WordPress quick start

WordPress quick start

This page takes you from nothing to a working assistant in your WordPress admin. Follow it top to bottom — you can finish setup here without leaving the page.

Before you start

You need:

• A WordPress site (5.9 or later) where you are an administrator (the manage_options capability).
• A Cinatra instance you can sign in to — your own self-hosted instance or a cloud instance.

1. Install the plugin

Install Cinatra for WordPress, then activate it:

• From WordPress.org (recommended): in wp-admin, go to Plugins → Add New, search for “Cinatra”, install, and click Activate.
• From a zip: go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, upload the plugin zip, install, and Activate.

2. (Optional) Install the MCP Adapter for content-editing tools

The chat assistant works on its own. To let it edit content with AI tools, also install the WordPress MCP Adapter: download the latest release zip and install it from Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin. The Settings → Cinatra page shows a status indicator for the adapter and links to the release if it is not active.

3. Connect to your Cinatra instance

1. In wp-admin, open Settings → Cinatra.
2. Enter your Cinatra instance URL.
3. Click Connect with Cinatra.
4. On the Cinatra consent screen, approve the connection.

That is it for credentials. The site exchanges an authorization code server-side and stores the connection for you — no API key is copy-pasted, and nothing secret is exposed to your browser. (If your environment cannot use one-click Connect, the Settings → Cinatra page also has manual fields for the instance URL, API key, and agent instance ID.)

4. Open the assistant

Open any post in the WordPress editor. Click the floating Cinatra button to open the chat panel, and ask it to tighten a paragraph, add a section, or fix metadata on the post you are editing.

You are done — you set up and used the integration without leaving this page.

Next steps

• Use it — what the assistant can do day to day.
• Settings & permissions — who can use it and what it is allowed to touch.
• Troubleshooting — if Connect or the assistant does not behave as expected.