aaron
05-29-2006, 11:25 AM
The new blog system has been setup at Our Hattiesburg (http://ourhattiesburg.com/) It will have many more features and be much more customizable than the journals. That also means it will be a little harder to use. I'm going to try to walk you through the basics, but expect this post to be improved as I get more feedback from you.
Creating your blog
Please PM me with this information:
1. Word/Words to be inserted into your web address (ex. yourname.ourhattiesburg.com)
2. An email address
3. A title for your blog
Logging into the Admin panel
1. The admin panel contains a lot of options, much like your UserCP here, only with the blog, the admin panel is where you can write, edit, and delete posts to your blog. The link to your admin panel is http://yourusername.ourhattiesburg.com/wp-admin/ This link will take you to the login page if your not logged in, and if you are, will take you directly to the admin panel.
2. The first time you login to the admin panel, you'll need to use the password from the welcome email sent to you. The first thing you should do upon logging in, is change this password to something you can easily remember. You do this by clicking the users link in the admin panel. This will bring up your profile information and two fields to fill in and confirm your new password.
3. After changing your password, let's make a post. You've made it past all of the hard stuff, now you just need to click the write link along the navigation bar. This page will look much like making a new post. There are several options down the sides. Most are self-explanatory. Allow pings means when someone else references your post in their blog, it will ping yours to let you know.
4. After writing your first post, just hit publish to post it to your blog. You can then click the view site link to see what it looks like. If you made an error or want to add something, the manage link will let you edit any and all posts on the blog. You may want to practice by editing the automatic post and comment made by the system to your blog when you created it.
5. One additional change I would make is in your Options. You will see a checkbox for Membership. Checking it means visitors must be members to comment. If you have a problem with comment spam (and if your blog becomes popular, you will), you may want to consider checking this box.
Telling people about your blog
There are several ways to tell people at the forum about your new blog.
1. Add a link to your blog to your forum signature. You can do this by using the edit signature (http://www.myhattiesburg.com/forums/profile.php?do=editsignature) link in your UserCP.
2. Everytime you make a new post on your blog, the forum will make a new post in the blogs forum. It updates every hour so it may not be instant.
3. In your profile, you have a field for your blog. You should put your RSS feed in this field. If your blog is hosted at Our Hattiesburg, the link will look something like http://yourusername.ourhattiesburg.com/feed/. Now your new blog post will show up in your profile field in your forum posts.
I'll add more and more to this post as I become more accustomed to the system.
Creating your blog
Please PM me with this information:
1. Word/Words to be inserted into your web address (ex. yourname.ourhattiesburg.com)
2. An email address
3. A title for your blog
Logging into the Admin panel
1. The admin panel contains a lot of options, much like your UserCP here, only with the blog, the admin panel is where you can write, edit, and delete posts to your blog. The link to your admin panel is http://yourusername.ourhattiesburg.com/wp-admin/ This link will take you to the login page if your not logged in, and if you are, will take you directly to the admin panel.
2. The first time you login to the admin panel, you'll need to use the password from the welcome email sent to you. The first thing you should do upon logging in, is change this password to something you can easily remember. You do this by clicking the users link in the admin panel. This will bring up your profile information and two fields to fill in and confirm your new password.
3. After changing your password, let's make a post. You've made it past all of the hard stuff, now you just need to click the write link along the navigation bar. This page will look much like making a new post. There are several options down the sides. Most are self-explanatory. Allow pings means when someone else references your post in their blog, it will ping yours to let you know.
4. After writing your first post, just hit publish to post it to your blog. You can then click the view site link to see what it looks like. If you made an error or want to add something, the manage link will let you edit any and all posts on the blog. You may want to practice by editing the automatic post and comment made by the system to your blog when you created it.
5. One additional change I would make is in your Options. You will see a checkbox for Membership. Checking it means visitors must be members to comment. If you have a problem with comment spam (and if your blog becomes popular, you will), you may want to consider checking this box.
Telling people about your blog
There are several ways to tell people at the forum about your new blog.
1. Add a link to your blog to your forum signature. You can do this by using the edit signature (http://www.myhattiesburg.com/forums/profile.php?do=editsignature) link in your UserCP.
2. Everytime you make a new post on your blog, the forum will make a new post in the blogs forum. It updates every hour so it may not be instant.
3. In your profile, you have a field for your blog. You should put your RSS feed in this field. If your blog is hosted at Our Hattiesburg, the link will look something like http://yourusername.ourhattiesburg.com/feed/. Now your new blog post will show up in your profile field in your forum posts.
I'll add more and more to this post as I become more accustomed to the system.