# Contengi for WordPress. > Connect WordPress to Contengi with an Application Password, no plugin needed. An on-brand AI agent that reads, writes, edits and republishes your posts. Source: https://contengi.com/integrations/wordpress WordPress integration Connect your site with an Application Password and Contengi puts an agent directly on your WordPress blog. It reads every post you have, writes new ones in your voice, edits the old ones and publishes back to the same URL. Application PasswordAbout two minutes [Request beta access](https://contengi.com/beta-access) [Try it out](https://contengi.com/demo) Read, write, publish, edit, republish ## An agent that works directly on your blog. Read ### Reads what is already live The CMS lists every post on your WordPress site, newest first, with what is live and what is still a draft. Open any of them, including posts Contengi never wrote, and the agent works from the real HTML. [Content library and CMS](https://contengi.com/features/library) Write ### Writes in your brand voice The SEO agent researches the keyword, reads your knowledge base and hard rules, and drafts the post. Four slop filters run before you ever see it. [Content agents](https://contengi.com/features/content-agents) Publish ### Publishes when you say so Posts go out through the WordPress REST API with the title, slug, excerpt, FAQ and featured image set. You choose whether new posts land live or as drafts, and which category they file under. [Content library and CMS](https://contengi.com/features/library) Edit ### Edits one section at a time Ask the edit agent to tighten an intro, add a section or fix a stat. It changes only what you asked for, checks the links and shows you a diff you can revert. [Content library and CMS](https://contengi.com/features/library) Republish ### Republishes at the same URL An edited or refreshed post goes back over the original. If Contengi cannot find that original, the publish stops, so a second copy never appears at a new address. [Content agents](https://contengi.com/features/content-agents) Claude ### Works from your own Claude too Connect Contengi to Claude and the same blog is one chat away. Claude can open a live post, edit it section by section and leave it waiting for you to publish. [Claude connector](https://contengi.com/features/claude-connector) Under the hood ## How the connection is built. Contengi talks to the REST API that ships with every WordPress install, so there is nothing to add to your site and nothing to keep updated. Connection The WordPress core REST API at /wp-json/wp/v2. No plugin. Authentication A WordPress Application Password, built into WordPress since 5.6, sent over https only and stored encrypted. Permissions Whatever the WordPress user you connect with can do. An Editor account covers everything Contengi needs. Featured images Downloaded and uploaded into your media library, because WordPress takes an attachment rather than a link. If one image fails, the post still publishes. Updates Contengi finds the original by the post id it saved, or by the slug in its URL, and edits it in place. Unpublish and delete Handled in WordPress admin, next to your redirects. Requirements Self-hosted WordPress 5.6 or newer on https, with permalinks set to anything but Plain. Setup: About two minutes ## Connected in four steps. Step 1 ### Create an Application Password In WordPress go to Users, then Profile, and add an Application Password called Contengi. Step 2 ### Paste it into Contengi In Settings, Integrations, add WordPress with your site URL, username and the new password. Step 3 ### Set your defaults Choose whether posts publish live or as drafts, and pick a default category. Step 4 ### Hit Test Contengi checks that the REST API answers and the account can write. Then you are live. ## Other integrations. [All integrations](https://contengi.com/integrations) [ShopifyA private app on your own store with one scope: write\_content.](https://contengi.com/integrations/shopify) [WebflowData API v2 with a site token, mapped to your own collection fields.](https://contengi.com/integrations/webflow) [Claude websitesOne signed endpoint that Claude Code writes for you from a single prompt.](https://contengi.com/integrations/claude-websites) [v0 websitesOne route handler that v0 adds to your Next.js app from a single prompt.](https://contengi.com/integrations/v0-websites) FAQ ## Common questions ### Do I need to install a WordPress plugin? No. Contengi uses the REST API that is built into WordPress and authenticates with an Application Password, which WordPress has included since version 5.6. ### Can Contengi edit posts it did not write? Yes. The CMS lists every post on the site. Open one and the agent reads its real HTML through the REST API, edits the sections you ask for and publishes the result back over the same post. ### Does it fill in my Yoast or Rank Math fields? Contengi sets the title, slug, excerpt, body, FAQ and featured image. Fields that belong to an SEO plugin stay with that plugin, so set those in WordPress. ### Why does the connection test fail? Almost always one of three things: the site is not on https, permalinks are set to Plain, or a security plugin is blocking /wp-json. Contengi names which one when the test runs. ### Does it work with WordPress.com? It is built for self-hosted WordPress. A WordPress.com site works if its plan exposes the REST API and Application Passwords. Keep exploring ## Related features and reads In the platform [### Knowledge base The brand context every post is written from.](https://contengi.com/features/knowledge-base) [### Image generation Featured images made in your brand style.](https://contengi.com/features/image-generation) From the blog [How to build an agent-friendly website](https://contengi.com/blog/how-to-build-an-agent-friendly-website) [Top content operating systems](https://contengi.com/blog/top-content-operating-systems) [How to choose a content engineering tool](https://contengi.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-content-engineering-tool) [See all posts](https://contengi.com/blog) ## Put an agent on your WordPress blog. Connect your site once, with a strategist setting up your knowledge base alongside. Then write, edit and publish from one place. [Request beta access](https://contengi.com/beta-access) [Try it out](https://contengi.com/demo)