Manage blogs and blog posts

The following table summarizes how you manage blogs and blog posts.

  Action  Description
Blogs  Edit the properties of blogs 
  1. On the Blogs page click the Actions link of the respective blog.
    From the dropdown list click Title & Properties.
  2. Edit the blog URL or the additional URLs list.
  3. Click Save changes. 
Delete blogs 

On the Blogs page, do one of the following:

  • Expand the Actions menu of a blog and click Delete.
  • Select one or more blogs and click Delete in the Actions menu, located on top of the Blogs list.

A dialog box opens for you to confirm the deletion.

Blog posts Edit, approve, and publish the content of blog posts 
  1. On a blog’s post page, open a blog post for editing in one of the following ways:
    • Click the blog post you want to edit.
    • Expand the Actions menu of the respective post.
      From the dropdown list, click Content.

      NOTE: In the More Options menu, you can click Revision history to view and compare existing versions of the blog post.

      NOTE: In the top left corner of the editor, you can see when the blog post was last published. Upon hovering over, you see additional information about when was the post last modified and published for the first time.

  2. Edit the blog fields as required. See Overview: Create and edit content for details.
  3. When you are finished, click Publish.
    If you have a workflow installed on your website, you can have different options. For more information, see Actions available in a workflow.

    If you are editing a published blog post, the system saves a draft of that post, but the published version is still visible on the webpage. To see which version is the currently published one, see Revision history for content items.

Unpublish and schedule published posts  After a blog post is published, you can change the status of the blog post.
For more information, see Manage pages and content items in status Published
Delete posts 

You can delete posts in the following ways:

  • Expand the Actions menu of a blog post and click Delete.
  • Select one or more blogs and click Delete in the Bulk actions menu, located on top of the Blogs list.

A dialog opens for you to confirm the deletion. 

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