Makasete is an AI-powered SEO content service that plans, writes, fact-checks, illustrates, and publishes one article per week to your WordPress site—fully automated. Once you establish a Makasete WordPress integration, new articles appear on your site consistently. Starting at $40/month, it delivers measurable organic traffic gains. One client achieved +340% organic traffic growth over nine months.
Prerequisites before connecting
You need admin access to your WordPress dashboard and version 5.6+ (required for Application Passwords). Your host must have REST API enabled—the default on most providers unless restricted by a security plugin. You need a user account with admin privileges to generate the Application Password token.
Step-by-step setup walkthrough
The connection takes about five minutes and requires no plugin installation.
Generate your Application Password
Log in to WordPress, go to Users > Your Profile, scroll to Application Passwords, enter “Makasete Publishing” as the app name, and click Generate Password. WordPress creates a 24-character token.
Copy the token immediately—you won’t see it again. If Application Passwords doesn’t appear, your WordPress version is older than 5.6 or your host disabled REST API.
Paste credentials into Makasete and verify
Open the Makasete dashboard and navigate to Integrations or Settings (the exact label varies). Select WordPress as your CMS. Enter your site URL in the format https://yoursite.com (include the full https). Paste your WordPress username and the Application Password you just copied into their respective fields. Click Connect or Verify.
Makasete will test the connection by reaching out to your site’s REST API. Wait for a green success message to appear—this confirms REST API is accessible and your credentials are valid. The whole process takes 30 seconds.
Configure publishing settings
After verification, you’ll see publishing options. Choose whether Makasete articles should appear as Draft (for review before publishing), Scheduled (queued for a future date), or Live (published immediately). Most users select Draft or Live depending on whether they want to vet each article first. Select a category or tag for Makasete content if you want to organize these articles separately from your other posts—this is optional but makes filtering easier later.
Enable featured image auto-upload if you’d like Makasete’s generated illustrations to appear automatically. Save your settings and confirm the connection status displays as Active. You’re connected.
Troubleshooting common connection errors
Most connection failures trace to one of three issues: WordPress version constraints, REST API blocking, or security plugin conflicts. Here’s how to diagnose and fix each.
Application Passwords not visible in User Profile
Verify your WordPress version first. Go to Dashboard > Updates and confirm you’re running 5.6 or later. If you’re up to date and Application Passwords still doesn’t appear, check Settings > General to ensure the feature isn’t disabled at the site level. If it remains absent, your hosting provider restricts this feature on your plan; contact their support and ask them to enable REST API Application Passwords, or use a plugin like WP Application Passwords as a workaround.
Authentication fails after pasting credentials
First, test whether REST API is actually accessible. Open a new browser tab and visit yoursite.com/wp-json. You should see a page of JSON data—if you see a 403 Forbidden or 404 Not Found error, REST API is blocked. Contact your host or check your security plugin. Wordfence and iThemes Security often block REST API by default. If you use either, go to Tools > Wordfence > Tools > Firewall (for Wordfence) and whitelist the /wp-json path.
Double-check that your user account has the Administrator role. Editor and Contributor roles lack the permissions needed to publish posts, even with a valid token. Finally, ensure you copied the Application Password in full—truncated tokens fail silently.
Site shows as connected but articles don’t publish
Verify the Makasete account hasn’t hit any post creation limits (some hosts cap API requests). Check your WordPress post status settings to confirm Makasete is publishing to a standard status like Draft or Publish, not a custom post type. Enable WP_DEBUG in your wp-config.php file and check the debug log for REST API errors—your host’s control panel usually provides access to error logs.
As a diagnostic step, disable all plugins except Jetpack and attempt to publish a test article through Makasete. If it works, a plugin conflict exists; re-enable plugins one at a time to identify the culprit. If the article still doesn’t publish, re-verify your Application Password hasn’t expired—tokens can invalidate if WordPress was updated recently.
Post-integration: optimize for SEO and publishing
Once connected, a few configuration steps will maximize your organic visibility. Set up FAQ schema markup on your WordPress site to help Google understand your content structure and improve search visibility for common questions. If you use an SEO plugin like Yoast, Rank Math, or All in One SEO, configure it to score incoming articles automatically—Makasete publishes with an average SEO score of 94/100, so additional on-page optimization is minimal.
Enable the XML Sitemap in WordPress (most SEO plugins do this automatically). Submit your sitemap to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools so new articles are crawled within 24–48 hours. When your first article publishes, visit your WordPress dashboard to verify it appears in your feed with the correct featured image and renders properly on mobile.
For a deeper understanding of how to structure your WordPress site with internal linking, review your site’s architecture. Quality internal links improve both user experience and SEO performance, and they work seamlessly alongside automated article publishing.
Your first publishing cycle
After connection, Makasete immediately begins keyword research and topic planning for your niche. The first article typically publishes within 5–7 business days. Articles arrive with a chosen category, featured image, and SEO optimization already applied—no editing needed, though you can modify anything before publishing if you selected Draft status.
Check Google Search Console to monitor indexation; new articles usually crawl within one to two days. If you’re on the daily article publishing plan (like the case study client), you’ll receive 5–7 articles per week instead of one. No maintenance is required beyond this point—Makasete continues researching, writing, fact-checking, and publishing on schedule without further input from you.
For more context on how third-party tools enhance WordPress, see our guide to WordPress plugins that extend functionality. Understanding your full toolkit helps you make the most of every connection. To dive deeper into foundational best practices, explore the complete playbook for WordPress best practices for optimal setup.