The primary function of the Blogs main page is to provide you with access to all of the blog posts that have been published in the community. You can access your community's Blogs main page by doing any of the following:

  • Clicking Blogs on the Navigation Panel from any page in the community.

 

  • Clicking View all blog posts from your Dashboard page.

 

The Outdoor Ed Community Blogs main page looks like this:

 

You can open a blog post by clicking on the blog post title.

Sorting Options

The Outdoor Ed Community allows you to manipulate how blog content displays on the main page. For example, you have several blog sorting options:

 

  • Most Recent - Sorts blogs chronologically, beginning with the most recently posted blog.
  • Most Viewed - Sorts blogs in descending order, beginning with the blog that has been visited most.
  • Most Commented - Sorts blogs in descending order, beginning with the blog with the most comments by community users.

Shortcuts Functionality

The Shortcuts section displays in the right sidebar.

 

The links available to you are based upon your role privileges. 

  • View all users - Opens the Browse People page, from which you can search for other users in the community. 
  • Who is online - Opens the Who is Online page, which displays all the users currently online.

Tags

You can also browse blog posts by tags. The Tags panel contains the list of tags assigned to the blogs. The more common the tag, or the tags used with the most blog posts, display with the largest font. For example, the Chameleon, Community Server, Software Development, and Telligent tags are the most used in the Community Server blog posts, as shown in the tag cloud below.

 

When you click on an item in the tag cloud, The Outdoor Ed Community opens a page with the list of all blogs that use the tag. For example, if you click Theming in the tag cloud, The Outdoor Ed Community opens a page that lists all blogs that use the Theming tag.

 

The breadcrumbs just below the Navigation Panel remind you that you are looking at the posts that use the theming tag.

 

Click here for additional information about browsing tags.

Blogs Groups panel

The Blogs Groups panel contains additional links that are worth noting.

 

When you click RSS Syndication, The Outdoor Ed Community opens the RSS feed page, where you can subscribe to the blog page as an RSS feed. When you subscribe to a feed, The Outdoor Ed Community adds it to the Common Feed List. Updated information from the feed is automatically downloaded to your computer so you can view it in Internet Explorer and other programs.

Opml publishes the list of blogs in the Opml format. 

Blogs on this Site opens a statistical page that breaks out blog data such as the total number of posts, articles, comments, and trackbacks in the blog.