Blog posts

Open Content › Blog posts. Posts are grouped into blogs: create a blog first, then add posts to it.

Add a blog

Under Add a blog, type the Blog title and choose Add blog. Its page lists its posts, each with its author, its date, and whether it is Visible or Hidden. To rename a blog, tap its title at the top of its page, type the new one and press Enter.

Theme template on the blog’s page chooses another layout for it, made in the theme editor. Delete blog, at the foot of its page, deletes the blog and all its posts, after you confirm.

All posts

Under your blogs, All posts lists every post of every blog: Search posts by title, keep one Blog or one Status (Visible, Scheduled or Hidden), and Sort them newest or oldest first, by last change or by title. Tick posts to Show, Hide or Delete them together; deleting asks first.

Add a post

Add post opens the post editor:

• Title and Content, with Visual, HTML and Preview views (see Pages): text colour, pictures from your files and tables included. The Excerpt has the same toolbar.
• Excerpt: a short summary that lists of posts can show.
• Details: the Blog it is in (choose another to move it there; its old address keeps working), the Author, the Publish date, Tags, an Image you upload or choose, with its Image alt text (a short description of the image for people who cannot see it), the URL handle and the Theme template.
• Visible or Hidden on your store.
• Search engines: a drawing of how the post shows in search results, its Page title and Meta description.
• Language version: with more than one language, write the title, content, address and, for a post with an image, its Image alt text in each language. Left empty, your store shows the main language’s.

Create post saves a new post; after that, Apply in the bar at the top (it says Unsaved changes while something is not saved) saves changes. Delete post removes a post, after you confirm. If the post is changed elsewhere while you are typing (by the assistant or a colleague), your typing stays and a note says so: Apply saves your changes over the newer post, and Load the latest post shows the newer one and discards yours.

Publish on a date

Set a Publish date ahead on a visible post and it stays off your store until then. It appears by itself, within a minute of the date. Until then the blog’s page marks it Scheduled with its date, and the post has no View on store link yet.

Comments

On a blog’s page, Readers can comment chooses No, Yes, after you approve each one, or Yes, shown at once. It is No until you change it. Below it, Waiting, Published and Spam list that blog’s comments in each state. A waiting comment has Publish, Spam and Delete; a published one Hide (it waits again), Spam and Delete; one marked as spam Publish and Delete. Delete asks first and cannot be undone. Readers give a name and an email; the email is for you and is never shown, and it is listed only for members who may see customers.