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The Style and rules tab of Content in Trackbase holds everything an article should follow: how you write, what you never say, the facts about your company and where finished articles go. It has five sections, and a save bar that shows which sections have unsaved changes.

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Automatic articles

Turn scheduled drafts on or off, and set the frequency, the weekdays, the number of articles per run, the email addresses to notify and whether an article stops at the outline or at the finished draft. A summary shows what the schedule means in practice, with the next run date and the next topic. See automatic articles.

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How you write

Trackbase learns your style from your own articles. It analyses between 3 and 15 of them and describes your style in five parts: voice, structure, jargon, call to action and other notes.
  • Choose which articles to learn from, or let Trackbase find articles in your sitemap. Product and category pages are skipped.
  • Edit any of the five parts by hand.
  • Analyse again when your style changes.

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Rules every draft follows

  • Forbidden claims: statements an article may never make, such as a guarantee you cannot give. Trackbase checks every draft against them, including claims worded differently.
  • Competitor names: choose when competitors may be named in an article.
  • Disclaimer: text to include where you need it.
  • Language and article length: set the length as a range.
When you change a rule, open drafts are checked again.

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Facts

Facts are details about your company that an article should state exactly, such as your contact page, email address, phone number and returns page. Trackbase also remembers what you filled in for missing facts in earlier drafts, so you only enter a price or delivery time once. Trackbase warns you when a value looks wrong, for example an invalid email address, test text, or a link to another website than your own.

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Publish to WordPress

Connect your WordPress site to send articles there directly.
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Create an application password

In WordPress, go to Users → Profile and create an application password. This needs WordPress 5.6 or newer and a site on HTTPS.
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Enter the connection

In Trackbase, enter your site URL, your WordPress username and the application password. The password is stored encrypted and never shown again.
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Test the connection

Click Test connection. Trackbase checks that it can reach your site and log in.
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Choose how articles arrive

Choose whether an article arrives as a draft or goes live, whether it uses the block editor or the classic editor, and optionally a category. On a multilingual site with Polylang you can choose the language.
After that, each approved draft has buttons to send it to WordPress as a draft or to publish it. Publishing asks for confirmation first, because the article becomes public right away. Images are uploaded to your media library with their alt text.
WordPress is the only website platform with a direct connection. For any other platform, copy the article as HTML or Markdown and mark it as published with its URL.
This connection is separate from the Trackbase Analytics plugin, which measures visitors and crawlers.
Last modified on November 12, 2026