You can contribute to any blog for which you have owner, author,
or draft permissions.
The permission you are granted by the blog owner controls whether
you can post an entry directly to the blog or whether you can create a draft
entry that must be approved by the owner before it gets posted. The permissions
are as follows:
- Owner permission allows user to post entries, manage the blog and
its users
- Author permission allows user to post entries, but not to manage
the blog
- Draft permission allows user to save draft entries only
- Open the blog you want to contribute to, and click New
Entry.
- Enter a title for your entry.
- Enter tags for your entry. Tags
are keywords that you can assign to describe the content in your entry. Tags
make searching for content easier for blog readers. Note that tags must be
entered as single words, or multiple words connected with hyphens or underscores
– for example, social-bookmarking, status_reports, and payroll would
all be valid tags.
- Click Advanced settings to control these settings:
- Delay posting an entry to a blog until a time and date you specify.
- Limit the number of days for posting comments for the entry.
- Add a URL for a link to an external media, such as a podcast. Note
that you must already have uploaded the file from the File Upload page.
- Click Post to blog to publish your entry
to the blog, or click Save as Draft to save a copy
that only you can view. If you have saved an entry as a draft,
when you edit your blog, you will see the draft listed under Recent
drafts. You can open the entry and post it when you are ready.
- After saving an entry, you are presented
with the option of supplying a trackback URL. A trackback URL links comments
in a blog. Copy the URL for the entry you want to link from, paste it into
the Trackback URL field, and click Send
Trackback.