The fast path: open the Connect wizard and pick WordPress / Ghost / Sanity / Webflow / custom CMS, then select WordPress (REST API). The wizard saves publishEndpoint as your WordPress /wp-json/wp/v2/posts URL and the test step pings it with a stub post. Pair with the plugin or adapter below for the actual create-post mapping.

You don't need a plugin. Two patterns work.

Pattern A: Server-side proxy + shortcode

In your theme's functions.php:

add_shortcode("mentionwell_blog", function () {
  $url = getenv("MENTIONWELL_API_URL") . "/api/public/" . getenv("MENTIONWELL_SITE_SLUG") . "/posts?limit=12";
  $response = wp_remote_get($url, [
    "headers" => [ "Authorization" => "Bearer " . getenv("MENTIONWELL_API_KEY") ]
  ]);
  if (is_wp_error($response)) return "";
  $body = json_decode(wp_remote_retrieve_body($response), true);
  $out = '<ul class="mentionwell-list">';
  foreach ($body["posts"] ?? [] as $p) {
    $out .= sprintf('<li><a href="/blog/%s">%s</a></li>', esc_attr($p["slug"]), esc_html($p["title"]));
  }
  return $out . "</ul>";
});

Use it in any post or page: [mentionwell_blog].

Pattern B: WP REST endpoint

Register a custom endpoint at /wp-json/mentionwell/v1/posts. Have it call Mentionwell's API server-side, then fetch from your theme's JS.

Custom domain for posts

Set up a rewrite from /blog/(.*) on your WordPress host to a small PHP page that calls the post detail endpoint and renders post.html.

WordPress's own block editor / Gutenberg can stay untouched — Mentionwell sits next to your existing content, not inside it.