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2008 Documentation
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Blog Administration Overview
To administer a blog, you must log on to Community Server with the administrative account. From the home page, navigate to Control Panel Dashboard> System Administration > Blog Administration.
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Adding a Blog Group
You can use blog groups to group related blogs on a Community Server site to a common parent. A site can have one or many blog groups, however at least one blog group is required.
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Adding a Blog
If you are not using auto creation for blogs, then you can create blogs manually through the New Blog page.
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Enabling Blog Auto Create
When you enable the blog auto create setting, Community Server automatically creates a blog for a user when you create the user account. Community Server does not create blogs for existing users whose accounts were created with the blog auto create setting disabled.
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Adding a Blog Post – Control Panel
Community Server allows administrators to add a blog post from the Control Panel and users to add a post from your community. The following procedure describes how administrators can add blog posts.
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Adding a Blog to an Existing Web Site
Community Server provides a couple of ways for you to add a blog to an existing Web site.
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Adding a Blog Page
Blog posts are displayed by date and show on the home page of the blog (depending on the date or tag filter defined). Blog pages support the same options as blog posts but do not show on the home page of the blog; instead, you must link to them directly through a blog post, a link in the sidebar, or via search results. You must add a blog before you can add a blog page.
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Understanding Content Mirroring
Content mirroring allows a blog to consume one or more external RSS sources. This is an extremely useful feature since it allows Community Server to bring in any external (or internal) content and be the starting point for sharing information. Community Server supports content mirroring with the RSS feed functionality.
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Adding an RSS Feed
The following procedure describes how to add an RSS feed to your blog.
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Setting Blog User Permissions
You can set user permissions for a specific blog that will override the global blog user permissions.