Schedule posts to WordPress with LazyRelay

LazyRelay schedules articles to your own self-hosted WordPress site, then checks that the public page really shows the post. LazyRelay's difference is Proof-of-Publish: after a post goes out, it checks WordPress again to confirm the post is really live.

What you can post to WordPress

• Text: WordPress publishes no post length limit that LazyRelay could verify, so this page does not state one (not verified). LazyRelay itself refuses posts over 5000 characters. The post text becomes the article body.
• Text-only posts are accepted.
• Images: JPEG, PNG, WEBP, GIF, up to 20 MB each. Upload limits are set by each site's host, so your site may refuse a larger file.
• Video: MP4, MOV, WEBM, up to 20 MB, duration limit not verified.
• Several files in one post: up to 10 images (no video in a multi-image post).
• Title: the first line of your post is the article title, unless you set a title under Platform options.
• Publish or draft: you can publish the article or save it as a draft on your site.
• Categories and tags: you can give lists of names, and LazyRelay creates any that are missing.
• Featured image: the first image becomes the featured image, and any extra images are added at the end of the article.

LazyRelay checks file size and format before a post is scheduled and tells you which limit was hit. For the full comparison of what each platform supports, see What Works on Which Platform.

How to connect WordPress

1. You need your own self-hosted WordPress site, version 5.6 or newer, with an address that starts with https. WordPress.com hosted blogs are not supported.
2. In WordPress go to Users, then Profile, and scroll to Application Passwords. Type LazyRelay as the name and click Add. Copy the password it shows, because it is shown only once. Do not use your normal login password.
3. In LazyRelay, open the Social Platforms tab and click the WordPress tile.
4. Enter your site address (for example https://yoursite.com), your WordPress username, and the application password. Click Connect.
5. If connecting fails, some hosts and security plugins switch Application Passwords off or block them. In that case you need to allow them first.

How Proof-of-Publish works on WordPress

For WordPress, live means what a stranger can see. LazyRelay reads the article back from your site with the account's login and requires WordPress to say it is published, not a draft, not scheduled for later, not pending review, not private, and not password protected. It then requests the article's public address with no login and requires that page to answer successfully. A post saved as a draft is reported as saved as a draft, never as confirmed live.

Want the general idea? Read Does Your Post Actually Publish?

Limits and things to know

• Only self-hosted WordPress sites work. WordPress.com hosted blogs are not supported yet.
• A post saved as a draft is not public, so it is never marked confirmed live and it is not counted in analytics.
• Rate limits and upload limits depend on your site's host, and LazyRelay does not add a cap of its own.

Frequently asked questions

Figures on this page come from LazyRelay's platform rules, checked on 2026-09-30. Sources: developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/posts/, developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/using-the-rest-api/authentication/. Anything marked not verified has no published source.

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