# Publish Page

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## Overview

Publish Page performs a WordPress CMS action on your linked site when the flow runs.

Configure fields on the General and Design tabs. Execution is handled by the JOrchestrator WordPress plugin.

When the flow reaches this step, JOrchestrator executes **Publish Page** against your linked site or an external integration, using the field values you set on **General** and **Design**. Downstream steps can read the output payload fields defined for this node.

## Why use this node

Publish Page is a **action step** in the **Pages** group. Action steps run in the middle or end of a flow. They perform work on your CMS, call external services, or transform data for the next step.

Typical reasons teams add **Publish Page** to a flow:

- Publish Page on your linked WordPress site as part of an automated pipeline
- Combine with triggers or webhooks to eliminate manual pages tasks
- Use payload placeholders from earlier steps to drive which record is affected

## Example workflows

Common patterns on the canvas:

1. **Trigger or Webhook** → upstream steps → **Publish Page** → **Send Email** or CMS update
2. **Scheduled trigger** → **Publish Page** → **Debug** (while testing) → production action

## Good to know

Link the flow to a WordPress domain in Domain Setup before testing.

## Properties panel

The designer shows these tabs for this node:

| Tab | Purpose |
|-----|---------|
| **Info** | Plain-language description and output payload fields for downstream steps |
| **General** | Canvas label and read-only node ID |
| **AI** | Optional assistant to help draft settings from plain language |
| **Design** | Node-specific configuration fields |

### System (automatic — not edited by the user)

These fields are managed by the designer or runtime — you do not type into them directly:

| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|-------|
| `_nodeId` | Node ID | `node-id` | No | — | — |
| `_payloadFields` | Available Fields | `payload-panel` | No | — | — |

### User-configured — General tab

| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|--------------|-------|------|----------|--------------|-------|
| `label` | Label | `text` | No | — | Node label |
| `value` | Value | `text` | No | — | Enter value |

### CMS site configuration (not on this node's properties panel)

Credentials, API keys, mailers, SMTP, and integration defaults are configured in the CMS plugin under **Node Configuration**, not per step on this node. Link the flow to a domain before testing CMS-backed fields.

## Output payload fields

_This node does not define standard output payload fields in the designer Info tab._

## Related nodes

Other steps in the same area of the palette:

- **Create Page** (`wp-create-page`) — Pages
- **Delete Page** (`wp-delete-page`) — Pages
- **Trash Page** (`wp-trash-page`) — Pages
- **Unpublish Page** (`wp-unpublish-page`) — Pages
- **Update Page** (`wp-update-page`) — Pages