# Control What Gets Published

> On Pro, Revnu's posts publish on their own once they pass the fact-check, unless you choose Ask Me First. How to review posts first, the three-draft limit, setting how many posts a day, undoing an edit to a live post, taking posts down, writing your own, images, house rules and private articles you won't publish.

Canonical: https://revnu.com/docs/blog-posts-control
Last updated: 2026-11-07

On Pro, Revnu's posts publish on their own: a finished post goes live as soon as it passes the fact-check. To read each one first, set **Blog Posts** to **Ask Me First**. Either way, you can edit, replace or take down any post at any time.

Up to three of Revnu's drafts can wait for you at once. While three are waiting, the daily post pauses until you approve, publish or discard one.

## Review first, or let posts publish

### 1. Open your approval settings

Open **Settings** and choose the **Agent** tab. Find **What Needs Your Approval**.

### 2. Choose how Blog Posts publish

Switch the **Blog Posts** row on for **Just Do It**, or off for **Ask Me First**.

![Settings > Agent, What Needs Your Approval. Blog Posts is the first row, with its Ask Me First switch on the right](https://revnu.com/docs/screens/settings-approvals.webp)

| Blog Posts setting | What happens to a finished post |
|---|---|
| **Just Do It** (the Pro default) | It publishes as soon as it's finished and passes the fact-check. You can edit, replace or take it down afterwards. |
| **Ask Me First** | It waits until you approve it. Nothing publishes without your click. |

### 3. Find posts waiting for you

Under **Ask Me First**, every finished post lands in **Review**, and in **Visibility > Posts** marked **Awaiting Approval**.

### 4. Approve or discard each post

Open the post and click **Approve & Publish**, or approve its card in **Review**. If you edited it first, the button reads **Save & Approve**. To drop a post, click **Discard Draft**.

**Approve & Publish** also puts a post live straight away if it has a publish time from before you switched to Just Do It.

> **Note:** **Ask Me First** holds publishing while writing carries on. Revnu keeps drafting at its usual pace for you to approve, until three are waiting. To stop the writing, switch **Daily Blog Post** off. See [Stop or slow the daily post](#stop-or-slow-the-daily-post).

The setting also covers Revnu's edits to posts that are already live. More on approvals: [What Revnu asks before it acts](https://revnu.com/docs/approvals.md).

## What switching the setting does to drafts already waiting

The change applies to drafts already waiting, not only to new ones:

- **Switching to Just Do It** gives every draft already waiting a publish time: 9:00 on the first weekday at least 24 hours after you switch. If you don't want one of them live, open it and click **Discard Draft** before then. Posts finished after you switch publish straight away.
- **Switching to Ask Me First** takes the publish time off every waiting draft. Nothing is deleted. Each one waits for your **Approve & Publish**.

A post marked **Needs Verification** waits for your look under either setting. So does the first post Revnu writes before your blog is connected to your site: approving it before you connect publishes it on your Revnu-hosted address, so approve it once your site is connected.

Telling Revnu in chat "stop holding posts for review" or "hold posts for review again" changes this same **Blog Posts** setting.

**Publish at a time you choose**

Under Just Do It, a post goes live when it's finished. To publish at a time you choose, set **Blog Posts** to **Ask Me First** and click **Approve & Publish** at that moment. The post goes live straight away.

## How often Revnu posts

Once your blog is connected and checked, Revnu writes on its own every day. It starts at one post a day and goes up to five as Google indexes your posts faster, so Google keeps up and you get time to read them. Tell Revnu the pace you want: "two posts a week is plenty" slows it down straight away, and "three a day" steps it up one post a day each week.

Revnu's first choice of topic is a buyer question that AI answers leave you out of. On some days it deepens an existing post instead of writing a new one. When it does, it tells you what it did with that day and the search or AI question the page should win.

**How many posts make sense on a new domain?**

Revnu starts a new domain at one a day, because on a young domain quality matters more than volume. A few useful posts that answer real buyer questions do more than a pile of thin ones, and Google takes weeks to crawl and trust a new site whatever you publish. Revnu raises the pace as Google starts indexing your posts quickly. Judge results over months. [Will Google penalise AI-written posts?](https://revnu.com/docs/ai-written-posts.md) explains why bulk publishing backfires.

