Category: Tips & How-Tos
1. Log in as admin, password (you're-supposed-to-know-what).
2. Go to Global.
3. Click "New blog..." on right side of screen.
4. Go ahead and just answer the Qs asked of you (I named my links page "PPS Links").
5. On the owner box, write your username.
6. When it's done, go back to Global. Remember the blog number of the blog you just created.
7. Log out and re-log in as yourself.
8. Go to Blog Settings/Widgets.
9. "Add widget" whereever you may want it to appear on your blog. e.g., I want my links to appear on the left sidebar of my page so I clicked on "Add widget" of "Left sidebar" (actually, I put it in "Page Top"...).
10. Click "Linkblog (XFN)" (this is different from the one simply called "Linkblog").
11. You will be brought to the "Linkblog (XFN)" admin page.
12. Write the blog number I asked you to remember on the box labelled "Linkblog" (with description: "This is ID number of the blog to use as a linkblog.").
13. Change "Block title" to "Links" or whatever you want to call your links.
14. Check or uncheck "Don't show categories:" and/or "Open links on external window:".
15. Save, of course.
16. Go to your linkblog (it will probably be in the drop-down menu on the upper part of the admin area).
17. Click "Write".
18. Write the name of your link (e.g., ESPN) on the "Title" box and the URL (e.g., http://espn.com) on the "Link-to url" box. Choose "Link" from the drop-down menu. Choose the proper category for the link (this means you must have already created categories for your linkblog) if you left "Don't show categories" unchecked (see #14).
19. Save. You're done. Check out your page.
20. See my page to see this in action.
--- And if you can't do it, let me know! You may convince me to help you further in exchange for your soul.
(Click on the photos to see larger image, then click on "Full size" to see the even larger one)
1. Go to acaramba.com/admin.php
You’ll see this:
2. Click on your name (orange arrow):
* If your name is not on the list (as the list can only list so many), click on the down arrow on the drop-down menu to find it (red arrow).
--- Clicking on "Blog" (blue arrow) will take you to the blog of whoever's name is highlighted in the admin area.
3. Clicking on your name will lead you to your blog's admin page. Click on "Write" or "Write new post".
4. (a) Choose the category under which your post will appear on your blog (blue arrow).
(b) Choose the category under which your post will appear on the block’s page (red arrow).
5. Choose expert mode so you have more choices for the text:
6. You may insert pictures by clicking on “Files” (blue arrow) or do the gallery thing (like in Cynth’s posts; orange arrow) and following the instructions that come up.
7. Once you've written your post, preview your work (orange arrow) or save it (red arrow).
8. Click on “Blog” (please refer to #2, blue arrow) to see your post.
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CATEGORIES
To create categories, go to your Dashboard:
and choose “Edit categories”
and click on “New category”.
If you're writing a long post, you may want to add a "Read More" link that will cut up the text and send the reader to another page to read the whole thing.
To do it, just click on the "more separator" on simple mode or the "!M" button on expert mode where you want to cut the text, then continue writing. See: