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 — Today, the Command Centre, 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.

Finding your way around

Every page shares one layout: the menu on the left, a bar across the top with the project switcher, and a header that says what the page is, what state it is in and what to do next.

• Today is where you land. It is the briefing for the open project: what is ready for you, what deserves a decision (including changes to your live site waiting on your approval) and what changed.
• The Command Centre holds the project switcher, quick actions, Visual Intelligence and your credits wallet.
• Docs is the writing home: your documents and prepared work. Opening or creating a document takes you into the Canvas.
• Social is one desk for every social channel, with Today, Create, Plan (your schedule, calendar and campaigns), Inbox, Learn and Discover. Pick a channel once and every part of the desk follows it.
• Connections is where you connect Google, Bing, your social accounts and your website. If a connection stops working, a chip appears in the top bar on every page and takes you straight there.

Emma is on every page. Open her from the bubble in the bottom-right corner and she docks beside the page you are on, knowing which page it is and what you have open.

Anything that spends credits says so in plain words on its button, before it runs. Your balance is on the Credits chip in the Command Centre.

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.