After having successfully connected your WordPress website you might be wondering what all of the settings do inside the plugin. This article takes a deeper look at all the available options.
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Start configuring your WordPress plugin settings
In your WordPress Settings menu, click on StoryChief. You should be presented with a similar screen as below.
1. Configuring your post type
This defines where you want your StoryChief articles to be published. Typically you'd want to leave this on the default (post), but it might as well be something else. Custom post types like 'news' are frequently used as well.
If you want to publish to multiple post types, head over to this article.
2. Testing mode
Testing mode ensures that any article is published as a draft instead of live. This is great for initial testing but should be disabled once you are ready to go live.
⚠️ Caution: StoryChief won't allow you to publish multi-channel or social posts to this article when in Testing mode.
3. Debug mode
Mostly for developers, this option logs any error happening to the log file for easy debugging.
4. Auto-create authors
StoryChief and WordPress map authors based on email address. If the author does not exist on WordPress, this option will automatically create a new author on WordPress.
5. Auto-create categories
StoryChief and WordPress map categories based on a slug. If the category does not exist on WordPress, this option will automatically create a new category on WordPress.
6. Auto-create tags
StoryChief and WordPress map categories based on a slug. If the category does not exist on WordPress, this option will automatically create a new category on WordPress.
7. Side-load images
By default, all images in the content are hosted on our CDN. If you prefer hosting and serving the images yourself you can enable this option. It will automatically download all the images from the content to your WordPress website.