The Zinn® Connector plugin

The Connector lets Zinn Digital® publish scheduled articles to a WordPress site we do not host. You install it, paste one code, and the site appears in your Zinn® dashboard.

Pairing, start to finish

1. In your Zinn® dashboard, open the site list and choose Connect an existing site. You

get a pairing code that is valid for a short time.

2. On the WordPress site, install the Connector and go to Settings → Zinn® Connector.
3. Paste the code and save.

The screen then shows Connected. If it does not, the two usual causes are a code that has expired — generate another, they are free — and a site that blocks REST API requests, which a security plugin sometimes does.

What we actually get

The plugin creates an ordinary WordPress application password for a dedicated user and sends it to us. That is the whole credential. It is the same mechanism you would use if you typed an application password in by hand; the plugin only saves you doing it and picks a sensible scope.

You can see it under Users → the connector user → Application Passwords, and revoking it there cuts us off immediately. Deactivating the plugin does the same thing.

What it does not do

It is not a second way to publish and it does not open a channel we can push anything through. Publishing goes through the same REST endpoint an application password typed by hand would use, and it is driven from our side by a workflow that will not post the same article twice.

Backups

The Connector also takes a scheduled backup of the site so a connected site is not one you could lose. It runs hourly and reports into your dashboard. If the site is large, the first run takes a while and later runs are much smaller.

Disconnecting

Deactivate the plugin, or revoke the application password. Either is enough, and neither deletes anything on the site.