How can I use snippets within blogs to save time or reuse content when writing posts?

Grant Pankonien — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:48:11 GMT

Current Revision posted to User Documentation by Grant Pankonien on 07/18/2019 17:48:11

Blogs support a custom lists of snippets that are keyed phrases with optional links that can be referenced by keys within blog posts to reuse content and speed blog post creation.

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Defining Snippets

To define a snippet, navigate to the blog, Manage > Manage Blog > Snippets, and click Add Snippet:

Fill in the following fields:

Name - Informal name that will be used in a blog post to call the snippet. When authoring content you'll wrap this name in brackets to reference the snippet.
Link URL - (optional) To link the text of the snippet when rendering the snippet, add the URL to link to here.
Text - The text to replace the snippet with when rendering the snippet.

Click Create Snippet.

Snippets can also be edited and deleted from the snippet list on Manage > Manage Blog > Snippets.

Using Snippets

Snippets can be used when creating blog posts and will be rendered within the body of posts only (not in the title or other fields).

If you created a snippet named name, you could render the snippet by typing [name]. When the post is shown in the community, the [name] snippet will be replaced with the text configured as the content of the rendered snippet.