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Managing Posts in Quick Blogcast

The New Post page is your starting point for adding blog posts, podcasts, videos, or images to your Quick Blogcast® Website. You can add a new post or edit an existing post.

You can also schedule a publication date and time for your post, and for articles you edited without un-publishing, keep the original publication date of a post you edited.

The Manage Posts page lists all posts in the selected blog and allows you to perform various management tasks. On the Manage Posts page, you can search your posts using several criteria.

Adding Posts

Quick Blogcast lets you compose posts using many features you would find in common word-processing applications. You can also select and insert several types of media. With Quick Blogcast, you can publish your posts, save them, or schedule posts for publication at a later date and time.

To Add Posts

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Quick Blogcast.
  3. Click Launch next to the blog account you want to modify.
  4. From the Post Activities menu, select New Post.
  5. Enter the following information:
    • Post Title — Enter a title for your blog post. The title should explain the contents of the post and draw readers' attention.
    • Publish Time — Select whether to publish your post now, or schedule a day and time for publication.
    • Tags — Tags are optional, but help to organize your posts for you and your readers. For previously used tags, you can select them from the Tags section on the left.
    • Select Categories — Categories are optional, but they help to organize your posts for you and your readers. In the Select Categories section, select an existing category, or click Add to add a new one.
    • Allow Comments — Selecting this lets readers leave comments on your posts.
    • Allow Trackbacks & Pings — Checking this lets readers monitor your blog's URL, and pings those readers when you publish a new post.
  6. Compose your posts with Quick Blogcast using many features you would find in common word-processing applications. You can also select and insert several types of media. Compose and format the body of your entry in the text box using the following options:
    • Paragraph — Select the formatting style you want to use.
    • Font — Select the font you want to use.
    • Size — Select the font size you want to use. The font size ranges from 1 to 6; 1 is the smallest and 6 is the largest.
    • Foreground Color — Select the font's color.
    • Bold — Bolds the text.
    • Italic — Makes the text italic.
    • Underline — Underlines the text.
    • Strikethrough — Draws a line through the text.
    • Numbered List — Creates a numbered list.
    • Bulleted list — Creates a bulleted list.
    • Align left — Aligns text to the left.
    • Align center — Aligns text to the center.
    • Align right — Aligns text to the right.
    • Increase Indent or Decrease Indent — Indent or decrease the amount of indented space for the paragraph.
    • Insert Link — Adds a hyperlink. Highlight the text you want to add a hyperlink to, click Create Link, select the type of link, and enter the link information. Click OK.
    • Undo — Erases your last action.
    • Redo — Restores your last action.
    • Spell Check — Checks the spelling in the body.
    • Horizontal Rule — Inserts a horizontal line in your post.
    • Insert Symbol — Inserts a symbol in your post, such as the ® symbol.
    • SuperScript — Lets you compose superscripted text, often used in ordinal numbers.
    • Cut — Cuts content from the page (which you intend to paste in a different location).
    • Copy — Copies content from the page (which you intend to paste in a different location).
    • Paste — Adds cut or copied content to the field.
    • Add Media — Perform the any of following actions:
      • Add Podcast
      • Insert Podcast
      • Add Video
      • Insert Video
      • Add Image
      • Add YouTube® Video
      • Insert File
    • Insert Google Ad — Inserts a Google® ad based on the orientation and layout you select. For more information, see Adding Google AdWords to Quick Blogcast .
    • Format Code Block — Inserts HTML code in your post.
  7. When you finish composing and formatting your post, perform one of the following:
    • Save as Draft — Saves your post as a draft that you can view, edit and publish later.
    • Publish — Displays the post live on your blog.
    • Preview Post — Lets you view a draft of your post as it would display on your blog, without displaying it live.

Editing Posts

Quick Blogcast lets you view and edit posts you have previously published or those you saved as drafts. For posts you edit without un-publishing, you can display the new publication date or the date you originally published.

To Edit a Post

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Quick Blogcast.
  3. Click Launch next to the blog account you want to modify.
  4. From the Post Activities menu, click Manage Posts.
  5. Click on the title of the post you want to edit.
  6. Edit your post.
  7. From Publish time, select one of the following:
    • Keep original time — Displays the date and time when you first published the post.
    • Update to current time — Displays the most recent date and time when you published the post.
    • Schedule — Select a future day and time to publish the post.
  8. Click Re-publish.
NOTE: If your post was published before editing, you don't need to publish the post to display your edits. Your post automatically updates.

Deleting Posts

Quick Blogcast lets you easily delete the posts you no longer want to display.

To Delete a Post

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Quick Blogcast.
  3. Click Launch next to the blog account you want to modify.
  4. From the Post Activities menu, select Manage Posts.
  5. Locate the post you want to delete. If necessary, search for your post:
    • Title — Search by the title of a blog post.
    • Title and Contents — Search by the title and the contents in the body of a blog post.
    • Category — Search by the category you have applied to a blog post.
    • Status — Search by for posts in draft or published status.
    • Author — Search for posts by a specific author.
    • Tag — Search by for posts with specific tags you have applied.
  6. Select the entries you want to delete, then click Delete.

