I wanted to give a little tutorial about the blog. Since Monica brought it up, having a place for book reviews and such, I wanted to tell a few tips to make this blog more user friendly.
First:
When you create a new post you will see three tabs saying NEW POST, EDIT POST, EDIT PAGES. If you want something to have it's own PAGE like books you could just add your two cents to that page. I created a book review for example. You can add up to 10 pages. The only problem with pages is that it is like one big post.
Second:
We should all try to label our posts. Sondra does this and it would be so useful because when looking at the labels we can see children, recipes, books, etc and click on the labels which would show all posts that have to do with that. I especially want this so I can just click on recipes and see all the posts available. How you do this is when posting you will see a section for labels in the lower write hand corner. Either write in a new label or click show all and select a label that has been made by someone else so that the posts will be in the same categories. You can find the labels on posts at the end of the post under the name of the person posting. For example look and see the blue link that should appear at the end of this post called "tutorials" that is the label I created for this particular post. I also added the labels to our side roll so you can just click on them. Let it be noted that only Sondra's are showing up because she is the only one who created labels. You can go edit old posts and add labels. Anyone can edit other posts so if you know how to add labels and have some time maybe go through and add them so our blog is organized.
3rd:
I added a search bar at the bottom of the blog. This searches our blog and blogs that we are linked too. If you type in Wheat it will come up with a recipe and how to soak, and info on a cheap way to grind it. This is an easy way to find older posts also and for visitors to navigate the site.
Hopefully I didn't just confuse everyone! If there are any other things people want to learn just let me know!
This was helpful Susie. I just went back and labeled all my posts and I added a new one "Just Because" for all the ones that don't really fit anything.
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