AirBlog is Pilot's built-in blog engine. Create, manage, and publish blog posts with a full-featured editor, category organization, reader comments, and automatic RSS feeds.
Key Features
- Post Editor: Write posts in a rich text editor with full formatting, embedded images, and videos. Auto-generates a URL slug from the title.
- Publishing Controls: Save as draft, publish immediately, schedule for a future date, or archive posts. Mark posts as featured or sticky.
- Categories: Organize posts with color-coded, icon-tagged categories. Posts can belong to multiple categories.
- Tags: Add free-form tags to posts for additional organization and discoverability.
- Comments: Readers can submit comments with threaded replies. Choose between auto-approve, manual moderation, or approve-after-first-comment modes.
- Media Library: Browse, search, and insert images or videos from your Assets Manager directly into posts or as a featured image.
- SEO Fields: Set a meta title, meta description, keywords, canonical URL, and robots settings per post. Character counters guide optimal lengths.
- RSS Import: Automatically pull posts from external RSS feeds on a schedule (every 6–48 hours), with options to auto-publish and download images.
- AI Assistant: Generate full articles, outlines, multiple title options, or improved excerpts from a topic and keywords. Choose tone and length.
- Dashboard Stats: At-a-glance counts for published posts, drafts, total views, and pending comments.
How to Use
- Open AirBlog from the sidebar and select the site you want to manage from the top filter.
- Click New Post to open the editor. Enter a title — the URL slug fills in automatically.
- Write your content in the editor. Use the toolbar to format text, add links, or insert media from your library.
- In the right panel, assign categories, add tags, set a featured image, and configure visibility (public, private, or password-protected).
- Expand SEO to fill in the meta title and description for search engines.
- Click Save Draft to save without publishing, or Publish to make the post live. Use Schedule to set a future publish date and time.
- To moderate comments, click the Comments tab. Approve, mark as spam, reply, or delete comments individually or in bulk.
- To import from an external blog, go to the RSS Import tab, add a feed URL, set the fetch interval, and click Fetch Now to preview items before importing.
Tips
- Use the AI Assistant (wand icon in the editor) to quickly draft an article or generate title ideas — then edit to match your voice.
- Set the comment moderation mode in Blog Settings to "First" to auto-approve returning commenters while still screening new ones.
- Batch actions let you publish, unpublish, duplicate, or delete multiple posts at once — check the boxes on the post cards to select them.
- Sticky posts always appear at the top of your blog listing regardless of publish date.
- RSS feeds you import respect your default category and tag settings, so imported content stays organized automatically.