Connecting automation pipelines directly to WordPress allows you to draft articles programmatically without ever opening the admin dashboard. Here is how I set up n8n to publish draft posts with custom tags and categories.<\/p>\n
Instead of sharing master admin credentials, go to Users > Profile<\/strong> in WordPress, scroll down to Application Passwords<\/strong>, and generate a dedicated token for n8n.<\/p>\n Post content generated by pipeline.<\/p>\" },\n { \"name\": \"status\", \"value\": \"draft\" }\n ]\n }\n },\n \"name\": \"Create WP Post\",\n \"type\": \"n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest\",\n \"typeVersion\": 4.2\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n Always set Connecting automation pipelines directly to WordPress allows you to draft articles programmatically without ever opening the admin dashboard. Here is how I set up n8n to publish draft posts with custom tags and categories. Authentication: WordPress Application Passwords Instead of sharing master admin credentials, go to Users > Profile in WordPress, scroll down to Application … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,5,30,29],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n8n-automations","tag-blogging","tag-n8n","tag-rest-api","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/top.fadah.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/top.fadah.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/top.fadah.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top.fadah.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top.fadah.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/top.fadah.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/top.fadah.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top.fadah.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/top.fadah.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}n8n HTTP Request Configuration<\/h2>\n
{\n "parameters": {\n "method": "POST",\n "url": "https:\/\/top.fadah.store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts",\n "authentication": "genericCredentialType",\n "genericAuthType": "httpBasicAuth",\n "sendBody": true,\n "bodyParameters": {\n "parameters": [\n { "name": "title", "value": "Automated Post Title" },\n { "name": "content", "value": "status = draft<\/code> so you can perform a quick visual review before hitting publish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"