Moving data

WordPress

Connect a self-hosted WordPress site to load its published posts and pages into a brain, keep it current as you publish, and add a grounded, cited Ask widget to your site — no theme code.

How it works#

From Settings → WordPress, enter your site address and authorize read-only access with a WordPress Application Password (built into WordPress 5.6+, revocable any time). Ounie pulls your published posts and pages through the WordPress REST API and turns each into a source in the brain you choose — synthesized into the same connected wiki and graph as everything else. Your categories, tags, author, and publish date come along so they grow the brain’s entity pages.

Staying current#

Install the small Ounie Connector plugin and it keeps the brain in step with your site: when you publish, update, or delete a post, it sends a signed change event and Ounie re-syncs just that page. The plugin never sends your content — Ounie always pulls the canonical version from your site, so there’s one source of truth. Edits show up in answers within moments.

There is no shared secret. Each install signs with its own webhook secret— the one you paste into that site’s wp-admin in step 3 below — so a change event is only ever accepted for the site that signed it, and one site can never speak for another.

site-a.comsecret Asite Asite-b.comsecret Bsite BVERIFYRE-SYNCsite-a.com/postsite-b.com/pageONE SECRET EACHSIGNATURE CHECKJUST THAT PAGE

The on-site Ask widget#

The same plugin can drop the Ounie Ask widget onto your site — a grounded, cited answer bubble that draws only from your site’s real content. Show it site-wide with a footer toggle, or place it on specific pages with the [ounie] shortcode or the “Ounie Ask” block. Your site’s address is allowlisted automatically, and the widget is metered by your included widget allowance, then credits — exactly like any other Ounie widget.

Set it up#

  1. 1Connect. In Settings → WordPress, enter https://your-site.com and approve the Application Password on your site.
  2. 2Pick a brain and choose whether to ingest posts, pages, or both, then press Sync now.
  3. 3Install the plugin. Activate the Ounie Connector plugin, then paste the values shown in your dashboard (Ounie URL, Site ID, Webhook secret, Widget ID) into Settings → Ounie in wp-admin.
WordPress connect is available on every plan. A real blog usually needs Pro or Team for the source headroom — the sync tells you if it hits your limit. Your site must be served over HTTPS. Self-hosted (.org) sites are supported today; WordPress.com is coming later.