Blogs and blog posts

You manage blogs and their posts on the Blogspage. To open the Blogspage, in the main menu in the upper part of the screen, click Content» Blogs.
The Blogspage appears, displaying a list of all created blogs with the number of posts in each blog and the date of the last post, together with actions you can perform on them.

When you open a blog you can view all posts in this blog.
To open the page with a blog’s posts, simply click on the blog whose post(s) you want to view.

To navigate back to Blogspage, click All blogs link in the upper-left part of the page.

The following table summarizes the main properties and actions for blogs and blog posts.

Property/Action

Description

Widget to use and configure 

  • [Blog widget](https://docs.sitefinity.com/feather-blogs-widget)
  • [Blog posts widget](https://docs.sitefinity.com/feather-blog-posts-widget)

Display on pages 

[Display content on your website](slug://display-content-on-your-website)

For more information about the pages where the blog posts are displayed, see [Locations of content items: Canonical URLs](slug://locations-of-content-items-canonical-urls).

Organization 

Hierarchical structure

Comments 

On the page with all the posts for a blog, you can view all comments for a particular post by clicking on the Settings icon and then Comments.
All comments submitted for this blog are listed, along with information about the user that logged the comment and the blog post commented.

For more information about comments, see [Overview: Comments module](slug://overview-comments-module). 

Custom fields 

You can add a custom field to all blogs or to all posts. A custom field is a field that you create. For each blog and blog post there are default fields, such as author, title, etc. If you need to add different than the already existing fields, you must create a custom field. 

  • To manage the custom fields of blogs, on Blogs page, click Custom fields for blogs link in the right pane of the page.
  • To manage the custom fields of blog posts, on the page with all posts, click Custom Fields for Posts link in the right pane of the page.

For more information, see [Overview: Custom fields](slug://overview-custom-fields).

You then display a custom field for blog posts on your website by adding it to a template for displaying blog posts.
For more information, see https://docs.sitefinity.com/create-and-edit-widget-templates[Overview: Widget templates](slug://overview-widget-templates-mvc). 

Permissions 

You can set permission for all blogs and blog posts and you can set individual permissions for each blog or blog post.

  • To change the permissions for all blogs, on Blogs page, click 

    Permissions  link in the right side of the page.
    The 

    Permissions  page appears.

  • To change the permissions for all blog posts, on the blog post page, click Permissions for posts in the right side of the page.
    The Permissions for posts page appears.

For more information about changing permissions, see Grant permissions for content.

Search and filter 

Search and filter content items

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Manage blogs and blog posts
Edit and delete blogs and blog posts. Edit, approve, and publish the content of blog posts.
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