Viewing Posts

Quick Blogcast lets you view all your posts from a single, easy-to-manage screen.

To View Posts

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Quick Blogcast.
  3. Click Launch next to the blog account you want to modify.
  4. From the Post Activities menu, select Manage Posts. Your posts display.

Managing Post Settings

Quick Blogcast lets you adjust many of the settings associated with your posts.

To Manage Post Settings

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Quick Blogcast.
  3. Click Launch next to the blog account you want to modify.
  4. From the Manage Blog menu, select Settings.
  5. Click the Posts tab.
  6. You can edit any of the following settings:
    • Date Format — The format you want to use for displaying dates.
    • Enable Automatic Excerpting — Automatically creates an excerpt of your blog posts. Excerpts are short snippets of your blog posts used in trackbacks and may be used in RSS feeds.
    • Excerpt Size — Specify the number of words or sentences you want to include in automatically created excerpts.
    • Default Comment Status — The status you want to assign to all new comments and trackbacks. Selecting Open allows others to leave comments.
    • Default Trackbacks Status — The status you want to assign to all new comments and trackbacks. Selecting Open allows your posts to send and receive trackbacks. A trackback notifies you when another website or blog links to your post. Other Websites can be notified if you link to one of their articles as well. Both Websites need to enable trackbacks for proper functioning. In Quick Blogcast, trackbacks are enabled by default.
    • Default Comment View — Select to view either all comments or only pending comments on the Manage Comments page.
    • Comments Guideline — Display a message for visitors who comment on your posts.
    • # of posts to display (10-50) — Select the number of posts to display on your blog.
    • # of posts in feeds (10-100) — Select the number of posts to display in the RSS feed for your blog.
    • Feed types — The styles of RSS feeds you want to use.
    • Maximum feed file size — The maximum file size you want to use for your RSS feeds.
    • Show author email in feeds — Select this to display the author's email address in RSS feeds.
    • Include copyright notice in feeds — Select this to include copyright notice in the feeds on your blogs.
    • Copyright Notice — Enter text for the copyright notice.
    • Full Posts — Select this to display full blog posts instead of excerpts on your blogcast Website's main page.
    • Enable previous and next post navigation — Lets visitors to your blogcast Website click to view the previous and next post.
    • Gather User Feedback — Select this to include a survey where visitors can rate your entry.
    • Replace "--" with "—" in Post Body — Automatically converts two hyphens (--) to an em dash (—).
    • Enable Emoticons — Allows emotions to be added to entries and comments.
    • Share This — Lets visitors submit posts to social networks.
  7. Click Apply.

Publishing and Unpublishing Posts

Quick Blogcast makes it easy to publish the posts ready to display on your blog. Alternately, you can quickly unpublish the posts you no longer want to display.

To Publish and Unpublish Posts

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Quick Blogcast.
  3. Click Launch next to the blog account you want to modify.
  4. From the Post Activities menu, select Manage Posts.
  5. Locate the entry you want to publish. If necessary, search for your entry:
    • Title — Search by the title of a blog post.
    • Title and Contents — Search by the title and the contents in the body of a blog post.
    • Category — Search by the category you have applied to a blog post.
    • Status — Search by for posts in draft or published status.
    • Author — Search for posts by a specific author.
    • Tag — Search by for posts with specific tags you have applied.
  6. Select the posts you want to publish, and then click Publish. Alternately, check the posts you no longer want to display, and then click Unpublish.

Scheduling and Unscheduling Posts

Once you draft posts, you can schedule them to publish automatically when you specify. If you already scheduled posts, you can unschedule them.

To Schedule and Unschedule Posts

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Quick Blogcast.
  3. Click Launch next to the blog account you want to modify.
  4. From the Post Activities menu, select Manage Posts.
  5. Locate the entry you want to publish. If necessary, search for your entry:
    • Title — Search by the title of a blog post.
    • Title and Contents — Search by the title and the contents in the body of a blog post.
    • Category — Search by the category you have applied to a blog post.
    • Status — Search by for posts in draft or published status.
    • Author — Search for posts by a specific author.
    • Tag — Search by for posts with specific tags you have applied.
  6. To schedule the post, select Schedule, enter the date you want the post to publish, and then click Publish. If you're scheduling an update to the post, click Republish. Alternately, to unschedule the post, click Unpublish & Save as Draft.

Adding Posts to Categories

With Quick Blogcast, you can add posts to categories you have already created.

To Add Posts to Categories

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Click Quick Blogcast.
  3. Click Launch next to the blog account you want to modify.
  4. From the Post Activities menu, select Manage Posts.
  5. Locate the entry you want to edit. If necessary, search for your entry:
    • Title — Search by the title of a blog post.
    • Title and Contents — Search by the title and the contents in the body of a blog post.
    • Category — Search by the category you have applied to a blog post.
    • Status — Search by for posts in draft or published status.
    • Author — Search for posts by a specific author.
    • Tag — Search by for posts with specific tags you have applied.
  6. Check the posts you want and click Add Category.
  7. From the Add to Category window, you can select New category, and then enter a Category name and Description. This creates a new category. You can also select an existing category.
  8. Click OK.
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