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Part 2: Creating A Blog Entry

Here in Part 2 I will explain how to create a Blog Entry. To avoid confusion, there is a difference between your Blog and the Blog Entries it will contain. After you've made your blog you'll need entries that can be your journals, experiments, sponsored product testing or whatever else.

Blog Entry Creation
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STEP 1

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You'll want to refer to STEP 1 in Part 1: Creating A Blog to navigate back to the Blog List to execute the next step below.

Follow the Red Arrow for Post Entry
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On this screen you select your newly created blog under Your blogs section.
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And lastly, you will select which category you want your Blog Entry to be associated with.
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STEP 2

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On this final page for creating a Blog Entry we once again have three points of interest.

Red Arrow goes to the title of your Blog Entry. Newbie Grower Runs Mephisto is an example.

Orange Arrow is your body is text and works well as an introduction for the content you will be adding later.

Green Arrow is mandatory one image attachment that will serve as your cover until you change it.

Always remember to Save once you are done.
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Part 2 Has Ended
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Thank you for reading and I hope this guide thus far has been a help. I'll be adding a spoiler with additional features that weren't directly related to creating a Blog Entry

There are several features in the image below that I will explain.

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Tags is a function that helps others when searching for content and helps us make our content more accessible. They display like the image below and are interactive allowing users to find content with similar tags.

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Description offers the ability to summarize your Blog Entry in a different way than your title.

Display Cover Image Above Every takes the image that everyone sees for your blog entry and displays it above. When you visit your blog the cover image will be there as well.

Display About Author will always show your personal About You at the end of every Blog Entry if enabled.

Comments open is much the same as Display About Author. This option allows comments that won't clutter your Blog Entry and creates a clean way to interact without detracting. The image below is an example

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Comments

Sour D
I started this: The Pickled Jar
My first page, I put a link to my first grow journal. Was kind of hoping that instead of it just being a link, the journal would show up in its entirety. Probably wishful thinking.
Not sure I'm on the right wavelength with this thing. My thinking is that this would work like a ebook. You have your cover that you click on. It opens to your intro page and then there is an "index" that would have "chapters"--in my case grow journals. You could then either click on the chapter to go to the beginning of the journal or there is a "button" that expands to show the "pages" in that chapter. Pages being my journal updates.
 
Death The Cultivator
Sour D said:
I started this: The Pickled Jar
My first page, I put a link to my first grow journal. Was kind of hoping that instead of it just being a link, the journal would show up in its entirety. Probably wishful thinking.
Not sure I'm on the right wavelength with this thing. My thinking is that this would work like a ebook. You have your cover that you click on. It opens to your intro page and then there is an "index" that would have "chapters"--in my case grow journals. You could then either click on the chapter to go to the beginning of the journal or there is a "button" that expands to show the "pages" in that chapter. Pages being my journal updates.
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So the below is your Blog and it's subsequent entry

The Pickled Jar

The Pickled Jar

A place to put my grow journals future and (past?).

First Grow- in 40 years

First Grow- in 40 years

Journal Link

Check out Part 3 of the guide to make additional pages for your Blog Entry.

Think of your blog as a book, each blog entry is a chapter, and you can make specialized pages unique to each chapter.

Your link isn't working.
 
Death The Cultivator
New blogging features have been added. Short summary of the changes.

  • You no longer have to go to Manage Pages to edit or add Pages. Feature to Add Pages is beside the Overview/Pages/Watch buttons above the blog entry
  • Pages can be edited directly without navigating to Manage Pages now.
  • Individual Pages can be liked
  • In the Edit Blog entry function you may rename the Overview Page. Use the second text entry space.
  • Polls can be added to each Page at any time now.
  • Blogs Entries can be saved as drafts
  • Cover Images can be set for each Page
  • Display cover image above blog entry page. When enabled, will display the blog entry page cover image (if set), above the blog entry page.
  • Display page byline. When enabled, will display the blog entry page Username/Author name and Create date below the Blog Entry Page Title. Note: Should only be used in cases where the page author is not the blog entry author.
@Admin @Gladiators A poll has been added above. Leave comments or suggestions here.
 
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Olderfart
@damien50, a quick question...

If I add pages to an existing blog, does the new content show up anywhere? I did this a couple days ago on my current grow blog, and have seen zero response to anything in either of the two new pages. Just curious whether this is due to lack of interest, in which case maybe I should be doing something else with my time, or lack of exposure, in which case, maybe back to regular threads.
 
Sour D
Olderfart said:
@damien50, a quick question...

If I add pages to an existing blog, does the new content show up anywhere? I did this a couple days ago on my current grow blog, and have seen zero response to anything in either of the two new pages. Just curious whether this is due to lack of interest, in which case maybe I should be doing something else with my time, or lack of exposure, in which case, maybe back to regular threads.
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Where's the "me too" smilie?
 
Death The Cultivator
Olderfart said:
@damien50, a quick question...

If I add pages to an existing blog, does the new content show up anywhere? I did this a couple days ago on my current grow blog, and have seen zero response to anything in either of the two new pages. Just curious whether this is due to lack of interest, in which case maybe I should be doing something else with my time, or lack of exposure, in which case, maybe back to regular threads.
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There aren't any notifications usually when you add pages. Sometimes there are but I haven't figured out what makes it happen. The best option is going and updating the blog entry.

It's also a lack of exposure, regular threads can be thread marked and are the norm for everyone. That's subjective depending on where your journal is as well though
 
TekkoN
It is very useful in order to be tidy and create a nice showcase pool :cheers: Huge thanks for this detailed how to.

Just thinking on the last question and your answer:
If members and guests set "filters: by last update" in grow journals and related sublists, new pages also work as updates. I wish that comes by default. Just my two cents.
 

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