What your readers see

Your blog is public and needs no sign-in. It wears your community's colours, fonts and logo, and it never shows a draft, a scheduled post or a post you unpublished. While the blog is off, every one of its pages is simply not there.

The blog's home

• Your blog's name, and your headline and intro if you wrote them.

• The featured post, first and largest, then your posts as cards, newest first, 12 to a page with Older posts and Newer posts links.

• A row of your categories, in the order you set, once you have some.

• A search box. It finds posts by their words as the reader types, and looks inside titles, subtitles, excerpts and the text of posts.

• The subscribe band at the foot, when you have one.

A post

• Its categories, title, subtitle, byline with faces, date and how many minutes it takes to read, then the cover and the words.

• A short About the author section when the author has a bio or a page.

• The subscribe band. On a blog that sits beside your community, a card inviting the reader to join, unless the post already holds a membership offer, form, pricing or call to action section that the reader can see.

• Related posts under it: other posts that share its categories first, then ones by the same author, then the newest.

The header and footer

The header carries your logo or name, the blog's name and, on a blog that sits beside your community, a link into your community and a Join button. The footer carries a link to your RSS feed. On the Free plan it also carries a Powered by Drry link, as your other pages do.

Category and author pages

Each category and each author with a profile has a page that lists their posts, with the same cards and page links. See Categories, authors and featured posts.

If your blog is your homepage

Visitors who are signed out open on your blog, and a Sign in button sits beside its name so members can get in. See Your blog's address and homepage.