Abency Connector

Description

Abency Connector links your WordPress site to your agency’s Abency workspace
(a hosted platform for digital agencies). It is a companion plugin: it does
nothing on its own and requires an Abency account to be useful.

How it works

• New content and drafts are created directly in WordPress (wp_insert_post).
  Nothing is published automatically — new items always start as drafts.
• Changes to already-published content are never applied live. Abency sends
  them here as pending proposals. A site editor reviews each proposal,
  previews it on the real theme, and then approves or rejects it from wp-admin.
• On approval, the change is merged onto the original post — same ID, same
  URL, same menus. Nothing is duplicated and no permalinks change.

Why a plugin instead of the REST API

Many managed hosts strip the Authorization header before it reaches PHP, which
breaks WordPress core REST authentication and Application Passwords. This plugin
uses its own X-Abency-Token header (issued during pairing) so it keeps working
on those hosts, and it writes content directly with WordPress core functions — no
Application Password required.

Authentication

Pairing uses a one-time code generated in Abency. No passwords are shared: Abency
mints two scoped tokens during pairing (one to authorize incoming requests to this
plugin, one for this plugin’s status callbacks back to Abency). You can unpair at
any time from the plugin screen, which deletes the stored tokens.

SEO

When Yoast SEO or Rank Math is active, the plugin reads and writes the SEO title,
meta description and focus keyword for the posts it manages.

External services

This plugin connects to Abency, a third-party SaaS platform, and does not
function without an Abency account. It communicates with the Abency instance whose
URL you enter when pairing (for the hosted service this is https://app.abency.com;
agencies may self-host at a different URL, which you provide during pairing).

The plugin talks to Abency in these cases:

• When you pair the plugin (you click “Pair”): it sends the pairing code you
  entered and this site’s URL (home_url()) to Abency’s pairing endpoint, and
  receives back the two scoped access tokens plus the paired brand identifier.
• When you approve or reject a proposal: it sends the resulting status
  (applied or rejected) and an optional note to the callback URL that Abency
  provided during pairing.

The plugin does not send any site data to Abency in the background or on a
schedule. Incoming requests from Abency (creating drafts, sending proposals) are
initiated by Abency and authenticated with the token issued during pairing.

Please review Abency’s privacy policy and legal notice before pairing:

• Privacy Policy: https://abency.com/privacy-policy
• Legal notice: https://abency.com/aviso-legal