About this plugin
Promptwatch connects your WordPress site to your Promptwatch project. It does three things:
- Publishes content you write in Promptwatch as standard WordPress posts. You can stage a post as a WordPress draft first, then publish it live. Re-publishing updates the same post instead of creating a duplicate, and a live post keeps its original publish date.
- Optionally adds the Promptwatch analytics tag to your public pages, so visits referred by AI assistants show up in your project’s visitor analytics. Off by default, and it can skip logged-in administrators.
- Optionally sends a log of visits that reach your site (for example visits from AI crawlers) to Promptwatch. Off by default, and it requires a Promptwatch API key.
You need a Promptwatch account to use this plugin. com/docs/academy/wordpress.
How connecting works
There is no password or API key to paste in for publishing. In Settings → Promptwatch you generate a one-time sync token, then paste your site URL and that token into Promptwatch. Promptwatch tests the connection before saving it, so a wrong token or an unreachable site fails immediately with a specific error.
Your site never keeps a readable copy of the token, so it cannot be stolen from your database.
External services
This plugin connects to the Promptwatch service. What is sent, and when, depends on which features you enable:
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Content publishing (required for the core feature). Promptwatch’s servers write content into your site over authenticated REST routes ( promptwatch/v1/sync, promptwatch/v1/publish, promptwatch/v1/config, promptwatch/v1/options ), authorized by the sync token you generate. This is an inbound connection: the plugin receives content; it does not send your content out.
/options only returns this site’s categories and users who can edit posts, so Promptwatch can show them in the connection settings.
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com (only when you enable “Visitor analytics”). The plugin adds a small script to public pages. js in the visitor’s browser and sends analytics events (such as page views), tagged with your Promptwatch project ID, to Promptwatch.
No analytics are sent while this feature is off.
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com (only when you enable “Crawler logs” and set an API key). com/event, authorized by your Promptwatch API key. Nothing is sent while this feature is off or no key is set.
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Featured images (during content publishing). When a document published from Promptwatch includes a featured image, the plugin downloads that image from the URL Promptwatch sends (a token-authenticated sync request) and stores it in your media library as the post thumbnail. No image is fetched outside of a publish.
By using these features you send the data described above to Promptwatch. Please review the Promptwatch Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.