Creating & Managing Content
Create articles with AI or by hand, organize them in your library, and take them live.
This covers the full content lifecycle: generate a first draft with AI Writer or start from a blank page, find and organize everything in the Content Library, then publish, edit, and turn finished posts into social content, all from Content Studio.

The Content Library
Content Studio → All Posts is where every piece of content lives: AI-generated, hand-written, blog, or social. Switch between the Blog and Social tabs, then narrow further with the filters below:
- View modes: toggle between card view (visual grid) and list view (detailed table).
- Filtering & search: by title or prompt text, content type, status (draft/published), topic, and date range.
- Editing: click any item to open it in the rich text editor and update the title, body, and metadata.
- Bulk actions: select multiple items with checkboxes to delete in bulk (bulk publish/unpublish are coming soon).

Generate an article with AI Writer
The AI Writer generates SEO/AEO-optimized articles based on your brand's topics and writing style. Click Add Content from All Posts and choose AI Writer, or open Content Studio → AI Writer directly.
- Select a topic: this determines the subject of the article.
- Choose a writing style (optional): pick a content profile to match your desired tone.
- Click Generate and watch real-time progress as the AI writes the article.
- Review and edit the finished draft in the rich text editor before publishing.

Write an article manually
Not every post needs AI. Write Manually (also under Add Content) gives you a blank post wired to a topic, so you can draft it yourself and publish it like any other article.
- Pick a Topic (required) and, optionally, a Title, then click Create & Edit.
- Write in the editor (headings, lists, links, images); your work saves as a draft automatically.
- Publish when ready: it goes live on your hosted blog immediately, or unpublish anytime without losing it.
- Manual vs. AI Writer: both produce a normal post you edit and publish the same way. Manual gives full control from a blank page; AI Writer gives you a first draft to refine.

Publish, edit, and update a post
Open any article from All Posts; its lifecycle controls sit in the top-right corner of the editor to publish it, edit it safely, push updates, or take it down.
- Publish: needs a Title, a Slug, and some content. AEO tells you what's missing if the button stays disabled.
- View it live: the view-post icon next to Slug opens yourbrand.aeo.how/blog/your-slug (or your custom domain).
- Edit a live post safely: changes save as a draft; the published version stays untouched until you click Push.
- Push or discard: Push sends your edits live; Discard reverts to the published version.
- Unpublish: takes the post off your blog and back to draft; it stays safe in your library and can be republished anytime.

Set up your writing style in Brand Kit → Writing Style for consistent tone across all generated content.
No topics yet? Add one under Topics & Keywords first. Every post, manual or AI-generated, must belong to a topic.
Nothing changes on your live blog until you click Push. Edit a published post as much as you like first.
Unpublishing and generating social posts are non-destructive: the original article always stays safe in All Posts.
