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Changing page order in your blog navigation
This post written by Sue Waters in Sunday,August 2nd 2009 Comments Off
Pages appear in the Pages widget and/or in navigation tabs across the top of some themes. Pages are usually displayed alphabetically, but you can change the order pages are displayed in by using the order field in your attribute module on the Page screen.
In ...read more»
Filed under: Setting up and using widgets, Working with posts and pages
Tags: Page, Page Attribute, Page Order, Page widget
Using Sub pages On Blogs
This post written by Sue Waters in Saturday,August 1st 2009 Comments Off
Sub pages are normally used when you want to hide some of your pages from appearing in the top navigation area of your theme or in the Pages widget in the sidebar.
A common reason for hiding a page from the navigation menu is when you’ve ...read more»
How to Create a Static Front Page For Your Blog
This post written by Sue Waters in Saturday,August 1st 2009 Comments Off
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 ...read more»
Writing your About Page
This post written by Sue Waters in Saturday,August 1st 2009 2 Comments
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 ...read more»
Writing Pages
This post written by Sue Waters in Saturday,August 1st 2009 Comments Off
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 bloggers include:
An About ...read more»
The Differences between Posts and Pages
This post written by Sue Waters in Saturday,August 1st 2009 Comments Off
Blogs are composed of two main structures: posts and pages. New bloggers often struggle with the concept of posts and pages.
There are key differences between pages and posts that are important to understand when working with them.
Properties of pages are:
Blog pages are displayed independently of ...read more»
Why you shouldn’t write your posts in MS Word!
This post written by Sue Waters in Thursday,July 30th 2009 Comments Off
When you copy and paste text from MS Word it brings in lots of extra code. Normally this makes your post’s font and formatting look unattractive plus may add extra words you haven’t written. In extreme cases it can prevent your blog loading ...read more»
Making a post appear “stuck” to the top of the blog’s front page
This post written by Sue Waters in Thursday,July 30th 2009 Comments Off
By default, blogs display posts in reverse chronological order on the home page with the latest post at the top. There isn’t a way to display posts in chronological order however you can makes some posts Sticky so the post will be “stuck” to ...read more»
Password Protecting Posts
This post written by Sue Waters in Thursday,July 30th 2009 Comments Off
There are situations where you write a post but only want specific readers to read that post. For example, the post might contain student work or photos that you only want to share with the family, students or other teachers.
One option is to password protect ...read more»
Filed under: Working with posts and pages
Tags: Password Protect, Password protect post, Post visibility
Scheduling A Post For a Later Date
This post written by Sue Waters in Thursday,July 30th 2009 Comments Off
You can schedule posts to be published when you want whether it be a specific time, few days or weeks.
It’s really simple to do — only takes 4 simple steps!
Once you have written your post just:
Click on Edit link next to Publish Immediately in the ...read more»
