Another Dumb QUestion on my Blog

[IM Egdall]

Actually three questions:

 

How do I accept (or reject) comments for my latest blog article?

 

How do I add links to my articles?

 

What are TAGS and how do I add them to my articles?

 

(Sorry to be so thick.)

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

To accept or reject comments, go to your blog admin and hit the "Comments" link on the left side. You'll see all the latest comments, with those not yet published listed in yellow. Hover your mouse over one and the buttons for Approve, Spam, and Trash will appear, and you can click those to handle the messages. Be wary of messages which appear to be compliments but actually contain links to spam sites.

 

To add a link, write the text you want to turn into a link (e.g. "click here"). Select it and press the little chain-link button in the toolbar, which will open a popup letting you provide the link. Hit Add Link and the text you selected will be turned into a link.

 

Tags are used for categorization. A user can browse your blog and read all the posts tagged with a certain subject. You can put multiple tags on the same article. There's a "Post Tags" box when you're editing or writing a blog post that lets you just type in tags and hit Add. You don't need to build a list of tags or do anything in advance; just tag the article with whatever makes sense.

[swansont]

To accept or reject comments, go to your blog admin and hit the "Comments" link on the left side. You'll see all the latest comments, with those not yet published listed in yellow. Hover your mouse over one and the buttons for Approve, Spam, and Trash will appear, and you can click those to handle the messages. Be wary of messages which appear to be compliments but actually contain links to spam sites.

At least 90% of the spammers that make it through the spam filter on my blog are still not particularly clever. Their name will be something like Cheap ProductName, and they always leave a url or have links in the comment. Pretty easy to spot.