Bring Your Own Gemini Key: How to Build and Edit Custom WordPress Pages with Kerf AI (With Zero Monthly AI Markup)

Many WordPress plugins that add “AI” to their name follow the same playbook: wrap a standard LLM API in a proprietary credit system and charge a monthly fee on top of your theme license.

When we built Kerf AI into Kerf, we took the opposite path: every Kerf plan includes the full Kerf AI suite, and it talks directly to Google using your own Gemini API key. Even a free key from Google AI Studio works, and nothing is ever sent to Google until you click an AI button.

5 Ways Kerf AI Speeds Up Your WordPress Workflow

Once you paste your Gemini API key under Kerf → Settings, five specialized tools unlock across your dashboard and Block Editor:

1. Build a Complete Multi-Page Site from a Brief (Kerf → Build with AI)

Don’t have an HTML ZIP yet? Describe your business and select up to twelve photos from your WordPress Media Library. Kerf AI designs a cohesive multi-page HTML/CSS site—including marked Blog, Single Post, and 404 templates—and opens it directly in the Kerf importer check screen.

2. Turn Rough Notes or a Word Doc into a Page That Matches Your Site (Kerf → Make a Page)

What happens a month after importing your site when you need a new Services, Pricing, or About page? Open Kerf → Make a page (or click the Kerf AI icon inside the Block Editor on a new page):

• Paste rough notes or upload a .docx Word document, Markdown file, or HTML snippet.
• Kerf AI reads your existing site’s rendered HTML structure and CSS stylesheets, then builds the new page using your design’s actual banners, cards, grids, and buttons—keeping your words verbatim.

3. Rework Any Section Inside the Block Editor

Select any section on an existing page and ask Kerf AI to transform it—for example, “Turn this bulleted list into a 3-column feature card grid using this page’s card styles” or “Add an hours-and-rates table below this heading.” Because the change runs inside the Block Editor, standard Ctrl+Z / Undo works immediately.

4. Automatically Wire Up Static Blog & Post Templates

If your HTML ZIP includes a blog.html or post.html file that wasn’t pre-marked with data-kerf-* attributes, click Mark it with AI during the import check. Kerf AI identifies the post card loops, titles, dates, featured images, comments, and pagination and binds them to live WordPress data automatically.

5. Plain-English Import Diagnostics

If an AI-generated ZIP has missing image references or unmatched selectors on the fidelity report, click Explain it under In plain words on the import's Done step to get a plain-English summary and an exact fix-it prompt you can paste back into the tool that generated the design.

Included in Every Lifetime Plan

Kerf AI is included in Personal ($49), Freelancer ($99), and Agency ($199)—pay once, own it for life, and bring your own Gemini key. Read the Kerf AI documentation →

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