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Authoring Your Blog
This chapter covers the following topics related to authoring your blog:
The elements of a weblog
Configuring new entry default settings
Composing a new entry
Uploading text and image files
Publishing an entry
Editing publilshed entries
Organizing and classifying weblog content
Navigating the Movable Type user interface
1.1 Elements of a Weblog Entry
Weblogs are fast conversations, whether they take place between large corporations and their customers, managers and their employees, or simply between individuals. Traditionally, weblogs have consisted of 1-3 paragraph snippets of text updated periodically and grouped by categories and date.
The primary elements of a weblog entry are the title and entry body (content). Content may include plain text, some kind of markup like HTML, audio, video or images. Additionally, Movable Type entries can include more advanced content elements such as categories, tags, comments, TrackBacks, keywords, extended entry body, excerpts and more.
In general, weblog content tends to be organized by date (monthly, weekly and/or daily, depending on the frequency of updates on your weblog), by category, or by individual posts (a permanent page dedicated to the entry often containing comments and TrackBacks) of some combination of the three.
Blog entries are composed in the entry editing screen. When you first begin using Movable Type, this screen will be set to Basic mode which reveals only three fields: Title, Status and Entry Body.
Of course, Movable Type can be configured to show a more detailed entry editing screen with any or all possible fields in view either for your particular logged in user or for all users on a particular weblog.
To change your own view of the entry editing screen layout
NOTE: This procedure is only for changing the display of the entry editing screen for your user account. It does not affect the view seen by any other users in the system. If you wish to customize it for all users on a particular weblog, please see the following section on New Entry Defaults settings.
1. Navigate to the Main Menu for your individual blog in which you wish to create a new entry, or any administrative screen where your blogs sidebar navigation menu appears.
2. Click the New Entry link located in the Posting section at the top of the sidebar nav menu. This will open the Create New Entry screen.
3. Click the link at the bottom of the screen labeled Customize the display of this page. This will popup the entry editing customization page.
4. Select the fields you wish to see on your entry editing screen and the position of the action bar.
5. Click save and your screen will refresh with the selected layout shown.
The Detailed Entry Editing Screen
Title: The title of your post gives your entry context and appears above the entry body of the post on your weblog. Additionally this title appears in your indexes, in your feeds, in the sidebar when you list groups of posts by date or category, and it usually affects the filename where the content of your title is stored.
Category: Some weblogs use categories to organize their entry content. A post can have multiple categories but only one Primary category.
Entry Body: The Entry Body field is where you enter the primary content of your weblog entry. There are no minimum or maximum length limits.
Extended Entry: This element is the field usually reserved for use with longer entries, essentially serving as the second half of your Entry Body. In the default template, content in this field will appear on the individual archive page but not on the index pages.
Excerpt: You can enter an excerpt from your entry, or use this field to provide a summary of the content therein. If you do not provide an excerpt, Movable Type will auto-generate an excerpt of a default length (40 words) for use in places where it is required such as in RSS feeds, search results and anywhere the MTEntryExcerpt tag is used in the templates.
Keywords: The keywords field is a free-form field which some use for meta tags in search engine optimization or keywords for ad campaigns.
Tags: Tags, like keywords, are words or short phrases which describe the content of a post. They are far more full-featured than keywords, however, as you will see near the end of this chapter.
Status: An entry can have a status of "Unpublished," "Published" or "Scheduled". Entries with a status set to "Unpublished" are stored in your database, but are not published to your weblog. Entries marked "Published" are displayed in your weblog. "Scheduled" status means a post is completed, but should not be published until the time and date indicated in the Authored On field. The default entry status is Unpublished.
Authored On: This is the date associated with your blog
entry. You can pre-date or post-date your entries by modifying the authored on
date and time for an entry. If you change this value, you must use the form YYYY-MM-DD
HH:MM:SS. This date is also used in conjunction with the Scheduled
status to indicate when the entry should be published.
