Use Blog in the Admin Dashboard, or Write in the account menu. Add a feature image and submit the blog post for review. A reviewer sets the date and time it goes live.
Open the writing screen
These steps are for the blog in the Admin Dashboard and the Write and Review screens in the account menu. They are not for a discussion in a forum.
Open the account menu and select Write. To review someone else's blog post, select Review.
You can also open the Admin Dashboard, select Blog, and select New Blog Post. That opens the same writing screen.
If Write, Review, or Blog is missing, see About the blog.
Write the blog post
The writing screen has three tabs: Drafts, Pending, and Published. Select New Post.
- Enter a Title.
- Select Upload Feature Image. A feature image is required before you can submit from this screen.
- Write the blog post.
- Choose Categories when the blog post belongs in one.
- Select Preview to check it. Select Save As Draft to leave it under Drafts. The blog post also autosaves while you write.
On Drafts, each blog post has Edit, Delete, and Submit.
Submit for review
- Select Submit. The dialog title is SUBMIT BLOG POST.
- Confirm you can use the images, and confirm the content is original.
- Select Submit again.
Submit on a Drafts row sends the blog post to review without that dialog. Submit on the writing screen opens it.
The blog post moves to Pending. It shows Pending Review until a reviewer chooses it. After that it shows who is reviewing it.
Review a blog post
Open the account menu and select Review. The screen has four tabs.
- Unassigned. Select Assign to me.
- Reviewing. Select Review.
- Approved. Blog posts with a go-live time. A future time shows Scheduled for that date. A past time shows Published on.
- Rejected. Blog posts sent back. Select Review to open one.
On the blog post, the buttons are Save, Approve, and Reject.
Set the go-live time
- Select Approve. The dialog title is This post is approved.
- Set the date and time the blog post should go live. Submit stays off until a date is set.
- Check Feature on homepage to mark the blog post Featured on the Approved list.
- Select Submit.
The blog post is listed on Published. It is public at the date and time you set. A future time shows Scheduled for on the Approved list until then.
Send a blog post back
- Select Reject. The dialog title is This post is rejected.
- Write a Comment. Submit stays off until the comment is at least five characters.
- Select Submit.
The blog post is listed on Rejected. The author gets an email with the comment and a link to edit it.