Create blogs

1. On the main menu, choose Content » Blogs.
   The Blogs page opens.
2. If you have multiple sites, use the dropdown menu in the upper left of the page to select the site where you want to create blogs. For more on multiple sites, see Multisite: Manage multiple sites.
3. Click Create a blog.
   The Create a blog page opens.
4. In Title, enter the title for the blog.
5. Under Default page, select the page where the blog opens by default.
   Click Select a page button, select a page from the sitemap, and click Done.
   This page is also used when an RSS link to this blog is clicked and it is also used by Windows Live Writer to associate blog posts with a particular page.
6. You can change the automatically generated URL of the blog by clicking Change under Blog URL, and then entering the new URL in the input area.
7. You can specify that you want an RSS feed to be generated for this blog by clicking Alternative publishing (RSS) and selecting RSS feed checkbox.
   Feeds are used to publish frequently updated information, such as blogs and news. You can publish an RSS or Atom feed for the blog on the website and the users can subscribe to this feed. This way, they will receive updates of the blog without having to visit the website.

   You can change the settings of the automatically generated RSS feed.
   Click Change button and perform the following procedure:

   1. In RSS or Atom to generate? radio button group, select the format for the feed.
   2. In URL name, enter a URL of the feed.
   3. Choose how many items to include in the feed by selecting one of the following radio buttons:
      • Include the newest <number> items
        In the input field, enter how many of the published items you want to display.
      • Include all published items
        The feed displays all items that are published.
   4. Choose how to display the items in the feeds by selecting one of the following:
      • Title and content.
      • Title and first <number> characters.
      • Title only.
   5. To change the mapping of data fields, click Mapping Settings button.
      In the window that appears, you have a list of the data fields of the feed you are creating. To these fields, you can map fields of the RSS or Atom feed.

      When you are finished with the mapping of fields, click Accept changes.

   6. Click Done.

      For more information, see Publishing system: Feeds.

   7. You can display the RSS feed for the blog using the Feed widget.
      For more information, see Feed widget.
8. If you have added any custom fields for blogs, all created fields, are displayed after the Alternative publishing section.
9. Custom fields and hidden default fields - There are many predefined fields that are not shown when creating a new record; that's because they are hidden. Once you have created your first blog, the right panel lets you 'turn on' these default fields as required, or even create your own.
   Click Settings for blogs: Custom fields for blogs. The Blogs data fields page opens.   
   • Custom fields - You can create your own fields by clicking Add a field in the Custom fields section.  You are guided through the various data types and the alternatives for how data is handled and labeled. For more information, see Overview: Custom fields.
   • Default fields - Click on a defined field to edit it, then choose an option on the Appearance tab to specify that it will not be hidden.

   Click Save changes to each field, and then click Done to enable your revised field settings.

10. Click Create this blog.
    The system creates the blog. The Create posts page opens for this blog.
• If you want to create a blog post now, click Create a post.
  For more information, see Create blog posts.
• If you want to return to the Blogs page without creating a post, click All blogs located to the right of the blog name.