There are a few situations where bloggers don’t want their front page (‘Home’) to display their latest post and want a static page instead. Educators occasionally use a static home page to provide background information to parents or students about the purpose of the blog. Their Home page normally contains content that rarely changes and [...]
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An About page is where readers find out more about you and your blog. Readers often use it to decide whether to bother subscribing to a blog. When you set up a new Edublogs blog it automatically comes set up with an ‘About page’. Readers access this page by clicking on About in the page [...]
You normally use pages for information that you want to share with your readers but don’t expect to update frequently. Pages appear in the Pages widget and in navigation tabs across the top of some themes. Examples of pages commonly used by educators include: An About page – for readers to find out more about [...]
Blogs are composed of two main structures: Posts Pages New bloggers often struggle with the concept of posts and pages. Introduction to Posts Posts are where you publish the latest update or new article on a blog. Posts are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order with the most recent post at the top of the page (e.g. [...]
A pingback happens when another blogger writes a post and includes a link to your post in their post. When they publish their post you’ll normally receive an email notification letting you know they have referenced ( i.e. linked to) your post. The email notification commonly includes an extract from the post they’ve written, a [...]
Comments are enabled on posts and pages by default and you can approve, delete or edit any comments left on your blog. You manage comments by going to the Comments menu item inside your blog dashboard. Here’s where you see a listing of all comments, 20 posts per page, that have been written on your [...]
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Writing Links in Comments
A common frustration for commenters is how do you write links in comments on blog posts. Inserting links in posts is relatively easy because your Visual Editor provides a Insert/Edit Link button but this tool isn’t available for writing comments on posts. This is where a basic knowledge of HTML helps because you use HTML [...]