Your site at a glance
The Console is the first tab on the right of the workbench. At the top is “Your site at a glance”: tiles for content, shop, theme, colours, typeface, tone, facts, extensions, site title, home page, “On Google”, addresses and time zone, each showing the value that currently applies. A click jumps to the place where you change it. Language, menus, users and media have no box of their own in the Console; their tiles lead to the matching area of the Control Panel.
Below it is “Kenji is still missing this”: the most important details that are still empty, each with the reason it matters — for example that without a postal address there is neither a contact page nor a legal notice.
Whatever you save in the Console goes to WordPress straight away on a running site, and afterwards we read back what really applies there. While the installation is a draft, it is transferred when you set up. Saving uses no AI credit. The Console always works on the live site; only “Pages and posts” follows the switch to the sandbox.
Pages and posts
In the “Pages and posts” box you create pages and posts, write them and publish them without going through WP-Admin. At the top you choose “Pages” or “Posts”; “+ New page” or “+ New post” opens a field for the title, and “Create as a draft” creates it in WordPress as a draft. Each row shows its status. “Publish” puts it online, “Withdraw” takes it down again, and “Trash” moves it to the WordPress trash, where you can restore it.
“Edit” opens the title and content as WordPress stores them. The lines in angle brackets containing “wp:” are block markers; leave them alone if you do not know them. Designing a page is more comfortable in the building blocks or in the block editor of WP-Admin.
This box follows the switch: when you work in the sandbox, new pages and changes land there and only appear on the real site after you push the sandbox live.
- Open the “Pages and posts” box in the Console and choose “Posts”.
- Click “+ New post”, type the title and click “Create as a draft”.
- Click “Edit” on the post, write the content and click “Save”.
- Click “Publish”.
Company, offer and tone
The “Company” and “Offer” boxes hold your site’s facts: name, industry, “What you do”, postal address, country, phone, email, opening hours and a social channel, plus your most important service and “What sets you apart from others”. You write the address as you would on an envelope, up to eight lines; the country as two letters, for example PT. If you change the name, the site title follows, unless you have set a different one yourself.
The “Company” box carries the subtitle “What Kenji must never invent”, and that is what it means: these details are yours. Kenji copies them word for word, adds nothing and cannot overwrite them. They are the basis for what Kenji writes — in the draft and when filling a section in the building blocks. In the “Language” box you set the “Salutation” (informal or formal) and the “Tone of voice” for it; that applies to everything Kenji writes from then on.
- Open the “Company” box in the Console.
- Enter name, postal address, phone, email and opening hours.
- Enter your most important service in the “Offer” box.
- Click “Apply”.
Styling: theme, colours and typeface
In the “Styling” box you choose the theme from cards: KENJTEC One, Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Five, Astra, Kadence, Blocksy and Neve. Below that you set three colours — “Background”, “Text” and “Accent” — and choose the typeface; “This is how your type looks” shows it right away. Your choice takes precedence over Kenji’s.
When you apply, a new theme is installed and activated, and the preview shows it straight away. Typefaces are loaded so that your visitors send no data to Google. You find more themes with “More themes in the Store”.
If the site follows your brand, colours and typeface come from BrandStudio; the box then says “follows the brand”, and you change them there (Following the brand).
- Open the “Styling” box in the Console.
- Choose a theme card, for example KENJTEC One.
- Set “Background”, “Text” and “Accent” and choose the typeface.
- Click “Apply”.
If the site runs a different theme from the selected card — after a move, for example —, “Apply” switches the site to the selected card, even if you only changed something else.
Plugins with one tick
The “Extensions” box lists a selection of tested plugins for common tasks, each with one sentence on what it is for: a contact form, cookie consent, dates and events, a table of contents for long texts, protection against spam comments, redirects for old addresses or WooCommerce for a shop. A tick is all it takes.
When you apply, newly ticked plugins are installed and activated; this takes a few seconds per plugin. If you remove a tick, the plugin is only deactivated, not deleted — its data stays. Every other plugin from the WordPress directory is under “More extensions in the Store”; you remove a plugin completely in the Control Panel.
- Open the “Extensions” box in the Console.
- Tick what you need, for example the plugin for dates and events.
- Click “Apply”.
Basic settings: title, time and visibility
Three boxes hold WordPress’s basic settings. “Site title and address”: site title, tagline, the email address for system messages, what the addresses of posts look like and what the home page shows. “Time and date”: time zone, date and time format and the first day of the week — the time zone decides when a scheduled post appears. “Visibility and joining in”: whether the site should appear in search engines, whether new posts allow comments, whether commenting needs an account and whether strangers may register.
Most fields are choices rather than free text, and “Apply” only transfers what you changed. You switch WordPress’s language in the Control Panel under “Languages”: first “Install language”, then “Activate language”.
- Open the “Time and date” box in the Console.
- Under “Date format”, choose the notation your guests know.
- Click “Apply”.