# Managing the blog with AI

> Run your whole blog from chat — write and fill posts, change metadata, publish, fix broken layouts, and restore the header.

Source: https://knowledge.estage.com/blog/ai/
Part of the ESTAGE knowledge base (https://knowledge.estage.com). Full corpus: https://knowledge.estage.com/llms-full.txt

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Everything the [Blog panel](/blog/posts/) does, you can also do by chat — and a few things
are *faster* that way. The blog has its own family of AI commands that execute directly,
without a long build turn.

## Writing

- **Write a post from scratch** — *"write a blog post about sustainable packaging"*. You can
  steer it: length (*short / long*), tone (*casual / professional / technical*), author,
  categories, whether to publish right away, and even the cover (*"with a cover image of a
  forest"*).
- **Continue the post you're viewing** — open a post in the preview and say *"continue the
  body"* or *"add a section about pricing"*. Genesis knows which post you're on and extends
  its body.

## Managing

All of these resolve the post from how you refer to it — by title fragment or slug
(*"the Tesla post"*, *"my latest post"*):

- **Publish / unpublish** — *"publish the launch post"*, *"make that post a draft again"*.
- **Edit metadata** — *"rename the Tesla post to Launch Day"*, *"set the author to Sarah"*,
  *"move it to the News category"*, *"change the cover"*.
- **Delete** — *"delete the post about X"* (removes it everywhere: page, listing, feed).
- **Add authors and categories** — *"add author John Doe with a short bio"*, *"new category
  Tutorials, blue"*.

:::note
One thing chat can't do either: **renaming a slug** (the URL part). It's locked to protect
shared links — delete and recreate the post if the URL must change.
:::

## Fixing

Three repair commands for when something looks wrong:

- **"No header on my blog"** — installs your site's header and footer on all blog pages.
  Needed if the blog was enabled before your header existed, or navigation got lost along the
  way.
- **"Fix the blog layouts"** — resets the four blog page templates to their canonical state.
  Use when the blog's structure itself is broken. (It's a reset — custom styling of those
  templates is replaced.)
- **"Repair broken blog posts"** — rebuilds post files and the blog's internal index when
  posts are missing from the list or won't render.

## A safety note

The blog's content pipeline is protected: the AI can't quietly invent or overwrite post files
during unrelated edits — posts are only created and changed through the blog commands and the
Blog panel. Your content stays where you put it.