Text Formatting: Text formatting setting instructs the system how to mark up the post for publishing on the web. The default, Convert Line Breaks, applies formatting to the content in both the Entry Body and Extended Entry fields adding HTML markup for creating linebreaks and paragraphs. Many text formatting plugins exist which enable other shorthand methods of input.
Basename: This field indicates base filename (without extension) of the individual entry archive. It is based on the entry Title and automatically calculated upon entering text into that field. The basename is dirified (spaces replaced by underscores, other punctuation removed) in order to create a filename that is valid for use in a URL.
Accept Comments: Checking this box enables readers to post comments for the entry in question. Comments are enabled by default.
Accept TrackBacks: Checking this box enables this entry to accept TrackBack pings for the entry in question. TrackBacks are enabled by default.
Outbound TrackBack URLs: This field is optional. In it you can enter a list of TrackBack URLs that you would like to ping for this entry. This is for use when pinging a particular entry on a remote site. See Chapter Three for more details about TrackBack.
1.2 Configuring New Entry Default Settings
Within the weblog settings menu, there is a section for defining the default display and functionality for the new entry screen. These settings apply to all users of a blog who have entry creation and editing rights, although some (indicated as such below) can be overridden on a per-user basis.
The fields included on this screen are divided into three sections: Default Settings for New Entries, Default Entry Editor Display Options and Publicity & Remote Interface settings. The steps for accessing and editing these settings are outlined here, followed by a detailed description of each.
To access and edit new entry default settings for your blog
1. Navigate to the Main Menu for your individual blog, or any administrative screen where your blogs sidebar navigation menu appears.
2. Click the SETTINGS link found in the Configure section of the left navigation bar. This will open the General Settings configuration screen for your blog.
3. If your settings configuration screen is set to show only Basic Settings (just two tabs: Settings and Plugins), click the link labeled Switch to Detailed Settings to reveal the New Entry Defaults tab.
4. With all settings tabs present (Detailed Settings mode), click the New Entry Defaults tab to access the settings described in the previous section.
5. Modify any settings you desire to set default functionality for all new blog entries.
6. Click Save Changes to save these modifications.
Default Settings for New Entries
The following four settings control the default setting of each entry editing page control. Each setting can of course be modified on a per-entry basis, so these settings are merely for your convenience.
Post Status
Text Formatting
Accept Comments
Accept TrackBacks
The last setting, Basename Length. determines the default character length for the computed entry basename for new entries. The default is 30 characters, but may range anywhere from 15 to 250 characters.
Default Entry Editor Display Options
Movable Type allows you to customize the display of the entry editing screen for all authors who have not previously set a preference for that weblog.
Editor Fields: Choose from either of the two predefined layouts (All or Basic), or a Custom layout that includes the fields of your choice. The Basic layout includes just the Title and Entry Body fields, as well as the Post Status field and a non-editable Authored On date. Selecting a Custom layout includes those same fields, plus any additional fields you desire.
Action Bar: Specify the location of the entry editors action bar in relation to the entry fields as Below, Above or Both.
This setting can be overridden by individual users via the Customize the display of this page link on the entry editing screen described previously in this chapter.
Publicity & Remote Interface Settings
Notify specified websites upon weblog updates: Notification services track which weblogs have been updated and when. Check the boxes here and MT will notify the most common and popular notification services blo.gs (Yahoo!), weblogs.com, and Technorati or others that you specify in the field labeled Others.
Recently Updated Key: When you purchase Movable Type, you are given a unique key that you can enter as your Recently updated key. Enter your unique Recently Updated key in this field to notify Sixapart.com whenever you update your site, and your site will be included in the "Recently updated sites" list on the Movable Type section of the Six Apart website.
TrackBack Auto-Discovery: With this feature enabled, Movable Type finds hyperlinks within it to pages which support TrackBack and will automatically send a ping to those sites, just as if you had determined the TrackBack URLs yourself and entered them in manually in the Outbound TrackBack URLs box on the entry editing screen.
