Blog Properties

Note: To be able to edit blog properties, you must have permission to Edit Folders on the blog’s Advanced Permissions screen.

Click Edit Properties() to change blog properties.

Editing a Blog’s Properties vs. Adding a Blog

When you edit a blog’s properties and settings, more options are available than when you created it. This is done to save time when adding multiple blogs to a site.

The following table shows properties and settings are available when adding and editing a blog.

Blog Properties and Settings Availability

Property or Setting	Available When Adding a Blog	Available When Editing a Blog
Visibility
Blog Name
Blog Title
Tagline
# of Visible Posts
Comment Control
Update Services
Style sheet filename for this folder
Template filename for this folder
Smart Forms
Metadata
Subjects
Web Alerts
Blog Roll
Permissions
Approval Chain

Blog Folder Properties

The following table shows the fields on the Blog’s Properties tab. To edit these properties

- from the Workarea: navigate to the blog folder, click View > Properties, then click Edit Properties ()

- from the Web site: log in, navigate to the blog, open the menu for the blog, and select Properties

When you are finished, click Save ().

To learn about the other tabs on the Properties screen, see

Creating SiteMap Breadcrumbs

Field	Description
Visibility	Choose whether the site is a private blog or public.
	Public	Any site visitor can view the blog.
	Private	Membership and Ektron CMS400.NETusers must log in to the site to view the blog.
Blog Name	The name of your blog as it appears in the content folder tree.
Blog Title	The title of your blog as it appears on the Web site blog. It only appears if the ShowHeader blog server control property is set to true.
ID	The ID number of the blog. This number is assigned by Ektron CMS400.NET and cannot be changed. Note: ID only appears when viewing the Properties screen. It does not appear while editing.
Tagline	A line of additional information that describes the blog. It appears below the title if the ShowHeader blog server control property is set to true. For example, the title of a blog is “John’s Blog Page.” The tag line could be “A place to learn about John's past, present, future, and his current state of mind!”
# Posts Visible	The number of posts visible on the blog page. If the number of posts exceeds this number, only this many of the most recent posts appear. For example, if this property is set to 10 and you add 11 posts, only the ten most recent posts appear. This number can be from 1 to 999. If you leave this field blank, all posts made during the current day are visible.
Comments	Choose how to handle comments by checking the appropriate boxes. For more information, see Controlling Blog Comments.
Update Service	Enter a service that notifies a blog search site when blog posts are added to your blog site. These blog search sites allow Web users to search content contained in blogs around the world. To use this feature, check the Notify blog search engines of new posts box and enter a path to a search site. An example path is: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping.
Style sheet filename for this folder.	If you want to provide a custom style sheet for the blog, enter the path to it relative to the site root. For example, WorkArea/csslib/my_custom_blogs.css. Leave this field blank to inherit the default style sheet, blogs.css, located in Workarea/csslib. You can customize the default style sheet but your modifications will get overwritten when you upgrade Ektron CMS400.NET.
Page Templates	Lets you specify one or more templates for content in this folder. For more information, see Creating/Updating Templates.

Metadata

There is no difference when working with Metadata for blogs or folders. For more information, see Working with Metadata.

See Screen Sample

Learn About Adding Blog Subjects

Learn About Editing Blog Subjects

Learn About Removing Blog Subjects

Web Alerts

Web Alerts notify users when a blog post is published. This feature is explained in Assigning Web Alert Information to Content.

Smart Forms

Use a Smart Form when you want to create structured blogging. Structured blogging provides a form for the blogger to fill out instead of free form writing. For example, you create a blog for book reviews. You want to make sure that, when someone submits a review, he provides the following information:

Book title

Author

Date of review

Review text

For information on working with Smart Forms, see Working with Smart Forms.

Note: Unlike the Smart Forms you can assign to regular folders, you cannot require the user to select a Smart Form when creating a new post. It is only an option.