The blog has a home page and as many pages as published posts. You can use the options in this section to set up the structure of the post pages, to decide whether to create an AMP version for each Article, and to enable the buttons that visitors will use to share and comment the posts.
You can use the options in the View section to do all this, choosing from:
Title at the top and contents at the bottom |
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Title at the top, cover and contents at the bottom |
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Cover at the top, title and contents at the bottom |
If you choose to have a cover, then you can also specify:
▪ | Fit to page: if chosen, the cover picture will occupy the entire width and height of the page. If it is out of proportion, the picture will be centered and then cropped. If you don't select this option, the cover picture will be adapted either to the width or to the height of the page. |
▪ | Maximum height: you can indicate the maximum height (in pixels) that the cover picture can have in the page. |
You will find the options for inviting visitors to share posts in the Share Online section:
▪ | Show the 'AddThis' Button to share your website.: if you select this option, the "AddThis" button is added automatically to every post in your blog. When a visitor clicks on this button a submenu is displayed with a list of the most common social networks. If the visitor is already a member of one of these networks, he can select it and share the link to the post with his contacts. |
• | Button Type: you can select the graphics for the "AddThis" button from those available in the menu. |
• | AddThis Account: if you have an AddThis account, you can specify it. If you have this account, you can view the statistics on how visitors are using the AddThis service. |
For more information on the AddThis service, and how to open an account, click on the button to access the official www.addthis.com website. |
On the other hand, into the Google AMP box the options to create an AMP version of the Articles are available:
▪ | Create Google AMP pages including the Blog contents: you can use this option to create for each Blog Article both a standard web Page and its AMP version. The AMP versions will be used by Google to increase the Pages loading speed on mobile devices. |
▪ | Google AMP header picture: this option defines which image need to be used as header on the Google AMP Pages instead of the one available on the complete Pages. |
Google AMP is a project aimed at improving the pages loading speed on mobile devices (https://www.ampproject.org/). Google AMP Pages are very simple and only the strictly necessary elements are displayed. They are served from the Google cache, and they are displayed with a bar reporting the domain name and the link to the complete version of the Pages. AMP has some limitations. One of the most important ones concerns the possibility of using JavaScript: because of this, it is not possible to show lateral bars. Moreover, possible SlideShows are reproduced using a specific element and some links are substituted with links redirecting the user to the complete version of the Page. To ensure its proper functioning, and because Google loads AMP Pages on its own HTTPS servers, it is necessary to make sure that the Website as well as possible resources linked on the Blog Article are set as HTTPS. |
You can use the commands in the Comments section to organize comments made by visitors as feedback to your posts in the blog.
First of all, you have to select the Let readers add Comments to your Blog option so that visitors can make comments on your posts.
Then you have to specify the Comment management system that you are going to use, choosing from:
WebSite X5: this is WebSite X5's built-in system and offers a specific online Control panel. |
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Facebook: this uses Facebook's Social Plug-in to organize discussions and comments. |
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Disqus: this is the system offered by Disqus. |
If you use WebSite X5's built-in Comment management system, you must define the Content Type that website visitors can leave, choosing from:
When you select Content Type, you will see the following options in the Comments Settings section:
If you use the Control Panel in WebSite X5 to manage the comments, you can indicate how data submitted in the comments form is to be saved and handled by the website administrator in the Data Save Settings section. If you are working with the Evo edition, the data will be saved on the server, whereas if you are working with the Pro edition, you can choose to save it in a database:
The following parameters depend on the method you have chosen for saving data:
Again, if you are using WebSite X5's built-in Comment management system, you can manage comments either from the online Control Panel or with the WebSite X5 Manager app for iOS and Android. The commands in the WebSite X5 Manager window let you install the app and enable push notifications. The app will automatically send a notification to the website administrator each time a new comment is published on a post in the blog. |
If you decide to use Facebook as the Comment management system you must define the following settings:
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If you decide to use Disqus as Comment management system, you can define the following settings:
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Best practices:
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