Connect WordPress to cmo.so

The plugin, if you can install plugins. You paste one website key, no password is shared, and the plugin collects each article on its own schedule, so nothing has to reach into your site.

Use an application password when you can't install plugins or your website isn't verified yet. It's tied to one WordPress user, works with any host that allows the WordPress REST API, and can be revoked in your profile at any time.

Yes. Each article is a normal WordPress post with its title, excerpt, featured image, categories (or tags) and body, so your theme shows it like any other post and your SEO plugin can read it.

The excerpt is written as a meta description, and the article's headings, lists and links are clean HTML.

Yes. With the plugin, set AI CMO → Setup → Publishing & Schedule → Post status to Save as Draft and every article waits in WordPress for you to publish. With either way of connecting, the content guard saves anything it holds as a draft.

Drafts suit you if you like a final look in WordPress itself, for example to add an internal link or see how your theme shows the post. Approving in the app and then publishing from WordPress gives you two checks. If you connect with an application password, keep review on in the app instead: articles wait in Posts → Ready, and only what you approve goes out.

cmo.so checks the details with your site before saving and names the field to fix. The usual causes are a security plugin or firewall blocking /wp-json (allow the REST API for logged-in users), a host stripping the Authorization header (use the plugin instead), Plain permalinks, or a user without the right to publish (use an Author, Editor or Administrator).

Read the message the app shows; it points to the field to fix. If you're using an application password and your host strips the Authorization header, the plugin avoids the problem, because it doesn't need that header. Once connected, a low-traffic site can still miss a schedule, since WordPress runs scheduled jobs when someone visits. The plugin's scheduled pulling keeps posts going out on time. Still stuck? Ask Maggie to talk to a person.

New connections start at one article a day. You choose Posts per day in Publishing settings, up to your plan's limit: 1 before a plan, then 2 (Air), 12 (Pro), 24 (Max), 48 (Ultra) or 96 (Elite).

Each delivered article uses one post from your monthly allowance, and the app shows what's left. Turn Publishing off and written articles simply wait in order.

Yes. Open it in Posts → Ready: switch between Preview and Edit, change any words and Save. Rewrite asks Maggie for a new version with your note, Fix Markdown tidies the formatting, and Publish now sends it straight away on connections that support it.

Ideas for future articles sit in Posts → Ideas, where you can add your own, reorder the plan or delete any you don't want.

If you want her to. In Publishing settings, Refresh older articles can be Off, When I ask or Automatic. Automatic uses a share of each day's posts (10 to 50%) for rewrites of articles older than 30, 60, 90 or 180 days.

Rewrites keep the same address, so links and search history stay; the Rewrite queue in Me shows what's suggested and what has been rewritten, and Search Console data steers which articles need it most.

When it's on, the content guard reads each post before it goes out and checks it against your industry's rules (financial, medical, insurance, legal or education) and any rule you write yourself, such as never naming a competitor.

A post that may break a rule is held, as a draft on your website or in Review for social, with the reason and a suggested rewrite, even if posts normally go out on their own. You can see what it held and why in Publishing settings.

Yes, and that's how it starts. New posts wait in the app (Posts → Ready for articles, Social → Review for social posts) until you approve them. You can edit any post, ask Maggie to change it in your own words, or delete it.

When you trust the results, switch the channel to go out on its own; the content guard keeps checking each post first and holds anything it isn't sure about. You can switch back, or pause, at any time.

Your brand profile and the first drafts are ready within minutes of entering your website, and the first posts can go out the same day once you approve them.

Search traffic builds over weeks to months as Google and AI assistants find and trust your pages; social reach grows with regular posting. Connect Search Console to see which posts bring clicks, and Maggie uses it to choose what to improve.

Verifying proves the website is yours. It unlocks your 30 free posts and, for some connections, publishing itself. You can verify with a work email at your domain, a DNS TXT record (one tap if your domain is on Cloudflare), the WordPress plugin, or by asking us to check by hand, usually within one working day.

Free email addresses such as Gmail or Outlook can't be used for the email check.

Yes. Everything on this page works in the cmo.so app on iPhone and on the web at app.cmo.so: connecting, approving, editing and pausing.

You can also ask Maggie from ChatGPT or Claude through the cmo.so connector, for example to see what's waiting for you or to change a post, and she shows a card before she changes anything.