Blog site template in SharePoint 2013

Introduction

Blog is one of the useful site template in SharePoint 2013. Here we are going to see about the features of Blog.

Blog site Creation

Steps to create Blog Site

• Go Site Contents of Site Collection
• Click New Subsite
• Give Title, Description, URL for the site
• Then, Select Blog template in Template Selection

• Click Create 

We may get blog home screen after the creation.

Categories

We have an option to categorize our blog. We can able to see default categories on the left side of home screen. 

These are the default categories given by SharePoint. Each category will redirect us to their page which is list out the category blogs. We can able to create our own category also. Once you clicked the Add Category we may get new form to fill about category. 

Add Blog

Click Create Post in Blog Tool container.We may get new form for post. We need to give details of the blog like Title, Body, Category (Multiple category also available) and Published Date. Then click Publish

Blog will be displayed in home page.

Blog Tools

This is one of the container we have in the right side of home page. Let see options one by one

Manage Post

This option will redirect us to list view of blogs. We can able to see properties of blog like title, Created by, Published, Category, Number of Comments and like

Manage Comments

We can see all comments here and their properties like Title, Created by, Blog title. We can able to delete the unwanted comments here.

Manage Categories

We can able to see all the categories here. We can do add, edit and delete it.

Change Page Layout

We can able to change the page layout of home page. We have 3 layouts by default. The page will be changed based on the selected layout.

Conclusion

I given a small introduction about blog in sharepoint. We may get more knowledge while we work with this.

Happy Learning !!!!!!