Zinn® Connector
Zinn® Connector links a WordPress site hosted anywhere to Zinn Digital®, so the articles you write and schedule there are published here automatically — with their images, in the category and under the author you choose — and, if you want it, the whole site is backed up off-site. If you write your a
Zinn® Connector links a WordPress site hosted anywhere to Zinn Digital®, so the articles you write and schedule there are published here automatically — with their images, in the category and under the author you choose — and, if you want it, the whole site is backed up off-site.
If you write your articles in Zinn Digital® and this WordPress site is hosted somewhere else, this plugin is how the two are introduced.
Paste a pairing code from your Zinn Digital® dashboard and the plugin creates a WordPress application password for itself and hands it to Zinn Digital®. You never see or copy the credential, so it cannot be pasted into the wrong window or left in a support ticket.
The plugin does not change your site. It adds no endpoint, no shortcode and nothing to your public pages, and it makes no outbound request at all until you pair it.
Everything it sends is listed under External services below. In short: one request when you press Connect, a connection-status check for its own screen, and — only if you switch scheduled backups on in your Zinn Digital® dashboard — an hourly check for a due backup, plus the upload itself when one is due.
What you can do with it
- Pair in one step. A single-use pairing code replaces copying an application password between two browser tabs.
- Publish scheduled articles automatically. Articles go live straight away, or arrive as drafts if you would rather read everything first.
- Decide what may happen on your site. Choose the author shown on each article and the category it lands in, and switch image uploads, edits to earlier articles and a per-article email notification on or off.
- See whether the connection works. The status panel says whether the site is paired and, when something is wrong, what is wrong and what to do about it — with a button to check again.
- Disconnect for real. “Disconnect this site” deletes the application password, so the credential Zinn Digital® holds stops working at once.
- Back the site up off-site (optional). Files and database are archived and streamed in fixed-size chunks straight to object storage, so memory use does not grow with the site. Leave folders out, set a size limit, and a backup is skipped rather than started when the disk has no room for it.
