How to turn your existing blog pages into a real blog

If your TeleportHQ site already has a hand-made blog, such as an AI-generated "Journal" page with article cards and a few article pages, you can turn it into a real blog while you switch the blog on. Leave Connect my existing pages to the blog on in the Activate Blog window. TeleportHQ's AI reads your pages, turns each article into a real post, keeps your cards and your blog page's layout, and makes your own blog page and article page the blog's pages where it can. It uses about 4,000 AI tokens.

Before you start#

• The blog needs a web app. If your project is a Presentation Website, switching the blog on turns it into a web app first. See How to add a blog to your site.
• Your workspace needs at least 2,500 AI tokens for TeleportHQ to read your pages, and at least 400 more to write the full articles. See What uses AI tokens, and how much?
• The option only appears when TeleportHQ finds pages worth reading in your project.
• Article pages that aren't reused are removed. To keep a copy, create a backup first. See How to back up and restore your project.
• This option is for the Blog only. The Help Center always starts with its own pages.
• Switch the blog on from Plugins, as below. Project Menu → Edit → Enable Plugins… sets the blog up without reading your pages.

Steps#

1. In the left sidebar (the icon column), click Plugins, then click the Blog row.
2. In the drawer that opens, switch on Blog enabled. If your project is a Presentation Website, TeleportHQ first asks to Enable Web App features.

3. In the Activate Blog window, on the Confirm step, check that Connect my existing pages to the blog is on. It's on by default: "We read your pages and turn the articles, topics and post lists they already show into live blog posts — same cards, same layout. Uses about 4000 AI tokens."

   

4. Under Link to your blog, choose whether to Add it to your navigation and Add it to your footer.
5. Click Continue, choose where posts are stored on the Data Source step, and click Activate Blog. If there is no Data Source step, the button on the Confirm step reads Activate Blog.
6. Keep the tab open while the Setting up your blog checklist runs. With this option on, it adds Reading your pages, Connecting your pages, Writing the articles and Saving the articles.
7. When you see Your blog is ready, click Open my blog.

What changes in your project#

When TeleportHQ connects your existing pages to the blog, it:

• Makes your blog page the posts list when it can ("your blog page is now the posts listing"). The page keeps its heading, layout and web address, and its cards now show your real posts.
• Makes your article page the post page when it can ("your article page now opens every post"). Links that opened one article now open that article as a post.
• Turns each article into a post, with categories made from the topics it found.
• Keeps your card design ("your article card kept its design") and the page's own search box, category pills, sort menu and featured card, without adding second copies.
• Connects other article lists, such as a "Latest articles" section on your homepage, to your live posts.
• Removes the article pages it no longer needs ("2 pages retired").

The AI then writes the full article text in the background. When it finishes, a message sums it up, for example "3 blog posts created, 2 sections carried over, 2 pages replaced."

Check that it worked#

• The Blog panel lists one post for each article that was on your pages.
• In Pages, Components & Tree View, the blog folder holds the blog's pages, or your own pages now serve as them.
• Open a post and read it. The AI wrote the full text from the short preview your page showed, so check it before relying on it. See How to write and publish a blog post.

Troubleshooting#

The option says "Not enough AI tokens to read your pages" Your workspace has fewer than 2,500 AI tokens, so the switch is greyed out. Buy tokens and start again, or switch the blog on without it. See How to buy more AI tokens.

"Your blog is ready, but we could not read your pages, so they were left as they are." The blog was set up, but TeleportHQ couldn't convert your pages. The message can also say that reading your pages took too long, or that there weren't enough AI tokens. Your pages weren't changed. Add posts yourself, and delete or restyle the old pages by hand.

"… could not be read and was left as it is." After the setup, a warning can name pages TeleportHQ planned to connect but couldn't read, for example "Journal could not be read and was left as it is." Those pages weren't changed. Connect their articles by hand: add the posts in the Blog panel, then restyle or delete the old pages.

"Not enough AI tokens — posts were created from the page's own content" The posts were created, but the AI didn't write the full articles because your workspace had fewer than 400 tokens left. Each post holds only the text your page showed. Expand them by hand or with AI. See How to write or update blog posts with AI.

I didn't want my pages changed Restore a backup from before you switched the blog on. See How to back up and restore your project. Undo works too, but it takes more than one step: the activation and the page changes are one step in your undo history, and TeleportHQ usually saves a few small follow-ups after it (comments switched on, the posts page's SEO, filters it removed). Press Undo until your pages are back. The posts stay in the Blog panel, and the Blog shows as on until you reopen its panel or reload the project. See How to undo and redo changes.

Good to know#

• If TeleportHQ can't build a post page, it leaves your hand-made pages untouched.
• Tables stay as they are. A list drawn as a table, with rows of cells under a row of column headings such as a price list or a schedule, is never turned into posts, and its page never becomes the blog's list.
• If you later turn off the blog, a page of yours that became the blog's list stays in your project. Only the post list is removed from it. See How to turn off the blog.
• When you ask the AI Assistant to turn on the blog, it always tries to connect your existing pages.
• Restore Default Layout in Blog Settings never touches a page of yours that became the list or the post page. See How to design the blog list and post pages.