Creating a Blog Post
Warning
This article promotes the deprecated Blog module, which is not following best practices like Commands and Events, and does not use our core module. There is no up-to-date version of this module; however, the module itself is functional and can be used to provide blog functionality.
This guide will help you add a post to your blog.
This guide is part of a series that walks you through the process of building a blog on platformOS. You can find previous and next parts of the series in the Requirements and Next steps sections.
Requirements
So that you can follow the steps in this tutorial, you should have set up a blog on your platformOS Instance.
Steps
Adding a blog post is a two-step process:
Step 1: Go to post creation form
Click the New Post link on the top of the Blog section or go to the post creation form directly at [your-Instance-URL]/dashboard/posts/new.
Fill in the form. Make sure you select Publish Now, otherwise your post will not be visible to the public.
Step 2: Fill in form fields
Fill in the form fields. The table below describes values and examples:
| Field name | Explanation | Example value |
|---|---|---|
| Title | The title of your blog post | The platformOS Blog Module |
| Publish at | Here you can set a later publishing date for your blog post. The format of the date should be: mm/dd/yyyy | 05/10/2018 |
| Publish now | Set the button to enabled to publish your blog post when you submit the form | [enabled] |
| Text editor | A WYSIWYG text editor to edit the body of your blog post | Websites live (and die) by the ability to be found by Search Engines |
| Excerpt | Short description of the blog post that is displayed on the blog listing page | An overview of the platformOS Blog Module |
| Tags | Tags for the blog post that help readers find related content | blog, platform-os, features |
| Hero image | The "cover" image of your blog post that is displayed on the blog listing page and on the page of the blog post as specified in the blog layout. Accepted image formats: jpeg, png, gif | [image file] |
| Author name | Name of the blog post's author | Adam Broadway |
| Author biography | Short description of the author | CEO and Founder of platformOS (formerly Near-Me.com) |
| Image | Author photo. Accepted image formats: jpeg, png, gif | [image file] |
Click the Submit button. If you selected Publish now, the blog post is displayed on your blog.
Next steps
Congratulations! You have created your first blog post. If you'd like to delve deeper into how the Blog Module works, check out some detailed information on blog settings and posts with examples here: