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Your first published link, in six steps.

recto reads your site, finds the pages nothing links to, and links them using words you already published. Here is the whole path — from sign-in to a live link on your site — in about half an hour. You approve every change.

Before you start: you'll need a redeemed AppSumo code and a WordPress site where you can create an Application Password. Webflow support arrives next.

1Sign in

recto uses passwordless sign-in. Enter your email on the sign-in page and we mail you a magic link — there's no password to remember. Click the link and you're in.

The recto sign-in screen. A red box highlights the email field where you request a magic link.
Enter your email and press Email me a link. The link signs you in for you.

2Connect your WordPress site

recto publishes links back to your site through WordPress's own REST API, using an Application Password — a scoped credential you can revoke any time, separate from your login password. Create one under Users → Profile → Application Passwords in WordPress, then paste it into recto with your site URL and username.

The connect-a-site screen. A red box highlights the Application Password field.
Paste the Application Password WordPress generates. recto verifies it on the spot — a wrong credential is caught here, not later.
Why an Application Password? It's encrypted at rest and used only to publish approved links and confirm they stay live. recto never stores your real WordPress password. See Connect a WordPress site for the click-by-click.

3Read the site

recto crawls your published pages in one pass — up to 10,000 — and builds the internal link graph. A page that nothing else links to is an orphan: live, indexable, but invisible to readers who follow your internal links, and starved of the link equity that helps it rank.

The crawl progress screen. A red box highlights the live page count as recto reads the site.
One read of a finite site. You'll see the page count climb, then the orphan list appears.

4Connect Search Console (optional, recommended)

This is the step that makes recto different. Connect Google Search Console and recto ranks your orphans by the impressions they're already earning — so you fix the page bleeding the most traffic first, not just the deepest one. recto reads your query and impression data; it never writes to Search Console.

The Search Console connect screen. A red box highlights the Connect Google Search Console button.
One read-only OAuth grant. Skip it if you like — recto still works, it just ranks by link structure alone.

5Insert your first link

Open the top orphan. recto proposes paragraphs from related posts where a phrase you already wrote can become the link to the orphan — your sentence is unchanged, one phrase simply becomes a link. Read the suggestion, pick the paragraph that fits, and approve it. Nothing publishes without your click.

The quick-wins screen: an orphan page, with a phrase you already wrote shown highlighted as the proposed link, and the paragraph picker below it.
The highlighted phrase is the anchor. Approve, and recto pushes the link through the WordPress API into the published post.

6Confirm it's live

After a push, recto re-fetches the published page and confirms the link is present in the live HTML — so "done" means actually on your site, not just queued. The card flips to verified.

The audit log. The status legend reads 'verified live — link is present in published HTML', the state every push reaches once recto re-fetches the page.
Verified live means recto re-fetched your page and found the link in the published HTML. It survives even if you cancel — the link lives in your CMS, not ours.

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