The Canvas
The Canvas is the main work surface of WordPresto. The Dashboard is command and overview; the Canvas is where work actually happens. It is a rich editing environment — not a plain text box — and it is the source of approved content.
What you can do in the Canvas
Section titled “What you can do in the Canvas”- Create content from scratch, or import a live page from WordPress, Sanity or your connected site repository.
- Edit with real structure: headings, paragraphs, lists, links, sections and metadata.
- Proof and review with specialist Workers, which return suggestions, checks and rewrites inline.
- Generate a matching image for the document with the in-canvas Image tool.
- Compare, version and approve, then prepare content for a destination.
Document types and channels
Section titled “Document types and channels”A Canvas document has a channel, chosen in the top bar: Document (the default, for articles and pages) or a social channel such as LinkedIn post or X post. Marking a document as a social post routes drafting through that channel’s grounded persona and applies the editorial brief you have set for that channel, along with its real length limits. Changing the channel is metadata — it never resets your content or its approval state.
Versions
Section titled “Versions”Every meaningful content change snapshots a version, so you can look back at how a document evolved and recover earlier work. Worker rewrites land as revertable draft versions in the same history — nothing is ever overwritten silently.
The content model is CMS-agnostic
Section titled “The content model is CMS-agnostic”The Canvas keeps content in a neutral, structured model so it can map to Astro, Sanity, WordPress, Markdown, MDX or HTML. Destination-specific formatting is the job of the Builder Worker and the publishing agents, not the Canvas — so semantic structure, headings, links, media references and approval state are preserved through rewrites, proofing and voice changes.
Workers serve the Canvas
Section titled “Workers serve the Canvas”Specialist Workers (Draft, Rewrite, Clarity and Proofing, Voice and Persona, SEO Title and Metadata, Schema, Evidence, Accessibility, Editorial Risk, semantic coverage and more) read the current Canvas content and the project intelligence, do their specialist task, and return structured suggestions for you to accept, reject or edit. They never write to an external system and never bypass your approval. The tool rail on the left groups them into Write, Review & SEO, and Project & export; a tool that is not available yet is shown disabled with the honest reason, never faked.
The Voice & Persona panel checks your copy against the project’s voice profiles and offers review-only rewrite proposals (more formal, more conversational, more editorial). You can select a saved voice profile, apply the project’s default voice, or bring your own by uploading a voice file in Project Settings. Rewrites land as revertable draft versions — nothing is auto-applied.
Approval and re-editing
Section titled “Approval and re-editing”Approval is deliberate: required reviews have run, suggestions are resolved, and you give final approval, which is persisted with a timestamp and who approved. If you edit the Canvas after approval, the content returns to draft state and the previous approval is cleared — so nothing is ever published from an edited-but-unapproved document.
Publishing from the Canvas
Section titled “Publishing from the Canvas”The Publish to… control in the toolbar gathers every destination — social channels and your website (WordPress, Sanity or a site repository) — behind one flyout. Website destinations are approval-gated; social posts always need your explicit action. See “Publishing to your website” and “Publishing to social channels” for the details.