Releases

✨ New Features

• Delete Posts: Remove a post and its images from Bloggerly. Published copies on external sites like WordPress are not affected.

🧹 Improvements

• Draft Chat Controls: Moved Previous chats and New chat to the top-left of the draft page so they stay in a consistent spot.
• Clearer Brief Progress: The draft brief now shows when Bloggerly is still building it, so you know when it is ready to review.
• Smarter Create Post Button: When a post is being published, the button now says "Go to post" so you know where you are headed.
• Loading Animations: Added smoother animations when Bloggerly first loads and when you open the draft page.

🛠 Fixes

• Go to Post: Fixed the button opening a draft view instead of the finished post.
• Draft Error Recovery: Error states now include a New chat option so a broken session does not leave you stuck.
• Manual SEO Keywords: Fixed an issue where manually entered SEO keywords were not always saved.

✨ New Features

• Automated Keyword Research: Turn on "Research for me" and Bloggerly picks a primary keyword and supporting secondary keywords using real search data — before the article is planned or written. Available on paid plans.
• Manual Keywords: Prefer to choose your own? Switch to "Add manually" and enter a primary keyword plus up to five secondary keywords.
• Market Selection: Choose a research market — United States, United Kingdom, Canada, or Australia — so keyword picks match where you publish.

🧹 Improvements

• Editor Sidebar: Reorganized the editor sidebar into Blog data and Publishing tabs so post details and publishing controls are easier to find.
• Draft Settings: Added the same SEO keyword controls to the draft creation flow, so keyword research runs before you generate a post.

✨ New Features

• WordPress Publishing: Publish posts directly from the editor to WordPress — as a live post, a draft, or on a schedule. Images upload with the post, and you can update an already-published article from Bloggerly.
• Publishing Connections: Connect each brand to WordPress in Settings using an application password. Test the connection before you publish.
• Substack Handoff: Copy your post and open Substack in one click. Paste into your newsletter editor to finish publishing.

🧹 Improvements

• Publishing Panel: Added a Publishing tab in the editor sidebar with connection status, publish history, and retry support.

🛠 Fixes

• WordPress Connections: Fixed issues that could block a new WordPress connection from working.
• Back-to-Back Publishing: Fixed a bug where publishing two posts in quick succession could fail.

🧹 Improvements

• Clearer Language: Replaced internal wording like LLM, quota, metadata, and tier with friendlier product copy.
• Better Post Statuses: Updated raw generation statuses into clearer labels like Creating, Polishing, and Adding Images.
• All Posts: Updated the default view to show posts across all brands.

🧹 Improvements

• Faster AI Editing: Improved model routing for editor AI and copilot responses.
• Smarter AI Commands: Improved how Bloggerly decides whether you want to edit existing text or generate new text.
• AI Menu Fixes: Fixed cases where the AI menu would not appear after selecting multiple paragraphs.
• Metadata Sidebar: Added smoother open/close animation and improved smaller-screen layout.

✨ New Features

• Richer Editor: Rebuilt the editor on a stronger writing foundation with better formatting, toolbar, and markdown support.
• AI Editing Controls: Added accept, discard, and retry actions for AI-generated edits.
• Editor Copilot: Added a new writing copilot setting for faster in-editor assistance.
• Editor Image Uploads: Added direct image uploads inside the editor.

🧹 Improvements

• Autosave Reliability: Improved save handling, save status, error states, and stale-save protection.
• Word Count: Added editor word count support.
• Image Upload Safety: Improved file validation, quota handling, and upload states.

✨ New Features

• Feedback Button: Added an in-app way to send beta feedback.
• Original Prompt: Added the original prompt/context to the editor sidebar.
• Image Alt Text: Added support for editing image alt text.

🧹 Improvements

• Better Draft Chat: Improved draft summaries, formatting, and generation settings.
• Better Images: Upgraded image generation and improved image loading states.
• Better Citations: Improved citation quality by giving the citation step more research context.

✨ New Features

• Image Uploads: Added compressed image uploads with validation, storage, quota tracking, and ownership checks.

🧹 Improvements

• Draft First: Made Draft the primary creation flow.
• Cleaner Navigation: Hid unfinished Billing, Notifications, and Help/Support areas until ready.
• Image Fixes: Improved image previews, markdown image handling, and uploaded filename behavior.

✨ New Features

• New Generation View: Added a clearer progress screen with Researching, Planning, Writing, Polishing, and Images phases.
• Live Progress: Added realtime updates with fallback polling.
• Image Progress: Added a dedicated image generation phase with previews.

🛠 Fixes

• Generating Posts: Fixed in-progress posts opening incorrectly from All Posts.

🧹 Improvements

• App Design Refresh: Updated dashboard, navigation, All Posts, Brand Voice, suggestions, and editor panels.
• Better Draft Persistence: Draft sessions now survive refreshes more reliably.
• Cleaner Status Styling: Added shared status styles and more consistent cards, buttons, and spacing.

🗄 Backend

• Background Jobs: Renamed and cleaned up generation pipeline jobs.

✨ New Features

• Guided Draft Flow: Added a guided flow to turn an idea into a structured blog brief.
• Smart Questions: Added structured questions, option chips, custom answers, and in-chat summaries.
• Generate From Brief: Added approval and generation from the final draft brief.
• Blog Settings Panel: Added controls for blog type, voice, images, research, citations, and search keywords.

🧹 Improvements

• Stronger Brand Context: Improved how Bloggerly understands brand details.
• Better Writing Style: Improved writing voice guidance for more natural output.
• Cleaner Drafts: Reduced common AI writing patterns and tightened writer prompts.
• Generation Fixes: Fixed section cut-off, citation placement, Pro Image mode, and search keyword handling.

