Connect your first website

Content Uploader publishes to your website through a small connector that you install on the site: a plugin for WordPress, an extension for Joomla. Installing it sends nothing anywhere. The connection starts only when you choose Connect on your site and approve it in Content Uploader, so you are always in control of what gets connected.

What you need#

• A Content Uploader account and workspace you own (create an account).
• A website that meets the requirements: WordPress 6.6 or later, or Joomla 5 or 6, served over HTTPS at a public address.
• An administrator account on that website: a WordPress administrator, or a Joomla Super User.

The Free plan allows one connected site; you can connect more on the paid plans (plans and allowances).

Choose your platform#

The Sites page in Content Uploader has one box for each platform, with the download and the three steps. The steps are always the same:

1. Install the connector on your site and activate it.
2. Start the connection on your site: Settings → Content Uploader in WordPress, or Components → Content Uploader Connector in Joomla.
3. Sign in to Content Uploader and approve the workspace.

How you know it worked#

The Sites page lists your site with connected, the platform's version and the connector's version, and a date about 90 days away under Access ends on. On the site itself, the connector's screen says Connected. If it does not, troubleshoot the connection.

What connecting does and does not do#

• Content Uploader can read which content types, fields, categories and authors your site offers, and it can create and update content as the account that approved the connection (on Joomla, the account you choose as Publish as).
• It cannot sign in to your site, read other parts of it or delete content.
• You can end it at any time by selecting Disconnect on the site or in Content Uploader, and access is renewed every 90 days (managing connected sites).

Next: prepare your first spreadsheet.