# 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](https://kerf.site/), 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
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> 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 →](https://kerf.site/docs/kerf-ai/)

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*Originally published on [kerf.site](https://kerf.site/blog/inside-kerf-ai-gemini-wordpress/). Try Kerf free in your browser — a private WordPress with Kerf installed, no sign-up: https://kerf.site/demo/*