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Machined V3
Machined V3
  • About
  • Quickstart
  • Change log
    • 2025-04-01: Brand Voice beta
    • 2025-03-24: Bulk Research, Language fixes and more
    • 2025-03-16: Stability AI images
    • 2025-02-22: Improvements and bug fixes
    • 2025-01-14: Reduced costs
    • 2024-12-26: Projects
    • 2024-12-10: Improvements and bug fixes
    • 2024-11-12: Custom Outlines GTM
    • 2024-10-06: Humanizer GTM
    • 2024-09-23: Model updates
    • 2024-09-10: Custom Outlines beta
    • 2024-08-25: UX Improvements
    • 2024-08-17: Humanizer improvements
    • 2024-07-22: GPT-4o-mini
    • 2024-06-12: Humanizer beta
  • Who is Machined for?
    • Startups
    • Content Sites
    • Marketing Agencies
  • Walkthroughs
    • Configuring OpenAI API Keys
    • CMS Connections
      • Connecting to WordPress
      • Connecting to Webflow
    • Creating Clusters
      • Auto-Pilot Clusters
      • Manual Clusters
    • Writing Articles
    • Featured Images
    • Publishing
      • Publishing to WordPress
      • Publishing to Webflow
    • Exporting
      • Copy as Rich Text
      • Download as HTML
      • Download as Markdown
      • Download Featured Images
    • Webhooks
    • Research
  • Content Structure
    • Overview
    • Content Types
    • Custom Outlines
    • Custom Briefs and Directions
  • VOICES
    • Overview
    • Built-in Voices
    • Custom Voices
  • Further Customization
  • Research
    • Overview
  • Automated Research
  • Directed Research
  • Linking
    • Overview
  • Internal Linking
  • External Linking
  • IMAGES
    • Overview
    • Stock Photos
    • DALL-E 3
    • Stability AI
  • Troubleshooting
    • OpenAI API Key
    • WordPress integration
  • SEO Strategy
    • Internal Linking
    • External Linking
    • Topical Authority
    • Content Clusters
    • Long-tail Keywords
    • Keyword Cannibalization
    • Reader Engagement
    • Bounce Rate
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  1. Troubleshooting

WordPress integration

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Troubleshooting

WordFence users

If you have WordFence installed, these two settings need to be turned off:

  • Disable WordPress application passwords

  • Block IPs who send POST requests with blank User-Agent and Referer

WP REST API returns 401

  • Check that you have provided the correct credentials

    • The username must be the actual username of the user connecting (not the name of the application password)

    • The application password may have been revoked/deleted, please check in WP

  • If you have WordFence enabled, please configure it appropriately

    • Check how to

  • If the error message contains zapier.php then it is due to the WP Zapier Plugin, see:

WP REST API returns 404

  • One solution was to change permalink settings to "post name", see

WP REST API returns 403

  • If the error message includes the words rayId or challenge then it is due to Cloudflare

  • If the error message includes the words jwt_auth_bad_auth_header then it is due to having JWT authentication installed

    • Solution: Remove JWT Authentication plugin

  • If your site is running on WPEngine, this can be caused by their legacy network configuration

and

Solution: Disable bot challenge mode in Cloudflare (see )

Solution: Reach out to WPEngine support and ask them to resolve ()

https://stackoverflow.com/a/48457298
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/314808/why-does-wp-json-not-work-on-the-plain-permalink-structure
here for some tips
see here for some info
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/undefined-index-http_user_agent-20/
configure WordFence