**Can I get extra posts, or follow my own content plan?**

Yes, one post at a time. Ask in chat for each extra post and Revnu writes it: "write a post on onboarding checklists today."

- **Each extra comes from its own ask.** A list of 100 titles is a plan Revnu works through with you, one ask per post. Send the titles and ask for the next one when you want it.
- **Extras come from your messages.** A [workflow](https://revnu.com/docs/recurring-work.md) or scheduled task runs as Revnu's own work, so it keeps to the daily pace. Your own message adds an extra.
- **Extras count toward the three waiting drafts.** An extra you ask for always gets written, and while it waits for approval it's one of the three, so the daily post may pause.
- **Pro has a daily work limit.** It covers work Revnu starts itself, posts included, and the daily post picks up the next day once it's reached. Details: [plan limits](https://revnu.com/docs/plans.md).

## Stop or slow the daily post

- **To stop it,** open **Settings** and choose the **Agent** tab. Switch **Daily Blog Post** off. Or tell Revnu in chat: "stop the blog posts." Either way, Revnu writes no post on its own, from its daily post, its daily check-in or a workflow, until you switch it back on. A post you ask for in chat still gets written, and drafts already waiting stay in **Review**.
- **To slow it down,** tell Revnu how often you want posts: "two posts a week is plenty."
- **To start it again,** switch **Daily Blog Post** back on, or tell Revnu.

## Why posts stop coming

- **Your site isn't connected or the check failed.** The daily post starts once your site serves posts correctly. The fix list is in **Review**.
- **Three drafts are waiting.** Up to three of Revnu's finished posts can wait for you at once, including any marked **Needs Verification**. Approve, publish or discard one and it carries on. Editing a draft doesn't free the slot.
- **Daily Blog Post is off.** Switch it back on in **Settings > Agent**.
- **Your account is paused.** A failed payment or a cancelled plan pauses new work until the plan is active again.
- **Recent posts aren't indexed yet.** With Search Console connected, Revnu checks that its last few posts are in Google before writing more, and tells you when it's pacing posts.

[Why isn't my post live?](https://revnu.com/docs/blog-not-publishing.md) walks through each one.

## Fix a wrong fact once

Revnu writes every post from **Settings > Memory > Product Facts**. If a post gets something wrong about your product, fix it there. The fix applies to every post written from then on, and Revnu cleans up live posts when you ask. Short, literal lines work best, for example "Minimum plan: 5 seats" or "The desktop app is discontinued". Or tell Revnu in chat, and it records the fact so later posts don't repeat it:

> We stopped offering the free plan. Remember that for every post from now on.

Then ask it to clean up the posts already live:

> Find every post that mentions the free plan and fix it.

Those edits to live posts follow your Blog Posts setting. How each post is checked: [Will Google penalise AI-written posts?](https://revnu.com/docs/ai-written-posts.md)

## Edit a live post

- **In the editor.** Open the post in **Visibility > Posts** and change the title, body, FAQ or meta description. Click **Save Now**. The change goes live at the same URL, and Revnu asks search engines to recrawl it.
- **In chat.** "In the pricing post, change $20 to $25." Revnu edits the live post in place when you ask. A change Revnu suggests on its own follows your Blog Posts setting.
- **Change the URL.** In the editor's **Metadata** panel, change **URL Slug**. The old address redirects permanently to the new one, so the post keeps what it has earned.

## Undo an edit Revnu made to a live post

A post's text is saved as its latest version, so put it back one of these ways. The editor's **Undo** covers changes you made in the current editing session.

1. **If you have the old text,** for example in your own site's build, a copy saved through the Content API, or an email or chat message that quoted it, paste it into the editor and click **Save Now**.
2. **If you don't,** tell Revnu in chat what the passage should say: "the setup section of the onboarding post was right before, put back that it takes two steps." It rewrites that passage, checked against your Product Facts like any other edit.
3. **Stop it happening again.** Add the fact to **Product Facts**, so the fact-check treats it as true about your company. To read every future change to a live post before it lands, set **Blog Posts** to **Ask Me First**.

If an edit Revnu made broke a post, email support@revnu.com with the post's URL, the time it changed and what was lost.

## Take a post down right now

Open the post and click **Delete**. On the hosted blog it disappears straight away and its URL starts returning "not found". A site using the Content API drops it on its next fetch or rebuild. Search engines take a few weeks to remove it from results.