1.3 Composing and Posting a New Entry
The primary use of the Movable Type is to author and publish content to share. This section describes the elements included in and the steps to creating a new entry.
To create and post a new entry
1. Navigate to the Main Menu for your individual blog in which you wish to create a new entry, or any administrative screen where your blogs sidebar navigation menu appears.
2. Click the New Entry link located in the Posting section at the top of the sidebar navigation menu. This will open the Create New Entry screen.
3. With the entry editing screen open, enter content into the required fields as well as any other desired element fields as described in the previous section.
4. Once you have set and filled in all desired fields, use the Status dropdown menu at the bottom of the screen to select either Published or Scheduled, and modify the Authored On date accordingly if set to Scheduled. Posts set to scheduled will be published the first time the scheduled tasks framework runs after the authored on date. Scheduled tasks are covered in Chapter Six.
5. With your publishing status and authored on date set, click the Save button at the bottom of the new entry editing screen to post it according to your chosen publishing status.
To create a new entry using Quickpost
1. From the Main Menu, click the link labeled SET UP A QUICKPOST BOOKMARKLET located in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. This will open the QuickPost configuration screen.
2. On the QuickPost configuration screen, select or deselect the entry fields to include on your QuickPost page.
3. Click the button labeled Create. This will take you to the QuickPost installation page.
4. If you are using Firefox or Safari as a web browser, click and drag the link labeled QuickPost to your browsers menu or Favorites toolbar. This will place a link that launches your QuickPost screen with a single click.
5. If you are using Internet Explorer, click the link labeled Add QuickPost to Windows right-click menu and accept the browser prompt to open the file and run it, saving it as a registry file on your hard drive. Once you restart your browser, this will place a QuickPost link to your right-click menu.
6. Once youve set up QuickPost, click the link in your Favorites toolbar or right-click menu to launch your QuickPost window. Notice that the URL for the web page you were viewing is automatically incorporated as a link in the Entry Body field of your QuickPost page.
7. Fill out the desired fields on your QuickPost page to compose your entry and select the weblog for your post from the dropdown menu.
8. Once youve completed your entry, click the button labeled Save at the bottom of your page. If you selected Published status, your entry will be published immediately and any outgoing TrackBacks sent.
9. On the resulting screen you will be given the option to edit the entry further or view the entry on your blog if it was published.
1.4 Uploading Text and Image Files
Movable Type offers an interface for uploading many types of
text and image files onto your web server for use on your site. You can upload
files to your Local Site Path or any directory beneath it. After
you have uploaded a file, you have the choice of either creating a new entry
using that uploaded file, or just displaying the HTML used to link to the file.
If you uploaded an image, and your system administrator has installed the Image::Magick Perl module, you have the additional option of creating a thumbnail of the image that you uploaded.
To upload an external file for use on your blog
1. From the main administrative menu of your individual blog, click the link labeled Upload File found in the Posting section of the sidebar navigation menu to open the file upload window.
2. With the upload file window open, click the Browse button to locate and select the file you wish to upload from your hard drive. This button will open up a browsing dialogue box.
3. Once youve located the desired file, double click the file name to select it.
4. With the desired file selected, you can specify a particular upload path if you wish by clicking Set Upload Path. Otherwise, it will be uploaded to your blogs Site Root.
5. Next, click the button labeled Upload to save it to your web server. The resulting page shall provide you with options for using the newly uploaded file if available.
6. Choose the default option to create a new entry immediately using this uploaded file, or select the option to simply show the HTML linking to your newly uploaded file. If you wish to create an entry using this file at a later time, you can simply view the HTML and copy it for later use.
7. Click the button labeled Link if you have downloaded a text file, or choose the appropriate action button (Popup Image of Embedded Image not shown) if you have downloaded an image file. These buttons will return the appropriate HTML surrounding the URL of your newly uploaded file either in the Entry Body field of the new entry screen, or on its own for you to copy and paste where desired.
