201.1.4: Blog Post Display Options

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Blog Post display options allow you to control what content is displayed in a blog.

You can set options to:

• Display posts on the blog's homepage.
• Enable and customize the post summary.
• Control the URL title.
• Set a default post image.

To set the display properties:

1. Navigate to the blog.
2. Mouse over Management.
3. Click Manage blog. The Manage blog panel appears.
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4. Click Post options. The post options panel appears.
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5. Make or specify the following selections:
   1. Display posts on blog's home page - If enabled, posts are displayed on the blog home page.
   2. Use post summary - Enables showing a post summary rather than the full post in RSS, activity stream, email, and blog post lists.  
   3. Post summary length - By default, the post summary is 250 characters long. However, you can specify a different default summary length.
   4. Automatic post names - The title in the post URL is the post name.
   5. Default post image - An image that is the default for all of the blog's posts. Upload the file.
6. Click Save.