> **Warning:** Deleting is permanent from the dashboard; Revnu's team can bring a post back if you email. Nothing redirects from the old URL, so its rankings and AI citations go with it. For a wrong fact or a wrong address, edit the post or change its URL and keep both.

Other posts may link to the one you delete, and those links will then lead to "not found". Ask Revnu first: "which posts link to the pricing post? Remove those links." Then delete.

To get rid of a draft that never went live, click **Discard Draft**. You can restore a discarded draft from its editor link, or ask Revnu to bring it back.

If a post Revnu published caused real harm, email support@revnu.com as well as taking it down.

## Pause posts after a legal complaint

If you've had a cease and desist letter, a takedown request or a complaint about a post:

1. Open **Settings > Agent** and set **Blog Posts** to **Ask Me First**. Nothing new publishes and waiting drafts lose their publish time.
2. Take the post down now, or edit the passage (see [Take a post down right now](#take-a-post-down-right-now)).
3. Add the company, product or claim to **Settings > Memory > Never Say**, so it never appears in a new post.
4. Clear the drafts already waiting. Ask Revnu "which waiting drafts mention Acme?", then open each one from **Review** or **Visibility > Posts** and click **Discard Draft**.
5. Tell Revnu in chat what happened. Ask it which live posts mention the same company or claim, and fix or remove those too. Never Say guards new posts, and this step covers the live ones.

You're the publisher of your blog. If comparison posts about named competitors worry you, keep **Blog Posts** on **Ask Me First** and read each one before it goes live. When you're ready, switch back to **Just Do It** in the same place.

## Write or paste your own post

1. Open **Visibility > Posts** and click **New Post**.
2. Type, or paste a markdown file. Headings and lists come through as formatting, and frontmatter is stripped.
3. Click **Approve & Publish** when it's ready. Your own post goes live the moment you click, with no waiting period, whatever your Blog Posts setting.

Your own posts never count as Revnu's work in your reports, and they don't use the daily post or the three-draft limit. Revnu also skips topics you've already covered, so its posts add new ground.

## Write a post from your own document

Have a whitepaper, a talk or a customer guide you want turned into a post? Attach it in chat and say what you want: "turn this into a post for operations leads, focused on the setup steps."

You can attach up to 10 files to one message, each up to 10 MB: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, CSV or a text file. Save old `.doc` and `.ppt` files in the newer format first.

Revnu reads the document and writes the post from it. The post goes through the same fact-check as every other post, then lands in **Review** and **Visibility > Posts**. If the document states product facts that aren't in **Product Facts** yet, add them there first (or ask Revnu to), or the check may cut those claims. For a scanned PDF that's only images, paste the text into the chat instead. More on files: [Talk to Revnu](https://revnu.com/docs/talk-to-revnu.md).

**Want an article you won't publish?**

Ask for it in chat and say it shouldn't go on your blog: "write a post on our pricing model as a file, don't publish it." Revnu writes and fact-checks it the same way, never publishes it, and sends it into the chat as an `.mdx` file you can open in any text editor. It doesn't appear in **Visibility > Posts**.

It counts as a post written that day, so the daily post may skip that day. It doesn't count toward the three waiting drafts.

## Change images

Each post has one hero image, in the **Hero Image** panel of the editor. Click **Upload One** to use your own, or **Generate One** (**Regenerate** once it has one) for a new one. You can also ask in chat: "make the hero image for the onboarding post less corporate."

Every post carries one hero image, and you can swap it any time. The editor's image controls cover the hero image.

**Don't want AI images?** Upload your own on each post. Revnu generates a hero image for every post it writes, so uploading yours is the sure way to keep AI images off. For a post with no hero image at all, email support@revnu.com.

## House rules with Never Say

**Settings > Memory > Never Say** is your list of things that must never appear in a post: a claim, a word, a product you've retired, a promise you can't keep. One per line. Revnu checks every new draft against it when writing and again afterwards. A draft that breaks a rule is stopped, and Revnu fixes the wording before it asks you to approve it.

Never Say and other house rules apply to posts written after you add them. For posts already live, ask Revnu: "find any live post that mentions the old pricing and fix it."

A one-off instruction in chat ("don't add a troubleshooting section to this one") applies to that post. For a rule about every post, put it in **Never Say** if it's something that must never appear. For house style, put it in one of your business sections in **Settings > Memory**, such as the one about your company. Revnu reads those when it plans each post. Read the section afterwards to check the rule landed.

