| Managing your new blog site with InstantPro |
| Managing your new blog site with InstantPro |
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Managing your new Blog!
Step-by-step Guide
Now that you have created your blog, you will need to know how to manage it! Firstly, open up the website builder from your MyFreeola Control Panel. This will take you to the 'Site Overview' page, where you will see a button named 'Manage Blog Pages'.
Adding New Posts
1. To write a new post on your blog, simply select the 'Write a New Post' button...
2. Next, fill in the Blog Post Title of your blog and write the content as before, just like when you create any new page or post using the text editor . Once you are done, click 'Finish' and your blog will be updated with your new post!
Editing Previous Posts
1. To edit any blog post, simply click the small icon in the row of the page that you want to edit:
For more information on what Blog Post Titles and content your blog can contain, please see the create a blog tutorial.
Deleting Posts
Deleting a blog post is easy! Simply click the 'Delete' icon for the relevant page on the blog management page.
Editing Page Intro Text
1. The Page Intro Text is a small area above your blog where you can put any content, in order to introduce the blog or put other relevant information. The process of doing this is exactly the same as the two sections above, only - you click the 'Edit Intro Text' button and proceed to use the text editor to make the changes that you wish.
2. You can then proceed to make the necessary changes and click Finish to save your changes.
Submitting Comments
1. If you have allowed them to do so, visitors can submit comments to your blog. In this form you will see a 'captcha security image' containing randomly generated characters for you to enter. This is to help prevent spam attacks on your website (to basically ensure that the comment is submitted by a human and not a malicious computer script). To submit a comment, simply click on one of the two places shown in the picture below...
This will take you to a separate page which displays the post made, any comments made and then the comment form.
2. Visitors can fill in their details and message in to the form and press submit. Their comment will then be added to this post.
Moderating Comments
1. You may wish to edit or delete comments made to your blog. To do this, first navigate to InstantPro Website Builder, Site Overview > Manage Blog Pages > Then click on the big 'Moderate Comments' button.
2. This is where you can sort, edit and delete comments. You can use the drop down menus to help you find the comment you need. 3. Clicking "Delete" will irreversibly delete the comment. The "Don't display on site" link will not delete the comment completely, but the comment will not be shown on your blog. This option allows you to put this comment back on the site at any time. 4. Elements that you can edit will turn yellow when you move the mouse over them. To edit an element, simply click it, make the changes and click 'Save'.
Filtering or Sorting Posts
Throughout various pages to do with your blog, you will find a drop-down box like so:
Clicking this will allow me to view only certain posts that were made in a chosen month. You can also use this to search for comments on posts and view all comments made in a given month. RSS Feeds on your Blog Page
InstantPro Blog pages have an in-built RSS facility, which will enable readers of your blog to subscribe and stay up to date via their preferred RSS reader. RSS feeds are a great, and simple way to keep your regular visitors up to date, and there is nothing you need to do to enable the facility as it is done so for you automatically. If you are unfamiliar with RSS feeds, they allow people to 'subscribe' to a certain page, or website. Once subscribed to a feed, you are automatically alerted every time an update is made to the page or site. In the case of InstantPro, subscribers to your blog will be automatically updated each time you post new content. Visitors to your site using Internet Explorer will be aware of the RSS feed via the command bar in
the browser, whereas users of the Firefox browser will see the If you would prefer the RSS feed to be more obvious on your page, you can choose to display a 'Subscribe to RSS' button on your blog page which will appear just above your posts.
To enable this button, select the Manage Blog Pages option from the Site Overview screen within the InstantPro Website Builder. From here you will be taken to edit your blog page, where you will see a Page Settings link on the top of the page. You will need to click this link to open the page settings popup. In addition to the other settings available here, you will see a sub heading of Display RSS button with options to display and not display the button underneath. To show the RSS button on your page, simply select the Display RSS button option and click Update. Now when visiting your page you will see a Subscribe to RSS button which will be visible regardless of the browser visitors are using. Below you can see an example blog page with the 'Subscribe' button added. If you wish to see a live example, you can do so on the InstantPro Tutorials Blog page. |
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