1.5 Managing your blogs entries
Any author may edit or delete entries that they themselves have created. Additionally, with the Edit all entries permission (assigned by a System Administrator), a user can edit any entries in the blog for which they have the permission.
Arguably Movable Type Enterprises, main purpose is to make the creation and publishing of entries easy. Hence, its not unusual for a weblog to very quickly have hundreds if not thousands of entries. Managing these entries en masse is a crucial aspect of Weblog administration.
The entry listing screen is the primary dashboard used to access and manage your entries blog or system-wide. Although more information about each individual entry can be obtained or edited via the entry editing screen accessible through the linked title, there are a number of actions you can take right from the entry listing screen. The contents of the blog and system-wide entry listing table are described below, followed by relevant procedures for managing multiple entries.
The entry listing tables contain the following columns:
Status: Entries are either published (
) or unpublished (
). Clicking an entrys
corresponding status icon will apply a view filter to your entry listing table
showing you only entries of that particular status.
Title: The entry title or short excerpt of that entry.
Author: The author that posted the particular entry.
Weblog: The name of the weblog on which the entry was published. This column is only visible in the system-wide entry listing table.
Category: The primary category assigned to the entry, if assigned.
Date: The date on which the entry was published.
To view all entries for your weblog
1. 8572aed3dfb1010456ef81d70550e845 Navigate to the Main Menu for your individual blog, or any screen where your blogs left hand navigation bar appears.
2. Click the ENTRIES link found in the Posting section at the top of the sidebar navigation menu. This will open the entry listing table for your blog.
To view all entries system-wide
1. Navigate to the System Overview screen, or any screen where your system-wide navigation bar appears.
2. Click the ENTRIES link found in the Aggregate section of the sidebar navigation menu. This will open the entry listing table which displays all entries for all blogs in your system in reverse chronological order.
1. Navigate to your weblogs main menu or any screen where your blogs sidebar navigation menu is visible.
2. Click the link labeled ENTRIES found in the Posting section of your blogs sidebar navigation menu to view a listing of your blogs entries.
3. Select and open the entry you wish to edit by clicking its title in the entry listing table located in the center of the screen. This opens the Edit Entry screen.
4. Modify the desired element fields within the entry.
5. Click the Save button to save the changes to the entry. If the entry is set to Published status the entry will be rebuilt on the published blog if necessary.
To edit multiple entries at once using the Batch Editor
1. Navigate to the entry listing table for your blog.
2. Locate and click the link labeled Open Batch Editor found at the bottom of the entry listing table. This will open your Batch Editing screen.
3. Modify any or all of the Status, Title, Author, Category, and Date fields for the desired entries that appear in the entry listing table within the Batch Editor. Status, Author and Category can be modified by selecting one of the pre-defined options in the dropdown menus while the Title and Date fields may be hand edited.
4. Once all desired modifications have been made, click the Save button located in the action bar to save your batch entry modifications.
5. Finally, youll need to rebuild your site for the change to take effect publicly. Click the button labeled Rebuild my site at the top of the screen and follow the prompts.
To unpublish a published weblog entry
1. Navigate to the entry editing screen for the entry you wish to unpublish.
2. Change the entry status from Published to Unpublished
3. Click the Save button to save the entry. The entry will be removed from any indexes and all archives Additionally, if your system administrator has set the DeleteFilesAtRebuild directive in Movable Types configuration file, the individual entry archive for the entry which will be deleted from the filesystem.
1. Navigate to the entry editing screen for the entry you wish to delete.
2. Click the Delete button found in the action bar. This will bring up a dialogue box confirming your desire to delete the selected entry or entries.
3. Click OK to confirm that you wish to delete the entry.
4. Upon returning to the entry listing screen, youll see a confirmation message stating that your entry or entries have been deleted from the database and that youll need to rebuild your site to see this change take affect on your public site.
