Written By Andrew Petrovics
Last updated About 17 hours ago
Export blog posts directly to your website by using one or more of our integrations.
Integrations can be added by going to settings and clicking the Connect button for a particular integration.
See below for how to set up a particular integration.
Wordpress.org
To connect your wordpress.org website head to settings and click the Connect button next to the Wordpress.org option.
This will bring up a dialog for you to enter the following information to connect your site. See below for more information on these fields.
Website Address
This is the public facing URL of your website (i.e. https://www.MyWebsite.com).
Note: Just enter the public facing URL to your home page. You do not need to add any sort of /wp-admin to the URL.
Admin Username
This is the username of an admin user to your Wordpress site. Here is how to get the correct username…
⚠️ Important: This is not necessarily the same username you use to log into your website
⚠️ Important: There is no need to create another user for Video To Blog.
Here is an example of how to get the username from your website…
Application Password
Create an application password on your wordpress site by going to Users → Profile → Add New Application Password.
Give the password a name (like “Video to Blog”) and copy the value exactly and paste it into the dialog on Video To Blog.
Troubleshooting
If you’re seeing an error like “Sorry, you cannot create posts as this user” then it means you have either entered in some wrong information (usually the wrong username) OR it means you have a plugin that is blocking the ability to create posts from the API (usually for security reasons). In the latter case you must work with your website administrator to identify the plugin that is causing the issue and update a particular setting to prevent this behavior. This is not something Video To Blog can help you with unfortunately.
Depending on the security plugin you use, if there is an option to not block particular API endpoints (usually called an “allow list”), then adding the following wildcard endpoint could help…
/wp-json/wp/v2/*
If wildcard endpoints are not allowed, then here are the following API endpoints we currently use that you could add to your allow list, but please note we might use more API endpoints in the future…
/wp-json/wp/v2/posts
/wp-json/wp/v2/media
/wp-json/wp/v2/tags
Wordpress.com
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To connect your Wordpress.com website click on the Connect button next to Wordpress.com.
You will then be taken to Wordpress to log in to your account. Enter your login information and you will be navigated back to settings and your account will be connected.
Medium
Connect your Medium account by clicking the Connect button next to Medium.
Then, you’ll need to create an integration token on your medium account which you can do by going to https://medium.com/me/settings/security and clicking “Integration Tokens”.
Give your token a name (like “VideoToBlog”) and then click the Get Token button.
Copy the token from the previous step and paste it into Video To Blog and click Connect.
Blogger
Connect your Blogger account by clicking the Connect button next to Blogger.
You will then be taken to a Google sign in page to login to the Google account tied to your Blogger account. Login to your account.
Then, click the Allow button to connect your Blogger site to Video To Blog.
Ghost
To connect your Ghost account click the Connect button next to Ghost.org.
Then, go to your Ghost.org account and create a custom integration token by going to Settings → Integrations → Add custom integration
Give the integration a name (like “Video To Blog”) then copy admin API key and API URL.
Paste the values copied from above into Video To Blog and click the Connect button.
Wix
To connect your Wix account click the “Connect” button next to Wix in settings.
This will bring up the Wix connection dialog.
Next, create an API Key in your Wix account by going to https://manage.wix.com/account/api-keys and clicking “Generate API Token” in top right.
Give your key a name (e.g. “Video To Blog”)
Then, under “All Site Permissions” check the box that says “Wix Blog” in order to give us the permission to posts blogs to your site.
Next, hit the “Generate Key” button.
Copy the API Key in Wix.
Lastly, paste the API key into Video To Blog, and click the Connect button.
Shopify
To connect your Shopify account to Video To Blog you will need to create a custom app and generate an admin API token.
1. Create a custom app in Shopify
Go to your Shopify settings and click the “Create an app” button.
2. Name your app
Give your app and name (e.g. Video to Blog) and click the “Create app” button.
3. Give the appropriate permissions
Click the “Configure Admin API scopes” button.
Then, check the write_content
and read_content
check boxes under “Store content” and click the Save button.
4. Install app
Click the install app button.
5. Copy token
Under the API credentials tab, click the “Reveal token once” button and copy the token
6. Paste token into Video To Blog
In Video To Blog settings click the “Connect” button next to Shopify.
Then, paste in the token in the dialog box as shown below.
7. Add your Shopify Domain in the dialog and hit Connect
Copy your Shopify store domain (this can found in the image below).
Then, paste that into the dialog box and show below and Click “Connect”