How to Auto-Post RSS to WriteFreely and Write.as (2026)

Updated: 2026-09-28

Short answer: in PostRSS open Accounts → Add new WriteFreely / Write.as account and connect either your blog on write.as or your own WriteFreely instance by entering its address. Then open Cibles → Add feed, choose WriteFreely / Write.as in Target settings and add your feed under Add source (Type = RSS feed, Link = your feed address). Every new feed item is published as a full post on your blog, not as a link. WriteFreely and Write.as are included from the Professional plan.

WriteFreely is open-source blogging software built around one idea: get everything out of the way except the text. No themes to choose, no widgets, no analytics dashboard, no comment section. Write.as is the hosted version run by the same project. This guide is the long version; the auto-post RSS to WriteFreely page has the short one.

Full posts, not links

This is the distinction that matters when choosing a destination. Most social and chat integrations post a title and a link; WriteFreely publishes the whole post on your blog.

That makes it a genuine publishing destination rather than a notification channel, and it changes what a good source feed looks like. A summary-only feed produces a blog of stubs, which is worse than no blog. If your CMS has a full-text feed option, this is the integration that most rewards turning it on.

Write.as or your own server

The two options behave the same way from here. Write.as is the hosted service, with an account and nothing to maintain. A self-hosted WriteFreely instance is software you run, which is what people choose when the point is that the writing lives on infrastructure they control.

For a self-hosted instance the usual requirement applies: the server has to be reachable from the internet over HTTPS. A blog nobody outside can reach cannot receive posts from an external service either.

Why the minimalism is the feature

It is tempting to read WriteFreely's lack of features as a limitation. For the use case this integration serves — a clean, permanent, fast copy of your writing — the absence is the point.

There is no theme to break on an update, no plugin to keep patched, no comment spam to moderate and no tracking to disclose. A post published there in 2026 will render the same way in 2036 because there is almost nothing to go wrong. For writers who want their words to outlive whatever platform is fashionable, that is the whole proposition.

Who uses this

• Writers keeping a clean archive of work published elsewhere.
• Privacy-minded publishers who do not want analytics attached to their readers.
• Self-hosters running WriteFreely alongside other services on their own machine.
• Anyone syndicating from a heavier CMS, where the WriteFreely copy is the fast, permanent version.

WriteFreely next to the other publishing destinations

Among the places PostRSS can publish a full article rather than a link — WordPress, Ghost, Blogger, Webflow CMS, Wix Blog, Dreamwidth, the Japanese platforms — WriteFreely occupies the minimal end. There is no theme system to configure, no plugin ecosystem, and no dashboard beyond the editor.

That makes it a poor choice as your main site and an excellent one as a durable secondary. Ghost gives you a newsletter and memberships; WordPress gives you everything and a maintenance schedule; WriteFreely gives you text at a URL that will keep working. Publishers often run one of the first two as the original and WriteFreely as the copy that outlives it.

If that is your setup, keep the link back to the original in the feed so readers who arrive at the archive can find the live version.

Setting it up, step by step

1. Have your Write.as blog, or the address of your own WriteFreely instance, ready.
2. In PostRSS, open Accounts and choose Add new WriteFreely / Write.as account. Connect the blog on write.as, or enter your own instance's address.
3. Open Targets and click Add feed. One feed going to one destination is one Target.
4. In Target settings, choose WriteFreely / Write.as and the account you just connected.
5. Click Add source. Set Type to RSS feed and paste your feed address into Link. Save.
6. Check the first item that arrives. PostRSS checks the feed every 5 minutes, and every minute on Enterprise plans.

PostRSS publishes items that appear in the feed after the Target starts running. It does not import the back catalogue — the alternative would be a destination flooded with years of archive on its first day.

Check the feed before you check the integration

When a destination goes quiet, the feed is usually the cause. Open the feed URL in a browser first.

• Anything new since you connected it? Only items appearing after the Target starts running are published.
• Full text or a summary? A summary-only feed produces thin posts, and nothing downstream can restore text the feed never sent.
• Absolute links? Relative URLs work on your site and break everywhere else.
• Valid XML? A feed address returning an HTML error page produces silence rather than an error.

All four are fixed in your content system.

Which plan includes it

WriteFreely and Write.as is included from the Professional plan. Each destination you connect counts as one Target, and your plan decides how many Targets and how many posts a month you get. An annual subscription is cheaper than paying monthly. Current limits per tier are on the pricing page, and the full lineup of 66 networks is on the supported networks page. The WriteFreely and Write.as page has the short version of the setup.

When posts stop appearing

• A self-hosted instance is unreachable. It has to answer over HTTPS from outside your network.
• The connection was revoked. Reconnect the blog under Accounts.
• Posts arrive truncated. The source feed publishes summaries rather than full text.
• Nothing new in the feed. Only items appearing after the Target starts running are published.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this publish the whole article or just a link?

The whole post. WriteFreely is a publishing destination rather than a notification channel, which is why a full-text source feed matters so much here.

Can I use my own WriteFreely server instead of Write.as?

Yes. Enter the address of your instance instead of connecting a write.as blog. The instance needs to be reachable over HTTPS from the internet.

Will my formatting survive?

WriteFreely is deliberately minimal, so elaborate layout is simplified. Text, headings, links and images are the safe ground — which is generally what people choose it for.

Is there a comment section to moderate?

No. WriteFreely has no comments, no likes and no analytics by design. That is a large part of why writers pick it.

Does this create duplicate content?

Publishing the same text on two domains is duplication, and search engines will pick one to rank. If the original matters for search, treat the WriteFreely copy as an archive rather than as a competing page.

Which plan includes WriteFreely?

The Professional plan, alongside the other open-web publishing destinations.

Can I run WriteFreely alongside my main blog?

That is the usual pattern. The heavier CMS stays the original with its newsletter, memberships and analytics, and the WriteFreely copy is the fast, permanent archive that needs no maintenance.

The bottom line

WriteFreely is for people who want the text and nothing else, and it publishes full posts rather than links. Connect a write.as blog or your own instance, make sure your source feed carries full text, and the archive keeps itself. It is included from the Professional plan.