Blogs Main Page Overview
The primary function of the
Blogs main page is to provide you with access to all of the blog posts
that have been published in the community. But Community Server also
allows you to manipulate how blog content displays on the main page.
For example, you have several blog sorting options:
- Most Recent – Sorts blogs chronologically, beginning with the most recently posted blog.
- Most Viewed – Sorts blogs in descending order, beginning with the blog that has been visited most.
- Most Commented – Sorts blogs in descending order, beginning with the blog with the most comments by community users.
You can open the blog post by clicking on the blog post title.
You can access your community’s Blogs main page by doing any of the following:
- Clicking Blogs on the main navigation from any page in the community.
- Clicking View all blog posts from your home page.
The Community Server Blogs main page looks like this:
Tags
You can also browse blog posts by tags.
The Tags panel contains the list of tags assigned to the blogs. The
more common the tag, or the tags used with the most blog posts, display
with larger font sizes. For example, the Chameleon, Community Server, Software Development, and Telligent tags are the most used in the Community Server blog posts, as shown in the tag cloud below.
When you click on an item in the tag cloud, Community Server opens a
page with the list of all blogs that use the tag. For example, if you
click Theming in the tag cloud, Community Server opens a page that
lists all blogs that use the Theming tag.
The breadcrumbs just below the main navigation remind you that you are looking at the posts that use the theming tag.
Regardless of how you sort blogs, Community Server shows the tags used by each blog underneath the blog synopsis:
Blogs Section
Finally, another important section on the Blogs main page is located beneath the tag cloud and is simply headed Blogs.
This section contains two links that are worth noting. When you click RSS Syndication, Community Server opens the RSS feed page, where you can subscribe to the blog page as an RSS feed.
When you subscribe to a feed, Community Server adds it to the Common
Feed List. Updated information from the feed is automatically
downloaded to your computer so you can view it in Internet Explorer and
other programs.
Click here for more information about content mirroring and RSS feeds.
When you click on Blogs on this Site, Community Server opens
a statistical page that breaks out blog data such as the total number
of posts, articles, comments, and trackbacks in the blog.
