Quickstart: your first document

By the end of this lesson we’ll have connected a WordPress site to Workover, written one document from a blank page, and published it so it appears live on that site. We’re starting from an empty workspace right after signing up.

Connect your WordPress site

In the sidebar on the left, click New Project.

A “New Project” panel opens. We’ll fill it in like this:

• In the Title field, type a name for the project, for example the name of the blog we’re publishing to.
• Under Type, select Website.
• In the Website link field that appears, type the full address of the WordPress site, for example https://www.example.com.

The panel confirms the CMS as WordPress and tells us we’ll be redirected to the WordPress admin to approve the connection, and that our existing WordPress posts won’t be modified. Click Connect to WordPress.

We land on that site’s WordPress admin login. We’ll sign in there as a user with administrator access, then approve the connection it asks us to authorize.

Approving sends us back into Workover, straight into the new project. A banner tells us Workover is importing content from the site, followed by a message confirming what it found (either newly imported posts or that the site had nothing new). The project’s name now shows the connected site’s address underneath it. That’s our connected website project, ready to hold a document.

Create your first document

With the project open, click New near the top of the page.

This opens straight into the document editor with the title Untitled document and an empty body underneath. That’s our new, empty document.

Write the document

Click the title text at the top and type a real title, then press Enter. This saves the title and moves the cursor straight into the body.

Type the content of the document into the body. A formatting row sits above the text with buttons for headings, bold, italic, lists, quotes and links, each one applies to whatever text is currently selected.

There’s no save button to click. As we type, the only sign of anything happening is a small “Saving…” label that appears briefly near the top right of the editor and then disappears once everything has synced, that disappearance is how we know our words are safely stored.

Publish it to WordPress

On the right-hand side of the editor, a panel is open showing a WP tab. If that panel isn’t visible, click Edit panel at the top right of the editor to open it.

Because the WP tab shows fields for a WordPress post, we’ll fill in the ones that decide whether the post goes live:

• Find the Status field near the top of the panel. It currently reads Draft. Click it and choose Published.

Underneath, the panel shows a Publish button. Click it.

The button briefly reads “Publishing…”. When it finishes, the top of the panel changes to a green dot next to the words Up to date with WordPress, with a small arrow icon beside it that links to the post.

Confirm it’s live

Click that arrow icon next to Up to date with WordPress. It opens the post in a new browser tab, on the actual WordPress site we connected earlier.

Seeing our title and text rendered there, on the live site, is the confirmation that the document made it all the way from a blank page in Workover to a published WordPress post.