WordPress.com

• A WordPress.com site where your account has the Author, Editor or Administrator role (it must be allowed to publish posts).
• A WordPress.com developer application (free) to obtain an OAuth access token.
• Your site address only (e.g. yoursite.wordpress.com) — no https:// and no path.

WordPress.com uses OAuth access tokens — not Application Passwords (those are for self-hosted WordPress).

1. 1
   Go to developer.wordpress.com/apps and choose Create New Application; set a redirect URL you control.
2. 2
   Note your Client ID and Client Secret.
3. 3
   Send yourself to https://public-api.wordpress.com/oauth2/authorize with response_type=code, your client_id and redirect_uri, and scope=global (or scope=posts,media for a narrower token), then approve the site.
4. 4
   Exchange the returned code at https://public-api.wordpress.com/oauth2/token (grant_type=authorization_code) to receive the access token.
5. 5
   Copy the access token — you will paste it into Rankealo. Tokens can be revoked or expire; if publishing starts failing, generate a new one.

Reference: WordPress.com OAuth2 Documentation.

In Rankealo, open Integrations, choose WordPress.com, and fill in these fields:

Click Test Connection. Rankealo verifies your credentials — you must see a successful test before Save Integration becomes available.

When Rankealo publishes, each article carries:

• TitleThe article title.
• ContentFull article body as HTML (or markdown where the platform supports it).
• Meta descriptionSEO meta description / excerpt, where the platform has a field for it.
• SlugGenerated from the title when the post is created; an existing post with that slug is linked instead of duplicated. Never changed on update.
• ExcerptThe meta description is sent as the post excerpt.
• Featured imageThe image URL is passed to WordPress.com, which fetches it (on create and update). It may be skipped if WordPress.com cannot download it.
• TagsThe target keyword is added as a tag on create only. Categories are not set.

Slug, featured image, tags and SEO title depend on the platform and your field mapping. Each platform guide lists exactly what it sends.

Rankealo tracks the post it created for each article. When an article is edited — or automatically re-optimized by Improvements — Rankealo updates the same post in place rather than creating a duplicate.