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Blogs
Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject ,or function as more personal online diaries. Blogs have become common place on web sites during the last decade, even on big co-orporate sites, as they can add a human and personal style that is attractive to readers as they demand openess from organisations.
Blog posts are displayed in reverse chronological order.
This article describes how to add a blog component to an article.
Creating a Blog within Insight
- First create an area for your blog in your site structure by creating a 'user' group. Title the group as simply 'Blog', or something a bit more personal e.g.Sue's Blog. See for information on how to create a group.
- Create a test entry for your blog. It could be only a one sentance with a title e.g.test blog post1, just something so you can see how a post will be displayed in your blog during the next step.
- Now create another article in the group; add the title of your blog to it e.g.Sue's Blog.
- Place your cursor at the appropriate location in the article then click the add component button, and select the blog component from the list.
- The component will be added to your article and there'll be a new window to allow you to change the blog settings.
- Change the component settings to adjust the margin around the component and toggle the component title and footer bars.
- Change the Blog display options to your requirements. For example you may wish to display more than the default latest 3 blog posts.
- Click OK when you happy with the setup.
- Preview the article to check the display. If your blog displays undesired elements on the page e.g. the title and summary of the latest blog posts are repeated below my blog posts then you'll need to apply a different layout to your group that doesn't contain these elements.
- Select Save to commit your changes.
- Now set this article to be the group homepage article by selecting the
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- You should now be ready to begin posting in your blog. When creating articles for your blog keep the Author field filled with your name. This will mean the publish date is displayed which is important for blog entries.
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| | | Simon Marchant | 07/07/2010 09:41 | Can I email in blog updates to my account rather than logging on and going through the CMS, creating a document and publishing?
| | | | Justin Ruffell-Ward - Insight Support (shareinsight.co.uk) | 12/07/2010 16:22 | You are required to login and edit your blog posts in the document editor like other articles.
| | | | Stephen Beer (www.thecsm.org.uk) | 17/09/2010 00:32 | A facility to enable blog entries via email would be a good thing to consider.
| | | | David Sandberg (www.dayspring.org.uk) | 13/10/2010 10:04 | We have a blog on www.dayspring.org.uk under Ideas called Dave's Blog. Despite the articles being set to allow feedback it is not obvious how people add comments on the individual blog posts. Please help.
| | | | David Sandberg (www.dayspring.org.uk) | 13/10/2010 10:55 | A bit more work and I have found away round the problem. Not entirely sure it is right but it works.
| | | | Justin Ruffell-Ward - Insight Support (shareinsight.co.uk) | 14/10/2010 09:16 | The issue is you are applying the blog layout to the articles, when it should only be applied to the group homepage. Currently when you click on comments, or the permalink it takes you to the same page, when infact you want it to take you to the individual post.
| | | | Joel Lilley (www.hopechurchglasgow.org) | 27/10/2010 14:03 | Is there a way for users to be able to subscribe to a blog (either email or rss) Thanks
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