The author name and photo on your posts are in **Visibility > Posts > Publishing Settings**.

## Competitor claims

Revnu writes comparison posts from each competitor's current public documentation. It compares how things work rather than declaring winners, and it doesn't publish ranked lists that put you first. To keep a competitor out entirely, add a line to **Never Say**, for example "Never mention Acme". A rule about a company covers its products too.

## Next step

[Why isn't my post live?](https://revnu.com/docs/blog-not-publishing.md)

## Frequently asked questions

### Do Revnu's blog posts publish without my approval?

On Pro, yes by default. Blog Posts starts on Just Do It, so a finished post publishes as soon as it passes the fact-check. Switch Blog Posts to Ask Me First in **Settings > Agent** and nothing publishes until you approve it.

### How do I turn on auto-publish?

Set **Blog Posts** to **Just Do It** in **Settings > Agent > What Needs Your Approval**. It's already the default on Pro. The fact-check and your Never Say list still apply to every post. Until your blog is connected to your site, Revnu's first post waits in **Review**. If your site is set up but isn't fetching posts yet, published posts show as **Ready** until it does.

### Does Ask Me First stop Revnu writing posts?

It pauses publishing only. Revnu keeps drafting at its usual pace until three are waiting for you. To stop the writing, switch **Daily Blog Post** off in **Settings > Agent**.

### If I switch Blog Posts to Just Do It, will the drafts already waiting publish?

Yes. Every draft already waiting gets a publish time of 9:00 on the first weekday at least 24 hours after you switch. Discard any you don't want live before then. New posts publish as soon as they're finished.

### Can I schedule a post for a specific time?

Yes. Keep Blog Posts on Ask Me First and click **Approve & Publish** at the moment you want the post live. Under Just Do It, posts go out as soon as they're finished.

### Can Revnu write three posts a day?

Yes. Revnu's own pace goes up to five a day as Google indexes your posts faster, and you can ask for each extra post in chat. Extras count toward the three drafts that can wait for approval.

### How do I stop posts publishing after a legal complaint?

Set **Blog Posts** to **Ask Me First** in **Settings > Agent**, delete or edit the post in question, add the company or claim to **Settings > Memory > Never Say**, and discard waiting drafts that mention it. Then ask Revnu which live posts mention it.

### How many blog posts does Revnu write?

From one to five a day on its own, once your blog is connected: it starts at one and goes up as Google indexes your posts faster. Ask for fewer and it slows down straight away, ask for more and it steps up one post a day each week, ask for a specific post any time, or switch **Daily Blog Post** off in **Settings > Agent**.

### Can I undo an edit Revnu made to a live post?

Yes, from the editor. Paste the old text back in, or tell Revnu what the passage should say and it rewrites it. Set Blog Posts to Ask Me First to review future edits before they go live.

### How do I unpublish a post?

Open it in **Visibility > Posts** and click **Delete**. The URL stops working straight away. Nothing redirects from it, so ask Revnu to remove links to it from your other posts first, and edit the post or change its URL instead if you only need to fix something.

### A post said something wrong about my product. How do I stop it happening again?

Fix the fact in **Settings > Memory > Product Facts**. Posts written from then on use it. For posts already live, ask Revnu in chat to find and correct every one that carries the old fact.

### Can Revnu write a post from my PDF?

Yes. Attach the PDF in chat, up to 10 MB, and say what angle you want. The post goes through the normal fact-check and lands in Review and **Visibility > Posts**. For a scanned PDF, paste the text in instead.

### Can Revnu write an article I don't want on my blog?

Yes. Ask for it as a file and say "don't publish it." Revnu writes and fact-checks it, then sends it into the chat as an `.mdx` file. It never goes on your blog.

### Do my own pasted posts wait before publishing?

A post you write or paste goes live the moment you click **Approve & Publish**.

### Can I remove a post's hero image?

Every post carries a hero image, and you choose it in the **Hero Image** panel: upload your own or generate a new one. Upload your own to keep AI images off the post.

### How do I stop Revnu mentioning a competitor?

Add the competitor to **Settings > Memory > Never Say**. Nothing on that list goes into a new post. Ask Revnu to find live posts that already mention them.