Welcome to Blogs 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.
Blogs
You can access your community's Blogs main page by doing any of the following:
Navigation Bar - Clicking Blogs on the Navigation Panel from any page in the community.
Home Page - Clicking View all blog posts from your home page.
The Blogs main page looks like this:
You can open a blog post by clicking on the blog post title.
Sorting Options
Community Server 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.
Shortcuts Functionality
The Shortcuts section displays in the right sidebar.
The links available to you are based upon your role privileges.
Blogs Administration - If you are an administrator, you can access the administrative options from here.
Create New Blog - Allows you to create a new blog. This option displays only if you have administrative privileges to create a blog.
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 the largest font. For example, the Market tag is the most used in the 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 Market in the tag cloud, A page is opened that lists all blogs that use the Market tag.
The breadcrumbs just below the Navigation Panel remind you that you are looking at the posts that use the market tag.
See "About Tags" for more information.
Blogs Groups panel
The Blogs Groups panel contains additional 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.
See "Subscribing to a RSS Feed" for more information.
Opml publishes the list of blogs in the Opml format.
Blogs on this Site opens a statistical page that breaks out blog data such as the total number of posts, articles, comments, and trackbacks in the blog.