Creating Blog Posts using PheedLoop’s Website Module

The Blog feature is a great way to personalize an event. With blogs, event organizers can provide updates to their events or organization. Generate some anticipation by announcing a long awaited feature or guest star appearing in your event. 

Along with updates, blogs are one of the best ways to apply a personal touch for events. They can be used to highlight partners involved with organizations or events. Even the way you write can make a difference by setting the tone of your event.

1. Enabling Blogs on your Event Website or Organization Website

You can enable Blogs from your Dashboard:

1. From the Event Dashboard, navigate to Experiences > Website > Pages > Blog
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and disable the Hide Page checkbox

To change the order where the Blog button is:

1. From the Event Website, navigate to Website > Pages 
2. Above the page's table, select Actions > Re-Order
3. Select Save once the re-order is complete

2. How to Create Blogs 

Now that Blog is enabled for your event you can start creating Blogs by:

1. From the Event Dashboard, navigate to Blog
2. Above the Blog's table, select the Create button
3. Fill out the prerequisite information:
   1. Headline - The title of your blog
   2. Subtitle - The text that appears underneath the title
   3. Body - The content of the blog
   4. Author - The writer of the blog
   5. Keywords - Select words that can be attached to blogs so that they will appear when users enter them into the search engine
   6. Feature Image - The image that appears on the blog page
   7. Thumbnail Image - The image that appears on menus and search results prior to the main blog page
   8. Publish - Enabling the Publish checkbox will result in an immediate publication once the Save Changes button is selected
   9. Publish Date - The exact date and time a blog will be published

3. Automating and Toggling Status for Blog posts

With PheedLoop, it is possible to publish blogs automatically in the future. We recommend setting the date far into the future to leave time for edits.

1. From the Event Dashboard, navigate to Blog > Posts
2. Scroll down to Publish Date
3. Enter the date and time you wish to publish

4. Importing and Exporting Blog posts

PheedLoop offers the ability to import and export blogs just like with attendees and other lists. Importing is useful for when you want to use an already existing list without manually inputting all the information. On the opposite end, exports allow you to download information to upload elsewhere.

To import Blogs

1. Above the Blog's table, select the cloud icon with the arrow pointing up 
2. Download the template, this is important because the system won't be able to recognize CSV files formatted differently
   1. Note: date formats must be entered in YYYY-MM-DD format.
3. Upload your CSV file into the new window 
4. Review the blogs for any errors or incorrect formats

To export Blogs 

1. Above the Blog's table, select on the cloud icon with the arrow pointing down
2. The resulting download will be in a CSV format
3. Open up this file with any spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel or Google Spreadsheet