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| + | #redirect https://support.realgeeks.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043159674 | ||
| + | ====== Blog Posts ====== | ||
| + | ===== Creating posts ===== | ||
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| + | Starting from yoursite.realgeeks.com/admin: | ||
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| + | {{::bposts.png?500|}} | ||
| + | ===== Blog Post Fields ===== | ||
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| + | Many of the blog post fields work the same as [[working_with_pages|content pages]], including //Title//, //Slug//, //Meta description//, and //Meta keywords//. The //Body// field [[content_wysiwyg|works like content fields elsewhere]]. | ||
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| + | In addition, there are a few new fields specific to blogs posts: | ||
| + | * //Status// - //Published// or //Draft//, where draft posts don't show up until you change their status to //Published//. Useful for working on a post, then saving your progress, then finishing it up and publishing it later. | ||
| + | * //Publish// - This is when the post is set to go live. From here you have the option to future-date your posts so they go live at a later date/time. To ensure the post goes live upon save, click "Today" and "Now" which will set to post at the current date/time. | ||
| + | * //Allow comments// | ||
| + | * //Nofollow comments// - Tick this checkbox if you don't want search engines like Google indexing any links in the comments. This makes comment spam useless, but diminishes some commenters' motivation. | ||
| + | * //Page title// - Leave this field blank unless you want the page title to be something other than the post title. | ||
| + | * //Categories// - Blog posts can be placed in zero or more categories. In this sense, categories work like tags because a post can be in multiple categories. | ||
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| + | {{::bpcategory.png?700|}} | ||
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| + | After all of the fields are filled out to your satisfaction, click the //Save// button at the bottom of the page. | ||
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| + | ===== Expanding the Categories Field ===== | ||
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| + | Some of our customers have a large number of categories and need a larger field to select them. To enlarge the categories, we made a bookmarklet. | ||
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| + | Drag the following link to your bookmarks bar. When you are editing a blog post, you can click on the link and it will expand the categories field for you. | ||
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| + | <html> | ||
| + | <a href="javascript:django.jQuery('#id_categories').width(500).height(1000)">Expand Categories</a> | ||
| + | </html> | ||
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| + | ===== Finding posts ===== | ||
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| + | Starting from yoursite.com/admin: | ||
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| + | {{::blog_post_admin.jpg?500|}} | ||
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| + | {{::changing_blog_post.jpg?800|}} | ||
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| + | - Searching: type some terms into the search box and click //Go// | ||
| + | - Filter by publication date | ||
| + | - Filter by status (//Published// or //Draft//) | ||
| + | - Click a column header to sort by it, click again to toggle between ascending and descending order | ||
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| + | =====Controlling Display===== | ||
| + | If you only want the title of the blog to show on the blog homepage, then click the page break icon in the content editor. | ||
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| + | {{::pagebreak.png?600|}} | ||
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| + | You can also change where in the blog post you add it if you want the blog to look like a preview so the user would need to click on the "View More" button to see the whole blog post. | ||
| + | ===== Deleting posts ===== | ||
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| + | To delete a blog post, first find the blog post in question, then scroll to the bottom and click the //Delete// link to the left of the //Save// button. | ||
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