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About the Jimdo-Blog
The Jimdo-Blog consists of two different elements.
- The Blog-Module manages everything around the blogposts
- The Blog Display element to display your blog on your JimdoPage. More information here
First step
Detailed information about the elements
Post
definition
In the post overview you'll see all your written posts. A post is similar to an online newspaper article.
You are able to integrate text, pictures and other media to your post.
The overview shows you every written post including his title, publishing date and the number of comments.
If you never wrote a post before, the overview may be still empty.
public posts
draft posts
Title
definition
The title it the first option you can set while creating a new blogpost. Later on the title is used as headline for your post and it's also shown into the RSS-Feed. Choose a meaningful title to get readers interested in the whole post. The title is like a book title.
In the title section you can see all titles of all written posts.
arrange title alphabetical
press two times to arrange from Z-A.
By default you see the latest post on top.
Date
definition
The date shows you the publishing date of the blogpost. You are able to pre- and postdate the publishing date of your blogpost.
arrange by date
Press on 
to arrange your posts by date.
To change the date of a post, just press on the title to edit the post and date.
Comments
definition
Comments are short messages for readers of you post to praise, offer criticism or add something useful to your post. It's like a mini guest book for your post.
display
In this section you'll find the amount of comments already made to the specified post.
If you don't like people to make comments, just deactivate comments into the comments field.
Decide for each post separate, whether you like or dislike to have comments.
Delete
definition
If you delete a post, it's gone forever. So be careful of using that button! Change the status to draft, if you only want to hide it from your page.
While hovering the delete button it turns to red. If you press the button you'll see a confirmation window. Press (no) to abort the action and (yes) to finally delete it.
Once deleted, you can't restore a post ... so be very carefull here!!!
If you just want to change something, press on the title and you'll get directly to the post.
Write a New Post
Using the "Write a new post" button leads you to a new page containing only the title element.
Set the known settings like comments, status, date und title first.
Next to the title you can assign categories now.
Categories
Use categories to create and assign topics to your posts. Otherwise all posts will be displayed in the same blog on your website. You can use any word as category and assign as much categories to a post as you want, just make a space between the words. In this field you can assign a category to your post. Later, on your website you can decide which categories should be shown up in your blog. The categories will be shown below the title of you post.
Why to use categories
They might be really helpful, if you're writing about more than one theme and you don't want to mix them all together later on your website. For example: If you create posts about different trips around the world, it make sense to separate them using categories. So... later on your website you can create one separate blog for each trip or country you've visited. Without categories every public post will be shown on your page in the same blog.
Edit a post
This is really simple. Just add elements like pictures, text, video etc. below the title of your post. It works the same way you already created your JimdoPage.
Trackbacks/Pingbacks
definition trackback
A trackback is something like a reference. Trackbacks are used to link blogpost of different persons to give more background information or to discuss with a bigger community. If you sent a trackback, you ask another person to create a link to your blogpost.
example for the use of trackbacks
why to use trackbacks?
If you accept the trackback of the other internet user you'll get a link below your blogpost to the other post. In this way other people can understand that someone else make a reference to your post and continue reading there.
the userinterface
The red star marks an unconfirmed trackback. You'll find two buttons on the right side. Press "confirm" to accept the trackback and "delete" to decline and delete the trackback.
Once confirmed, trackbacks will be marked green.
Every trackback shows you the title of the post it came from. Press the blue link to get directly to the post the trackback came from. Below the title, you'll see the receive date of the trackback.
definition pingback
In opposition to trackback, pingbacks are only used to notify other bloggers that you link to their posts.
While trackbacks ask to create a link to your post, pingbacks notify the other person that you crated a link to their post.
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