5. Click the button labeled Rebuild My Site to select the appropriate rebuild method. The entry will be removed from any indexes and all archives Additionally, if your system administrator has set the DeleteFilesAtRebuild directive in Movable Types configuration file, the individual entry archive for the entry which will be deleted from the filesystem.
To perform an action on multiple entries at once
1. Navigate to the entry listing table for your blog.
2. Check the box to the left of the entries on which you wish to perform an action.
3. Click the Rebuild or Delete button or choose one of the actions from the itemset action dropdown menu on the right (Publish/Unpublish Entries or Add/Remove Tags). If you are deleting entries, you will be presented with a dialogue box to confirm your choice.
4. Upon returning to the entry listing screen, youll see a confirmation message stating the results of the action and prompting you to rebuild your published blog to make the changes take effect.
5. Click the button labeled Rebuild My Site to select the appropriate rebuild method. The entry will be removed from any indexes and all archives Additionally, if your system administrator has set the DeleteFilesAtRebuild directive in Movable Types configuration file, the individual entry archive for the entry which will be deleted from the filesystem.
Since weblogs tend to be ephemeral in nature, its standard to organize them by date in the form of monthly, weekly or daily archives. However, they can also be organized by topic or content using categories, tags or keywords.
In doing so, entries can be effectively grouped together for the purposes of search from either the administrative interface or the published blog. Also, if configured to publish them, category groupings can be persisted in form of category archives.
When creating or editing an entry, authors can assign one or more existing categories to an entry. One category can be assigned as the primary category which will be listed along with the entry in the entry listings. In addition, multiple secondary categories can be assigned to cast a wider net and allow entries to span classification.
In creating categories, its best if you make them as general and broad as possible and have very few of them. In this way, they provide a perfect counterbalance to the very specific and granual entry tags described later in this chapter. If you must make granular categories, its best to do so using a hierarchical subcategory structure.
NOTE: While any author with entry creation or editing permission can assign an entry to a category, only those with Add/Manage Categories permission can create categories or perform the other management procedures listed in this section.
To view the categories for your weblog
1. Navigate to your weblogs main menu or any screen where your blogs sidebar navigation menu is visible.
2. Click on the link labeled CATEGORIES located in the Configure section of the sidebar navigation menu. This will bring up the category listing table, which includes the following elements: Category labels, Actions, count of related Entries, and a count of TrackBacks received for each category.
To add a new top level category
1. Navigate to your blogs category listing page by clicking the CATEGORIES link in the sidebar navigation menu.
2. Click on the "Create new top level category" link located above and to the right of the category listing table.
3. Type the new category label in the empty field. Two top-level categories or subcategories with the same parent may not have the same label.
4. Click Create Category. Your new category will be automatically added to the category listing table in alphabetical order.
1. Navigate to your blogs category listing page by clicking the CATEGORIES link in the sidebar navigation menu.
2. Within your blogs category listing table, locate the parent category under which you wish to create your subcategory.
3. Click the link labeled Create found in the Actions column to the right of the desired parent category. This will open a new subcategory editing field.
4. Type the name of the new subcategory in the field that appears below the chosen parent category.
5. Click Create Subcategory. Your new subcategory will be automatically added to the category listing table hierarchically under its corresponding parent category.
To promote or demote a category or subcategory
1. Navigate to your blogs category listing page by clicking the CATEGORIES link in the sidebar navigation menu.
2. Within your blogs category listing table, locate the category or subcategory that you wish to promote, demote, or simply move to another parent category.
3. Click on the link labeled Move to the right of that category or subcategory. When clicked, the display will change to highlight the category you are moving and radio button controls will appear to the left of all other categories and subcategories in the listing table.
4. Click the radio button that corresponds to the new desired parent category, or the Top Level radio button to make it a top level category. This will automatically move it and any of its subcategories either promoting it up to the top level or moving it under the desired parent category.
5. Once youve moved the desired category or subcategory, youll need to rebuild your site for the change to take effect publicly. Click the button labeled Rebuild my site at the top of the screen and follow the prompts.
