# Connect your WordPress blog

Connect WordPress.com or a self-hosted site for article drafts and publishing.

WordPress is a destination for reviewed articles in **Blog**. It stays separate from your social publishing channels. Blog publishing is available on **Founder** and **Multi-Brand**, including supported legacy equivalents.

## Choose a connection method

1. Open **Brand → Social accounts**.
2. Select **Add Social Account**, then **Connect WordPress blog**.
3. Choose **WordPress.com** for a hosted WordPress.com site, or **Self-hosted WordPress** for your own installation.

![WordPress connection dialog with hosted and self-hosted options.](/screenshots/connect-wordpress.png "Choose the method that matches your WordPress site.")

For WordPress.com, sign in, approve access and choose the intended site. Return to Moosen to finish selecting its blog when needed.

## Connect a self-hosted site

Create an application password in WordPress for a user allowed to create and publish posts. Enter **WordPress site address**, **WordPress username or email**, and **Application password** in Moosen's self-hosted connection form. Use the application password rather than your normal sign-in password.

A site with multiple available destinations opens a blog picker. Confirm the site you want to use. If the blog can't be loaded, check the address, user permissions and application password before reconnecting.

## Prepare an article

Open **Blog**, write or generate an article, then choose the WordPress destination in **Publish to**. The optional **Author ID** is a WordPress numeric user ID. It isn't a Shopify author display name.

WordPress supports article text, excerpts, tags, featured images, drafts and native schedules. Shopify SEO fields don't appear for WordPress, and the article editor doesn't offer WordPress categories or SEO-plugin settings. Use your site's tools for those settings.

This connection doesn't require installing a Moosen-branded WordPress plugin. Follow [publishing and scheduling](/blog/publish) after reviewing the article.