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| 3 | <title>Editing an entry</title> |
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| 5 | |
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| 6 | <body> |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | <h3>Editing an entry</h3> |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | <dl> |
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| 11 | <dt>Entry title</dt> |
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| 12 | <dd>Type in the entry title. This field is mandatory.</dd> |
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| 13 | |
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| 14 | <dt>Excerpt</dt> |
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| 15 | <dd>The content of this field will be shown in pages showing entries as |
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| 16 | a list, such as the homepage or categories pages, followed by a "continue reading" |
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| 17 | link. It will also be visible at the begining of the page showing the |
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| 18 | whole post. Should you leave it blank, the <em>content</em> field will be shown |
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| 19 | on the homepage and other entry list pages.</dd> |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | <dt>Content</dt> |
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| 22 | <dd>The content of your entry. This field is mandatory.</dd> |
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| 23 | |
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| 24 | <dt>Notes</dt> |
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| 25 | <dd>This text area is for personal use, for notes or memos. What you enter here |
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| 26 | will never be displayed on the blog..</dd> |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | <dt>Category</dt> |
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| 29 | <dd>Your entry's category. To create a new category, please see the |
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| 30 | "categories" section. You can choose to leave |
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| 31 | you entry without a category by selecting the blank line.</dd> |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | <dt>Entry status</dt> |
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| 34 | <dd>Allows you to choose your post's status: |
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| 35 | <ul> |
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| 36 | <li><strong>pending:</strong> the publication status has not yet been decided.</li> |
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| 37 | <li><strong>scheduled:</strong> the post will be set online at the time and date |
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| 38 | set in the <em>Published on</em> field.</li> |
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| 39 | <li><strong>unpublished:</strong> the post is offline.</li> |
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| 40 | <li><strong>published:</strong> the post is online.</li> |
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| 41 | </ul> |
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| 42 | </dd> |
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| 43 | |
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| 44 | <dt>Published on</dt> |
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| 45 | <dd>Here you can change the post's publication date and time. If the post's |
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| 46 | status is <em>scheduled</em>, it will come online at the said date and time.</dd> |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | <dt>Text formating</dt> |
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| 49 | <dd>To choose the post syntax. Wiki is a simplified syntax |
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| 50 | and will be converted to valid xhtml ; Unless you have a perfect |
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| 51 | understanding of html, we advise you to choose the wiki syntax. |
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| 52 | See the Wiki syntax reference for more information.</dd> |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | <dt>Accept comments</dt> |
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| 55 | <dd>Select this box to allow your visitors to comment the entry. The corresponding |
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| 56 | global setting is to be found in the blog settings.</dd> |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | <dt>Accept trackbacks</dt> |
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| 59 | <dd>A trackback is a way to let a portion of your entry as a comment on |
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| 60 | another blog. Select this box to allow others to trackback your entry. The |
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| 61 | corresponding global setting is to be found in the blog settings.</dd> |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | <dt>Selected entry</dt> |
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| 64 | <dd>The selected entries will be listed on your blog menu, under the title "Best |
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| 65 | of me".</dd> |
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| 66 | |
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| 67 | <dt>Entry password</dt> |
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| 68 | <dd>You can enter a password for your entry. A password protected entry will |
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| 69 | not be displayed on your blog, it will only be reachable to those you will |
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| 70 | give the entry url (see the <em>view entry</em> link) and password.</dd> |
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| 71 | |
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| 72 | <dt>Basename</dt> |
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| 73 | <dd>By clicking on its lock, you can unprotect this field and and choose another |
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| 74 | URL for your entry. If the URL you're trying to use is already used by another |
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| 75 | entry, a number will be added to it.</dd> |
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| 76 | |
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| 77 | <dt>Entry lang.</dt> |
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| 78 | <dd>The two character language code of your entry. It defaults to your (as a |
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| 79 | user) language but you can change it to whatever language code you want, ie. |
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| 80 | "en" or "fr-qc". This code is used for the entry's display, no chack is made |
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| 81 | on it.</dd> |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | <dt>Attachments</dt> |
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| 84 | <dd>The attachments are all the medias you joined to the entry. The link <em>add |
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| 85 | file to this entry</em> allows you to attach other files to the entry. Remember |
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| 86 | to save your changes before clicking on this link. For further information, |
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| 87 | see the media manager help.</dd> |
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| 88 | </dl> |
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| 89 | |
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| 90 | <h3>Comments</h3> |
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| 91 | <dl> |
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| 92 | <dt>Comment list</dt> |
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| 93 | <dd>On the <em>Comments</em> tab, you can read and change the status of |
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| 94 | your entry's comments. If you're allowed to by the blog administrator, |
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| 95 | you will be able to set your comments online or offline, to delete them or |
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| 96 | to mark them as junk.</dd> |
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| 97 | |
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| 98 | <dt>Add a comment</dt> |
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| 99 | <dd>On the <em>Add a comment</em> tab, you can reply to one of your entry's |
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| 100 | comments without leaving your blog's backend. The syntax to be used here is |
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| 101 | plain, unlimited, xhtml. Use the fields as if you were modifying a comment.</dd> |
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| 102 | </dl> |
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| 103 | |
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| 104 | <h3>Trackback</h3> |
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| 105 | <p>To make a trackback, click on the <em>Ping blogs</em> link. |
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| 106 | You will not see this link if your entry's status is not <em>published</em>.</p> |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | <dl> |
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| 109 | <dt>URLs to ping</dt> |
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| 110 | <dd>Paste here the trackback URLs you found in the posts you want to ping.</dd> |
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| 112 | |
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| 113 | <dt>Send excerpt</dt> |
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| 114 | <dd>This field defaults to your entry's first few sentences. That's wht will be |
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| 115 | sent to the blog you're pinging, along with a link to your post. You can modify |
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| 116 | the excerpt by editing this field.</dd> |
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| 117 | |
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| 118 | |
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| 119 | <dt>Auto discover ping URLs</dt> |
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| 120 | <dd>If your entries links specific posts and if the blog carrying those posts |
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| 121 | is set to allow it, this tool will find the URLs to ping for you.</dd> |
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| 122 | </dl> |
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| 123 | |
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| 124 | </body> |
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| 125 | </html> |
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