Creating a new live blog
Let's start with creating a new live blog. From the dashboard, select "Create a new blog".
Please fill in a blog title, blog description, and the starting and ending date of the blog. These values are only visible for editors and not for your website visitors.
After saving the form, you will be redirected to the live blog settings page, where you can choose additional settings:
- Categories: Whether the live blog should support the publishing of posts in different (pre-created) categories.
- LIVE mode: Enable this when your blog is LIVE, so your visitors know you're live.
- Social media template: Selects the social media template that is shown in the blog editor.
- Embed code: Use this code to embed the blog on your website.
On the settings page you can configure the following options:
- Categories: Whether the live blog should support publishing posts in different (pre-created) categories.
- LIVE mode: Enable this when your blog is LIVE so visitors know you're live.
- Social media template: Selects the social media template shown in the blog editor.
- Embed code: Use this code to embed the blog on your website.