# Blogged Docs > Guides and reference for Blogged: onboarding a Project, running Autopilot, the Knowledge Engine, your blog site, analytics, and billing. Blogged runs the content engine behind a SaaS blog: research, topic selection, drafting, images, internal links, review and publication. This documentation describes shipped behaviour. Every page records the repository paths its claims were verified against, in its frontmatter. Plan allowances change, so they are not restated here. See https://blogged.dev/pricing. The full text of every page is at https://docs.blogged.dev/llms-full.txt, and any page is available as markdown by appending .md to its URL. ## Start here What Blogged does, how the pipeline fits together, and how to publish a first post. - [What Blogged is](https://docs.blogged.dev/start/what-is-blogged.md): Blogged runs the content engine behind a SaaS blog, from research and topic selection through drafting, images, internal links and publishing. - [Quickstart](https://docs.blogged.dev/start/quickstart.md): From a new account to a published post, in the order the product asks for it. - [Core concepts](https://docs.blogged.dev/start/concepts.md): The eight words that appear everywhere in Blogged, what each one means, and how they relate to each other. - [Glossary](https://docs.blogged.dev/start/glossary.md): Short definitions for the terms used across the workspace, the documentation and the product interface. ## Workspaces and Projects How your account is organised, what a Project is, and who can do what inside one. - [Workspace, Project, Blog](https://docs.blogged.dev/workspaces/model.md): Three levels of structure, what belongs at each one, and why pricing sits in the middle rather than at the top. - [Creating a Project](https://docs.blogged.dev/workspaces/projects.md): How a new Project starts, when it has to be paid for, what it inherits from the workspace, and what it does not inherit. - [Running several Projects](https://docs.blogged.dev/workspaces/multiple-projects.md): What changes when a workspace holds more than one Project: billing, discounts, switching and usage. - [Pausing and archiving](https://docs.blogged.dev/workspaces/lifecycle.md): How to stop a Project without deleting it, what archiving changes, how a Project comes back, and the one case where Blogged archives one for you. - [Roles and access](https://docs.blogged.dev/workspaces/roles.md): The four workspace roles, what each is for, and where access is decided in the product. ## Setting up a Project The ten setup steps in the order the product asks for them, and what each one is waiting for. - [Sources](https://docs.blogged.dev/onboarding/sources.md): The first setup step: giving Blogged enough evidence about your product for everything downstream to be grounded. - [Theme](https://docs.blogged.dev/onboarding/theme.md): The second setup step: reviewing the visual identity found on your site and choosing the theme your blog will use. - [Strategy](https://docs.blogged.dev/onboarding/strategy.md): The third setup step: approving what the blog is for, which is what produces your Content Directions. - [Competitors](https://docs.blogged.dev/onboarding/competitors.md): The fourth setup step: confirming who you compete with, or confirming that you would rather not track anyone. - [Plan](https://docs.blogged.dev/onboarding/plan.md): The fifth setup step: what a first Project chooses here, which kinds of additional Project pay before setup instead, and what completes the step. - [Topics](https://docs.blogged.dev/onboarding/topics.md): The sixth setup step: approving the specific articles that will be written, which is what unblocks drafting. - [Calls to action](https://docs.blogged.dev/onboarding/ctas.md): The seventh setup step: reviewing what published posts will ask readers to do. - [Lead capture](https://docs.blogged.dev/onboarding/lead-capture.md): The eighth setup step, and the last required one: deciding how readers are invited to leave an email address. - [Assets](https://docs.blogged.dev/onboarding/assets.md): The ninth setup step: reviewing the images found on your website so drafts can use real product visuals. - [Autopilot](https://docs.blogged.dev/onboarding/autopilot.md): The tenth setup step: deciding whether the Project runs on its own, and activating it if so. ## Content Topics, Content Directions, drafts and the editor: everything between an idea and a published article. - [Content Directions](https://docs.blogged.dev/content/directions.md): The lanes your blog writes in. A Direction decides the angle, the length, the call to action and who has to approve the result. - [Topics](https://docs.blogged.dev/content/topics.md): The queue of articles waiting to be written, where they come from, and what approving one commits you to. - [Posts and statuses](https://docs.blogged.dev/content/posts.md): The six current states a post moves through, the three author modes, the freshness review queue, and the views figure on a published post. - [Creating a post](https://docs.blogged.dev/content/new-post.md): The three ways to start an article: from an approved Topic, from a brief you write, or from a draft you already have. - [Custom briefs](https://docs.blogged.dev/content/custom-brief.md): Writing the instruction yourself when you know exactly what the article should be, without adding a Topic first. - [Importing a draft](https://docs.blogged.dev/content/import.md): Bringing markdown you already wrote into Blogged, and the real difference between preserving it and rewriting it. - [The editor](https://docs.blogged.dev/content/editor.md): The twelve panels beside an article, what each one controls, and which of them can block publication. - [Internal links](https://docs.blogged.dev/content/internal-links.md): How Blogged proposes links between your own pages, why every destination is verified before it is offered, and how to insert one. - [Sources and citations](https://docs.blogged.dev/content/sources-citations.md): Where the evidence behind an article comes from, how claims are resolved, and how a citation is placed. - [Revisions](https://docs.blogged.dev/content/revisions.md): What a saved version records, what the plan's per post revision allowance actually meters, and why those are two different things. ## Autopilot The automation layer: what it runs, what it will not do without you, and how to configure it. - [What Autopilot is](https://docs.blogged.dev/autopilot/overview.md): The scheduler and executor that runs the content pipeline for a Project, and the two gates that decide what it may do. - [Assisted and Full](https://docs.blogged.dev/autopilot/modes.md): The two automation modes, what each one does unattended, and why Full is not a way around review. - [Configuration](https://docs.blogged.dev/autopilot/configuration.md): Cadence, publishing days and times, drafting limits, topic selection and how far ahead a Project may schedule. - [Quotas and reservations](https://docs.blogged.dev/autopilot/quotas.md): How Autopilot spends a Project's allowance, why it reserves before it works, and what happens when the allowance runs out. - [Review and approval](https://docs.blogged.dev/autopilot/review.md): What happens to a post that reaches a closed gate, who can open it, and what approval actually authorises. - [Scheduling and publication](https://docs.blogged.dev/autopilot/scheduling.md): How an approved post reaches a publication slot, what a slot is, and why publication is treated as irreversible. - [Safety boundaries](https://docs.blogged.dev/autopilot/boundaries.md): The things Autopilot will not do regardless of configuration, and the reasoning behind each one. - [When a run stalls](https://docs.blogged.dev/autopilot/troubleshooting.md): The checks to make, in order, when a Project stops producing or never started. ## Knowledge Engine The governed facts every draft is written against, and the controls that keep them true. - [What the Knowledge Engine is](https://docs.blogged.dev/knowledge/overview.md): A governed store of facts about your product, your competitors and your market, each one tied to where it came from. - [Product facts](https://docs.blogged.dev/knowledge/product-facts.md): What Blogged knows about your own product, where it came from, and how to correct something that is wrong. - [Competitor facts](https://docs.blogged.dev/knowledge/competitors.md): How competitor knowledge is gathered, what it is used for, and the rule that governs mentioning a competitor publicly. - [Keyword knowledge](https://docs.blogged.dev/knowledge/keywords.md): What Blogged holds about the terms your market searches for, and how that feeds Topics and drafts. - [Sources and documents](https://docs.blogged.dev/knowledge/sources.md): Adding a page for Blogged to read, uploading a private document, and the difference between the two. - [Verification](https://docs.blogged.dev/knowledge/verification.md): The eight statuses a fact can hold, what each one means, and which of them a draft is allowed to lean on. - [Freshness and conflicts](https://docs.blogged.dev/knowledge/freshness.md): How facts go stale, what happens when two sources disagree, and how a published post is flagged for revisiting. - [Refreshing knowledge](https://docs.blogged.dev/knowledge/refresh.md): How refreshes are scheduled, what a refresh reads, and when to trigger one by hand. ## Assets A visual library scoped to the Project: discovered from your site, reviewed, and placed in articles. - [What Assets are](https://docs.blogged.dev/assets/overview.md): A visual library scoped to one Project: images found on your site, images you upload, and images generated for posts. - [Discovering images](https://docs.blogged.dev/assets/discovery.md): How Blogged finds images on your website, the difference between scraping and capturing, and the limits on both. - [The review queue](https://docs.blogged.dev/assets/review.md): Approving what belongs in the library, and why rejecting is not the same as archiving. - [Metadata and alt text](https://docs.blogged.dev/assets/metadata.md): What each asset should carry, why alt text is not optional, and how metadata affects automatic placement. - [Placing images in a post](https://docs.blogged.dev/assets/placement.md): Choosing the cover, putting a specific asset in a specific section, how many images an article holds, and what happens when you leave it to the pipeline. - [Generated images](https://docs.blogged.dev/assets/generation.md): How images are generated for articles, how many an article may carry, the style and reference controls, and how text inside a picture is handled. ## Your blog site The public site: themes, brand, navigation, search, domains and everything a crawler sees. - [Themes](https://docs.blogged.dev/blog/themes.md): The built in layouts your blog can use, how to preview one, what an article page assembles around your text, and what switching a theme does. - [Brand and typography](https://docs.blogged.dev/blog/brand.md): Colours, fonts, logo and site icon: what is picked up from your site automatically and what you set yourself. - [The homepage](https://docs.blogged.dev/blog/homepage.md): What appears on the front page of your blog, how the sections below the feed are worked out for you, and when to take them over by hand. - [Navigation](https://docs.blogged.dev/blog/navigation.md): The links across the top of your blog, where they should point, and how they behave on a phone. - [Reader search and related reading](https://docs.blogged.dev/blog/search.md): The search box on your blog, what it searches, and how related articles are chosen. - [Your blogged.dev address](https://docs.blogged.dev/blog/subdomain.md): The address