Posts

Posts are the writing on your website. News, tips, a story from a job. One entry is one post.

Every post you publish gets a page of its own. The newest ones show on your Blog page.

Go to Content, then Website, then Posts.

What goes in a post

Click Add New to start one. Only the title is required. Leave a box empty and your website leaves that bit out.

Box	What it does
Post title	The name of the post. It is the heading on the post’s own page.
Featured image	A photo. It runs full width across the top of the post.
Excerpt	One or two lines. It shows on your Blog page and in the feed.
Post	The words. Type plain text, or add blocks the way you do on a page.
Author	The person on your team who wrote it. See below.
Featured	A switch. It picks the lead post on your Blog page.
Search & social	How the post looks in Google and when it is shared.

Post takes the same blocks a page takes, plus photos, videos and more. Pages shows how. What Google shows covers Search & social and the SEO boxes.

Categories and tags are not in the form. They sit in the Settings panel on the right. See Categories and tags below.

Writing and publishing

1. Click Add New.
2. Fill in Post title.
3. Write the post in Post.
4. Click Save as you go. Save stores your work. No visitor sees it.
5. When it is ready, click Publish now, then Publish now again to confirm.

Publish now puts the post on your website that second. Saving and publishing covers both buttons.

The date on a post

There is no date box in the form. Your website stamps the date when you click Publish now. That is the date readers see, and your Blog page lists posts newest first by it.

You can change it later. Open the post, then open the Settings panel. Under Publish, click Publication date. Pick a new day and time, then click Save date. The post’s date changes on your website.

This is handy for a post you wrote long ago. Publish it, then set the date to when it really happened.

The author

Author credits one person on your team with the post. Click the box and pick a name. The list comes from your Team page.

With a name picked, the post shows “By” and the name under the title. An About the author box with their photo and a few lines from their bio sits under the post. Their own team page lists what they wrote.

Leave it on - No author - and no name shows at all.

The Settings panel also has a Bylines part and an Ownership part. Neither one shows on your website. Use Author. Bylines explains the difference.

Categories and tags

Categories and tags sort your posts into groups. A visitor can click one and see every post in it.

• A category is a big topic, such as “Kitchens”. A category can sit inside another one, such as “Kitchens” inside “Remodels”.
• A tag is a small label, such as “Budget” or “DIY”. A post can have a few.

To give a post one:

1. Save the post at least once. The box only shows on a saved post.
2. Open the Settings panel on the right.
3. Find Categories or Tags, under Taxonomies.
4. Click the box and pick one from the list. To make a new one, type its name and click the Create line under it. Only Editors and Admins can make new ones.

To take one off, click the small cross on it.

Every category and every tag gets a page of its own on your website. It lists all the posts in it. Rename one, add a line about it, or delete it under Categories and Tags. See Categories and Tags.

Use the same few on every post. Ten tags across twenty posts helps nobody.

Featured, and the lead post

Featured is a switch near the bottom of the form. Turn it on and the post can lead your Blog page.

The newest post with the switch on sits at the top, in a wide panel with its photo. The rest follow in a list. Turn it on for two posts and the newer one leads.

What people see

Your Blog page. Across the top sits a row of chips: All, then one for each category and tag your posts use. Each chip opens that category’s or that tag’s own page. Then comes the lead panel, then a list of posts.

Each row shows the date, how long the post takes to read, the title, the excerpt and its categories and tags. Rows carry no photo. Reading time is counted from your words, at about 200 words a minute.

With nothing published yet, the page reads “No posts published yet.”

A post’s own page. The photo runs full width across the top. Then the title, the author, the date, the reading time and the excerpt, then your words.

Down the side sits a strip with the date, the reading time, the categories and the tags. Under those come the side panels, which you choose on the Article Sidebar page. Out of the box that is On this page and Written by.

On this page is a list of the headings in your post. A visitor clicks one to jump to it. It shows when a post has two or more Heading 2 or Heading 3 lines. On a phone it folds up above the post.

At the foot come the About the author box, any comments, and Continue reading, which offers three more posts.

Comments

Visitors can leave a comment under a post. Comments are off until an Admin turns them on for posts. See Content Types.

Once they are on, new comments wait for you under Comments. Comments shows how to approve them.

The feed

Your website also has a feed, at /rss.xml. Readers and apps use it to follow you. There is nothing to set up and nothing to switch on.

The feed carries the title, the date and the excerpt of each post. A post with no excerpt gives the feed nothing to show, so write one.

The Latest posts block

A block puts recent posts on any page, such as your homepage. Open the page under Content, then Pages, and add the Latest posts block. It sits under Sections.

Setting	What it does
Headline	A heading above the posts.
Subheadline	A line under that heading.
Which posts	All posts, or Featured only.
Maximum posts to show	A number, such as 3.
Layout	List is plain rows. Lead post + list makes the first one big.

With Lead post + list, the first post in the block is the big one. That is the newest post the block picked, whether or not its Featured switch is on.

The block shows nothing until you have published a post.

Putting Blog in your menu

Nothing links to your Blog page out of the box. Add the link yourself.

1. Go to Plugins, then Site Layout, then Navigation.
2. Pick Primary Navigation in the menu box at the top.
3. Click Add item.
4. Type Blog as the Label and /blog as the URL.
5. Click Save.

The link is live as soon as you save. Menus covers that screen.

The Blog page itself

The list of posts is built for you. The page around it is yours.

Go to Content, then Pages, and open the entry named Blog. Blocks you add there show above the list. The page’s SEO boxes are there too. Pages covers both.

Before you launch

Your website came with one post, to show you the shape of one. Its title starts with EXAMPLE. It came with one example category and two example tags too.

Then delete the example category and tags. See Categories and Tags.

Replace the examples covers the rest of the sample content.