Getting started with WordPresto

WordPresto builds a living intelligence model of a website or writing project, gives you a central Canvas to work in, and prepares approved content for publishing. This guide gets you from nothing to a working project.

Create your account

You can sign up and sign in two ways, and both reach the same account:

• Continue with Google — one click, no password to choose or remember. WordPresto asks Google only who you are (your name and email address); it gets no access to your Gmail, Drive or anything else.
• Email and password — the classic route, with a password of at least 8 characters.

If you first signed up with a password and later click “Continue with Google” using the same address, the two are joined into one account rather than creating a second. You keep your projects, credits and history either way.

Signing in with Google is not the same as connecting Google for Search Console and GA4 data. That is a separate, deliberate step inside the app, with its own permissions, and you can use either without the other. See “Connecting Google” for that.

If your account was created through Google and you later want a password too, use the “Forgot password?” link on the sign-in page to set one.

Start a project

There are two kinds of project:

• A Website Project — a living model of a real domain. It progressively learns the site’s pages, search queries, analytics, keywords and technical health.
• A Writing Project — a model of a writing task (an article, a report, a contract) that uses the same Canvas and specialist Workers, without needing a crawler or domain intelligence.

To begin, tell Emma the domain you want to work on (for example “look at example.com”), or start a Writing Project by describing what you want to write.

What happens next

When you scan a domain, WordPresto canonicalises it and creates a persisted project. From then on every surface — the Dashboard, Visual Intelligence, Project Home and Emma — reads from the same project intelligence layer. Nothing is invented: where data is missing, WordPresto shows that it is missing and what to do about it.

Two dashboards

WordPresto has two connected home surfaces, switchable from the top bar:

• The Command Centre is the main dashboard: the project switcher, quick actions, Visual Intelligence and Emma. Every focused surface (the Canvas, integrations, project settings, keyword research) opens here as an overlay, so you never lose your place.
• The Writer Dashboard is the writing home: your documents, the content calendar, social engagement and prepared work. Opening or creating a document takes you into the Canvas.

Your credit balance is always visible in the Credits chip; anything that spends credits says so before it runs.

The core workflow

1. Project intelligence — connect data sources and run a crawl so the project knows the site.
2. The Canvas — create, import, edit, proof and review content in the central rich editor.
3. Specialist Workers — route Draft, Rewrite, SEO, Schema, Clarity and other Workers around the Canvas to check and improve your content.
4. Human review and approval — you approve content before anything is published.
5. Publishing — approved content is prepared for its destination: your website (WordPress, Sanity or a site repository) or your social channels (LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram), always on your explicit action.

First steps that unlock the most

• Set a target market (country, plus an optional city or region). Keyword and competitor data are country-scoped, so this is a prerequisite for keyword research and AI-visibility.
• Connect Google (Search Console and GA4) for real queries, clicks, impressions and engagement.
• Run a crawl so Site Health, orphan detection and internal-link mapping have pages to work with.
• Connect your channels (social accounts and your website destination) when you are ready to publish, and set a content brief so drafting follows your editorial line from day one.

If you are ever unsure why a surface is empty, ask Emma — she reads your project’s real readiness state and will tell you the exact blocker and how to fix it.