WordPress · Guides

Specter + WordPress guides

Everything you can do with Specter on a WordPress site — from first sync to bulk AI rewrites across your whole archive.

← Back to WordPress overview

Guide

How Specter handles the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg)

An honest look at what round-trips cleanly between Gutenberg and markdown — and what doesn't. Standard blocks work. Page-builder blocks come through as opaque HTML.

Guide

How to add a CTA to every WordPress post at once

Insert a call-to-action block into every WordPress post at a consistent location — after the second H2, before the conclusion, wherever — by syncing your archive to markdown with Specter, running one pass with an AI or script, previewing the diff, and pushing back.

Guide

How to back up your WordPress posts as markdown

Specter mirrors your WordPress posts to a local folder of plain markdown. Continuous, versionable with git, and immune to plugin disasters — but not a replacement for a full site backup.

Guide

How to bulk edit WordPress posts for SEO (at scale)

Bulk edit WordPress posts for SEO: sync your whole site to local markdown with Specter, run an AI or script pass across every post, preview the diff, and push back via the REST API.

Guide

How to bulk-fix broken internal links across WordPress

Find and fix broken internal links across every WordPress post at once: sync your site to local markdown with Specter, scan the folder for dead URLs or old domains, swap them with an AI or script, preview the diff, and push back.

Guide

How to bulk-write meta descriptions for WordPress posts

Bulk-generate meta descriptions for every WordPress post by syncing the archive to local markdown with Specter, prompting an AI to fill the gaps, previewing the diff, and pushing back. Works with both Yoast and Rank Math.

Guide

How to connect Specter to your WordPress site

Connect Specter to your WordPress site in a few minutes: site URL, username, Application Password. Covers self-hosted WordPress, WordPress.com plan requirements, and what to do if the REST API is blocked.

Guide

How to edit WordPress posts with Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini

A hands-on workflow to edit WordPress posts with Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini: sync your site to local markdown with Specter, edit, preview the diff, and push back via the REST API.

Guide

How to generate a WordPress Application Password for Specter

Generate a WordPress Application Password for Specter in under a minute: Users → Profile → Application Passwords. Covers scopes, revoking, why app passwords beat your main login, and what to do if a 2FA plugin blocks them.

Guide

How to refresh old WordPress posts at scale

Find WordPress posts older than 18 months that still earn traffic or links, freshen the facts, update the date, and push back — all from a local folder of markdown.

Guide

Use AI to edit your WordPress posts (the big-picture workflow)

Why AI works on text but WordPress is a hosted admin — and how a two-way markdown sync bridges the gap without locking you into a single model or vendor.