WordPress

Clodix publishes straight into your WordPress site through its REST API, using an Application Password — not your login password.

Create an Application Password

1. In WordPress, go to Users → Profile (or Users → Your Profile).
2. Scroll down to Application Passwords.
3. Type a name — for example "Clodix" — and click Add New Application Password.
4. WordPress shows the password once, as four groups of letters (xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx). Copy it immediately — you won't be able to see it again.

Connect it in Clodix

1. Open Settings → Publishing integrations and click WordPress.
2. Fill in:
   • Site URL — your site's root address, e.g. https://yourblog.com.
   • WordPress username — the username you log in with, not your display name.
   • Application password — the one you just copied.
3. Click Connect. Clodix checks the credentials against your site live before saving.

What a published post looks like

• The article is created as a normal WordPress post, with your title, body, URL slug and excerpt, and published immediately.
• If your site uses the Yoast SEO plugin, Clodix also fills in Yoast's own SEO title, meta description and focus keyphrase — so the Yoast box isn't empty when you open the post.
• The featured image is uploaded to your Media Library and set as the post's featured image. If the upload fails for any reason, the post still goes live — just without a cover.
• Editing the article later and republishing updates the same WordPress post — Clodix never creates a second copy.
• Unpublish sets the post back to Draft in WordPress. Nothing is deleted.

Common problems

Message	What it means	Fix
"WordPress doesn't know this username"	You typed your display name instead of your login username.	Use Users → Profile → Username, not the name shown on your posts.
"...not one of their application passwords"	You pasted your normal login password.	Create an Application Password (steps above) and use that instead.
"Application passwords are turned off"	A security plugin disabled them.	Turn Application Passwords back on for your site or for that user, then try again.
"WordPress didn't receive the username and password..."	Your hosting is stripping the authorization header before it reaches WordPress — common on Hostinger and LiteSpeed. Your credentials are probably correct.	Clodix names your host when it can tell, with the exact line to send their support, and a one-line .htaccess fix you can add yourself: SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1
"...firewall, security plugin or bot protection..."	A firewall or plugin (Wordfence, Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode, Imunify360) is blocking /wp-json/.	Allow requests to /wp-json/ from the user agent Clodix/1.0, then reconnect.
"Your site answered with a web page instead of the WordPress API"	The address you connected with isn't your site's root — WordPress guessed a page instead of answering as an API.	Reconnect using your site's plain root address (no subfolder, no admin path).

FAQ

Why does Clodix need an Application Password instead of my login?

An Application Password only allows API access — it can't be used to log into the WordPress dashboard. It's the method WordPress itself recommends for third-party tools like Clodix, and you can revoke it any time without changing your main password.

Will Clodix overwrite content I add to the post myself?

Editing the article in Clodix and republishing it updates the WordPress post with what's in Clodix. If you've made changes directly in WordPress that you want to keep, make those same changes in the Clodix editor first.

Does this work with WordPress.com, or only self-hosted WordPress?

The connection uses the standard WordPress REST API (/wp-json/), available on self-hosted WordPress and most WordPress.com plans. If the connection fails, check that your plan allows Application Passwords.

Related

• Connect your website
• Publishing problems
• Publish an article