Your blog on your website
When your community has a website, every blog page wears its header and footer. Add the blog to your menu and link to it or to any post.
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If you built a website on Drry, your blog now sits inside it. Every blog page (its home, each post, category and author pages, and its page not found) wears your website's header and footer, in the look of your website's home page. Visitors move between your pages and your posts without feeling they left your site.
Under the header the blog keeps a slim bar of its own: the blog's name, Account or Sign in where they apply, and the RSS feed.
When your blog wears your website
Your blog wears your website when either of these is true:
Your website's menu has at least one published page.
Your website has its own custom header or footer, set in Website, then Settings, then Custom code. That header or footer then shows on the blog too.
Otherwise your blog keeps its own header and footer, as it always has. See What your readers see.
Open Website, then Menu & footer
In the sidebar, under Grow, press Website, then the Menu & footer tab. The same menu panel is in the page editor too.
Press Add blog
Add blog sits under your menu entries while your blog is on and not in the menu yet. It adds one Blog entry at the top level of the menu.
Drag it into place
Drag the entry to where you want it. Changes save as you make them and are kept in History, where each one can be undone.
Good to know
The Blog entry always uses your blog's current name and address. Rename the blog, or give it a word of its own such as
/journal, and the menu follows.While your blog is off, the entry hides itself, and it comes back when you turn the blog on.
On blog pages the Blog entry is highlighted, so readers know where they are.
Any button, menu link or list item on your website can link to the blog or to a single post.
A header set to Over your photo lies over a page's first photo. A blog page opens on text, so it shows the header in its usual arrangement, Logo left or Centered.
Your draft preview of a post shows Drry's menu, but never your custom header or footer, because your own code does not run in previews.
Changing your website's menu, or the colours and fonts of its home page, updates your blog's pages too.
Common questions
Why does my blog still show its own header?
Your website's menu needs at least one published page, or your website needs its own custom header. A menu of links only, or of pages that are not published yet, keeps the blog's own frame.
Can my assistant add the blog to my menu?
Yes. Ask it to add your blog to your website's menu, and it uses the Drry connector to do it. See Edit your website with your assistant.