every blog starts on, what it is good for, and when to move to your own domain. - [Custom domains](https://docs.blogged.dev/blog/custom-domain.md): Serving your blog from your own hostname: the DNS record, the status transitions, and why apex domains are not supported. - [SEO output](https://docs.blogged.dev/blog/seo.md): What every published page emits for search engines and answer engines, and the settings that change it. - [Tracking and consent](https://docs.blogged.dev/blog/tracking.md): Adding your analytics or advertising tags to the blog, the events emitted, and how consent is handled. ## Growth Turning readers into signups: calls to action, lead capture, leads, and competitor blog tracking. - [Calls to action](https://docs.blogged.dev/growth/ctas.md): What a published post asks the reader to do, where it appears, and where each call to action comes from. - [Lead capture](https://docs.blogged.dev/growth/lead-capture.md): Turning a reader into a contact: the three modes, what is collected, and where those contacts go. - [Newsletter and leads](https://docs.blogged.dev/growth/newsletter.md): The lead list, how confirmation and unsubscribing work, and what sending does and does not cover. - [Competitor Blog Watch](https://docs.blogged.dev/growth/competitor-watch.md): Scheduled monitoring of competitor blogs, what a signal is, and how one becomes a Topic. - [Categories and tags](https://docs.blogged.dev/growth/taxonomy.md): How posts are filed, why the taxonomy should stay small, and what it drives on the public blog. ## Analytics What the blog is doing: search visibility, indexing, conversion and reader feedback. - [Where the numbers come from](https://docs.blogged.dev/analytics/overview.md): The four sources behind the analytics in your workspace, and which question each one answers. - [Search Console](https://docs.blogged.dev/analytics/search-console.md): Connecting Google Search Console, what it brings into the workspace, and what Blogged does with it. - [Indexing and coverage](https://docs.blogged.dev/analytics/indexing.md): Whether your posts are in the index, the four indexing states, and what to do about each one. - [CTA and lead performance](https://docs.blogged.dev/analytics/conversion.md): What readers do after reading: views, clicks, submissions and where each conversion came from. - [Reader feedback and site search](https://docs.blogged.dev/analytics/feedback.md): Two first party signals that are unusually direct: what readers tell you, and what they went looking for. ## Plans and billing The Free grant is the signup benefit, and everything priced after it is per Project. Usage, discounts, checkout, plan changes, cancelling and coming back. - [Plans](https://docs.blogged.dev/billing/plans.md): How Blogged is priced, what a plan controls, why a plan belongs to a Project rather than an account, and when a first charge can be refunded. - [The Free grant](https://docs.blogged.dev/billing/free-grant.md): The one-time Free allowance on a first Project: how you become eligible, what a grant now costs, what it includes, and what running out starts. - [The trial](https://docs.blogged.dev/billing/trial.md): The three day trial: how signup decides whether you are offered it, what it allows, and how it relates to the Free opt-in. - [Usage and limits](https://docs.blogged.dev/billing/usage.md): What is metered, the two reset cadences, what happens at a limit, and why there is no workspace wide number. - [Discounts and promotion codes](https://docs.blogged.dev/billing/discounts.md): The multi Project discount, promotion codes, and how the two combine on one subscription. - [What checkout can refuse](https://docs.blogged.dev/billing/checkout.md): Why a purchase can stop before it starts, what the delayed confirmation means, and why the answer is almost never to pay a second time. - [Changing a plan](https://docs.blogged.dev/billing/change-plan.md): Moving a Project up or down, when the charge lands, when the new allowance actually arrives, and what happens to work already produced. - [Cancelling](https://docs.blogged.dev/billing/cancel.md): How cancelling works, the offers you will see, when access ends, and what happens to your content. - [Coming back after cancelling](https://docs.blogged.dev/billing/reactivate.md): Reactivation buys back every priced Project at once, why a single Project cannot be reactivated on its own, and what happens if the set changes. ## Reference Tables to look something up in: statuses, roles, the crawler, and the machine readable copies of this site. - [Post status reference](https://docs.blogged.dev/reference/post-status.md): The six current post statuses in one table, what each one allows, and what moves a post out of it. - [Roles reference](https://docs.blogged.dev/reference/roles.md): The four workspace roles and the boundary that actually separates them. - [BloggedBot](https://docs.blogged.dev/reference/crawler.md): The crawler that reads public pages on your behalf, what it accesses, and how a site owner can ask to be excluded. - [For AI agents](https://docs.blogged.dev/reference/agents.md): Machine readable copies of this documentation: llms.txt, the full text bundle, and the raw markdown behind every page. ## Help What to check when something is not happening, and the questions that come up most. - [Troubleshooting](https://docs.blogged.dev/help/troubleshooting.md): The problems that come up most often, and the check that resolves each one fastest. - [FAQ](https://docs.blogged.dev/help/faq.md): Short answers to the questions asked most often about how Blogged works. ## Elsewhere - [Product](https://blogged.dev): what Blogged is, for buyers - [Pricing](https://blogged.dev/pricing): plans and current allowances - [BloggedBot](https://blogged.dev/bot): the crawler, and how to be excluded - [Support](mailto:hello@blogged.dev)