“Site is not added” – How to Fix?

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First of all, please check the video below in order to make sure that you’re doing everything correctly when adding a new website in the plugin settings.

Sometimes, when you’re trying to add a new site in Settings > Crosspost > Sites, you could get an error like this:

site is not added

When it happens, I recommend you double-check the following:

  1. Obviously, I recommend double-checking the Site URL, Login (which is your WordPress username on Site 2), and Application Password – that all the fields are filled and filled correctly. And by the way, the user you’re creating an Application Password for should be an administrator.
  2. Next, please check if your site (Site 2 especially) is using a secure SSL connection; in other words, its URL should start with https://. It is required by WordPress when we use its REST API. Luckily, there are free SSL certificates out there provided by Let’s Encrypt and available on every good host. It is not necessary if you work on localhost, but for local websites, please make sure that your Site URL contains “local” or “localhost”. Also, in order to create an application password, you will need to add the WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE constant to your wp-config.php file and set its value to local.
  3. Next, please open this page https://YOUR SITE/wp-json – If you get an error, there could be two reasons – either REST API is turned off by one of your plugins or, most likely, you just have to go to Settings > Permalinks, choose any option available there except the first one (“Plain”) and click Save changes.
  4. If nothing from the above helped, I recommend renaming your .htaccess file in the site root folder to 1.htaccess, and then please go to Settings > Permalinks and click the button Save Changes.
  5. Last but not least, it may be a plugin on a target website that interrupts the REST API authorization, for example, “WordPress API Posts and Pages Sync with Multiple WordPress Sites” from CodeCanyon or WordFence. Please try to deactivate plugins one by one on a target site and see if it helps. You can read bout WordFence configuration here.

Please don’t create a support ticket unless you have tried all the steps mentioned above. Not one, not two, but all 🙃

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