Orchard provides a powerful blogging engine that makes it easy to add a blog to your web site. This topic describes how to create a blog for your site and then add a new blog post.
In the Admin Panel under Blogs, click Create New Blog. The Create New Blog settings are displayed, as shown in the following image.
Using the Create New Blog settings, you can do the following:
- Give your new blog a title.
- Add a permalink to the blog.
- Set the blog as the home page for the web site.
- Add a description that will appear at the top of the blog when published.
- Add content tags for the blog as a whole.
- Indicate whether to show the blog on the main menu.
- Assign an owner for the blog.
For more information about permalinks, content tags, or the Show on main menu checkbox, see Adding Pages to Your Site.
After selecting the settings for your blog, click Add to add the new blog to your site.
As soon as the blog is added to your site, you can add blog posts. As the following image shows, click New Post to add a blog post.
The Create New Blog Post settings are displayed, as shown in the following image.
Using the Create New Blog Post settings, you can do the following:
- Give your new blog post a title.
- Add a permalink for the blog post.
- Set the blog post as the home page for the web site.
- Add content using the rich-text editor.
- Add content tags.
- Allow comments from users to be posted to the blog post.
- Assign an owner for the blog post.
- Save and publish the blog post to the site.
For more information about using the text editor or saving and publishing the blog post, see Adding Pages to Your Site.
After you have created a new blog and published it to your site, your blog will look similar to the following image.
