About Quick Blogcast Post Settings
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Quick Blogcast® lets you specify settings that apply to each post you create, so you don't have to configure settings every time you add a post.
To Set Entry Options
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Blogcast.
- Click Manage Account for the blog account you want to modify.
- From the Blog tab, go to Manage Blog and click Settings.
- Go to the Posts tab.
- You can edit any of the following settings:
- Editor — Formats your posts. You can select a Rich or Simple text editor. Rich text lets you to apply text formatting.
- Date Format — Formats your date and time display.
- Enable Automatic Excerpting — Creates an excerpt of your blog post. Excerpts are short snippets of your blog post that are used in trackbacks and RSS feeds.
- Excerpt Size — Specifies the number of words or sentences you want to include in automatically created excerpts.
- Default Comment Status — Assigns the status your select for new comments and trackbacks. Selecting Open lets others to leave comments. Open is selected by default.
- Default Trackback Status — Assigns the status you select 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 entry. You can notify other Websites 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 — Displays either all comments or only pending comments on the Manage Comments page.
- # of Entries to Display — Sets the number of posts you want to display per page.
- # of Posts in Feeds — Sets the number of posts you want to display in feeds.
- Feed Types — Specifies the styles of RSS feeds you want to use.
- Maximum Feed File Size — Sets the maximum file size to use for your RSS feeds.
- Show Author Email in Feeds — Displays the author's email address in RSS feeds.
- Include copyright notice in feeds — Adds a copyright notice to your latest RSS updates.
- Full Posts — Displays full blog posts instead of excerpts on your Quick Blogcast main page.
- Enable previous and next post navigation— Shows a Previous and Next link beneath a post to let Website visitors navigate post-by-post.
- Gather User Feedback — Includes a survey for rating your post.
- Replace "--" with "—" in Entry Body — Automatically converts two hyphens (--) to an em dash (—)
- Enable Emoticons — Allows emotions in entries and comments.
- Click Apply.
For additional information on working with your Quick Blogcast posts, see Managing Quick Blogcast Posts.
