MBX Flow

No. Connecting gives the site and MBX Flow two keys, one for each direction, and they work only on the plugin’s own endpoints: reading the site’s name and version, creating an entry the way you configured, renewing the keys and disconnecting. They cannot log in, edit other content or read your users. Of the key MBX Flow uses to reach the site, the site keeps only a fingerprint, so a copy of the site’s database does not hold it.

So that a connect code that got into the wrong hands cannot join a site you do not know. After you press Connect here, MBX Flow shows the site’s address with a Connect this site button. Only use a code you created yourself in your own workspace: whoever owns the code can publish entries on the blog.

2.1.0 connects in a safer way, so the old connection is dropped when you update. Get a new connect code in MBX Flow and connect the site again; your sharing and publishing settings stay.

Yes. The plugin page has one switch for each: “Share articles from this blog to MBX Flow” and “Let MBX Flow publish entries on this blog”. With the second one off, MBX Flow is told that publishing is switched off on the site when it tries.

No. Every entry created from MBX Flow is marked, and marked entries are never shared, so a post cannot go round in a loop.

Posts, when published for the first time, if “Share when published” is on for them. Password-protected articles are never shared. The default is on the plugin’s MBX Flow page; each article’s editor has an MBX Flow box to change it. Updating an article that was already shared does not share it again; saving one whose share failed tries again. Other post types can be added with the mbxflow_post_types filter.

Yes, both parts of it, on the plugin’s MBX Flow page and per article in the editor’s MBX Flow box. “Write the post with AI” off means the social post is the article’s title, excerpt and link, with its tags as hashtags, and no AI is used. “Post now” means it goes out as soon as the article is published; “best time (AI)” lets MBX Flow choose the slot.

About a minute after publishing. The share is queued so that the choices in the article’s MBX Flow box are saved before it is sent. The box then shows “Shared on MBX Flow” with the time the social post is scheduled for.

Yes. Sharing new articles and publishing from MBX Flow to this blog both work on every MBX Flow plan, Free included. The Free plan needs no card and never expires.

MBX Flow (admin menu) → Disconnect. The keys are deleted here and MBX Flow is told the site left. You can also disconnect the site from MBX Flow under Accounts; the plugin page then says so and asks for a new code. Deleting the plugin removes its settings; the entries it created stay.