Managing a community blog
After you add a blog to a community, you can manage the blog from either the community or from the My Blogs page of the Blogs application. However, you can only manage membership from the community.
About this task
- You can change membership for this blog, go to Members page for the community.
- You can change a member's role, go to the Edit Community form.
Role | Description |
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Author | Allows user to post entries, but not to manage the blog. Users with this role can also edit and delete other users' entries. |
Draft | Allows user to save draft entries only. |
Viewer | Allows users to read blog posts but not to contribute to the blog. |
Procedure
- To edit basic information about the blog, click Edit from
the action menu for the Blogs widget.
- To add or remove a blog member, you need to add or remove that person from the community membership. You can do this on the community's Members page.
- To expand the widget content, select Maximize from the action menu. To collapse the widget content, select Minimize from the action menu.
- To hide the blog, choose Hide from the action menu and confirm that you want to temporarily remove the blog from the community. When you are ready to resume blog activity, click Customize and add the blog back from the Hidden section of the content palette. All content is restored.
- To delete the blog and all of its content, choose Delete from the action menu and confirm that you want to permanently remove the blog.
- To refresh the community blog and see all of the latest activity, choose Refresh from the action menu.