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title: "Publish to Wix"
description: "Connect your Wix blog with an account API key and your Site ID. Articles arrive as native blog posts. Takes about five minutes."
---

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# Publish to Wix

RankControl publishes each approved article as a native post on your Wix
blog. Posts use your theme, your navigation, and your domain, at
`/post/your-slug`. The free Wix plan is enough. Updates to an article revise
the same post.

You need a Wix site with the Blog app added, and access to the Wix account
that owns the site. The API key is created at the account level.

## 1. Make sure that the site is published

A Wix site that was never published serves nothing, blog posts included. If
the site is new, open the editor and click **Publish** once.

Your site URL is your custom domain, or the free address in the form
`https://username.wixsite.com/site-name`. You can see it under **Settings →
Domains** in the site dashboard.

## 2. Generate an API key

1. Go to **manage.wix.com/account/api-keys**, or open your account avatar
   and choose **Account Settings → API Keys**.
2. Click **Generate API Key** and name it.
3. Under **Permissions**, check **All site permissions**. The key must
   include Blog permissions.
4. Enter the email verification code that Wix sends you.
5. Copy the key now. It starts with `IST.` and is shown once.

The key works for every site in your account.

## 3. Copy the Site ID

Open the site dashboard. The Site ID is the long identifier in the address
bar: `manage.wix.com/dashboard/<site-id>/...`. Copy it.

## 4. Connect in RankControl

Go to **Brand Control → Publishing**, open **Add a destination**, and choose
**Wix**. Enter a name, the **Site URL** (step 1), the **API key** (step 2),
and the **Site ID** (step 3). Click **Test connection**.

Then:

1. Choose a **Post author**. Wix requires a site member as the author of
   every post. On most sites this is you, the owner.
2. Under **Publish as**, choose **Published post** (posts go live) or
   **Draft for review** (posts wait in the Wix dashboard).
3. Click **Save destination**.

Only one destination serves articles at a time. Open the saved row and click
**Make active** if new articles must go to Wix.

## What arrives on your blog

- The article body: headings, lists, tables, links, and images. Images are
  imported into your Wix media library.
- The hero image as the post cover. It also appears at the top of the
  article, because Wix post pages do not show the cover inline.
- The slug, the meta title, and the meta description.
- A blog category that matches the article's topic.

With **Draft for review**, a post has no public link until you publish it in
Wix. If you delete a post in Wix, RankControl archives the article and tells
you.

## Analytics

Visit tracking needs one site-wide snippet. Copy it from **Analytics →
Sources** and add it to your site's custom code in Wix. Wix exposes no
request logs, so AI crawler counts are not available for this destination.

## Troubleshooting

**"Wix rejected the credentials."** The key is missing Blog permissions, or
the Site ID belongs to another site. Generate a new key with **All site
permissions** (step 2) and copy the Site ID again (step 3).

**"Connected, but the site has no members."** Wix posts need a member as
author. Log in to the site once as its owner, then click **Test connection**
again.

**Every post URL shows "not published".** The site itself was never
published. Open the editor and click **Publish** once (step 1).

**Posts are published but visitors cannot see them.** Publish the site in
Wix, and make sure that the Blog app is installed.

**A draft has no live link.** Drafts get a public link only after you publish
them in the Wix dashboard.

Source: https://rctrl.com/docs/wix/index.mdx