Blogs work similarly to News Pages where they allow the ability for information to be posted in an area on your website, which will provide updates to your membership. They also allow anyone who views your Blog(s) to comment or add feedback to your information on the page. This can be used to provide feedback discussions about your club, website, events etc.
Select where you would like the Blog to be displayed on your site. The Blog page type can be created at the root level of your site or as a sub-page of any previously created page.
Below is an example of what needs to be completed when creating a Blog Page. Make the appropriate adjustments and setting changes for how the members and guests can view the blog.
4. Click SAVE to create the page.
1. Select the Blog Page recently created. 2. Click NEW . 3. Select BLOG POST from the list of available page types (this will automatically generate the Blog month if it does not exist).
4. Complete the information for the Blog post. 5. Click SAVE.
This is an example of how the live website will appear when viewing the blog post.
When a person comments on the blog, the administrator has control to edit or remove the post from the blog page. This ability will allow administrators to manage unnecessary or unwanted blog posts. Below is an example of the Edit menu.
After editing, administrators can SAVE & CLOSE to display the comment on the website.
A RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed provides frequently updated content published by a website. The feeds are commonly used for news and blog websites allowing members to view current club information without having to log on to the website. A feed can have the same content as a webpage, but it's often formatted differently. When a person subscribes to an RSS feed, the internet browser automatically checks the website and downloads new content so subscribers can see what is new since they last visited the feed.
For members to subscribe to an RSS Feed of the blog, they just have to simply select the RSS link, which will take them to the following page to subscribe to the RSS feed to the Blogs. This will work like any other RSS feed that the member has subscribed to with regular updates as the Blog continues to update.