The Blogs module allows you to publish a personal or company blog, which is a frequent, chronological publication of one's thoughts and web links. You can publish multiple blogs on the same site and there can be multiple editors for each blog.

 

The Blogs module fully leverages the standard content management engine, so every blog post you create is a standard document that can be displayed on the website, searched, etc. You can also configure permissions and workflow for every blog as you're used to do with other content.

 

If you would like to see an example of blog, please refer to a sample blog on the Corporate Site sample website (see Developer's guide -> Modules -> Blogs -> Sample blog).

 

•To learn how to create a new blog on the Corporate Site sample website, please refer to the Adding a blog to your site topic in the same chapter of the Developer's Guide.

•To learn how to add posts to your blog, please refer to the Adding posts to your blog topic.

•To learn how comments can be moderated, please refer to the Moderating comments topic.

•To learn how to configure the layout and design of your blog, please refer to the Blog layout and design topic.

•To learn how to enable users to perform selected tasks using the User contributions module web parts, please refer to the On-site management via User contributions topic.

•If you would like to adjust the settings and security of the Blogs module, please refer to the Settings and Security topics respectively.

•To learn how to deal with blog post documents using standard API for documents, please refer to the Managing blogs using Kentico CMS API topic.

 

Subchapters on trackbacking (see Trackbacks), on a programming interface enabling co-operation of the Blogs module with external programs (see MetaWeblog API) and topics related to Blog comments notifications (see Blog comments notifications -> Who can be notified, User subscriptions and E-mail templates) are also available in the Blogs chapter.

 

If you would like to compare the Corporate Site sample blog with a more detailed example of blogging, please switch to the Community Site sample website where you can find not only sample blogs with sample blog posts but also a tag cloud. The Tag cloud web part (see Modules -> Tags -> Using the Tag cloud web part in the Developer's Guide) is used to display key words, called tags that are associated with a document and is convenient for simple marking of documents according to various criteria, e.g. your interests.

 

Kentico CMS Community Site Guide contains some additional examples and tutorials related to blogs:
 

•Community Site Guide -> Part 2 -> Creating the Blogs section -> Creating the Blogs page: A step-by-step tutorial on how to create a page dedicated to blogs.

•Creating the Create page: A step-by-step tutorial on how to create a special page where users are redirected when they want to create a new blog; in the same chapter of the Developer's Guide.

•Creating the Blog list page: A step-by-step tutorial on how to create a page that displays a list of all blogs on the site.

•Creating the Blog posts page: A step-by-step tutorial on how to create a page where only blog posts corresponding to the selected tag from the tag cloud are displayed.