Blog

A blog is a container for individual blog posts. The blog's web page can list individual blog posts. This topic describes how to create a blog.

For a wire frame example of what this content type can look like on your site, see Blog design.

Creating blogs

To create a blog:

1. In the header, click .
2. From the Create list, select Blog.
3. Using the following table as a reference, complete the fields as needed.
4. Complete your site's workflow and publish the blog.
5. As necessary, add associated content to this asset. For details, see Creating associated content.

Main

Field	Description
Display Name	Enter a display name. This name is visible to the visitors to your site.
Internal Name	Enter an internal name for this asset. Brightspot uses this name internally, such as in the search panel and recent activity widget. This name is not visible to visitors to your site.
Description	Enter a description that describes this asset. This description is visible to the visitors to your site.
Lead	Select or configure a lead, typically a page heading. This selection is visible to your visitors. For more information, see Page heading.
Section	Select the sections associated with this asset. This selection is not visible to your visitors. For information about creating a section, see Section.
Content	Select Add After, Add Before, or Replace to position a module relative to the blog's associated assets, then click . If you make no selection, the blog inherits its content settings from the type-specific overrides or the site default. The module you add is visible to visitors to your site.

SEO

Field	Description
Title	Text appearing in the asset's <title> tag. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new title.
Suppress SEO Display Name	If toggled on, your site's name will not appear in the <title> tag and subsequently in search results.
Description	Text appearing in the asset's <meta name="description"> tag. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new description.
Robots	Text appearing in the item's <meta name="robots"> tag. For an explanation of the available options, see Robots Meta Directives.
Max Image Preview	Select None, Standard, or Large to set the maximum size of the image preview that search engines can show for this asset in search results. If you make no selection, Brightspot uses Large. Brightspot ignores this setting if noindex is selected in the Robots field.

Overrides

Media

Field	Description
Primary Media Type	Select the primary media type of this article, either None, Audio, Gallery, Text, Video. This selection determines how the asset is treated when used as a promo. For example, if you select Video, the promo image will have a play arrow overlaid on top of it.

Logos & Icons Overrides

Field	Description
Logo	Select a new image to serve as the logo that displays on this asset. For information about creating a logo, see Image Logo.
News Publisher Logo	Select a new image to serve as the news publisher logo that displays on this asset.
Default Promo Image	Select an image to use when this asset appears as a promo and has no promo image of its own. If you leave this field blank, Brightspot uses the inherited default promo image.

Layout Overrides

Field	Description
Hat	Select one of the options to override the inherited hat. For details, see Creating a hat.
Header	Select one of the options to override the inherited header.
Banner	Select one of the options to override the inherited banner. For details, see Applying a breaking news banner.
Footer	Select one of the options to override the inherited footer. For details, see Creating a footer.
Above	Select one of the options to override the inherited Above layout block. For details, see Layout structure.
Aside	Select one of the options to override the inherited Aside layout block. For details, see Layout structure.
Below	Select one of the options to override the inherited Below layout block. For details, see Layout structure.
Secondary Navigation	Select one of the options to override the inherited secondary navigation. For details, see Creating a navigation.

Header Overrides

Field	Description
Logo	Select one of the options to override the inherited logo in the header.
Navigation	Select one of the options to override the inherited navigation in the header. For details, see Creating a navigation.
Search	Select one of the options to override the inherited search in the header.
Language Menu	Select one of the options to override the inherited language menu in the header.

These fields apply only when the page's header is a Standard Header.

Type Specific Overrides

Field	Description
Type Specific Overrides	Configures logo, icon, and layout overrides for content types appearing on this page.

Advanced

Field	Description
Exclude from Dynamic Results	Toggle on to prevent this asset from showing up in dynamic list modules. For details, see List module.
Exclude from Search Results	Toggle on to prevent this asset from showing up in search results on your site.

Promo Overrides

Field	Description
Promo Title	Enter text to override this asset's title when used in a promo. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new title.
Promo Description	Enter text to override this asset's description when used in a promo. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new description.
Promo Image	Image appearing in the asset's image when the asset is used as a promo. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by selecting a new image.
Promo Category	Text appearing in the asset's category when the asset is used as a promo. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new category.
Promo Category Link	Link associated with the promo category. This field inherits from the selected promo category, and you can override this as needed.

Share Overrides

Field	Description
Share Title	Text appearing in the asset's title when a visitor shares the asset. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new title.
Share Description	Text appearing in the asset's description when a visitor shares the asset. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new description.
Share Image	Image appearing in the asset's image when a visitor shares the asset. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by selecting a new image.

Site Map

Field	Description
Change Frequency	Select an option from the list to denote how frequently the page is likely to change. This value provides general information to search engines and may not correlate exactly to how often search engines crawl this asset. See the <changefreq> tag definition in Sitemaps XML format.
Priority	Enter a value to designate this asset's priority over other URLs on your site. Valid values are 0.0 to 1.0. This allows you to relay to search engines which pages you deem most important for crawlers. For more information, see the <priority> tag definition in Sitemaps XML format.

Advanced

RSS Settings

Field	Description
Disable Feed	Toggle on to remove this asset's RSS feed. (A visitor's RSS reader may retain a previously retrieved feed.)
Render Full Content	Toggle on to deliver an asset's entire text—not just the title or headline—to the RSS feed as plain text.
Enabled Feed Item Types	Select the content types to which these settings apply, or leave blank to apply the settings to all content types. For example, if you are publishing a section, you can select Article in this field so that these settings apply only to articles with a section.

Styles

Page Heading Styles

Field	Description
Template	Select the template of this module from the list of options. Templates are visual presentation presets that differ depending on the type of module.
Preset	Select one of the following: - None—Applies styling from the site's theme. - Custom—Opens a form to customize the site's theme for this asset. - (Various)—Aside from None or Custom, there may be additional options in this list depending on the value selected in the Template field. If the selected template has presets, then those presets are able to be selected in this list and applied. For information about configuring template presets, see Creating a template preset.
Page Heading Size	Select the size of the page heading's text.
Page Sub Heading Size	Select the size of the page sub-heading's text.

Blog Page Styles

Field	Description
Preset	Select one of the following: - None—Applies styling from the site's theme. - Custom—Opens a form to customize the site's theme for this asset. - (Various)—Aside from None or Custom, there may be additional options in this list depending on the value selected in the Template field. If the selected template has presets, then those presets are able to be selected in this list and applied. For information about configuring template presets, see Creating a template preset.
Column Gap Size	Overrides the default gap between columns as specified in your theme's CSS file. You can choose from None, Small, Medium, or Large.