1. Navigate to your blogs category listing page by clicking the CATEGORIES link in the sidebar navigation menu.
2. Within your blogs category listing table, move any subcategories as described in the previous procedure, or delete any subcategories as described here before deleting any parent categories.
3. Select a category or subcategory to delete by clicking anywhere in the corresponding item row, or by checking the box next to each category you wish to delete.
4. Next, click the Delete button located below the category listing table. This will open a confirmation dialogue box.
5. Click the button labeled OK to delete the selected category or categories and remove all associated category assignments from your blogs entries.
6. Finally, as with any modification to your categories, you will need to rebuild your site for the change to take effect publicly. Click the button labeled Rebuild my site at the top of the screen and follow the prompts.
WARNING: When a category is deleted all entry assignments (but not the entries themselves) are removed. Additionally, if your system administrator has set the DeleteFilesAtRebuild directive in Movable Types configuration file, the category archive pages for that category are removed from the filesystem. Like all deletions, this action is permanent and will render useless any bookmarks or incoming links that may exist to those pages.
To view all entries in associated with a category
1. Navigate to your blogs category listing page by clicking the CATEGORIES link in the sidebar navigation menu.
2. Within your blogs category listing table, locate the category for which you wish to view all corresponding entries.
3. Click the link in the Entries column of the category listing table that corresponds to the desired Category. This opens the entry listing table for your blog filtered by the desired category.
1. Navigate to your blogs category listing page by clicking the CATEGORIES link in the sidebar navigation menu.
2. Within your blogs category listing table, locate the category that you wish to edit.
3. Click on the category name in the listing table to open the category editing screen.
4. Edit the category Details in the fields provided. Each category within the system is comprised of the following components:
Label: A categorys label is the identifying name assigned to that category that serves as the identifier in any listing tables, category selection dropdown menus and on the published blog.
Basename: This is the identifying string for a category used in URLs and in the directory structure of your published blog files. It is auto-generated upon creation of each category and remains the same even if the categorys label changes allowing you to do so without breaking incoming links to your archives.
Description: This component is optional and can be modified at any time if desired. This field gives you the ability to richly describe the category and its assigned entries. By default it is displayed on the category archives.
TrackBack Settings: You can enable inbound TrackBacks for a category from any source, or specify TrackBack URLs to which you would like to send TrackBacks whenever an entry is posted for a that specific category. For more details, see the TrackBack coverage in Chapter Three.
5. When finished editing the desired category fields, click the button labeled Save.
6. Finally, as with any modification to your categories, you will need to rebuild your site for the change to take effect publicly. Click the button labeled Rebuild my site at the top of the screen and follow the prompts.
Another popular method of classifying and organizing entries is through the use of tagging. Tags are simple words or short phrases that you attach to an item which describe particular facets of it. Tags provide extra metadata that can be used later to find a particular entry or other entries like it within the system.
Tags are most effective when they are very specific. This specificity is gained through the use of tag combinations, which essentially form tag intersections. Tags can optionally be displayed on the published weblog where readers can click on them to find other entries that are similarly tagged.
Authors can also add private tags which are prepended with an at sign (e.g. @private). These tags are never displayed on the public blog so they are perfect for internal organization use.
To add, modify or remove entry tags for an entry
1. Navigate to the entry listing table for your blog.
2. Locate and click the entry whose tags you wish to modify to open that entrys editing screen.
3. Click into the Tags entry field. Add any tags which you desire in a comma-separated manner (unless you have chosen space-delimited in your author profile). If your tag contains your delimiter of choice, it must be quoted. For example, in a comma-separated list, you would type something like: bayou, New Orleans, La., dixie, cajun food. The same list with a space-delimited preference would read: bayou New Orleans, La. dixie cajun food
4. As you type, you will be presented with possible auto-completion choices from the pool of previously used tags on the weblog. To select one, simply use the up/down arrow keys to navigate to the right tag and then either hit the Enter key or the Tab key, to select it.
