Connect WordPress in one click — no API key to copy
Connecting WordPress no longer means copying a key
Setting up the plugin used to mean leaving WordPress, finding your way to the right dashboard page, copying a secret key, and pasting it back. Every one of those steps was a place to get lost, and the key itself was the kind of credential that ends up in a clipboard, a notes app, or a support ticket.
Now there is one button.
- Click Connect to Savanto. You sign in — or create a free account right there if you don't have one — approve the connection for your site, and you land back in WordPress connected.
- There is no key to handle. The plugin and Savanto exchange credentials directly, so it never passes through your clipboard or your browser history.
- Search and chat are switched on, and your first content sync starts in the background.
Pasting a key still works if you prefer it, tucked behind Use a secret key instead on the Settings screen. It's the right tool for moving a site between accounts.
Connecting is harder to get wrong
The one-click path fixed the obvious problem. Then we went looking for the ways it could still leave you stranded.
- Connecting uses the workspace already on your account rather than trying to create another and failing with a workspace-limit error. Reconnecting the same site reuses the workspace it had before, instead of creating a duplicate.
- The first sync is queued, not run while you wait. Large catalogs used to time out after credentials were saved, leaving a site that was connected but looked broken.
- Setup that stops halfway is now detected and reported, with a Finish setup button that completes it. Previously the site showed as connected while search and chat stayed off and the first sync never ran — indistinguishable, from the outside, from success.
- A failed connection says why, including what Savanto sent back. It used to blame HTTPS for every failure, which was usually wrong and sent troubleshooting down the wrong path.
- Signing up part-way through has longer to finish, so the connection no longer expires while you're checking your inbox for the verification link.
Order support tells the truth about HTTPS
Order lookups need your site served over HTTPS — Savanto calls your store back to fetch them. On a site without a certificate, the Status screen used to report an SSL failure, which reads like something is broken rather than something isn't available yet. It could also show order support as registered and failed at the same time.
Both are fixed. The screen now says HTTPS is required and what to do about it, and Retry Registration follows the same rule instead of repeating a request that could not succeed.
Clearer feedback while you wait
Small things, all in the same category: the product knowing something and not telling you.
- Connect and Finish setup now show that they're working. Both spend a moment talking to Savanto before the page changes, and previously looked unresponsive — which invited a second click that started the work twice.
- A slow content sync says so, and keeps saying so until it reports. It used to go quiet.
- Connecting now shows one message about what happened. Two used to appear, disagreeing about whether the sync had finished.
- The Sync switch in the Posts, Pages and Products lists no longer looks broken while it saves.
Per-item control in the post lists
The Savanto columns in the Posts, Pages and Products lists are now labelled Sync and Visibility rather than unlabelled icons, and sized to sit properly in a table row. A single post or product can be excluded from your knowledge base, or hidden from search results, without leaving the list.
Readable links and a visible focus ring
An audit of our own site found our brand purple being used as text, where it did not carry enough contrast against the dark background — including on links in these docs and on Sign up for free. The same colour was the site's only focus indicator, which keyboard users depend on to know where they are.
Both now clear WCAG AA. The brand colour is unchanged where it belongs, on buttons and fills; what changed is the colour used as ink.
Documentation caught up
The WordPress guides are rewritten around the one-click flow, with fifteen screenshots recaptured from the current admin. If you followed the old "copy your API key first" instructions and wondered where that page went — it's gone, and so is the step.
Plugin versions 1.4.11, 1.4.12 and 1.4.13. Update from your WordPress plugins screen, or download from savanto.ai/downloads.