Understanding the inblog Editor

The inblog editor provides a streamlined writing environment with automatic saving, SEO-aware fields, and flexible publishing options.

The inblog editor provides a streamlined writing environment with automatic saving functionality. Your content is preserved even if the page closes unexpectedly.

Version History and Restoring Content

The editor saves your content automatically as you write, recording an AUTO version at regular intervals as the body changes. To mark a specific checkpoint yourself, open Version history, enter a note, and click Save to create a COMMIT version. Publishing a post does not by itself create a separate version. If you accidentally delete content or want to return to an earlier state, open Version history to restore it.

The Version history button is a floating button at the top right of the body editing area (database-shaped icon). On narrow screens only the icon is shown, without the label.

• Preview the content of each version on the left, then select a version and click Restore this version to roll back to that point.
• To keep a specific checkpoint, enter a note (commit message) in the version history panel to save it as a separate version.
• Up to 40 versions are kept per post; once the limit is reached, the oldest auto-saved versions are removed first (COMMIT versions you saved with a note are preserved).

Version history is available on the Team and Enterprise plans. On other plans, autosave still preserves your content if the page closes unexpectedly, but the version list and restore feature are not available.

The Yellow and Red Banners at the Top of the Editor

A banner sometimes appears across the top of the editing screen. What it means, and what to do, depends on its color.

Yellow banner — An unsaved recovery copy is available.

Edits are still held in this browser that have not made it into the post.

• The recovery copy lives only in the browser you are using right now. Opening the same post on another device, in another browser, or in a private window will not show it.
• Download Recovery Copy saves the file as inblog-post-{post id}-recovery.json. It contains the body, title, description, meta title, meta description, featured image details, and the time it was captured.
• Downloading clears the recovery copy from the banner, and nothing is re-applied to the post automatically. Copy whatever you need out of the file yourself. Decide where the file should go before you press the button.

Red banner — Connection Error: plus a message

The connection carrying your edits has dropped. A message such as Connection lost. Please refresh. appears alongside it. Anything you keep typing in this state may not be saved, so work through these steps.

1. If a Download Recovery Copy button is shown next to it, take the download first.
2. Click Refresh Page. On the full-screen version of this message the same button reads Retry.
3. If the banner keeps coming back after refreshing, send us the post URL and the time it happened over chat.

Connection Error: and Refresh Page stay in English regardless of your interface language.

Creating a New Post

Begin by selecting New Post from the left sidebar to start composing.

Post Title and Meta Title

The large Title field functions as an H1 tag, establishing the primary subject matter. "H1 tags help search engines (like Google) understand what the content is about." This is the title readers see on the published post.

To set a different title for search and social metadata, click the gear button on the right edge of the title field. It reveals an optional Meta title field that sets the <title> tag without changing the visible heading. Leave it empty and the post title is used as the meta title.

Description and Meta Description

The Description field is the introduction shown under the title on the published post.

Click the gear button on the right edge of the description field to reveal a separate optional Meta description field. Leave it empty and the post description is used as the meta description.

If you cannot find the meta fields, check these two things.

• The outer Description box carries the placeholder Write meta description.... Despite that wording, this box is the description readers see on the post — it is not the meta description field. The meta description is the inner box that appears only after you click the gear (Meta description (optional)).
• The gear on the title and the gear on the description are independent. Expanding one leaves the other collapsed, so open each separately. On a post with no meta value saved yet, both start collapsed — which is why these fields are easy to miss.

You can preview how the current meta title and meta description are used under Preview → Search Result in the post settings panel on the right. On narrow screens, open Post settings from the gear icon at the top. Search engines may still rewrite the text they display based on the query and context.

Featured Image (= OG Image)

This image displays when your post is shared on platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, or Slack. A default image appears if none is selected. The recommended dimensions are 1200×630 pixels to avoid cropping. Preview sharing appearance in the Social Share section.

Images can look cropped for two different reasons.

• The slot a featured image fills has a different aspect ratio on every surface — list cards, share previews, and so on. When the source ratio does not match the slot, the image is cropped to fit, so even an image sized exactly 1200×630 can appear clipped in a list.
• Some OG image editor templates deliberately reveal only one side of the picture. That is the template working as designed, not a fault. To show the whole image, pick a different template in the editor or upload a featured image of your own as described below.

There is no separate "replace" button for a featured image you already set. To swap it, click the trash (delete) icon on the current image to remove it, then upload a new one. You can change the featured image this way even after the post is published.

To upload an image of your own, use the featured image area below the title and description. While no featured image is set yet, hovering over it dims the area and shows Upload Image with the recommended size (Recommended: 1200x630) — click the dimmed area itself to open the file picker. The button that appears just below it opens the OG image editor instead, so pressing that one takes you to template editing rather than a file upload.

If an editor-made image is already in place, that area shows only the gear (settings) and trash (delete) buttons, with no upload area. Remove it with the trash icon first, then upload.

The share image is resolved in this order:

1. A featured image you uploaded — whenever one exists, it wins.
2. An image built with the OG image editor — used when there is no featured image.
3. The default OG image — if neither exists, an image is generated automatically from the post title and your blog logo.

On the Free plan, options 2 and 3 both carry the inblog logo and your blog name.

There is no setting that turns the OG image editor off. However, uploading a featured image both overrides the editor's image and hides the editor area from view.

To return an editor-made image to the default OG image, remove the featured image first — while one is set, the editor image has no trash icon to click. Once the featured image is gone the editor image reappears, and removing it with its trash icon falls back to the default OG image.

Setting a Category

Use the +Categories button above the title to organize your post. Create categories first via Edit Categories if needed.

Custom URL Slug

Define a human-readable URL slug at the editor's top. The system generates slugs from your title by default, though you can customize them or use AI suggestions. Changing slugs triggers automatic redirection from old URLs.

Setting the Author

The author shown on a post is set in the author area just below the title and description. When a post has no author yet, a + Add Author button sits there; once an author is set, the button appears when you hover over the author name. Click the minus icon on an avatar to remove that author.

You can also change it from the post manager. Click the value in the Authors column to open the Select Authors list — a post with nobody assigned reads Empty.

To change several posts at once, select them in the post manager and click Edit to open the bulk-edit dialog, then set Authors there.

Add more authors in the left filter panel does not assign an author. That button takes you to the team settings screen.

Only teammates who have accepted their invitation appear as candidates. Accounts with the Owner, Admin, Editor, or Author role show up once their invitation is accepted; anyone still listed as Invited does not. There is no way to register a name-only author who isn't a team member.

Set an account's author name before assigning it. In the post manager's Select Authors list, an account with no name is greyed out and can't be picked. The editor does let you pick it — but then the public page's article:author goes out empty. Each person sets their own name under the profile menu at the top right → My Page → Your name; an Owner or Admin cannot set it on someone else's behalf. That input only appears on a computer, so it can't be set from a phone or tablet.

The article:author meta tag on my post is empty

The article:author value on the public page is built from the author name of whoever is assigned to that post. If the author name is blank, the account name is used instead — the value only comes out empty when both are blank. If it does, it is one of two things:

1. The post has no author assigned — the tag is not emitted at all. A post created from the dashboard automatically gets its creator as the author, but a post created through the API or MCP does not get one automatically. Assign the author in the request that creates the post, or set it afterwards as described in Setting the Author.
2. An author is assigned, but that account has no name at all — the tag is emitted with an empty value. Have that person set their name on My Page.

Changes can take a few minutes to appear on the public page because of caching.

Publish Date

Set publication timing via the right sidebar's Publish date field. Leave it blank for immediate publishing or schedule future publication. Blog posts display in reverse chronological order.

Last updated 2026-09-02