Limecube provide a blog with all the features available to any other page within the page editor.
This allows you to complete customise your blog layouts with any kind of element Limecube has available. Best of all, it is all done within the same area as page creation to make everything very easy to use.
The blog summary page is your main blog page (except where your whole site is a blog) and the page that displays a set number of blog post previews for the blog posts within your site.
By default, each site has a blog already setup by default and ready to go. Each time you add a new blog post, it will automatically appear under the blog page, as a sub-page. As long as the blog post has been published, it will automatically display on the summary/feed that has been inserted into the summary page or anywhere else in your site.
This help video shows you the basics of changing the blog summary layout.
Below are some examples of different layouts (not your only options) that can be achieved by playing around with the blog summary/feed settings.
This help video takes you through how to add a blog post. A blog post behaves almost the same as an other page in Limecube, and can contain any type of element you can use on any page in Limecube.
The exception being that blog posts can only reside under a Blog Summary page, and automatically insert date and author to the post.
A featured blog post is a blog post that that pushes to the top of your blog summary page and feeds. Even when you add more recent posts, the featured post will always be first.
This help video below shows a featured blog post, and how to set it.
This help video below shows you where to set tags and categories against each blog post.
Categories & Tags can also be added to your blog menu as sub-menu items. They will not show by default.
To add a category or tag to the menu:
The end result will look like this:
The help videos below shows you how to use your blog feed to match tags and categories to the page they are on.
This is a very useful feature for times when specific types of blog posts match your page content providing your users with a richer user experience and blog posts only geared towards the service page content they are interested in.
For example, you may be a financial company offering:
In your blog you have articles on all of these topics, as well as others such as a category for 'Choosing the right property'.
On the home loans services page, insert a blog feed, and in your blog feed categories, you could select the categories:
The feed will now only display blog articles relating to these 2 categories, and no others.
A default thumbnail image can be set for your blog posts. This is useful for when you do not upload an image thumb for the summary page view of each post. The default image will load automatically instead.
You can do this by going to:
Administration > Settings > Miscellaneous > Scroll down to 'Blog' and upload your image.
And press 'save all' after you have.
There are a few steps involved in getting your blog comments setup and active. While unfortunately it does require a little bit of work to get this going, your security is most important, and the way this has been setup is for security and to stop spammers. Unfortunately spammers love to target blog comments and without this protection, it can literally mean you have a thousand spam comments in a few hours.
The good news is you only need to set these up once.
The first thing you need to do is setup Google reCaptcha under your settings. Google reCaptcha protects both website forms on your site as well as blog comments spam particularly from bots posting automatic comments..
Instructions for setting up Google reCaptcha can be found here.
Step 3 is setting up social login buttons. Click here to find out how.
Open Graph settings are important for blog posts being shared on social media.
To find out how to apply Open Graph settings to your blog post click here.
Try using searching below: