From 3bc86efe612ac7a3410df6e4e5d45fcb112012a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: CJ Eller Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:25:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Create Blog docs added --- writer/createblog.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 writer/createblog.md diff --git a/writer/createblog.md b/writer/createblog.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25c9183 --- /dev/null +++ b/writer/createblog.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# Creating a Blog + +WriteFreely makes it easy to publish under multiple identities, so you can separate your writing by audience and express yourself more freely -- all from a single account, with your privacy intact. + + +## Getting Started + +The first thing to do is make sure that your instance supports you to create multiple blogs. If it does, then log in to your WriteFreely site and click _Blogs_ on the top menu. Once on your _Blogs_ page, you'll notice a _New Blog_ option under your first blog. Click it and you will be prompted to fill in the name of ypir blog. Fill in a unique name for it and click the _Create_ button. + +![](https://i.snap.as/dXfBD3F.png) + +Once you click the _Create_ button you will see the blog appear in the list of blogs on your _Blogs_ page. You just created a new blog! + +![](https://i.snap.as/jN0D362.png) + +## Title & Alias + +There are a couple things to know about your newly created blog. Each WriteFreely blog comes with an alias and a title. Both of these are taken from the name you gave your blog when you created it. + +The alias is the unique and unchangeable slug in your blog's url. In the previous example, the name "Blog for Writing" creates the alias "blog-for-writing". This will appear in the URL. For example, if your WriteFreely site URL is `example.com`, then your blog URL will be `example.com/blog-for-writing`. The title is the title displayed on your blog. If you want a particular alias for your blog, you should enter that when creating a blog, and then go to the new blog's _Customize_ page and change the title to what you want. + +To continue upon the previous example, we can go to the new blog's _Customize_ page and change the blog's title from "Blogs for Writing" to "Blogs for Typing". Notice how the new title appears on the blog but the alias is still "blog-for-writing": + +![](https://i.snap.as/SBzoXVX.png) + +## Identity + +When you create a new blog, it is a unique, individual identity. No reader can see that your blogs come from the same account. Only you know through your _Blogs_ page. This means that each blog can be used however you want. From 2501b68f0d9d7017fe4509e8cf948e8945d3c529 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: CJ Eller <45696734+cjeller1592@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:59:58 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] Update to fit contributing guidelines & file name --- writer/createblog.md | 28 ---------------------------- writer/new-blog.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 writer/createblog.md create mode 100644 writer/new-blog.md diff --git a/writer/createblog.md b/writer/createblog.md deleted file mode 100644 index 25c9183..0000000 --- a/writer/createblog.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ -# Creating a Blog - -WriteFreely makes it easy to publish under multiple identities, so you can separate your writing by audience and express yourself more freely -- all from a single account, with your privacy intact. - - -## Getting Started - -The first thing to do is make sure that your instance supports you to create multiple blogs. If it does, then log in to your WriteFreely site and click _Blogs_ on the top menu. Once on your _Blogs_ page, you'll notice a _New Blog_ option under your first blog. Click it and you will be prompted to fill in the name of ypir blog. Fill in a unique name for it and click the _Create_ button. - -![](https://i.snap.as/dXfBD3F.png) - -Once you click the _Create_ button you will see the blog appear in the list of blogs on your _Blogs_ page. You just created a new blog! - -![](https://i.snap.as/jN0D362.png) - -## Title & Alias - -There are a couple things to know about your newly created blog. Each WriteFreely blog comes with an alias and a title. Both of these are taken from the name you gave your blog when you created it. - -The alias is the unique and unchangeable slug in your blog's url. In the previous example, the name "Blog for Writing" creates the alias "blog-for-writing". This will appear in the URL. For example, if your WriteFreely site URL is `example.com`, then your blog URL will be `example.com/blog-for-writing`. The title is the title displayed on your blog. If you want a particular alias for your blog, you should enter that when creating a blog, and then go to the new blog's _Customize_ page and change the title to what you want. - -To continue upon the previous example, we can go to the new blog's _Customize_ page and change the blog's title from "Blogs for Writing" to "Blogs for Typing". Notice how the new title appears on the blog but the alias is still "blog-for-writing": - -![](https://i.snap.as/SBzoXVX.png) - -## Identity - -When you create a new blog, it is a unique, individual identity. No reader can see that your blogs come from the same account. Only you know through your _Blogs_ page. This means that each blog can be used however you want. diff --git a/writer/new-blog.md b/writer/new-blog.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51e64d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/writer/new-blog.