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A WordPress site is a steady stream of posts, drafts, comments, tags and new registrations. ClickRuntime writes and tags posts, tidies SEO fields, answers or screens comments, and reports on drafts that have gone quiet, all through your site's REST API. Tell your AI assistant what your blog needs, check the plan it shows you, and it keeps running.

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Monday and Thursday, take the next keyword from my list, write an SEO blog post about it in a friendly, practical tone, save it as a draft in WordPress under the Guides category, and email me the edit link.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in WordPress

Drafts written from your keywords or feeds, posts that get tagged on their own, comments answered or flagged as spam, and regular exports and newsletters built from what you publish. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
On a scheduleAI

Turn a keyword list into blog drafts

Twice a week a new post written around your next keyword lands in WordPress as a draft, and you get the edit link by email.

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HourlyAI

Rewrite feed articles into draft posts

New articles from feeds you follow are rewritten, or translated, into original drafts with a link back to the source.

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Every 15–60 minutesAI

Tag and categorise new posts automatically

Posts that go up without tags get sensible ones and a category picked from those you already use.

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On a schedule

Get a monthly CSV of all your posts

A spreadsheet file with every post's title, link, status, date and categories arrives in your inbox each month.

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The moment it happens

Create or update posts from a link

Anything you send to your own link becomes a WordPress draft, or updates the existing post with the same slug.

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On a scheduleAI

Improve SEO titles and descriptions in batches

A batch of older posts gets a sharper SEO title and meta description every night until the whole archive is done.

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WeeklyAI

Get a weekly newsletter draft from your posts

Every Friday you receive a ready-to-send newsletter with a short summary and link for each post from the week.

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Weekly

Unpublish posts past a certain age

Posts older than your cutoff are set back to draft each week, and you get the list of what changed.

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Every 15–60 minutesAI

Reply to new comments on your blog

Approved comments get a short, polite reply written for that comment and posted under your name.

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Every 15 minutes

Get new comments by email with spam marked

You hear about each new comment, and the obvious spam is flagged so you can deal with it in one go.

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Every 15 minutes

Announce new posts in Slack

When a post goes live, your team sees its title and link in Slack without anyone sharing it.

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Daily

Get a daily list of new site sign-ups

Once a day you get the people who registered on your site since the last email.

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Weekly

Get reminded about forgotten drafts

Every week you see the drafts nobody has touched in a month, so they get finished or deleted.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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Build your own

Build any WordPress automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what WordPress should do 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

Every morning, check WordPress for new comments and have AI flag the ones that are real questions needing my reply, ignoring spam and thanks.

Every Monday, add last week's published WordPress posts to Google Sheets with title, author, categories and link.

When a new WordPress post is published, have AI write a short summary, post it to LinkedIn with the link, and send it to my Telegram channel.

Works with

WordPress with the apps you already use

Most WordPress work starts or ends outside wp-admin: topics planned in a sheet, posts promoted on social channels, backups kept in cloud storage. Connecting those apps lets one automation carry a post from idea to audience.

WordPress works with hundreds of other apps

Name any of them when you ask your assistant, and your automation connects them. Over 248 apps are ready to go, and anything with an API works too.

  • Slack
  • WooCommerce
  • Mailchimp
  • OpenAI
  • Google Search Console
  • Google Analytics
  • Notion
  • Airtable
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Buffer
  • Ghost
  • beehiiv
  • Discord
  • Google Docs
  • Dropbox
  • Cloudinary

Beyond chat

Have WordPress work when you're not in the chat

Connecting WordPress to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect WordPress

WordPress connects with an Application Password, which is built into WordPress 5.6 and later, so no plugin is needed. It acts with the permissions of the user who creates it.

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.

Good to know

WordPress limits that affect automations

  • Your site must be served over HTTPS for Application Passwords to work.
  • Some security plugins and hosts turn off Application Passwords or strip the Authorization header. If requests are refused, check those settings first.
  • This connection is for self-hosted WordPress. Sites hosted on WordPress.com use a different, OAuth-based API.
  • What an automation can do follows the user's role: writing posts needs Author or higher, managing tags and categories needs Editor, and listing users needs the list_users capability.
  • Rank Math or Yoast fields can only be changed if your site exposes them to the REST API, for example with register_meta or a short snippet.

FAQ

Questions about automating WordPress

Can it publish posts directly, or only save drafts?
Either. You decide in your request. Saving as a draft is the safer choice for AI-written posts, so you can review them before they go live.
Does it work on a WordPress.com site?
This connection uses Application Passwords on self-hosted WordPress. Sites hosted by WordPress.com use a different API and are not covered by it.
How quickly does it notice new comments or posts?
WordPress has no built-in webhooks, so these automations check the site on a schedule, typically every 15 to 60 minutes, and only act on what is new since the last check.
Do I need my own AI key to write or rewrite posts?
No. Writing, rewriting, tagging and spam checks use the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan. Generating images is different: built-in AI is text only, so images need your own image-model key.
Can it update SEO titles and meta descriptions?
Yes, if your SEO plugin's fields are available through the REST API. Rank Math and Yoast fields usually need a small snippet with `register_meta` to expose them.
Is it fine to turn other sites' articles into posts?
Republishing someone else's content can raise copyright issues. Ask for a genuine rewrite with a link to the source, and keep the result as a draft until you have read it.
Is this a WordPress connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with WordPress data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change WordPress while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each WordPress event.

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