# Blogs and blog posts

You manage blogs and their posts on the *Blogs* page. To open the *Blogs* page, in the main menu in the upper part of the screen, click *Content* » *Blogs*.\
The *Blogs* page 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 *Blogs* page, 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.

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**Description**

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Widget to use and configure

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* [Blog widget](https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/blogs-widget-mvc)
* [Blog posts widget](https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/blog-posts-widget-mvc)

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Display on pages

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[Display content on your website](https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/display-content-on-your-website)

For more information about the pages where the blog posts are displayed, see [Canonical URLs](https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/locations-of-content-items-canonical-urls).

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Organization

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Hierarchical structure

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Comments

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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 [Comments module](https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/overview-comments-module).

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Custom fields

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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 [Custom fields](https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/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 [Widget templates](https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/overview-widget-templates-mvc).

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Permissions

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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](https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/grant-permissions-for-content).

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Search and filter

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[Search and filter content items](https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/search-and-filter-content-items)

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