Adding a blog to your site |
In this sample, you will learn how to create a new blog in the sample Corporate Site, under the News section.
Sign in to CMS Desk. In the Content section, click /News and click New. Choose to create a new Blog. Enter the following details:
The following fields are also available, but you don't need to enter them for the purpose of this example:
Click Save. You have just created your blog. However, there are two additional steps you need to do:
1. Go to the Properties -> Template dialog and click Template properties. Set the value Inherit content value to Select inherited levels and choose only the Root. It ensures that the page displays the master page and then your blog content.
Click OK.
2. Choose the root in the content tree and switch to the Design tab. Configure the menuMain web part and set the Document types value to this:
cms.menuitem;cms.blog
Click OK. It ensures that the main menu contains a link to your blog.
Sign out and choose the My new blog item in the main menu (under the News section). You will see an empty blog like this:
Adding a blog on the live site
You can enable users to create blogs directly on the live site by adding the New blog web part to your site. Like this, users can only add the name and description of their new blog. All other blog properties, listed earlier in this article, will be taken from the web part's properties.
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