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How to Post a Blog
Using Headers and Footers
Using BBCode
How to Update your Database
How to Post a Blog
To post a blog you must be either an admin or a writer. Login and go to the control panel, you'll be directed to the correct one depending on your account type. You'll then be presented with a form where you'll write your new blog. The title will be at the top of your blog post, it's a good idea to make this descriptive as it's used for links in the blog archive and various other places. Below the title input field is the image option. You don't have to add an image, but if you want to you can either upload or hotlink an image. Hotlinking allows you to use images from other locations possibly not on your website. Below this is where the content of your blog will go. When you've finished, click Done and the blog will be made.
Using headers and footers
To make the blog look more like your website, the header.php and footer.php files can be used. The header and footer concept is simple: the header is the top half of your website and the footer is the bottom half. So for the ex maple below, the red portion would be pasted into header.php and the blue portion would be pasted into footer.php.
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
This is my page content
</div>
</body>
</html>
Using BBCode
BBCode is used in place of html (or other languages) for security. It's mostly used the same as html. For example, if you wanted to make a word bold you would writer [b]word[/b] (similar to <b>word</b>). But if you wanted to make a link, you would have to write [url=http://www.example.com]link[/url], which is slightly different from html. LightBlog supplies buttons for you to insert the template for BBCode easily.
How to Update your Database
Newer versions of LightBlog may need you to update your old data for it to work correctly. Separate packages are available to do this for each version (depending on if it needs to be updated). They are shown below, download and use accordingly.
database 8.3-8.4.zip
database 8.2-8.3.zip