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Create a blog post from a group home page
To create a blog post from a group home page:
- Navigate to the blog.
- Click New. The Post window appears.
- In the Write tab, enter a name in the Title field.
- In the same tab type, format, and/or add media to your blog post.
- If you want to set further options:
- Click Options.
- If you want to use different keywords from your title for a URL, enter them into the Post URL field.
- To add an image, click Select/Upload under Post Image.
- Navigate to the image.
- Select the image (Open or Choose).
- If you want to future-date your post, click the calendar under Publication Date. The month/day calendar appears.
- Click the desired publication date. The date appears in the Publication Date field in YYYY-MM-DD format.
- If you want to post the future-dated post at a specific time, edit the time in the Publication Date field.
- Navigate to the desired file.
- Click Open.
- Under the Post Summary drop-down list, select the desired option:
- No post summary - Does not display a summary.
- Automatic post summary - The default summary (appears in RSS, activity streams, emails, and blog post lists). Default is the first 250 characters of the post.
- Custom Summary - Select this if you prefer not to use the first 250 characters of the post and want to write your own.
- Notify me when someone comments on this post - When someone comments on the post, the post author will be notified by email. (Note that if the author has not allowed notifications on his/her Settings > Email tab, he/she will not receive email notifications even if the Email Notification property is enabled on this blog setup page.)
- Open graph - Specify any open graph options you want. The options add meta elements to the p;age source for Facebook.
- Title - Adds a title for the page to the page source.
- Description - Adds a description to the page source.
- Image - Adds a description to the page source.
- Search engine optimization - Specify any SEO options you want. The options increase search targeting for your post.
- Title - Specify the title you want search engines to use for the post, if you do not want the post's title used.
- Keywords - Comma-separated list of terms that could improve search engine result lists.
- Description - A custom excerpt from the post.
- Click Post.