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Blogs and blog posts

You manage blogs and their posts on the Blogs page.

To open the Blogs page, in the main menu in the upper part of the screen, click Content » Blogs.
The Blogs page appears, displaying a list of all created blogs with the number of posts in each blog and the date of the last post, together with actions you can perform on them.

When you open a blog you can view all posts in this blog.
To open the page with a blog’s posts, perform one of the following:

On Blogs page, click the blog whose post you want to view.
On Blogs page, click Edit posts link of the respective blog.

A page, displaying all posts in the selected blog, appears.
To navigate back to Blogs page, click All blogs link in the upper-left part of the page.

Comments for posts

On the page with all the posts for a blog, you can view all comments for a particular post by clicking the number in Comments column of the respective blog.
All comments that have been submitted for this post appear.

For more information about comments, see Overview: Comments module.

Permissions for blogs and blog posts

You can set permission for all blogs and blog posts and you can set individual permissions for each blog or blog post.

To change the permissions for all blogs, on Blogs page, click Permissions link in the right side of the page.
The Permissions page appears.
To change the permissions for all blog posts, on the blog post page, click Permissions for posts in the right side of the page.
The Permissions for posts page appears.
For more information about changing permissions, see Administration: Global and section permissions » Step 2 to Step 4.

For more information about setting individual permissions, see Administration: Permissions of individual items.

Custom fields for blogs and blog posts

You can add a custom field to all blogs or to all posts. A custom field is a field that you create. For each blog and blog post there are default fields, such as author, title, etc. If you need to add different than the already existing fields, you must create a custom field.

To manage the custom fields of blogs, on Blogs page, click Custom fields for blogs link in the right pane of the page.
To manage the custom fields of blog posts, on the page with all posts, click Custom Fields for Posts link in the right pane of the page.

For more information, see Overview: Custom fields.

You then display a custom field for blog posts on your website by adding it to a template for displaying blog posts.
For more information, see Create and edit widget templates.

Displaying blogs and blogs posts on your website

To display a list of blogs on your website, you must use the Blogs list widget and you must configure it.
For more information, see Blogs list widget.
To display blog posts on your website, you must use the Blog posts widget and you must configure it.
For more information, see Blog posts widget.
For more information about adding widgets on your page, see Add widgets on pages and templates.

You can then choose the way blog posts are displayed by changing the template which the Blog posts widget uses.
For more information, see Create and edit widget templates.

For more information about the pages where the blog posts are displayed, see Locations of content items: Canonical URLs.

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