Categories, authors and featured posts
Sort posts into categories, give them bylines and author pages, feature a post, save templates, and work on many posts at once.
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- featured
Categories
Categories are topics readers can browse, each with its own page. The owner and admins make them in Blog, then Settings, under Categories. Give each a name (up to 40 characters) and, if you like, a one-line description. Drag them to reorder: your blog's home lists them in that order. Renaming a category keeps its address, so a link somebody shared still works. Deleting one never deletes its posts: they just leave it.
To file a post, open its Settings in the editor and use Categories. A post can be in up to five, and the first is the one its card names. Any seat on your team can file a post in the categories that exist. On the Posts list, Filter by category narrows the list.
A category page only exists while the category holds a published post. A blog can have up to 50 categories.
Authors and bylines
The Authors tab lists who posts can be by. A post with nobody picked is by the owner, so a blog with one writer never has to touch this.
Guest author (owner and admins): a name, a one-line title, a bio of up to 600 characters, a photo and up to five links. Use it for a guest writer, or for a teammate who writes for you without a seat.
Teammates can set up their own profile, and the owner or an admin manages everyone else's.
To say who a post is by, open its Settings and use By. A post can have up to three bylines, and the first is the one its card names.
Each author with a profile gets a page that lists their posts, and readers reach it from the byline. A blog holds up to 50 author profiles. Someone who leaves your team keeps their posts but cannot be picked again.
Feature a post
Press Feature this post in a post's settings, or Feature in its menu on the Posts list. A featured post leads your blog's home, first and largest, while it is the newest featured live post.
Templates
To reuse a post's shape, open its menu in the editor and pick Save as template. A template keeps the post's title, subtitle, cover and body. It leaves out the search text and the excerpt, which belong to that one post. Start a post from one with the arrow beside New post. A post made from a template is an ordinary draft, and nothing ties the two together afterwards. You can keep up to 30 templates.
Work on many posts at once
On the Posts list, tick posts to open a bar at the bottom. It can Publish them, Unpublish them, Schedule them, add them to a category or take them out of one, set Written by, and delete the ones that are not live. Each button says how many posts it will change, and publishing, unpublishing and deleting ask first. Publishing many at once never emails your subscribers.