Cituna writes daily articles from the questions buyers actually ask AI engines (one a day on Starter, up to ten on Max), and WordPress is the simplest place to put them. You connect once with a WordPress application password, a built-in feature since WordPress 5.6, so there is no plugin to install and no OAuth app to register. Articles then arrive in wp-admin as drafts, complete with headings, an FAQ block and structured data, and nothing goes live until you press Publish. If you would rather skip the review step, one switch turns on automatic publishing. This guide covers connecting, choosing draft or publish mode, and the two failures people hit most: a host that hides application passwords, and an account whose role is too low to keep the schema block intact.
What this assumes
1. Create an application password in WordPress
Sign in to wp-admin and open Users → Profile. Scroll to Application Passwords, type a name you will recognise later such as "Cituna", and click Add New Application Password.
WordPress shows the password once, as four blocks of characters. Copy it now: you cannot view it again, only revoke it and make a new one. It is not your login password, and revoking it later disconnects Cituna without touching your account.
2. Paste your site details into Cituna
In Cituna, open Integrations and find the WordPress card. Enter your site URL exactly as you visit it, your WordPress username, and the application password you just copied.
Publishing credentials are stored per brand, so if your workspace tracks several brands, switch to the right one before connecting. This is what stops an article for one site being published to another.
3. Let the check confirm the connection
Cituna checks the application password against your site right away: that it signs in, and that the account can create posts. Nothing is posted. If WordPress refuses it you get the exact reason (wrong username, revoked password, a role that cannot create posts) and nothing is saved, so a credential that never worked cannot sit there looking connected.
A green Connected badge means the credential passed that check when you connected. If it is revoked later, the first article that cannot be delivered says so and asks you to reconnect.
4. Choose draft or publish mode
Open AutoSEO and pick WordPress under "Deliver articles to". Then choose a publishing workflow. Review in Cituna holds the full article in Cituna, where you can edit it and press Approve & publish. Nothing reaches WordPress before approval.
Send as a destination draft creates a WordPress draft immediately. Publish automatically puts each article live the moment it is written. You can switch between all three without touching the connection.
5. Turn on the daily article
Back in AutoSEO, step 1 now ticks itself: pick the WordPress tile. Then answer step 2, and in step 3 switch on "Write articles every day". Connecting a destination does not start anything by itself, and a queue with automation off never drains. This is the single most common reason people see no articles after setting everything up.
You can also press Generate now to write the top topic immediately rather than waiting for the next run.
Troubleshooting
Why did my structured data disappear from the published post?
WordPress strips <script> tags from posts saved by an account without the unfiltered_html capability, which removes the JSON-LD block Cituna attaches to every article. On a single site, Administrators and Editors have it and Authors do not. On a Multisite network only a Super Admin has it, and some hosts switch it off for everyone. Reconnect with an Editor or Administrator application password (a Super Admin on Multisite) and the schema survives.
The connection worked yesterday and now says bad credentials.
Application passwords are revoked whenever the WordPress user changes their password, and some security plugins revoke them on a schedule. Create a fresh application password and paste it into the WordPress card again; nothing else about your setup needs to change.
Can I send articles to a page instead of a post, or to a custom post type?
AutoSEO delivers posts, because an article that is meant to earn citations belongs in the blog feed your site already exposes to crawlers. If you need a custom post type, use the webhook destination instead and route it yourself.
Will Cituna overwrite a post I edited in WordPress?
Only if you ask it to. Editing an article inside Cituna saves to Cituna alone; a separate Update on WordPress button pushes it to the post, and the button says exactly what it will overwrite. The daily run never touches an article it has already delivered.
Drafted with AI assistance from our own research and Search Console data, and reviewed by Rahul A before publishing. Rules and prices change; check the linked official source before you act.