Adding your site

A site in Blog AI is one blog: the website your posts appear on, plus the WordPress or Strapi system that runs it. Everything else hangs off the site: its imported posts, its Google data, its voice profile, its ideas and its drafts. This article covers adding one, how many you can have, and what happens to extra sites if your plan changes.

Before you start

You'll need:

• Your blog's public address, exactly as it loads in a browser (for example https://www.example.com). If your site redirects from one address to another, use the one it ends up on.
• For WordPress: your WordPress username and an application password. Connect WordPress shows how to create one.
• For Strapi: your Strapi server's address and an API token. Connect a Strapi site covers the token's permissions.

Blog AI supports WordPress and Strapi today. Shopify is coming soon; other systems are on the list for later.

Add a site

1. Open Sites. Click Sites in the sidebar, then Add site (or Add your first site if you have none yet).
2. Choose your platform. Pick WordPress (connect with an application password) or Strapi (connect with an API token).
3. Fill in the details. Give the site a name you'll recognise, enter its public address, and add the WordPress or Strapi credentials.
4. Test the connection. Click Test connection. Blog AI checks that it can reach your site and that the user or token is allowed to publish. For WordPress it also detects Yoast SEO or Rank Math and tells you if you need the connector plugin.
5. Add the site. Click Add site and import posts. Blog AI saves the site and starts importing your published posts and pages. You can close the window and follow progress on the site's card.

Credentials are stored encrypted in a secure vault, never in plain text, and never sent back to your browser. When you later edit them, the form shows that a password is saved without showing it.

What you'll see on the site card

Each site on the Sites page has a card with:

• Import progress, for example "40 of 40 posts imported · 12 pages imported". If a large import stops part-way, Import the rest carries on from where it stopped. Show import history lists each run.
• Google status: whether Search Console and Google Analytics are connected, with Connect Google if not.
• Writing style and voice: the link to your voice profile, and when it was last updated.

How many sites you can have

The number of sites depends on your plan:

If you're at your limit, the Sites page says how many you're using and offers Upgrade to add more. Extra sites can't be bought one at a time: to add more, move up a plan, or talk to us if you need more than Agency includes.

Read-only sites after a downgrade or cancellation

If you move to a plan with fewer sites, or your plan ends, Blog AI keeps your oldest sites writable, up to your new limit. Any others become read-only:

• You can still see everything: posts, drafts, Google data, the audit and the performance report.
• You can't generate, publish, schedule or change that site's settings. Scheduled posts for a read-only site don't go out; each one fails with the reason, and you get an email.
• Nothing is deleted, on Blog AI or on your website.

Upgrading again makes the sites writable straight away. The Billing page shows a banner while any site is read-only. See Plans, upgrades, downgrades and cancelling.

Removing a site

Go to Settings, open Sites & writing style, and use Remove site under the site. You'll be asked to type the site's name to confirm.

Removing a site deletes it from Blog AI together with its imported posts, drafts, ideas, suggestions, voice profile and Google data. Nothing is deleted from your website itself. Removal can't be undone, so if you only want to stop publishing, you can simply leave the site alone.

Common problems

• "Connection failed — check your credentials." The username, application password or token was refused. Create a new application password or token and try again.
• The test says to use a different address. Your site redirected Blog AI somewhere else (for example from example.com to www.example.com). Blog AI never follows redirects when it writes, because a redirect can silently turn a publish into a read. Enter the address the test suggests.
• "Site limit reached." You're at your plan's limit. Upgrade, or remove a site you no longer need.

Next

Connect Google so Blog AI can see what people search for: Connect Search Console and Google Analytics.