Blog settings

Configuring the blog

Allow comments
- This setting determines whether or not comments are allowed on blog posts within this site. If allowed, the owner of a blog post can still determine whether to allow comments on a particular post. If comments already exist on any blog posts and this checkbox is deselected, the existing comments will be hidden but not deleted.
Allow PDF export
- This setting determines whether or not blog posts can be exported to PDF.
Approval Workflow
- Use this setting to require approval for any new blog posts or changes to an existing blog post, made by anyone other than an Administrator. When a post is created or edited, it will not be published immediately, but instead, an Administrator for the site will have to accept or reject the post and, if accepted, the post will be immediately published. Select
Set Notifications
to determine which Site and Content Administrators have the right to approve or reject a new page but by default, all Administrators have this permission.
Hide Author
- Use this setting to hide the name of the author of each blog post. This is useful if the blog post is intended to represent the view of a group or organisation and not an individual.
Hide Date
- Use this setting to hide the date of all blog posts.
Hide tag cloud
- The tag cloud is a visual representation of all of the tags used within the Blog module and is displayed in the left navigation.
RSS Feed for all posts
- This is a link to the RSS feed URL for every blog post on the site, regardless of the category.
Categories
- Blog categories serve two purposes. First, categories make it easier to identify, and navigate to, blog posts related to the same subject. Categories can also limit a user or group's access to certain blog posts by associating access rights with a category. For example, clients may be prohibited from viewing any blog posts associated with the
Internal
category. By default, a
Default
category will exist and once another category has been created, the
Default
category can be removed. A blog post can be assigned to more than one category but must be assigned to at least one. By default, every new blog post will be assigned to the default blog category, unless another category had been pre-selected.

To add a new Blog category, enter the category name in the field and press
Enter
.

To change the permissions associated with an existing Blog category, navigate to
More actions
>
Set Permissions
:

To edit the name of an existing Blog category, navigate to
More actions, Rename
and enter the new name.
To delete a Blog category, navigate to
More actions
>
Remove
. Before a category can be deleted, it is necessary to either delete all of the blog posts associated with that category or associate the posts with at least one other category.