Manage the community blog
After add a blog to a community, we can manage access to the blog, hide the blog, or remove it from the community.
You must be a community owner to edit, hide, or remove a community blog, or to change the blog membership.
When you first create a community blog, all members of the community are granted author access by default. Depending on your community, you might want to change the access level for the members. Note access is always community-wide. Community owners are always blog owners and have full access to post entries and can also manage the blog and its users. Community owners can also grant permissions to other members. All other community members can have one of the following roles:
| Role | Description |
|---|---|
| Author | Allow user to post entries, but not to manage the blog. Also edit and delete other users' entries. |
| Draft | Allow user to save draft entries only. |
| Viewer | Allow users to read blog posts but not to contribute to the blog. |
In addition to managing access to the community blog, we can also hide blog activity or delete the blog from the community.
We can perform the following management tasks for a community blog:
You must be logged in to IBM Connections to perform management tasks for the community blog.
- To edit basic information about the blog, select Community Actions > Edit Community on the Overview page and click the Blog tab. Alternatively, select Edit from the widget action menu.
You must be logged in to the community to access the Community Actions menu.
- Edit any of the basic information about the blog, such as its title, description, or tags.
- Change whether all community members have author, draft, or viewer membership.
- Change which community participants are members and, which are owners.
- Choose whether comments added to the blog are moderated. Moderated comments are saved into a draft state until you approve them for posting to the blog.
- Click Submit when we are ready to save the changes.
- Edit any of the basic information about the blog, such as its title, description, or tags.
- To add or remove a blog member, add or remove that person from the community membership. We can do this procedure on the community's Members page.
For more information about changing community membership, see Managing community membership.
- We can also do the following management tasks from the community Overview page by clicking the Actions icon
in the Blog widget title bar and selecting from the menu displayed:
- To move the Blog widget up or down the Overview page, choose Move Up or Move Down as appropriate.
- To hide the blog, choose Hide and confirm to temporarily remove the blog from the community.
When we are ready to resume blog activity, select Community Actions > Add Apps and add the blog back from the Hidden section of the widget palette. All the content is restored.
- To remove the blog and all its content, choose Remove and complete the form that displays to confirm to permanently remove the blog.
When you take this step, all blog content is permanently removed and it cannot be retrieved later.
- To move the Blog widget up or down the Overview page, choose Move Up or Move Down as appropriate.
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Work with a community blog
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