✨ New Features

• Research Mode: Added optional research-backed blog generation.
• Sources Panel: Added a Sources panel in the editor.
• Inline Citations: Added citation support for researched drafts.
• Generation Phases: Added clearer backend states for research, planning, writing, polishing, and images.

🛠 Fixes

• Citation Display: Fixed researched sources and citations not showing correctly.
• Generation Reliability: Improved failed-generation handling and fallback polling.

✨ New Features

• Blog Suggestions: Added AI-generated blog ideas tailored to the selected brand.
• Suggestions Page: Added a full Suggested Blogs page with filters.
• Dashboard Suggestions: Added a suggestions carousel on the dashboard.
• Generate From Suggestion: Added the ability to create a draft directly from a suggestion.

🧹 Improvements

• Suggestion Controls: Added dismissal, loading, failed, and retry states.
• Brand Filtering: Added better filtering for current brand, all brands, and brandless posts.

✨ New Features

• Toolbar Word Counter: Added a real-time word counter to the editor toolbar to track your article's progress as you write.
• Improved UI Polishing: Fixed button color inconsistencies across the dashboard to ensure a more cohesive user experience.

🧹 Improvements

• Landing Page Tools: Added real-time word counters to the Para-Rewriter and other tool interfaces.

✨ New Features

• SEO Keyword Targeting: Define your Primary and Secondary SEO keywords to ensure your AI-generated blog focuses on the right terms.
• Target Word Count: Set clear goals for your blog length with a new target word count slider.
• Goal Completion: Visual feedback as you work towards your ideal article length.

✨ New Features

• Standardized Blog Presets: Added default options for common blog types including Listicle, Explainer, Comparison, Review, and Beginner Explainer.
• Informative Tooltips: Hover over each blog preset to understand exactly what each format provides and when to use it for your audience.

✨ New Features

• Added LLM Pro Mode (using Claude Opus 4.6 thinking for writing the final blog)

🧹 Improvements

• Made the settings toggle look nicer on the main prompt box

✨ New Features

• Added filtering functionality on the all posts page
• Added Pro Image Mode (nano banana 2) for higher-quality image generation

🧹 Improvements

• General UI cleanup and small refinements

🛠 Fixes

• Minor fixes and adjustments

🖼 Image System Improvements

• Implemented V1 of image generation with ig1
• Added image download functionality
• Added copy formatted Markdown support

🔄 Refactors & Structural Improvements

• Reordered components for better UX
• Merged meta-sidebar improvements
• Moved shared icons into shared directory
• Fixed cookie-related issue

🧠 General Improvements

• Code cleanup and structural improvements
• Stability pass before next major push

💳 Plans & Billing

• Updated welcome email
• Added user setting Icon on layout
• Stripe improvements & fixes

🎨 UI & Theme

• Fixed theme selector bug
• Integrated custom theme toggle
• Fixed settings page issues (i killed it oops)

🧠 Brand Voice System

• Fixed refresh flashing bug
• Brand voice + profiles now cached correctly
• Updated content storing method in database to fix image issues

🔄 Data Fetching Refactor

• Implmented tanstack query for data fetching
• Added context for Brand & Voice
• Integrated voice selector into:
  • Prompt box
  • Navbar
• Updated navigation architecture

🛠 Fixes

• Initial SWR setup (not using anymore)
• Refactoring groundwork

🌐 Brand & Domain System

• Added DNS checking
• Allowed multiple URLs per brand
• Added URL icons

📣 Social Integrations

• Added error messages for:
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Substack

📱 UI Improvements

• Fixed mobile dashboard padding
• Added homepage loading screen

🧠 Brand Voice Engine

• Improved agent
• Updated voice prompts
• Vm1 in use
• Voice selection persisted via localStorage

🗑 Content Management

• Added delete functionality
• Replaced edit button with delete button

🕷 Scraping Engine

• Using new scraping engine

📦 System

• Added quota checks

🔥 Brand Voice Integration

• Brand voice working with Firecrawl (no longer firecrawl)
• Fixed rate limiting issues

💾 Autosave & Editor

• Autosave debouncer set
• Increased editor width
• Moved schema to frontend aswell
• Display brand summary properly

🗄 Database

• Update migration file methodology

• Merged all-posts branch

🧹 Refactors

• Removed rate limit duplication
• Fixed loading states
• Lint cleanup
• General reorganisation

🗄 Database & Backend

• Generated Supabase types
• Added blogs table
• Added OpenRouter
• Added app-wide 404 page

🧠 Content Generation

• Content generation pipeline improvements

⚡ Trigger.dev Integration

• Initialized Trigger.dev
• Running background jobs successfully
• Added debouncer
• Production-readiness improvements
• Markdown reading support
• Save blog functionality working

📝 Markdown Support

• Installed Markdown support
• Pass Markdown into renderer
• Settings content updates
• Renamed page to Editor

✍️ Editor System

• Added basic editor system
• UI fixes for editor
• Added loading page
• Keyboard shortcut updates

🚦 Rate Limiting

• Added Supabase rate limiting

🏗 Architecture

• Dashboard architecture refactor (Step 1)
• Added blog saving
• Rate limiting V3

• Minor rollbacks

• Improved session-based rate limiting performance

🎨 Branding

• Updated favicon
• Switched logo to SVG
• Updated domain to .ai
• Updated brand email to Bloggerly

💳 Stripe

• Stripe fixes and version updates

• Updated pricing plans
• Stripe updates
• Removed unused .env

• Homepage setup
• Stripe version update

🔄 Fork Blanket Project

• Reset repository
• Removed basic dashboard (from blnkt)
• Initial refactor