we are still checking it with real accounts, so tell us at stratafold@bakaroart.com if anything looks wrong.

Once your WordPress site is connected, everything you publish in Stratafold appears on it, usually within a minute. Nothing needs installing on your site, and your own WordPress password is never shared.

Before you start

You need to be able to sign in to your WordPress dashboard with an account that has the Editor or Administrator role, and your site must use an https:// address.

1. Create an Application Password in WordPress

An Application Password is a separate login that WordPress creates for one app. You can remove it at any time without changing your own password.

1. Sign in to your WordPress dashboard — usually yourwebsite.com/wp-admin.
2. Go to Users → Profile.
3. Scroll down to Application Passwords. Type Stratafold as the name and choose Add New Application Password.
4. WordPress shows the password once. Copy it. It looks like abcd EFGH ijkl MNOP qrst UVWX — the spaces don’t matter.

If there is no Application Passwords section, your site isn’t on https:// yet, or a security plugin has switched Application Passwords off. Your web host can help with either.

2. Connect it in Stratafold

1. Open Publish elsewhere in the menu, or choose WordPress when a new business asks Where is your website?
2. Enter your website address, your WordPress username and the Application Password.
3. Tick what should appear on your website. Kinds of content with long writing are ticked for you.
4. Choose Connect my website. Stratafold checks the details with your site straight away and tells you plainly if anything is wrong.

What happens next

• Publishing sends it to your site. Website pages become WordPress pages; everything else becomes a blog post.
• The first picture becomes the post’s featured image, and the description from How it shows in Google becomes its excerpt.
• Publishing again updates the same post rather than creating a copy.
• Taking it off the website, putting it away or deleting it turns the post back into a draft in WordPress. Stratafold never deletes anything from your site.
• Things you published before connecting aren’t sent in bulk. Open one and choose Send now under Where it appears.

Where it appears, beside each post, shows whether it is live on your website, with a link to see it.

If something goes wrong

If your site is briefly unreachable, Stratafold keeps trying on its own. If WordPress refuses the password — for example after it was removed — publishing is paused so your site doesn’t lock Stratafold out for repeated failed logins. Nothing is lost: create a new Application Password, choose Update login details in Publish elsewhere, and everything waiting is sent.