When an Article Gets Published
Publishing means pushing your article content to your connected CMS or webhook endpoint. Here is exactly when and how that happens.
Two Ways to Publish
1. Automatic Publishing
When all of these are true, ManscaleAI publishes without you clicking anything:
- Auto Generation is enabled (Settings → Automation)
- Auto Publishing is enabled (Settings → Automation)
- Exactly one publishing integration is connected
- The article was auto-generated at the daily 06:00 UTC run
Result: Status becomes published if the push succeeds, or scheduled if content was generated but the push failed.
2. Manual Publishing
Click Publish in the article editor when:
- Status is
generated, scheduled, or published (re-publish)
- Exactly one integration is connected
- Auto-publishing setting does not matter for manual publish
Manual generation always sets status to generated — you then publish yourself.
What Happens on Publish
ManscaleAI sends your article to the connected integration:
| Integration |
Behavior |
| WordPress |
Creates/updates a post via the ManscaleAI plugin REST API, uploads featured image |
| Webflow |
Creates a CMS collection item with your field mapping |
| Wix |
Creates a blog post on your Wix site |
| Webhooks |
POSTs JSON payload to your configured URL |
| Framer |
Marks article as published; Framer plugin pulls posts via API (no direct push) |
| Shopify |
Connection supported; direct publish is not yet available |
On success:
- Status →
published
published_at → current timestamp
Daily Generation Schedule
06:00 UTC daily
↓
Find today's queued article (scheduled_date = today)
↓
Generate content (text + SEO + images)
↓
Auto-publish enabled? ──Yes──→ Push to integration
│ ↓
No published / scheduled
↓
generated (manual publish needed)
Prerequisites Checklist
Before articles can go live on your site:
- Connect an integration in Settings → Integrations
- For auto-publish: enable both toggles in Settings → Automation
- Ensure the integration test passes (where applicable)
Troubleshooting
| Problem |
Solution |
Article stuck at generated |
Click Publish manually, or enable auto-publishing |
Article stuck at scheduled |
Auto-publish failed — check integration, then publish manually |
| No publish button |
Connect exactly one integration in Settings |
| Framer articles not appearing |
Open the Framer plugin and click Sync |
Integration Setup Guides
Detailed step-by-step setup for each platform:
