How to schedule and publish to WordPress with Sheevook
A long article on your own site, with a headline that works as the search title and an opening that works as the search snippet. Published through your site, not a social feed. Sheevook turns one approved idea into a WordPress-native post (grounded in the platform's real rules, not a generic cross-post), then schedules it and measures what it drove.
Sheevook publishes to WordPress for real, through a live connection: write once, tailor natively, schedule, and it goes out on time.
Is WordPress worth your time?
Worth it when you have a site of your own and something to say that people search for. An article keeps earning from search long after the day it goes up, which a social post does not. It is slower to pay back and needs a real answer to a real question.
Before you connect
- The site must be reachable on https. Sheevook refuses an address that starts with http, because the password would cross the internet in the clear.
- The user must be allowed to publish posts (an Author, Editor or Administrator). A Contributor can only submit drafts for review.
- Application passwords must be on. A security plugin or the host can turn them off, and so can a site with no https; the connect says so when that is the cause.
WordPress at a glance
- Character limit
- 100,000 (sweet spot 4000-12000)
- Hashtags
- None. An article is organised by tags and categories on the site, and a hashtag in the text is just text
- Best times
- No published best time for your own site. An article keeps earning from search long after the day it goes up, so consistency matters more than the hour.
- Links
- Links stay clean in the copy. The tracking is recorded on our side instead of hanging off the end of your URL, so the post reads like a person wrote it and the click is still attributed.
Search and your own audience do the distributing; WordPress itself ranks nothing
WordPress is the software your site runs on, not a network with a feed. An article reaches people when a search engine shows it for a question, when someone links to it, and when you send your own readers to it.
What you control is the title, the opening paragraph and the structure. The title is what a search result shows, and the excerpt WordPress stores with the post is what many themes and search plugins use as the description, so Sheevook writes the opening to stand alone.
Sheevook signs in with an application password you create on your site and publishes the article when it is scheduled. The REST API reports no readership figures by default, so nothing here shows views until you connect an analytics source.
What gets a WordPress post buried
A teaser title with no subject
A title written to make people curious on a social feed tells a search engine and a searcher nothing. Put the question and the promise in the title.
Repeating the title as the first line
The page already shows the title above the body. Sheevook drops a first line that only repeats it, but the opening paragraph should start with the substance.
Padding to a length
A page that restates the question for three paragraphs before answering it loses the reader and the snippet. A short article that answers beats a long one that does not.
Raw HTML in the copy
The copy is converted from markdown and anything that looks like HTML is shown as text, which is what keeps a pasted script from running. Use markdown for headings, links and lists.
Publishing to WordPress with Sheevook, step by step
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Get your WordPress account ready
Have a site: Install WordPress on your own hosting, or use a host that runs it for you. The site needs to answer on https. Check the REST API is on: Open yoursite.com/wp-json/ in a browser. A page of settings in plain text means it is on; some security plugins and hosts switch it off. Create an application password: Go to Users -> Profile, scroll to Application Passwords, name it Sheevook and choose Add. Copy the password it shows once; it looks like xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx.
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Connect WordPress to Sheevook
WordPress connects with your site’s address, your username and an APPLICATION PASSWORD: a revocable credential you create under Users -> Profile -> Application Passwords on your own site. Never your login password. The address must start with https. The password is stored encrypted on the server and only sent to that site to publish.
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Write once, let Sheevook tailor it
Write your post once. Sheevook re-authors it natively for WordPress, inside the 100,000-character limit, with a per-platform diff showing exactly what changed, and it blocks a near-copy of another platform's version before it schedules. The voice it writes in: An editorial voice that knows the subject: clear, specific, structured. Written for a reader who searched for an answer, not for a feed.
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Schedule or publish
Pick a time (or let Sheevook choose the best open slot for WordPress), or publish now. Turn on Repeat weekly to make it recurring. Each run gets fresh copy automatically.
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See what actually worked
After it publishes, Sheevook reads back the real engagement WordPress reports, and where a link was posted it ties clicks and conversions to the post. Results rank on outcomes, never on vanity reach.
What wins on WordPress
- Put the question the reader typed into the title and the first sentence
- Use headings that say what the section answers, not 'Introduction'
- Keep paragraphs to a few lines and use a list for steps
- Link to your own related pages with words that say where they go
WordPress questions people actually ask
- How does Sheevook connect to WordPress?
- You give it your site's address, your username and an application password you create under Users, Profile on your site. The address must be https. Sheevook checks the sign-in before saving it, and the password is stored encrypted and used only to publish.
- Does it work with WordPress.com?
- Only on sites that allow application passwords, which includes self-hosted WordPress and Jetpack-connected sites. Signing in with a WordPress.com account is not available yet.
- What does Sheevook publish?
- A post with your title, the article converted to HTML, the opening paragraph as the excerpt and your first image as the featured image, published at the scheduled time. Categories and tags are not set from here.
