WordPress

Connect WordPress to publish Loudmink articles to your site as drafts or live posts. Install the free Loudmink plugin from the WordPress plugin directory, generate a key, and paste it into Loudmink.

What you need

• A Loudmink plan that includes publishing
• Admin access to your WordPress site (WordPress 5.6 or newer, served over HTTPS)

How to connect

In Loudmink, go to Settings → Integrations and click Configure on WordPress. This opens a short step-by-step wizard. The steps below mirror it. Once the connection test passes and you finish, the WordPress row shows as active; click the gear icon any time to reopen and change your settings or disconnect.

Publishing

Once connected, approving an article in Loudmink pushes it to WordPress using your default status. Drafts land in Posts → Drafts for review; Publish immediately posts go live right away.

Publishing pages (location and service pages)

Some content belongs on a WordPress Page rather than a blog post, for example local SEO location pages like yoursite.com/service-area/plumber-rosebud/.

In Settings → Integrations → WordPress, set Publish to to Page. A Nest under picker appears:

• Pick an existing page to nest under (for example your "Service Areas" page), and WordPress serves every new page at parent/page-name automatically.
• Leave it as No parent (top level) to create standalone pages.

Every article you publish through this connection is then created as a page under that parent. To go back to blog posts, switch Publish to back to Posts.

Mixing posts and pages

If your site publishes blog posts most of the time and location pages now and then (or the other way round), turn on Ask where each article goes in the same settings. The first time you publish an article, Loudmink asks whether it should be your default or a page, with the parent page pickable right there. Your default is preselected, so the everyday flow is unchanged. Articles that are already live never ask again.

Good to know:

• Articles that are already live keep what they are. Changing the setting affects new publishes only; updates to an existing article always go to the post or page it already is.
• Publishing pages needs an Editor or Administrator account behind the connection. An Author account can publish posts but not pages. Plugin connections are not affected by this.
• Nesting under a parent needs Loudmink plugin 1.3.0 or newer on plugin connections. Update it from Plugins in wp-admin if publishing asks you to.
• If your site's pages are designed with a page builder such as Elementor, a page created by Loudmink uses your theme's standard page layout, not the builder design. It will have your site's header and footer, but it won't visually match pages you built by hand in the builder.

Troubleshooting

Still stuck? team@loudmink.ai.