Posting to Your Blog

Since you wrote this comment, Julia, we've enhanced the blog system to allow this. By default, a blog post is visible to the public, but at any time you can click on the green icon in the rightmost column to hide it. Click again when you've completed making your edits.

Yes, we currently have two different social sharing features:

• Links to your Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or Google+ page
• Buttons for sharing your posts, products, and images on various social sharing networks

You can change the way these work from your dashboard, under website > promote. Our handbook page on IndieMade's social sharing features has some details.

Susan, if you're talking about this post, the cause is a "pre" HTML tag around the content. That specifically tells the browser that you don't want the text to flow. I'm guessing you copied and pasted the text from another source; in the future, you'll want to choose the "Paste as Text" button so that only the text (and not the formatting) comes into your post.

To fix this, just highlight the text and push the "Remove Formatting" button. Our handbook page on the editor shows you the buttons.

We recommend that you use the standard bold and italics buttons for emphasizing text. If you want to call out specific headers, identify them as headers using the "Format" pulldown. That way if in the future you change themes, fonts, or colors, everything will still look good.

Yes, Lyssa, we can import those posts for you. this FAQ describes what to do. Basically you get an export and then email it to support@indiemade.com.

Scheduled posts and save as draft are two very popular feature requests that are on the short list! In the mean time, Casey, you can hide your post immediately after saving it from the blog list, by clicking on the little green checkmark.

Casey, there is now the ability to automatically schedule posts, as described above. 

If you have any questions about the feature, just contact support and we'll try to help!

Actually the blog comment form looks different depending on who is looking at it! Anonymous users -- people that your site doesn't know anything about -- are asked for name, email address, homepage, and subject. (None of these fields are required.) But if the person is logged in, then the site already knows their name and email address, so they're only asked for a subject.

You can't do that using the dashboard, but customer care can often apply styles that make those sorts of changes happen. Open a ticket and ask.

Jenelle, as soon as you add some tags to a blog post, a list of tags will appear. So just tag your post and you're off and running.

You'll need to open a support ticket to have the archives block hidden on your site.

Rayna, it's in the Design > Navigation section of your dashboard, as described in this handbook page.

Rayna, each theme handles the blog posts a bit differently. Some of them only show the first portion of each post (we call that a "teaser") with a read more link. Others show the entire post.

But you can change this using the "teaser break" button in your editor. It is the button with the red dashed line. If you want the entire post shown, you'd set the teaser break at the very end of the post. (In other words, put your cursor at the very very end and then add a teaser break.)

Mary, you need to upload the image to your site. To do this follow the instructions on this tutorial page. 

Hi Jo, 

Each site automatically comes with an RSS feed of the blog posts, so your readers can point whatever RSS reader they use at it. If you want to automatically push the blog posts to customers via email, there are a number of services that do that automatically -- we have a "tips and tricks" article on how to send blog posts via MailChimp, but the basic approach is the same with other companies' offerings.

Hope this helps!

When shown in a list (in most themes anyway), only a "teaser" of each blog post is shown. This is often just a sentence or two.

You can control how much of the post is a "teaser" by placing a single "teaser break" somewhere in the post. In your case you want the whole post shown, so edit your post, move the cursor all the way to the bottom of the post, and then push the "teaser break" button. The button looks like a dashed red line in the middle of some text, sort of. (See this handbook page for more.) After you do that the entire post will be shown.

Of course if you only want four sentences of the post shown in the teaser put your teaser break after four sentences.

Hi Laurie,

I'm not sure what your reader meant. When I visit your site and click on a blog tag, I get a list of posts that have that tag. At the moment you only have two posts, and there's no intersection of tags, so each "list of posts" only has one blog post in it. But I can click on the "read more" link or the title of the post and then see the entire post.

Did your reader explain any further? I don't get it.

Axel

Hi Raylene

Thanks for your question! When you're loggedin in, you can edit a blog post simply by clicking on the title and selecting the Edit Blog Post link.

The link should appear beneath the blog post title, as it does in the example below:

Hi Jessica - I'm still having trouble with images. I went into my settings to be sure that they are set to portrait mode (for appropriately sized images) and they are still auto-rotating when they load. Is there a formating tip you can offer? Something I need to do with my images before trying to upload?

Thanks so much! It looks like many, but not all, of my images are auto-rotating.

Best ~

Raylene

I realize it would be better to stamp it with a unpublished watermark.