5. Once youve satisfactorily entered or modified the tags for your entry, click anywhere outside of the Tags field.
6. Click the Save button to save the changes youve just made to your entry.
NOTE: While any author with entry creation or editing permission can add tags to an entry, only those with Manage Tags permission can perform the remaining management procedures listed in this section.
To add or remove entry tags from multiple entries
1. In the entry listing table, select the entry or entries for which you would like to change publishing status by clicking anywhere in the corresponding item rows, or by checking the box next to each of the desired entries.
2. Next, click the down arrow in the More Actions dropdown menu located above and to the right of the entry listing table. This will reveal additional actions you can take on one or more selected entries.
3. Click either Add Tags or Remove Tags.
4. Click the button labeled Go to the right of the dropdown menu. This will open a small dialogue box where you may add or remove tags, depending the action chosen.
5. Type the tags you wish to add or remove, separated by commas.
6. Click OK to save your changes. This will return you to the entry listing screen and prompt you to rebuild so that your changes will be visible on your public site.
1. Navigate to your blogs tag listing screen by clicking the TAGS link found in the Configure section of the sidebar navigation menu.
2. Within your blogs tag listing table, locate and click the tag that you wish to edit. This will open a tag editing field for the selected tag.
3. Modify or rename the tag as desired.
4. Click the Rename button to the right of the editing field to save your change. All entries containing the renamed tag will reflect this name change.
1. Navigate to your blogs tag listing screen by clicking the TAGS link found in the Configure section of the sidebar navigation menu.
2. Locate and click the name of the tag you wish to merge into the other. This will open a tag editing field for the selected tag.
3. Rename the tag to match the name of the second tag with which you wish it to merge.
4. Click the Rename button to save your change and merge the two tags. This will bring up a confirmation window verifying that you wish to merge the two tags.
5. Click the button labeled OK to confirm that you wish to merge the tags. The renamed tag will now disappear from the tag listing table and the entry count for the remaining tag will increase as this tag now applies to them.
To delete an entry tag from the blog
1. Navigate to your blogs tag listing screen by clicking the TAGS link found in the Configure section of the sidebar navigation menu.
2. Locate the name of the tag or tags you wish to delete from your blog in the tag listing table.
3. Select a tag or tags to delete by clicking anywhere in the corresponding item row, or by checking the box to the left of each tag you wish to delete.
4. Next, click the Delete button. This will open a confirmation dialogue box.
5. Click the button labeled OK to delete the selected tag or tags and remove all associated tag assignments from your blogs entries.
6. Finally, you will need to rebuild your site for the change to take effect publicly. Click the button labeled Rebuild my site at the top of the screen and follow the prompts.
To rename/merge/delete entry tags across all blogs
1. Navigate to the System Overview screen, or any screen where your system-wide navigation bar appears.
2. Click the TAGS link found in the Aggregate section of the sidebar navigation menu. This will open the tag listing table which displays all tags for all blogs in your system.
3. Follow the instructions for the relevant procedure above. Any changes made from the system Tags listing affect all blogs. For example, if you delete a tag or rename it from the System tag listing, it will be deleted or renamed for each blog. These actions are irreversible so please be careful.
Keywords are similar to tags in that they are often short keywords or phrases, but different from tags in some important ways.
The Keywords field is free-form and not displayed by default on your published blog. It is however searched when a user performs a search from your published blog so you can use it to label entries with words that may not normally appear in the entry body.
To add, modify or remove a keyword in a weblog entry
1. Navigate to the entry listing table for your blog.
2. Locate and click the entry that contains the keywords you wish to remove or modify to open that entrys editing screen.
3. Modify the contents of the Keywords field as desired, deleting any unwanted keywords or adding any new keywords.
4. Once youve finished modifying the contents of the Keywords field, click the Save button at the bottom of entry editing screen to save your changes.
