- Posts
Editable features include: Title, Meta description, Meta keywords, and Content.
Learn how to edit these via our Page Elements page.
The content of your blog home page is displayed above your blog posts. This comes with placeholder text that you will want to replace with an introductory paragraph.
Our categories feature works like tags. You can tag your blog posts with multiple categories and this will not affect the blog post URL. All blog posts tagged with the category can be found by at /blog/category/slug/.
Editable features include:
- Title - What you want your post to be called
- Slug - is what will appear in the url after the last "/". Can use to link: /whateveryouaddtotheslug/
- Body - write the content of the post here
- Status - Published (live) or Draft (great for working on again later)
- Allow comments - Allow viewers to leave comments to your blog posts.
- Nofollow comments - Stops search engines like Google from indexing links in the comments. This makes comment spam useless, but diminishes some commenters' motivation.
- Publish - Sets the time your post will go live.
- Future-date your posts so they go live at a later date/time.
- Press “Today” and “Now” if you would like you post to immediately go live.
- Set the Status to Published to have it Publish on the later date/time.
- It will not publish if it reaches this specified time if the status is set to Draft.
- Page Title - Edits the page title. Note: This is different from your blog post title.
- Categories - Tag your blog post with categories.
If people only want to show up to a certain part of a Blog post they created on the Blog Homepage, then they can use the page break tool. If they use this on a blog post and add it to after the part they want the blog to cut off at, it will not show the rest.
Blog Comments
You have the ability to approve of comments before they appear on your site. When a user comments on your blog post, you will be notified at your "Forward Email To" address defined in your Site Settings.
1. Use the Filter sidebar to find comments based off of the submission date, approval, and/or if spam was detected.
2. Checkmark the boxes to the left of the Commenter's name, choose an action and press "Go" to bulk approve, delete, or mark comments as spam.
3. Click on the name of a comment to view who commented, the content of their comment, and to individually mark it as approved, spam, and or nofollow.
Blog Sidebar
Blogs also have a different sidebar, with some additional options that do not exist on the regular sidebar. The Blog Sidebar can be located in the Sidebar menu of the content section.
Each one of these options will create a new section with links automatically created for the client.
Recent Blog Posts - Creates a link for the X most recent blog posts. X is chosen in the backend when creating the sidebar.
Blog Categories - Creates a link for each category. Each link contains all posts tagged with that category.
Blog Archives - Creates a link containing the blog posts for each month.
*Your blog's RSS feed is automatically created at yourdomain.com/blog/feed/