PUBLISHING BLOG ENTRIES
When you publish your blog entry, ExpressionEngine gives you the choice to ping, or notify, blog aggregation sites that you’ve posted something new to your blog. You can select which sites to ping in the Sites to Ping section before you publish your post.
ExpressionEngine’s default installation provides three categories to choose from: Blogging, News, and Personal. When you customize EE, you can change or delete these categories, or add more. Select any of these to place this posting into a category. Jump back up to the top of the page, and click the Submit button. You’ve just published your first blog entry! Don’t forget to see how it looks on the blog by clicking the My Weblog link at the top of your ExpressionEngine window. In Figure 6-9, you can see the entry I just created on the Buzz Marketing with Blogs blog.
Now that you know how to publish a new entry, you may be wondering about going back to add content or make corrections to it. You can edit old entries at any time, but do consider indicating when you’re making a correction so that your readers understand why you’ve made an edit.
To edit an existing entry, log into ExpressionEngine and follow these steps:
The most recent entries display in descending date order. If your entry was posted recently, you can probably find it near the top of the list. After you find the entry you want to edit, click the Edit link next to the title.
ExpressionEngine opens the entry for editing. Make your changes or corrections and then click the Update button to make your changes visible on your blog.
Log into ExpressionEngine and open an existing blog entry or begin a new one and then follow these steps to upload an image:
1. Click the File Upload link from the Formatting Buttons box.
The File Upload window opens.
2. Click the Browse button to find the image on your computer.
3. Select your image and click Open.
The File Upload window reappears
If you want to include HTML in your blog entries, Highlight the text you want to affect and then you can do so by simply pasting it into Expression-click the appropriate button. For example, high-Engine from another application or typing it in. light a word in the Body field and click the <b> Alternatively, you can use the formatting buttons button. ExpressionEngine inserts the HTML code ExpressionEngine provides to accomplish common for bold text around the word you highlighted. formatting tasks and add links. The following figure shows the formatting buttons.