Using the Blogs Module
Using the Blogs Module
This help guide will walk you through the process of blogging from your GROU.PS community, and adding blogs to the RSS feed for your group.
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Blogging from your GROU.PS community:
- Let's start from the very
beginning. I'm going to add the blog module to my group. First, I'll
click on the plus sign to add a new page:
- Navigate to Modules, and then
select Blogs under the Standard Modules Menu. Click Submit:
- Next, I'll get started blogging!
First, I'll write a blog of my own. I'll click on Add Blog:
- I'll click on New Entry to write
my own blog:
- After I finish composing my entry,
I'll click on Submit, and then wait a couple of minutes:
- That's it, my blog entry has been
posted!
- Next, I'd like to add an external
blog to my RSS feed. So I'm going to click again on Add Blog, but
this time I'll select RSS Feed instead:
- Type in the URL for the feed, and
then click Submit:
- There we go, I've added a new
blog! The next time this blog is updated, it'll post automatically
to the Blogs section of my group as well:
Administering the Blogs Module:
Since writing blogs is just one part of the module, let's take a look at our administration options for this module:
- Click on Administer This Module at
the top of the Blogs page (or, you can click on Pages in the same
admin menu at any time, and click 'Administer' next to Blogs):
- Here, you can modify important
settings, like email – I don't want to worry about unwanted email
in my group, especially if I plan on having many members; so I'm
preventing the option of emailing each blog out. Also privacy
settings can be managed here. Do you want anyone on the Internet to
be able to read the blogs on your site, or would you like them to be
private? If your members can add blog content, would you like to be
able to moderate these additions before they go live?
- After completing the adjustments
to your administrative settings for the Blogs module, click Submit: