Create a blog with Site Creator

This guide explains how to add and configure a blog module on your site created with Site Creator Infomaniak.

Preamble

• There is no feature to manage multiple users on the Blog section (or Site Creator).
• Several users of the same Organization with access to Site Creator (through their permission to access web hosting) will be able to post on the blog, but the identity of the author will remain the same for all.

Start a blog on Site Creator

Prerequisites

• Go to Site Creator:
  1. Click here in order to access the management of your product on the Manager Infomaniak (Need help?).
  2. Click directly on the nameallocated to the product concerned.
  3. Click on Customize my site:
     

Once in Site Creator, on the page where you want to insert your future blog articles:

1. Click on the button + located below an already inserted block:
   
2. Click on Applications (on the tab Content which opened when you clicked to add the visual block).
3. Click on the module Blog:
   
   1. If this is the first insertion of this module, then you get the following visual block with an example of the first published article (go to point 4 below):
      
   2. If you have already tested the Blog module before and have removed it from your pages, you get this:
      
      1. Press the top selection (A)‍ to insert the main block.
      2. Press the second choice (B)‍ to display a block with the last 3 published articles Only if you already have a main block inserted elsewhere on the site.‍
4. Once the Blog module is inserted, overfly the block and click on 的 Blog.
5. Click on New article to insert a blank article and complete it (image for the banner, title, optional subtitle, body of the article with different layouts); press the sign + on the text of the article or the tab key on your keyboard.
6. Publish by clicking on the button Publish (or save the draft for later):
   

Edit Blog

To enable comments, email notifications, list layout and sorting, etc.:

1. Click on Applications in the left side menu.
2. Click on Blog.
3. Click on Parameters and set your preferences without forgetting to save at the bottom of the page:
   

Edit Articles

No matter where you are when editing your site, just go to the menu Applications at the bottom left, then click on Blog:

 

To edit the content of your article, click on Browse Articles in the left side menu, fly over and click on the icon pencil ✎:

 

To set (read below) one of the articles, fly over and click on the toothed wheel:


 

Labeling, archiving or exhaling an item

A blog article may disappear from your list of articles, either by giving it an expiry date or by archiving it immediately. It is also possible to add a tag (label) that will be clickable for the visitor and thus facilitate browsing within posts:

 

Date of articles

By default, new blog posts will be added with the date "today" but it is possible to modify it:

1. Fly over and click on the date link (directly on the article).
2. Choose a new date.