#redirect https://support.realgeeks.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043159674 ====== Blog Posts ====== ===== Creating posts ===== Starting from yoursite.realgeeks.com/admin: {{::bposts.png?500|}} ===== Blog Post Fields ===== 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]]. 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. {{::bpcategory.png?700|}} After all of the fields are filled out to your satisfaction, click the //Save// button at the bottom of the page. ===== Expanding the Categories Field ===== 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. 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. Expand Categories ===== Finding posts ===== Starting from yoursite.com/admin: {{::blog_post_admin.jpg?500|}} {{::changing_blog_post.jpg?800|}} - 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 =====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. {{::pagebreak.png?600|}} 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 ===== 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.