WordPress publishing
Your content is ready. Stop redoing everything else by hand.
SEO title, description, image, category: SelfHook prepares everything that goes with your article and sends it to WordPress. You choose whether it waits for your review or gets published automatically.
Draft or automatic publishing: you choose, and you can change your mind.
Article ready
Leaking water heater: what to check before calling a plumber
SEO elements
SEO title · meta description · focus keyphrase
Featured image
Editorial style, with alt text
Category
Tips
WordPress
Post created on your site
Based on the mode chosen in your workflow
How do you automate publishing an article on WordPress?
Automating WordPress publishing means removing the repetitive tasks between ready content and going live: SEO title, meta description, featured image, category and publishing status. With SelfHook, every generated article reaches WordPress with these elements already prepared, in the category of your choice, as a draft to review or published automatically depending on your workflow’s mode. SelfHook keeps the article’s prepared structure all the way to WordPress: headings, tables, FAQ and formatting.
The real work often starts after the writing
The article is written. Yet a string of small tasks still stands between it and going live. None of them is hard. Added up, and repeated for every article, they end up taking a real place in your week.
- Another copy-paste.
- Another meta description.
- Another image to find.
This last stretch is what SelfHook takes care of.
- 01Copy the article into WordPress and check the formatting
- 02Write the SEO title and meta description
- 03Fill in the focus keyphrase
- 04Find an image, upload it, write its alt text
- 05Set the featured image
- 06Pick the right category
- 07Publish, or keep it as a draft for later
What reaches WordPress with your article
Not raw text to rework: a complete article, with everything that should go with it when it goes live.
SEO elements, already prepared
SEO title, meta description and focus keyphrase are written for every article and sent with it, along with an excerpt. No more retyping.
The featured image, in place
An image generated in your workflow’s chosen style, added to your media library, set as the featured image and given alt text.
The right category
The article is filed in the category you chose: an existing one, or a new one created in WordPress on the first run. Never in “Uncategorized”.
Structure preserved
SelfHook keeps the article’s prepared structure all the way to WordPress: headings, tables, FAQ and formatting.
A clear structure helps your readers, Google and AI answer engines understand the article. It does not guarantee any ranking.
Automatic publishing
The article is published on WordPress as soon as it is ready
Draft
The article is created in WordPress, without being published
Email on publishing
Title and link of every automatically published article
Can be changed at any time in the workflow
You automate, you stay in charge
SelfHook doesn’t take WordPress out of the loop. The article lands on your site like any other: you can review it, edit it or unpublish it, with the tools you already know.
Automating doesn’t mean publishing without control.
- Draft to review: the article waits in WordPress until you approve and publish it yourself
- Changeable setting: switch from automatic publishing to draft, or back, at any time
- Pause and manual trigger: pause a workflow or start an article whenever you decide
- Link to every article: find your articles and their WordPress link in your dashboard
Your WordPress, the way you already use it
No new tool to learn, no site to migrate: SelfHook adapts to your setup, not the other way around.
Your site, your CMS
Articles arrive in your WordPress, with your theme, your categories and your review habits.
No SelfHook plugin
Publishing works without a SelfHook plugin: you connect your site with an application password, created from your WordPress profile.
The same process for every site
One workflow per site, with its own publishing settings. The number of sites depends on your plan.
Using Yoast SEO? From version 27.7, the SEO title, meta description and focus keyphrase are filled in automatically in Yoast.
The last step of a continuous journey
Publishing carries on from the rest of the work: from analysing your site to the article going live, without switching tools.
- 01
SEO audit
Spot what is holding back your existing pages.
- 02
Keyword strategy
Know what to publish, and in what order.
- 03
Content generation
Structured articles that follow your editorial rules.
- You are here
WordPress publishing
The article live, or as a draft, with everything that goes with it.
- 05
Follow-up
Find your published articles and notify Google from their list.
No article ready yet? SEO content generation writes structured articles from your editorial rules, then hands them over to this step.
For people who publish on WordPress and want that time back
You publish regularly
And every article still costs you long minutes of uploading, between WordPress, Yoast and your media library.
You manage several sites
You want to apply the same process to every site, without starting over each time.
You want to approve
You want to automate the preparation while keeping a human review before publishing.
You are already set up
You use WordPress and Yoast and don’t want to change the way you work.
Frequently asked questions about WordPress publishing
Does SelfHook publish to WordPress automatically?
Yes, if you want it to. Automatic publishing is preselected, but you can choose Draft when creating the workflow and change this setting later. In draft mode, the article is created in WordPress without being published.
Can I review the article before it is published?
Yes. In draft mode, the article waits for you in WordPress: you review it, edit it if needed and publish it yourself. Reviewing happens in WordPress; SelfHook has no built-in article editor.
Which SEO elements are sent to WordPress?
For every article, SelfHook prepares an SEO title, a meta description, a focus keyphrase and an excerpt. With Yoast SEO 27.7 or later, the SEO title, meta description and focus keyphrase are filled in automatically in Yoast. With an older version, the article is sent as usual, but these fields still need to be filled in. Analysis and scoring remain Yoast’s.
Is an image added to the article?
Yes. An image is generated in your workflow’s chosen style, added to your WordPress media library, attached to the article and set as the featured image, with alt text.
How is the category chosen?
You choose it in the workflow: an existing category on your site, or a new one that SelfHook creates in WordPress on the first run. The “Uncategorized” category is not offered.
Do I need to install a plugin on my site?
No. Publishing works without a SelfHook plugin: you connect your site with a WordPress application password. The only requirement for Yoast fields to be filled in automatically is Yoast SEO 27.7 or later.
Do I need to change CMS?
No. SelfHook publishes to your existing WordPress site, with your theme and your categories.
Does SelfHook guarantee better Google rankings?
No. SelfHook saves you time on publishing and takes care of the elements that go with every article, but no ranking, traffic or visibility in AI answer engines can be guaranteed. Google, or the engine concerned, decides.
Fewer manual steps. More consistency.
Stop losing time between “article ready” and “article published”.
SelfHook prepares everything that goes with each article and sends it to WordPress. You keep the final say.
You can start in draft mode and switch to automatic publishing whenever you like.