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How to Teach the AI Your Writing Style

Out of the box the assistant writes in a friendly, general voice. Ten minutes in Foxiz > AI Assistant makes it write like your site, for every writer and every task. Only an administrator can open that screen.

Two sections do it:

  • Writing Profile: six settings that frame every answer, such as who you write for and the tone.
  • Writing Style: short rules the AI follows on every task, such as "Address the reader as you".

What a writer asks for in the editor always wins over both, for that request.

1. Set the Writing Profile​

Go to Foxiz > AI Assistant and scroll down to the Writing Profile section, below Connection & usage (the top of the page is pictured in How to Connect an AI Provider):

Foxiz > AI Assistant, Writing Profile filled in: Target Audience for small business owners, Default Tone Informative, Default Language Site language, Reading Level General audience, Point of View Second person (you), Heading Style Sentence case

SettingDefaultSet it when
Target AudienceEmptyAlways. One line on who reads you, up to 300 characters: "Home cooks with little time, mostly beginners"
Default ToneConversationalYour site sounds different: Informative, Professional, Creative, Journalistic, Academic, Technical, Evaluative, Biographical or Argumentative
Default LanguageSite languageYou write in another language than the WordPress site language
Reading LevelAutomaticYour readers are beginners (Simple (easy to read)), everyone (General audience) or specialists (Expert)
Point of ViewAutomaticYour site always writes as First person (I), First person (we), Second person (you) or Third person
Heading StyleSentence caseYour headings use Title Case

Target Audience is the one worth filling even if you change nothing else: the same topic written for beginners and for experts is two different posts.

Click Save Changes.

2. Add your house rules​

Below Writing Profile on the same page is the Writing Style section. The list already holds:

  • Goal: completes the AI's opening line, "You help the writer write and edit posts …". It starts as "that readers find genuinely useful and trust, in the site's own voice".
  • Site: what your site is, filled from your site title, the site Tagline (the short description set in Settings > General) and main categories. Read it and correct it if it is vague.
  • Twelve Standard rules, general principles of good writing, all on. Untick any you disagree with.

To add your own rule:

  1. Type it in the box at the bottom. One habit per rule, said plainly:

    • "Address the reader as you."
    • "Use metric units, with imperial in brackets."
    • "Never start a title with a number."
    • "End every post with a short 'What to do next' list."

  2. Pick what it applies to: Everything, Titles, Tagline, excerpt, meta, Content, Tags or Categories. A rule about titles has no business in tags.

  3. Click Add. The rule is marked Yours.

  4. Click Save Changes. Nothing is kept until you do.

    The Writing Style section after adding a rule: the twelve Standard rules with their switches, the new rule Address the reader as you. marked Yours and outlined, the box for adding a rule, and the Save Changes button below it, outlined

3. Let it learn from your posts​

Once you have a few published posts, click Analyze My Posts. It reads up to eight of your newest published posts of 300 words or more, so it needs at least two of them, and adds the habits most of them share as Learned rules. With a provider connected it takes about half a minute.

The Writing Style section after Analyze My Posts with a provider connected: the message 4 learned rules added. Review them, then click Save Changes., the Site row rewritten from the posts, and four new rules marked Learned at the end of the list, each with what it applies to, all outlined

In Prompt mode it gives you a prompt instead:

  1. Click Copy Prompt and run it in your AI chat.

  2. Paste the answer into the box below, one rule per line.

  3. Click Use These Rules, then Save Changes.

    The Writing Style section in Prompt mode after Analyze My Posts: Prompt ready from 8 posts, the prompt with Copy Prompt under it, the paste box holding three rules, one per line, and the Use These Rules button outlined

Read the learned rules before you save. Delete one that describes a habit you would rather lose with the × at the end of its row.

Keep the list short​

The list holds up to 30 rules of up to 300 characters each, but fewer rules write better: each one competes for the AI's attention. The line under the list warns once a task gets more than 15 rules, and again past 25. When it warns, cut the Standard rules your house rules already cover.

In the editor, the Foxiz AI box shows how many rules are in use as a badge, beside the language.

Change it for one post​

The profile and rules are the default, not a cage. To write one post differently, say so in your request:

  • "Write this one for professional chefs."
  • "Use a more formal tone in this post."
  • "Write this post in French." The post keeps that language for the rest of the chat.

The full reference for both sections is in Writing Profile and Writing Style.

Next: How to Write a New Post with AI.

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