Set up the kinds of content you write
Add a kind of content — a blog post, a product, a workshop — by describing it, or choose its boxes yourself, and decide which ones the AI fills in.
For business owners. 7 minute read. Updated .
A kind of content is something you write — a Blog post, a Product, a Workshop — and the boxes each one has. The boxes become the form you fill in, and your website shows what you write. Describe what something is, not how a page looks, so the same post can go to your website, your shop and social media.
Only owners and admins can add or change kinds of content. Everyone can see them under Content → Kinds of content.
Add a kind of content
The quick way: describe it
Open Content → Add a kind of content. Under Describe it and AI sets it up, write a sentence about what you want to add — “Handmade candles I sell, with the scent, size and how long they burn” — and choose Set it up. The AI chooses the boxes, with plain names, short hints for whoever fills them in, and the choices for lists such as Scent. It names boxes the way shops read them (a Price, a Photo, a Description), so products are ready for shops such as Printify and Shopify. Nothing is saved until you choose Create, so change anything first.
It’s free, within the same daily allowance as the help assistant. Or add one that’s ready to use offers whichever of Blog posts, Things you sell, Print-on-demand and Website pages you don’t have yet, set up in one click.
Doing it yourself
Give it a Name such as Workshop, and say What it’s for if you like. Then choose Add a box for each piece of it under Boxes to fill in.
Which box is the title? decides what each one is called in your lists and on your website. Pick the box people recognise them by, usually Title.
Tick These are website pages only for pages such as About us or Opening hours: each gets its own address and a place in the site menu. Leave it off for everything else. On the website Stratafold hosts, blog posts and products get their own address anyway; other kinds you set up, such as events, get no page of their own and show only in a list you add to a page.
Kinds of box
| Box | Use it for | The AI can fill it in |
|---|---|---|
| Short text | Titles, names, a line or two of plain writing | Yes |
| Long text | Articles and long descriptions, with headings, lists and links | Yes |
| Number | Prices, ratings, quantities | Yes |
| Yes or no | Tick boxes such as Featured or In stock | Yes |
| Date | Event dates, with or without a time | Yes |
| Pick from a list | One or more choices you set up, such as sizes | Yes |
| Web address | The last part of its link, made from the title | Yes |
| Tags | Short keywords such as wedding | Yes |
| Page parts | The parts a page is built from: a headline, words, pictures, a button | Yes |
| Picture | A photo, with a description for people who can’t see it | No |
| File | A PDF or other document from your Files | No |
| Web link | A link to another website | No |
| Email address | A contact address | No |
| Link to another item | Something else you have written, such as a related post | No |
Pictures, files, web links, email addresses and links to other items always come from you. They point at real things, so the AI never invents them.
Rules that protect your website
Switch on Must be filled in to publish for any box that can’t be empty. Drafts can be saved half-finished, but nothing is published until those boxes are filled in, and Stratafold names the one to fix. Short text boxes can have a Length in characters, and number boxes a Lowest and highest.
Two items of the same kind never share a web address. When one is made from the title and is already taken, Stratafold adds -2, -3 and so on. If you type one that is taken, it tells you so you can choose another.
Guiding the AI box by box
Every box the AI can fill has a The AI fills this in switch. Turn it off for boxes a person must write, such as a legal note. Use Instructions for the AI for rules about one box: “One sentence that makes the reader want to click” for a summary, or “Three to five bullet points” for a list of features.
Changing it later
You can add, move and remove boxes at any time. Removing a box stops what was written in it from showing, here and on your website; nothing changes until you press Save. If two people change the same kind at once, the second save is refused instead of quietly overwriting the first.
Links between items
A Link to another item box connects one item to another, such as a Case study to its Client. Under Can link to, choose which kinds it may link to, or leave them all unticked to allow any.
For developers
Each kind and each box has an API ID under For developers, used in delivery API addresses (such as case_study). It is suggested from the name, and a box’s API ID is locked once something is stored under it. No two items can have the same value here is there too. The delivery API returns linked items inline with include=1 — see the delivery API guide.