What is a blog?
A blog is an area of your website to keep news, updates, and sharing your expertise in your field of business, displayed as individual posts. The blog posts appear in date order with your most recent post displayed first. A blog is a great way to engage with your customers with weekly news or information that you would like to publish on your website.
This guide will cover:
How do I get started on my Rocketspark Blog?
Blog Tutorial - Click "Get Started"
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Blogging insight
Before you begin your blog, it would be a good idea to do some research about blogging for business, why you should bother with it, how to do it well, and then how to promote these great blogs you’ve written.
- Rocketspark blog example
- Why you should bother with blogs?
- 8 principles for writing a blog that gets more web traffic
- Why and How to Promote Your Blog on Social Media
How do I get started on my Blog?
- Go to your website and log in to your Dashboard. Then click on the Blog.
- You can now click Write Blog Post to get started writing your first post. To find out more about creating a blog post, click here.
- At the moment, your blog is not live, meaning that visitors to your website can't view your blog. This gives you the time to create your first blog post. Once you are ready to go live with your blog, toggle the blog ON.
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To view all blog posts, click Go to Blog
Blog Settings
Display blog posts as a list or grid
You can decide if you want your blog to display in a list view or a grid view. To choose the layout, click the dropdown within the blog settings "Display blog as a list or grid".
- If you have chosen the grid view, you can also choose if you would like your post’s text left-aligned or center-aligned.
Order blog tags by:
Within the blog settings in your dashboard, click the dropdown "order blog tags by". You can choose for your blogs to be ordered by the most popular posts or the most recent.
Blog Posts are ordered by date order (the latest posts are closer to the top than older posts), or the most popular posts. But you can feature blog posts to bring them to the top. Check out our guide to featuring a blog post
Show dates in blog posts
You will have the option to either display blog post dates or leave these out.
By default, the dates will display but to turn these off, click the dropdown Show dates in Dropdown and choose Hide dates.
Optional Blog Features
You can add tags to your blog posts so your visitors can view all posts on a particular topic. Learn more about setting up tags here.
You can also add commenting to your blog so that users can comment on your blog posts. Find out more about adding comments here.
Adding your Blog to the menu
Your blog is not automatically added to the desktop menu when it’s created. To make it visible in your site navigation, you’ll need to add a blog page manually.
To do this:
Go to Manage Pages in your site admin.
Click the Add Page button in the top-right corner.
Enter a name for your blog page (for example, Blog or News).
From the dropdown on the right of the text field, select Goes to Blog.
Click Add.
Please Note: If you would like this to appear in the main menu, you will need to drag this above the line in Manage Pages.
FAQ
Can I turn off the search function for blogs?
Unfortunately, there is no way to turn off the search function for blogs. Let the customer support team know and they will push it through as a feature request.
Can I delete blog tags?
Yes, you can but you need to into each blog and delete the tag from there. You are not able to turn off blog tags.