Viewing and Editing a Blog's Settings
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Viewing and Editing a Blog's Settings |
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Getting to a Blog's "Blog Settings" Page
A blog's settings can be viewed and edited from its Blog Settings page. To get to such a page, you must first get to the list of blogs under your management. To see the list, go to the Blogs section by clicking on the Blogs tab in the Navigation Bar:
From the list, there are two ways to select a blog:
| • | If you know the hostname of the blog: |
You can enter it into the Hostname field in the Search Blogs section and then click the Search button. If a blog with such a hostname exists, you will be taken to its Blog Settings page.
| • | If you know the name of the blog: |
You can click on its name in the list of blogs. Clicking on a blog's name will take you to its Blog Settings page.
Blog Settings
The Blog Settings page is split into these sections:
This section lets you purchase an additional 1 to 10 gigabytes of transfer-usage for the blog.
To purchase extra transfer-usage:
| • | Select an amount from the Purchase additional bandwidth menu. |
| • | Click the Purchase button. |
Note that you can purchase additional transfer-usage for the current month only.
This section lets you reassign ownership of the blog to another Blogware user. You will need to know the user's username and password.
To change the blog's owner:
| • | Enter the new owner's username into the New username field. |
| • | Enter the new owner's password into the New password field. |
This section also allows you to log into the blog's Control Panel as if you were its owner.
To log into the blog as its owner:
| • | Click the Login as Blog Owner link. |
This section lets you see the blog's disk space and transfer-usage amounts. Disk usage accounts for all the disk space used by the blog's entries, photos and files stored in its file system; bandwidth accounts for transfer-usage for the current month.
The following statistics are reported:
| • | Disk usage allowed |
The total disk space allotted to the blog.
| • | Disk usage actual |
The amount of disk space used by the blog, both as an absolute value and a percentage of disk usage allowed.
| • | Bandwidth allowed |
The total amount of bandwidth allowed for the blog for the current month.
| • | Bandwidth actual |
The amount of bandwidth used by the blog for the current month, both as an absolute value and a percentage of bandwidth allowed.
This section lets you view and edit other settings for the blog.
The settings are:
| • | Name |
The name of the blog.
Once the blog has been created, its name cannot be changed from the Reseller Control Panel. It can only be changed from within the blog's Control Panel (which you can access by using the Login as Blog Owner links on this page or the list of blogs).
| • | Primary Hostname |
The main hostname of the blog. What can be used for the primary hostname depends on the situation:
| • | If your customer wants his/her own CNAME to point to his/her own blog: |
Enter the CNAME into the Primary Hostname field, and make sure that the CNAME is points to users.blogware.com.
| • | If your customer doesn't have a CNAME and your organization is reselling Blogware under its own domain: |
Use a hostname of the form hostname.yourdomainname.com.
For example, if your company is reselling Blogware under the domain example.com and your customer wants the hostname justanother, enter justanother.example.com into the Primary Hostname field.
(Note: To resell Blogware under your own domain, you need to set the Admin URL. See Setting the Admin URL for more information.)
| • | If your customer doesn't have a CNAME and your organization is reselling Blogware under the blogware.com domain: |
Use a hostname of the form hostname.blogware.com.
For example, if your customer wants the hostname example, enter example.blogware.com into the Primary Hostname field.
| • | Hostname2, Hostname3 |
A blog can have up to two alternate hostnames that can be used to access it. What can be used for the alternate hostnames depends on the situation:
| • | If your customer wants his/her own CNAME to point to his/her own blog: |
Enter the CNAME into the alternate hostname field, and make sure that the CNAME is points to users.blogware.com.
| • | If your customer doesn't have a CNAME and your organization is reselling Blogware under its own domain: |
Use a hostname of the form hostname.yourdomainname.com.
For example, if your company is reselling Blogware under the domain example.com and your customer wants the hostname justanother, enter justanother.example.com into the alternate hostname field.
(Note: To resell Blogware under your own domain, you need to set the Admin URL. See Setting the Admin URL for more information.)
| • | If your customer doesn't have a CNAME and your organization is reselling Blogware under the blogware.com domain: |
Use a hostname of the form hostname.blogware.com.
For example, if your customer wants the hostname example, enter example.blogware.com into the alternate hostname field.
| • | Options |
Use these checkboxes to activate or deactivate the following options:
| • | Include in community pages |
If checked, the blog will be eligible for inclusion in the following lists, which appear on the Blogware.com page:
| • | Popular Blogs |
A list of links to the most-read Blogware blogs, listed by name in order of descending popularity.
| • | Recent Updates |
A list of links to the most recently updated Blogware blogs, listed by name in reverse chronological order.
| • | Recent Entries |
A list of links to the most recently posted entries, listed by name in reverse chronological order.
| • | Less Traveled |
A list of links to Blogware blogs that have not been visited often. This list is posted in the hope of getting more readers to visit these blogs.
| • | Most Referenced Blogs |
A list of links to the Blogware blogs that are referenced the most by other Blogware blogs, listed by name, from most- to least-referenced.
| • | Least Referenced Blogs |
A list of links to the Blogware blogs that are referenced the least by other Blogware blogs, listed by name.
| • | Random Blog |
A link to a single Blogware blog, displayed by name and selected at random.
| • | Random Post |
A link to a single post in a Blogware blog, displayed by name and selected at random.
| • | Random Comment |
A link to a single comment in a Blogware blog, displayed by name and selected at random.
| • | Allow custom templates |
If checked, custom templates can be defined for the blog from within its Control Panel.
| • | Allow category-specific templates |
If checked, a custom template can be defined for each category within the blog. This requires that Allow custom templates be checked.
Saving Your Changes
Once you have made the changes to the blog's settings, click the Save Settings button at the bottom of the page.
