As your blog grows, you will need to manage all the posts made by various owners. For this purpose, you can make use of the All Posts option. As soon as you click on the link titled All Posts from the navigation panel, you will view a new page as shown in the screenshot below:

You can edit a blog entry by selecting the link located under the Title column. You can also view and delete the blog entry using the relevant buttons on the right-hand side. As you will notice from the above screenshot, there are eight views and one comment posted to our sample blog entry. Editing is similar to that when posting a blog except that you will be presented with the content that you have already posted.

You can search the blog entries by using different criteria such as Month and also by the various categories. For instance, you can search for only those entries posted on the Forum in the month of June 2006. For our sample blog, we can only see an entry named September 2006 on the Month drop-down list because we have just created and started to use the blog. As the site grows, the relevant month and year are automatically added to the list.

You can also search by the publication status of the post. For instance, if there are lot of posts pending for publication in a particular month, you can populate them by selecting the button Not Published.

In the previous sections, we have seen that the relevant blog entry and comments are immediately posted on the site after its submission. In this section, we will examine how to publish the content only after its approval.

Before you approve a post for publication, you should post it to the blog and modify the settings accordingly. For this purpose, click the My Blogs link from the top navigation bar inside the Dashboard and select Write a Blog Post located under the Common Tasks panel. Enter the required information to create a new blog post as discussed previously and select the Save, but don't Publish button.

We have also chosen to approve all comments submitted for this particular post. For this purpose select the option All Comments require Approval from the Comment Moderation drop-down list located inside the Advanced Options tab.

You can now save the post by clicking on the Save, but don't Publish button located at the bottom of the page. As soon as you click on the button, a page as shown in the following screenshot is displayed:

You will notice from the above screenshot that a cross symbol () appears under the Published column of the grid. This implies that this post is not published and will not be publicly visible on the site until it is approved by the administrator.

In order to approve the above blog entry, click on the relevant title link from the first row of the grid and click the Publish button located at the bottom of the page. You will be returned to the grid and the Published column displays a tick symbol ( ), which signifies that the post has been approved. You can modify the article if you prefer, before its approval. The relevant post will now be visible on the home page of the blog and you can click the link labeled Current Blog to view it.

Before approving a comment, you should first post a comment by accessing the above blog entry. We have already discussed the usage of comments. However, we will post a sample comment for the purpose of this discussion. As you will observe, the comment will not be visible on the blog page after its submission. This is because we have chosen to moderate it.

In order to approve the comment, you need to select the Review Comments link located under the Common Tasks navigation panel. You will notice that the comment has not been accepted as the required check mark does not appear under the Published column.

In order to approve the comment, click on the Publish button. As you may notice, the caption of the button will be changed to Unpublish. You can choose whether or not to make a particular comment visible on the site by toggling the button.

Your comment will be immediately approved and will be visible on the relevant blog page.

Sometimes, you will need to publish some content that should not appear on the home page of your blog. Instead, you will need to link to that particular content from your blog. It is in this case that the importance of separate blog pages comes into the picture. Community Server includes built-in support for publishing blog pages.

Posting a blog page is very similar to posting a blog entry. The main difference between a post and a blog page is that blog pages are not published to your blog aggregate page (the chronological list of new posts to your blog) as explained above and are also not included in the blog's RSS feed. A blog page is simply an easy way to publish an article or other content, such as a résumé or About page, along with your blog. You can include the URL of the relevant blog page while posting a blog entry.

In order to create a blog page, you need to click the Create a New Page link from the Common Tasks section from the left side navigation bar. Enter the required information and click on the Publish button. As soon as you click on the button, the blog page will be created and will be visible inside the grid on the Blog pages page as shown in the screenshot below:

You can search for blog pages by the tags created on the site and also by the publication status. You can view a list of all tags created on the site if you pull down the Category drop-down list. As you can see from the above screenshot, you can view and delete the blog page by using the relevant buttons.

Tags are used to organize the content effectively. The advantage of using tags is that the visitors can easily find the related content as soon as they click on each one of the tags from the home pages of the blogs or forums. You can locate all posts filed under a particular tag quickly. In this section, we will examine the creation of tags and also their usage in detail.

In order to create a tag, select the Create New Tag button by clicking the Tags / Keywords link located under the Manage Content Panel located inside the Blog Management page. A dialog with the title Tag Editor will be displayed. Enter the required name and description as shown in the following screenshot and click on the Save button to finish the creation of the new tag.

You should also select the Enabled checkbox so that the relevant tag will be available while composing or updating a blog or forum post. Otherwise, the tag will not be visible outside the Control Panel.

As soon as the tag is created, it will be displayed on the Tag / Keywords grid as shown in the screenshot overleaf:

As you can see, the grid shows a list of all the tags created on the site. The Last Post and Posts columns on the grid will be updated as and when you file a post using the created tag. You can also modify and delete a tag using the relevant buttons located in the Actions column.

If you maintain a full-fledged blog then you might need to maintain a list of important website, co-workers, or friends' blog addresses and other related URLs in a common place so that you can browse them easily at a later point of time. With Community Server, you can easily post the links under different sections, preferably called lists.

Before beginning to create links, you have to create relevant List under which you will posts these links. From the Manage Content section on the left side navigation panel, click on the option titled All Lists. Click on the Create New List button from the Blog Lists page. Enter the required information in the Link Category Editor dialog as shown in the next screenshot and click on the Save button to create a new list named Friends:

As soon as you click on the Save button, the newly created list will be added inside the Select a List to Manage drop-down list as shown in the following screenshot:

The next step is to create the relevant items under the list named Friends. For this purpose, click the Add List Item button, enter the required information as shown in the screenshot below, and click on the Save button to add the relevant item to the list named Friends.

While the Title and URL fields are compulsory, the Description and Relation(s) fields are optional. The relations text field will be automatically populated as you select the relevant relation from the Common Relations drop-down list. You will have to decide the best relation(s) while adding each list item.

As soon as you click the Save button, the relevant list item will be added inside the grid as shown in the screenshot below:

You have successfully added a new list item. You can modify and delete the list items using the relevant buttons located under the Actions column. You can also modify and delete lists using the Edit List and Delete list buttons located at the top of the grid.

Let us now examine how the list items will appear in our sample blog. Navigate to the home page by clicking on the Current Blog link. As soon as you click on the link titled Links (see the first screenshot below) located under the heading This Blog on the right side of the page, you will be taken to the home page of list items as shown in the second screenshot below:

As you can see from the above screenshot, the list item that we posted is now visible on the site. In the same way, you can create as many lists and list items as per your requirements.

Snippets enable you to quickly create links in your blog posts or pages. This feature is useful if you use a resource found on the Web frequently in your content. When snippets appear in your blog post or page, a link will be automatically generated to the URL that you specified while creating the snippet. Let us now examine how to create a snippet for our sample blog.

Select the link titled Manage Snippets from the Manage Content navigation panel. Click on the Create New Snippet button from the Manage Blog Snippets page. Enter the required information as shown in the following screenshot:

As soon as you click the Save button, the snippet will be added inside the grid as shown in the screenshot below:

The next step is to properly make use of the above created snippet by creating a new blog post. For this purpose, click on the Write a Blog Post link located inside Common Tasks panel. In order to use the snippet, you should enclose the snippet name within square brackets. Otherwise, you will not be able to view the effect when you view the blog.

For our sample blog post, we have to supply a text such as [CS], where CS is the name of the snippet. It will be replaced with the Text and Link URL that we gave at the time of its creation (see the screenshot titled Snippet Editor).

Finally, publish the post and browse to the home page of the blog to view the final output as shown below:

This option lets you supply description that can start from your career history and then conclude with the launch of the site on your blog. In order to do this, click on the About My Blog link located inside the Manage Content navigation panel on the Blog Management page.

By default, this information will not be displayed on the blog. You can enable it by selecting the Yes option from the Display About My Blog setting. You should also supply the required title and description in the relevant fields.

Readers of your blog will be taken to the relevant page when they click on the link titled About from the home page of the blog.