Question 1

Who is this workflow for — do I need it if I already publish through WordPress?

Accepted Answer

No — this is for teams who don't publish through the SearchChamp dashboard or the WordPress plugin and want full control of their own repo or CMS instead. If you're on WordPress, the WordPress plugin publishes directly with no separate tool calls needed.

Question 2

Do I need a specific SearchChamp plan to use these tool calls?

Accepted Answer

The pull-publish workflow uses the same MCP connector as the rest of the Claude and ChatGPT integrations, so it's available anywhere the connector is — no separate plan requirement beyond having a connected SearchChamp workspace.

Question 3

What exactly does get_article_content return?

Accepted Answer

The full article body, its metadata (title, meta description, target keyword), and the JSON-LD structured data SearchChamp generated for the piece — everything you need to publish it correctly in your own repo or CMS without hand-recreating the SEO metadata.

Question 4

What happens if I forget to call report_publish?

Accepted Answer

The page goes live, but SearchChamp never learns its canonical URL — so rank tracking and outcome attribution can't find it or start measuring it. The content itself is unaffected; you just lose the automatic connection between the draft and its published performance until you call report_publish.

Question 5

Can I edit the draft before publishing, or does it have to go live as-is?

Accepted Answer

Edit it exactly like you would any other file in your repo or CMS — nothing about this workflow expects the draft to be published unedited. report_publish only needs the article ID and the final canonical URL once it's live, regardless of what changed in between.

Question 6

Does this work with any repo or CMS, or only specific platforms?

Accepted Answer

Any of them — a static-site repo, a headless CMS, or a custom publishing pipeline. SearchChamp only needs the canonical URL back via report_publish; it doesn't need to know how or where you actually built and deployed the page.

Question 7

Can I use this alongside the SearchChamp dashboard or the WordPress plugin?

Accepted Answer

Yes — they're independent publishing paths into the same SearchChamp workspace. Some articles can go out through the dashboard or WordPress plugin, others through this code workflow, and rank tracking treats them the same way once report_publish (or the equivalent dashboard/plugin publish step) has recorded the canonical URL.

Publish SearchChamp drafts from your own editor.

Four tool calls.

List your draft articles

Pull the full draft

Edit it in your own repo or CMS

Report the publish

The whole sequence, at a glance.

Publishing from code — FAQ

Set up the connector first.