Connect WordPress
Publishing. Once this is connected, approving an article sends it to your site.
What this key lets us do. It lets us create and update posts as your user. You can cancel it from the same screen at any moment, which stops us immediately and changes nothing else about your account.
Step by step
- Sign in to your own WordPress site as an administrator.
- In the left menu open Users, then click your own name to open your profile.
- Scroll to the bottom of that page. Look for the box titled Application Passwords.
- Type a name so you can recognise it later — “OrchardRank” is fine — and press Add New Application Password.
- WordPress shows a password made of 24 letters in six groups, like
abcd EFGH ijkl MNOP qrst UVWX. Copy it now — WordPress will never show it again. - Come back here and paste it, along with your site address and your WordPress username.
Bold words are the exact buttons and menu names to look for. These are screens of other companies and they move them — if the layout does not match, searching that bold name in their own help usually finds where it went.
What to paste here
| Field | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Site address | https://yoursite.com — the address you type to visit it |
| Username | Your WordPress login name, not your email |
| Application password | The 24 characters WordPress just showed you |
What usually goes wrong
- This is not your WordPress login password. If you paste that, it will not work — and it should not, because an application password can be cancelled on its own without changing how you sign in.
- No Application Passwords box? Your site is either older than WordPress 5.6, or it is not on https://. WordPress hides the feature on unencrypted sites, and so would we.
- Some security plugins switch the feature off. If yours has, it will say so in its own settings under a name like “REST API” or “Application Passwords”.
Now do it
Connect your site →Whatever you paste is encrypted the moment it arrives. It is never shown back to you and nobody here can read it — support sees a fingerprint like “ending 7f3a2c”, never the value.
Stuck? The help desk answers this exact question, and it is a real answer rather than a form. Open the help desk → If you would rather go to the source, read the official documentation: WordPress: Application Passwords