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Blogs (web logs)
You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) using the Notes® blog template (dominoblog.ntf). After you create a blog application, you can then open it as you would any other Notes® application (NSF) file. From your blog application, you can create and manage content and blog discussions.
Getting started with Blogs
View, post, and comment on blogs created with the Notes blog template.
How can I manage blog discussions?
You control comments posted to a specific post by enabling and managing discussions.

Blogs (web logs)
You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) using the Notes® blog template (dominoblog.ntf). After you create a blog application, you can then open it as you would any other Notes® application (NSF) file. From your blog application, you can create and manage content and blog discussions.
- Getting started with Blogs
  View, post, and comment on blogs created with the Notes blog template.
  - How can I view blog posts?
    You can view posts that have been or will be posted on your blog site.
  - How can I create a blog post?
    It is easy to create a post for your blog. If your post includes a podcast, you include the file name or a link to a URL as an attachment.
  - How can I create a blog comment?
    You can participate in discussions from your blog application by adding comments. Each content document that exists in a blog has its own set of comments.
  - How can I upload files to a blog?
    You can upload files that you can use when you create a new post or comment.
  - How can I manage blog discussions?
    You control comments posted to a specific post by enabling and managing discussions.
  - How can I ban unwanted blog comments or spam?
    Occasionally, someone posts an unwanted comment or spam to the blog. You can remove these posts and ban the originating IP address from adding more comments.
- Blog quick reference
  Quickly find some of the most common and more advanced tasks for Web logs (blogs) and how to get started doing them.
- Advanced Blog topics
  In addition to the initial setup and configuration, there are advanced views, forms, and tasks that you can use to manage your blog.

How can I manage blog discussions?

You control comments posted to a specific post by enabling and managing discussions.

About this task

Procedure

Open your blog application.
From the Posts view, select a document and then click More.

Choose one of the following actions:

Table 1. Tasks used to manage discussions
Task	Steps
Enable or disable discussion on a blog entry. If you disable discussion on a blog entry; blog readers cannot view the discussion	Click the Enable/Disable Discussion toggle.
Publish selected comments	Select draft comments. Click Publish Selected Comments.
Mark a topic or comment as a Hot Topic	Select a post or comment. Click Hot Topic.
Recalculate the number of comments for each content document	Click Troubleshooting, and then click Rebuild All Comment Counts.
Force an update of the database indexes used to create the lists of recent content/recent comments on the website	Click Troubleshooting, and then click Rebuild Site Indexes.
Recalculate the number of comments for selected content documents	Select one or more post or comment documents. Click Troubleshooting, and then click Rebuild Comment Counts For Selected Entries.

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