diff --git a/sat_frontends/jp/cmd_blog.py b/sat_frontends/jp/cmd_blog.py
index 62a63510..44469463 100644
--- a/sat_frontends/jp/cmd_blog.py
+++ b/sat_frontends/jp/cmd_blog.py
@@ -183,6 +183,8 @@ class Set(base.CommandBase, BlogPublishCommon):
         self.pubsub_item = self.args.item
         mb_data = {}
         self.setMbDataFromArgs(mb_data)
+        if self.pubsub_item is not None:
+            mb_data["id"] = self.pubsub_item
         content = codecs.getreader("utf-8")(sys.stdin).read()
         self.setMbDataContent(content, mb_data)