Adding and Editing Blog Posts

You can add a post to a blog or edit posts from the Blogs library.

1. Click the name of the blog in the directory tree to which you want to add / edit a post.

To Add a New Post:

2. Click Add New.

To Edit an Existing Post:

2. Highlight the post you want in the posts list and select Edit Post.

The Add / Edit Post interface appears:

3. Enter blog post properties as described in the following table:

 

Blog Post Property	Description
On the Left of Popup
Title	Title of post
Date	Date on which post was added. Content Manager selects current date by default when adding a post.
Author	Name of user whose name will appear on the post. Content Manager selects the name of logged-in user as author by default.
Email	Email address of user who authors post
Categories (Tags)	Assign Tags to this post to display in the Categories column in the posts lists. - Click the check box beside the folder or individual Tag to add to this list. - If you select a folder, a confirmation dialog appears, prompting you to specify whether you want to add all terms in the folder.
On the Right of the Popup
Featured	Checking the box will allow the post to be featured on any page using the Featured Blog Widget.
Headline Photo	This photo will be used to help feature the blog post.
Content	The actual text of your blog post. Use the WYSIWYG editor to type in and format your post content. The editor works the same here as it does in Site Editor.
On the Additional Properties Tab
Short Description	Short description of post to appear in Blog post list.
Location	Specifies the location of the author of the post, for example as in a news items byline.
Image	Upload an image to associate with the post.
Labels	You generally will not use this as they are custom. Specify tags to place on content to organize blog postings by categories. These labels are not exposed by default, but are used for custom coding or searching. Your developer can tell you more about them.
Allow Comments?	Click this checkbox for iAPPS to allow website users to add comments to this post.
Additional Information	This allows for the creation of custom Blog Post property fields. For example, along with Location or Author name, you might want to include an author photo. To add an additional field, a developer must create a content definition for it. Users can then add content to the field by clicking the Insert from Library link. The content will not appear on the front-end until a developer modifies the XSLT to account for the addition, however.
On the SEO Properties Tab
You can adjust the SEO properties and metadata for a blog post page, as you would for any iAPPS page. See the SEO section for more detail about SEO Properties.
Title Tag	This tag appears in the page HTML. It will appear as the Page Name at the top of a browser. A Title Tag should be no more than 60 characters.
H1 Tag	This tag is essentially the page's "headline". It is displayed in the <H1>, which appears in the page HTML, and is often the same or similar as the Page Title. It should be descriptive to aid in searches and so that website users know they have arrived at the right page.
URL Friendly Name	This name makes it easier for a user and a search engine crawler to decipher. It is used for Search Engine Optimization.
Keywords	Descriptive keywords about the page or blog topic, used as HTML metadata and for internal search. (optional)
Descriptive Metadata	This data appears as the <META> tag value in the HTML of the page and on most search results pages. It should be descriptive and keyword rich. 150 character limit, although not all of these will initial display.
Other Metadata	Any other HTML meta data that you want to appear inside the rendered HTML of the page. If you need to use a canonical tag, this is where it would placed.
On the Post Tab at the Bottom of the Text Editor
Edit Post	On the Post Tab at the Bottom of the Text Editor Design: Allows you to create / edit message using WYSIWYG editor. HTML: Allows you to create / edit message using HTML markup. Preview: Displays post as it appears on blog. Note: If your company is using the CKEditor toobar, you will not get the above options. To edit the HTML, instead click the “Source” button on the toolbar.
Additional Fields (custom)	From iAPPS v 5.1, blog templates can be set up to include a content definition, which would allow the addition of other fields besides the text editor for the main blog text. See "Adding and Managing Blogs and Settings " for more information.

4. When you have featured choosing features and writing, click Save as Draft. or Publish. A success dialog will appear. Click OK.

Content Manager then:

1. Displays a summary of the new post in the post list.
2. Stores the post in a directory under that blog for the month in which the post was added (if published)
3. Publishes the new post if that was the choice.

 

Typically, a blog displays posts in descending order from newest post to oldest. You can select a post to be always displayed at the top of a blog by making it sticky. You can later remove the sticky designation from a post so that it then appears in the typical order on the blog.

To make a post sticky / not sticky:

• Highlight the Post you want in the Blog Post Listing. On the More drop-down menu,and choose the post to change and select Make Post Sticky or Make Post Not Sticky as appropriate.
• Content Manager makes the post sticky or not-sticky.

 

Content Manager does not delete archived posts; it removes the post from display on the Blog.

To view archived posts in the list, click the Include Archive check box at the top of the posts list.

To archive a post or make a post active:

• Highlight the post in the list and select Archive Post or Make Post Active as appropriate.

Content Manager changes the status it displays for the post in the Blogs library list and either:

• Stops displaying an archived post on the blog
• Displays the activated post on the blog.

 

You can delete a post from a blog.

To delete a post:

1. Highlight the post in the post list on the Posts & Comments tab and select Delete.
2. A dialog appears prompting you to confirm that you want to delete this post: Click OK.

Content Manager removes this post from the blog and the Blog Library.

You do not have to delete the blog post to keep from displaying it on the blog, but can simply archive the post. Archived posts can be retrieved later, but deleted posts cannot.

 

To view the post in Site Editor mode, choose View Post in Site Editor from the More drop-down menu.

 

If a post is in draft mode, you can publish directly without editing by choosing Publish Now from the More drop-down menu.

 

Choose View Comments from the More drop-down menu to manage any comments on the blog post.

See "Managing Blog Post Comments " for details on handling blog comments.

 

Note that this feature only works from iAPPS 5.1 and forward. Unless a post has been edited or created after the upgrade to version 5.1, then nothing will appear in the page history for that post. Changes made to existing posts before upgrading will not appear in the listing.

1. Choose View History from the More drop-down menu to see the Page History for that post.
2. You can click the box next to a version number, and choose Rollback to This Version. That version of the post will then be live on your site.

3. To compare two versions:
   1. Click the boxes next to the two versions you would like to see and click Compare. to see the posts side-by-side, with changed information highlighted.
   2. If you wish to rollback, click Rollback to This Version. at the bottom of the screen.That version of the post will then be live on your site. Otherwise click Cancel on the top right to return to the Version List.