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6.13 Creating a New Blog

 The steps involved in creating a new blog on your website are:

6.13.1 Create a blog Category

You need to create a category for your blog to organize your blog content. To do this, go to Content > Categories and click on "New" to add a new category. The category can have any name you wish but sensibly you will give it a name that is related to your blog. If you need to create several blogs, for example one for each area of your school, then repeat this action So that you have one category for each area.

6.13.2 Create a blog article

As you will see later in 6.1.4 (Starting your first Blog Post), creating an article for a blog post is the same as creating or editing any article on your website. Go to Content > Articles and click on "New" to add a new article and assign it to the appropriate blog category such as the blog category you created earlier.

6.13.3 Configure a Menu Item

You we'll need a new menu item to reach your blog. Go to Menus > Main Menu > Add New Menu Item. Choose the menu item type "Category Blog" and configure it appropriately. We have a section dedicated to setting up menus elsewhere in this guide.

When you have set up your menu correctly we will be able to use the website navigation to reach our new blog and you should see your article that you created for it on display.

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