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title: "Getting started with Bloggable"
category: "Getting started"
source: "https://getbloggable.com/help/getting-started"
updated: 2026-10-22T10:34:36.174Z
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# Getting started with Bloggable

Bloggable is an AI blogging platform. You create one or more blogs, generate and edit posts with AI, and publish them to a blog we host — either at a Bloggable address or on your own domain.

It is the CMS *and* the host. Bloggable doesn't publish out into WordPress or Ghost; it replaces them. If you already have a blog elsewhere, you bring it across once (see *Importing an existing blog*) and publish from Bloggable afterwards.

## Your first 20 minutes

1. **Create a blog.** **Blogs → New blog**. Give it a name, a niche and a target audience. These aren't decoration — every topic suggestion and every draft is written against them, so a vague niche produces vague articles. If you already have a website, you can create the blog from its URL and Bloggable will infer the branding, niche and audience for you.
2. **Set your brand voice.** Paste one to five samples of writing you want to sound like into the blog's settings. Bloggable extracts a voice profile and applies it to everything it writes. This step costs no credits. See *Brand voice*.
3. **Write your first post.** Open **Posts → New post** and either give the AI a topic, or run the full pipeline (research → draft → SEO → internal links) in one pass. See *Writing posts with AI*.
4. **Review it properly.** Read the draft. Check the content score panel, fix anything flagged, and edit the parts only you could have written — the specifics, the opinion, the first-hand detail.
5. **Publish.** Publish now, or schedule it. See *Publishing posts and custom domains*.
6. **Then consider Autopilot.** Once you know what a good Bloggable post looks like for your blog, switch on Autopilot to keep producing them on a schedule. Doing this before step 4 is the most common way to end up with content you don't like at volume.

## The onboarding checklist

New accounts get a checklist in the top bar that tracks the setup that actually affects output quality — voice profile, niche and audience, competitor URLs, a first published post, and so on. Each item deep-links to the exact field it's asking about. It's derived live from your account, so it stays honest: ticking things off means the setting really is set.

## Where things live

| Section | What it's for |
| --- | --- |
| **Dashboard** | Account overview, recent activity, credit balance |
| **Blogs** | Create and configure blogs — voice, theme, SEO, domain, competitors |
| **Posts** | Every post across every blog, and the editor |
| **Autopilot** | Hands-off content generation on a schedule, per blog |
| **Intelligence** | Which existing posts need attention, and why |
| **Settings** | Account, profile, integrations, team, billing |

## Two things worth knowing early

- **Credits are pooled per account**, not per blog or per person. Everything your team generates comes out of one balance. See *How AI credits work*.
- **Joe is free to talk to.** The orb in the bottom-right of every signed-in page answers product questions, reads your account, and can carry out real work on request. Asking him questions costs nothing. See *Meet Joe*.