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Connect Perplexity to WordPress

A WordPress blog needs a steady stream of well-researched posts, and research is the slowest part of writing them. Connecting Perplexity and WordPress turns a keyword list or this week's trends into sourced drafts waiting in your dashboard for an editor.
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Ideas

What you can do with Perplexity and WordPress

Researched drafts from keywords and trending topics, created in WordPress for you to edit. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
On a scheduleAI

Turn a keyword list into researched WordPress drafts

Each day the next keyword on your list is researched, written up as an SEO article with sources, and saved as a WordPress draft, with a Slack link to review it.

See how it works
On a schedule

Draft a blog post on this week's trending topic

Every Monday the week's trending topics in your field are checked and a WordPress draft is created on the best one you haven't covered.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Perplexity and WordPress, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

See how to build your own

Build your own

Build any Perplexity and WordPress automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Perplexity and WordPress in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Only publish directly if the draft has at least three sources; otherwise save it as a draft for me.

Each month, research the 10 oldest posts for newer facts and add a comment on each draft with suggested updates.

Use cases

Why people connect Perplexity and WordPress

How the two apps work together

  • A schedule or a check every few minutes picks the next keyword or topic.
  • The script asks Perplexity for research and writes a post with sources.
  • It creates a draft or published post in WordPress through the REST API.

  • Bloggers publishing researched posts

    A keyword becomes a researched draft with sources in WordPress. Posts start with facts.

  • Publishers covering news

    Daily news on a topic becomes a draft roundup. Content stays current.

  • SEO teams refreshing old posts

    Older posts are checked for outdated facts. Updates are suggested.

  • Agencies creating client content

    Client topics become researched drafts. Production is faster.

More apps

Perplexity, WordPress and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

Keyword queue

Take the next keyword from my Google Sheet, research it with Perplexity, write a WordPress draft and mark the row done.

Draft ready alert

When a researched draft is created in WordPress, post the edit link to #content.

Share when published

When a researched WordPress post is published, share it on LinkedIn with a summary.

Setup

Connect Perplexity and WordPress once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

Perplexity

AI / Search LLM

  1. Open the Perplexity API Portal at console.perplexity.ai and choose the project that should pay for the calls.
  2. Go to API Keys and generate a new key. It starts with pplx-.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret for Perplexity.

WordPress

CMS

  1. In wp-admin, go to Users and open your profile, or the profile of the user the automation should act as.
  2. Scroll to Application Passwords, type a name such as ClickRuntime, and choose Add New Application Password.
  3. Copy the generated password straight away, along with the WordPress username it belongs to.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, save the username and Application Password as a secret on Connections & secrets, together with your site address.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Perplexity and WordPress

Will posts be published automatically?
No. Posts are created as drafts. You or an editor review, improve and publish them in WordPress.
How does it connect to WordPress?
With an application password for a WordPress user with author or editor rights, saved in your ClickRuntime dashboard. Your main password is never used.
Does it work with hosted WordPress.com?
It works with any WordPress site that has the REST API and application passwords enabled, which includes self-hosted sites and most paid WordPress.com plans.
Are sources included in the draft?
Yes. A list of sources is added at the end of each draft so editors can check facts before publishing.
Can it set categories and tags?
Yes. The script can set categories, tags and the excerpt.
Can it add a featured image?
Yes, if you provide one or generate one with another service.
Does it link the sources?
Yes. Sources can be added as links within the post or as a list at the end.

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