Abency Connector

Abency Connector links your WordPress site to your agency's Abency workspace (a hosted platform for digital agencies). It is a companion plugin: it does nothing on its own and requires an Abency account to be useful. How it works

• New content and drafts are created directly in WordPress (wp_insert_post). Nothing is published automatically — new items always start as drafts.
• Changes to already-published content are never applied live. Abency sends them here as pending proposals. A site editor reviews each proposal, previews it on the real theme, and then approves or rejects it from wp-admin.
• On approval, the change is merged onto the original post — same ID, same URL, same menus. Nothing is duplicated and no permalinks change.

Why a plugin instead of the REST API Many managed hosts strip the Authorization header before it reaches PHP, which breaks WordPress core REST authentication and Application Passwords. This plugin uses its own X-Abency-Token header (issued during pairing) so it keeps working on those hosts, and it writes content directly with WordPress core functions — no Application Password required. Authentication Pairing uses a one-time code generated in Abency. No passwords are shared: Abency mints two scoped tokens during pairing (one to authorize incoming requests to this plugin, one for this plugin's status callbacks back to Abency). You can unpair at any time from the plugin screen, which deletes the stored tokens. SEO When Yoast SEO or Rank Math is active, the plugin reads and writes the SEO title, meta description and focus keyword for the posts it manages.

1.0.0

• Discover, read and update public REST custom post types by registered slug.
• Validate content type and restrict direct edits to drafts and pending content.
• Check content-specific permissions and current status before approving proposals.
• CPT creation, custom taxonomies and custom fields are not included.

0.1.0

• Initial release: pairing, REST endpoints for content and terms, Yoast/Rank Math SEO bridge, proposal receiver, pending queue with theme preview, approve/merge and reject with status callback.