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Copilot: Site settings and structure

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Open Copilot in the site admin and describe the result you want. Use the tables below to check the requests in this area, their approval steps and their available Undo.

Checked against the product’s code on 7 November 2026.

Site identity, the front page, an active theme and EmDash content settings can affect the public site. Their approval cards describe the scope. A template setup can create several related objects at once; its receipt describes what its Undo covers.

Content types, taxonomies, widgets, plugins and some settings expose EmDash’s own content management features through governed requests. Removing a field from a content type’s structure or plugin can have consequences beyond its visible row. Read the card before approval.

In the tables, Yes under approval means a separate approval is required before applying the request. Available under Undo means the request can be reversed. The specific receipt must offer Undo; it can be limited by the input, later changes or the state that was saved. No means this request provides no automatic Undo. Reading a fact has nothing to undo.

These are plain-language descriptions of requests, not text you must type exactly. Your role, configured connections and site capabilities determine which requests are available. See How copilot requests are governed.

Listing registered content types and reading their structure need Editor or Admin access. Structure changes, including registering a table and reordering fields or types, are offered only to Admins. Finding unregistered tables also needs Admin access. Approval is still required for the writes below.

Request Approval Undo
Create a content type Yes Available
Delete a content type Yes No
Add a field to a content type Yes No
Remove a field from a content type Yes No
Reorder a content type’s fields Yes Available
Update a content type field Yes Available
Read a content type’s content structure No No
List content types No No
Register an existing content table as a content type Yes No
Reorder content types in EmDash Yes Available
Find content tables that are not registered as content types No No
Update a content type Yes Available

Only Admins can use the copilot to check or change site extensions, called plugins. The copilot cannot install or update plugins. All supplied plugins are the platform’s own. Switching them off or uninstalling them is refused before an approval card or a change. Switching one on still needs approval and offers no Undo. Ask “Which plugins are on?” for a supported read. In this table, Refused means the request makes no change to a supplied platform plugin.

Request Approval Undo
Switch an installed plugin off Refused No
Switch an installed plugin on Yes None for supplied plugins
List plugins and their status No No
Read a plugin’s non-secret settings No No
Change a plugin’s non-secret settings Yes Available
Uninstall a plugin Refused No

After a saved plugin change, the receipt says if its result could not be read back. Use Undo when offered. A settings reset can have no Undo if its default cannot be checked. If Undo cannot read the current state before changing it, nothing is undone and you can retry. If the reversal is saved but cannot be read back, its reply says so.

Request Approval Undo
Read the site’s readiness checks No No
Request Approval Undo
Read EmDash site settings No No
Change language, region and date or time formats Yes Available
Change the site logo or browser icon Yes Available
Change search ownership verification settings Yes Available
Change site social links Yes Available
Change site URL settings Yes Available

Only an Admin can ask whether site email is configured or request a test to their own address. Keep credentials on the dedicated settings screen.

Request Approval Undo
Read site email status No No
Send a site email test to your own address Yes No
Request Approval Undo
Read the capabilities available on this site No No
Choose which page is the site’s front page Yes Available
Change the site’s saved identity Yes Available
Read a site overview No No
List suitable site templates No No
Read a site template’s pages, sections and setup needs No No
Set up a site from a template Yes Available
Undo a site setup from its receipt Yes No
Request Approval Undo
Create a taxonomy Yes No
Delete a taxonomy Yes No
List taxonomies No No
Create a taxonomy term No Available
Delete a taxonomy term Yes No
Reorder taxonomy terms No Available
Translate a taxonomy term Yes Available
List a taxonomy term’s translations No No
Update a taxonomy term No Available
List terms in a taxonomy No No
Update a taxonomy Yes Available
Request Approval Undo
Activate an existing theme Yes Available
Create a theme Yes Available
Delete an eligible theme Yes Available
Read themes and their token values No No
List this site’s themes by their character No No
Update a theme’s tokens or state Yes Available

An instance is one widget placed in an area.

Request Approval Undo
Create a widget area Yes Available
Delete a widget area Yes No
Read a widget area No No
List widget areas No No
List widget components No No
Create a widget instance Yes Available
Delete a widget instance Yes No
Reorder widgets in an area Yes Available
Update a widget instance Yes Available

Return to the copilot request index.

Choose a request that matches your task, then ask the copilot. Review its proposed consequence before approving any change.