created: 1216810191|%e %B %Y, %H:%M
tags: blog
The first thing that should be done to create blog-like is to create specific category (I called it "blog"). To do it, I used address: squark.wikidot.com/blog:first_steps, which is my first post. Of course this page didn't exist, so I had to create it by clicking "create page". That's how I wrote my first blog page.
Ok, the page exists, but what next?
I had to edit top menu by editting page squark.wikidot.com/nav:top. It is obvious that you should use your own page: your_account.wikidot.com/nav:top.
As you can notice, the first position in the menu is: day_by_day.
Code for the link:
[[[blog:_start | day_by_day]]]
It refers to a page called: blog:_start which had to be created. It is the list of all my posts.
Page blog:_start looks like this:
[[module ListPages category="blog" rss="My Blog Posts"]]
+++ %%linked_title%%
by %%author%% %%date%%
%%short%%
[[/module]]
I used module called ListPages to list all pages from blog category. It can be done for each and every category by using parameter: category="name_of_category". Detailed information about using this module and it's syntax can be found in wikidot documentation here.
When I finished creating this particular post you are reading at the moment, the ListPages module added it to a list automatically in every place I used it: on day_by_day page or in the tab Latest on the main page.
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created: 1216650449|%e %B %Y, %H:%M
tags: blog
These are my first steps in creating my own blog on the wikidot.com.
First of all, I have updated my personal profile information. Then I changed the layout style via admin:manage panel. On my TODO list is making my own layout, but it will be done later.
