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Adding Entries to the CEO's Blog

The CEO's Blog on the home page displays the latest entry of a web log (blog), showing the title of the blog entry and the first few lines of the blog, and Read More link. When you click Read More, the CEO Blog page appears with the latest and previous blog posts.

You can change the content of this eI_RecentBlogPosts widget in the following ways:

  • Creating a new blog entry in a CMS400.NET editor from the access point.
  1. Login as administrator.
  2. Click the access point () and choose Add New Post. The CMS400.NET editor appears.
  3. Add the content that you want, including Title and other variables, such as Metadata and Category information.
  4. Click Publish () when you want the content to appear on the CEO's Blog display on the home page. For more information about editing content in the CMS400.NET, see the Ektron CMS400.NET Reference Manual.
  • Adding a blog entry to the CEO Blog folder from the CMS400.NET Workarea.
  1. Login as administrator.
  2. Click Workarea.
  3. On the Content tab, navigate to Folders > Content > Company and then click on CEO Blog.
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    The following figure shows the folder path to the CEO Blog folder.

  4. Choose New > HTML Post to create new blog entry in an editor.
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    The following figure shows the editor with an example blog entry.

    When the example is published, it looks like this on the home page:

  • Choosing another blog folder from the CMS400.NET to display in the widget.
  1. Edit the page using PageBuilder.
  2. Click the Edit button () on the widget.
  3. Click the Folder tab.
  4. Choose another blog folder and click Save. The contents of the selected folder are displayed. For example, choose Content > Departments > Engineering > Engineering Blog and see the results.

For information about the eI_RecentBlogPosts widget, see eI_RecentBlogPosts Widget.

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