WordPress.com StrawberryDrafts that arrive with the excerpt and internal links in
Six sources read and checked, three internal links found, the meta description written, and a category that matches the ones already in use. Note the .com: this is the hosted platform.
Nobody needs help typing. The time goes on everything around the post: reading six sources and checking they say what the summary claimed, finding the three internal links that make the piece useful, writing the excerpt and the meta description everyone leaves empty, and picking a category that matches the six already in use.
A companion does that in the browser and creates the draft with all of it in place, through a connection you approve once. One check first: this page is WordPress.com, the hosted platform. A self-hosted install is a separate entry with different authentication.
What can a companion do with a WordPress.com site?
Whatever actions WordPress.com’s API exposes, and the accurate list is in the Available tools section of the app’s detail page under `strawberry://settings/integrations`, with read-only tools marked. For a publishing platform this centres on posts, and the sensible split is between creating drafts and changing what is live.
The Permissions block on the same page sets each action to Ask every time, Always allow, or off, and consequential steps stop at an approval card anyway. Draft creation at Always allow is comfortable. Publishing to a live site with subscribers is not.
What arrives in the editor instead of a blank page?
A piece with evidence attached. The sourcing half is web research before it is writing: open the six references, check each says what the summary claimed, keep the two that hold up, note the quote with its link.
The other pass is the audit. Empty excerpts, orphaned categories, links pointing at pages that moved, posts that never got a feature image. Dull, quick, and it shows in search results months later. Both patterns sit close to content repurposing, and the marketing playbook covers the surrounding workflow.
- Draft creation with excerpt, meta description, tags and internal links in place.
- Post audits: empty excerpts, orphaned categories, links to pages that moved.
- Publishing and scheduling: live changes, so keep an approval in front of them.
- Confirm you are on the hosted platform rather than a self-hosted install first.
Plan limits are part of the answer here
WordPress.com gates API and plugin capability by plan, and that gate is upstream of anything on the Strawberry side. If an action fails with a permission error on a site that clearly belongs to you, check the plan first. The failure looks like a broken integration and usually is not.
So try the read you care about early rather than building a workflow on an assumption. Whatever the plan will not serve through the API, a companion still does in the tabs you are signed into.
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