Managing+your+Blog

Managing your Blog
The basic management options in the Easy Admin section for an edublog are fairly limited. You can edit or delete posts, edit or delete comments, and add or remove widgets. When switching over to "Advanced Admin" mode, a host of other features become available.

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Advanced Admin
Advanced admin mode allows you access to everything that you had in easy admin mode, as well as many other features. This mode is for advanced users though, so if you're not comfortable using it, I would suggest that you spend the majority of your time in easy admin mode. Despite this, there are a few important areas in the Advanced Admin that you may want to have a look at.

Users
The users drop-down gives you access to several features that allow you to control which users can read, modify or comment on your blog posts. By default, the blog is set up so that everyone can read it but only you can edit it. If you would like to add a collaborator to your blog, you can do so by clicking "Add New" on the Users drop-down menu. You will be asked to provide a User name, email address and role. The clicking add user, the new contributor will get an email with instructions telling them how to log onto your blog.



Settings
Settings gives you access to all of the configurable settings for your blog. The default settings are set up for the average user's blogging experience, but you may want to change some of the settings.


 * General -** Lets you set general settings such as your timezone, date format and email address.
 * Writing -** Here you can choose options related to the size of the comment boxes and which category to default your blog posts to.
 * Reading** - Lets you choose how many posts to display per page, and which page users should be directed to when they first visit your blog (either your main blog page, or another page that you have designed).
 * Discussion** - Many settings related to comments made on your blog posts. This is a good section to take a closer look at. There are several different groups of settings in this section:
 * Default article settings - Sets whether or not you want people to be able to comment on your blogs
 * Other comment settings - Here you can choose whether or not a commenter needs to fill out their email address or needs to have an edublogs account. You can also choose to automatically close the ability to comment on an post after it reaches a certain age. Finally, you can choose whether older comments are displayed first, or newer comments.
 * Email me whenever - If you are expecting a lot of comments on your blog, you may want to turn these options off. If you leave them on, you will get an email every time somebody posts a comment.
 * Before a comment appears - The two options here let you decide whether an administrator has to approve every comment, or whether a user's comments will be automatically posted as long as you have approved one of their past comments.
 * Comment moderation & blacklist - You can set up filters to catch certain words or phrases that you don't want posted in your blog comments. Great for picking up swear words or spoilers that you don't want posted. The blacklist allows you to stop certain users from being able to post at all. Simply enter their email or username in the box and they will be unable to comment on your blog.