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# Creating a Blog + +WriteFreely makes it easy to publish under multiple identities, so you can separate your writing by audience and express yourself more freely -- all from a single account, with your privacy intact. + + +## Getting Started + +The first thing to do is make sure that your instance supports you to create multiple blogs. If it does, then log in to your WriteFreely site and click _Blogs_ on the top menu. Once on your _Blogs_ page, you'll notice a _New Blog_ option under your first blog. Select the "New blog" link and you will be prompted to fill in the name of your blog. Fill in a unique name for it and click the _Create_ button. + +![](https://i.snap.as/dXfBD3F.png) + +Once you click the _Create_ button you will see the blog appear in the list of blogs on your _Blogs_ page. You just created a new blog! + +![](https://i.snap.as/jN0D362.png) + +## Title & Alias + +There are a couple things to know about your newly created blog. Each WriteFreely blog comes with an alias and a title. Both of these are taken from the name you gave your blog when you created it. + +The alias is the unique and unchangeable slug in your blog's address. In the previous example, the name "Blog for Writing" creates the alias "blog-for-writing". This will appear in the URL. For example, if your WriteFreely site address is `example.com`, then your blog address will be `example.com/blog-for-writing`. The title is the name you chose displayed on the header of your blog. If you want to change your blog's title, go to your blog's _Customize_ page. At the top of the page will be a form field with your blog's current title. Change the title to what you want and then scroll down and select "Save Changes" to save the new title. + +To continue upon the previous example, we can change the blog's title from "Blogs for Writing" to "Blogs for Typing". Notice how the new title appears on the blog but the alias is still "blog-for-writing": + +![](https://i.snap.as/SBzoXVX.png) + +## Identity + +When you create a new blog, it is a unique, individual identity. No reader can see that your blogs come from the same writer. Only you know through your _Blogs_ page. This means that each blog can be used however you want. From f422de8ea03cce4626f1cbc1a2e45bab570ca868 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Baer Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:24:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] Add `alt` text to images in new-blog guide --- writer/new-blog.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/writer/new-blog.md b/writer/new-blog.md index 51e64d0..63c3156 100644 --- a/writer/new-blog.md +++ b/writer/new-blog.md @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ WriteFreely makes it easy to publish under multiple identities, so you can separ The first thing to do is make sure that your instance supports you to create multiple blogs. If it does, then log in to your WriteFreely site and click _Blogs_ on the top menu. Once on your _Blogs_ page, you'll notice a _New Blog_ option under your first blog. Select the "New blog" link and you will be prompted to fill in the name of your blog. Fill in a unique name for it and click the _Create_ button. -![](https://i.snap.as/dXfBD3F.png) +![The blog creation form: a text box and "Create" button](https://i.snap.as/dXfBD3F.png) Once you click the _Create_ button you will see the blog appear in the list of blogs on your _Blogs_ page. You just created a new blog! -![](https://i.snap.as/jN0D362.png) +![An example blog listed on the Blogs page](https://i.snap.as/jN0D362.png) ## Title & Alias From 309166a492d3f281914fbc6be9dd600bf67f8d17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Baer Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:31:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Trim language and add Prerequisites to new-blog.md --- writer/new-blog.md | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/writer/new-blog.md b/writer/new-blog.md index 63c3156..a23bad6 100644 --- a/writer/new-blog.md +++ b/writer/new-blog.md @@ -1,15 +1,22 @@ # Creating a Blog -WriteFreely makes it easy to publish under multiple identities, so you can separate your writing by audience and express yourself more freely -- all from a single account, with your privacy intact. +WriteFreely makes it easy to publish multiple blogs from a single account, so you can separate your writing by audience or topic, and express yourself more freely. +## Prerequisites + +First, your admin will need to configure your instance for multiple blogs (where `max_blogs` is either `0` or greater than `1`). If you're unable to create a blog with the instructions below, talk to your admin about increasing this limit. ## Getting Started -The first thing to do is make sure that your instance supports you to create multiple blogs. If it does, then log in to your WriteFreely site and click _Blogs_ on the top menu. Once on your _Blogs_ page, you'll notice a _New Blog_ option under your first blog. Select the "New blog" link and you will be prompted to fill in the name of your blog. Fill in a unique name for it and click the _Create_ button. +First, navigate to your _Blogs_ page. Under the list of blogs on this page, click "New blog" to start the creation process. + +> **Note**: If there is no "New blog" link here, you've reached the limit of blogs you can create under one account. Talk to your admin about expanding that limit. + +Enter the title or slug you want for your blog, and click the _Create_ button. A slug will contain only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens, and will comprise the URL of this new blog (e.g. `https://example.com/myblog/`). A title can contain any combination of letters, numbers, and symbols, but will automatically be converted into a friendly slug. ![The blog creation form: a text box and "Create" button](https://i.snap.as/dXfBD3F.png) -Once you click the _Create_ button you will see the blog appear in the list of blogs on your _Blogs_ page. You just created a new blog! +Once you click _Create_, the new blog will appear on your _Blogs_ page. Now you can publish to it! ![An example blog listed on the Blogs page](https://i.snap.as/jN0D362.png) From 1932af11bedf208a672e6afb2d46c4c96bc447e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Baer Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:32:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] Replace Title & Alias section with privacy info --- writer/new-blog.md | 14 ++++---------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/writer/new-blog.md b/writer/new-blog.md index a23bad6..5a4e0ed 100644 --- a/writer/new-blog.md +++ b/writer/new-blog.md @@ -20,16 +20,10 @@ Once you click _Create_, the new blog will appear on your _Blogs_ page. Now you ![An example blog listed on the Blogs page](https://i.snap.as/jN0D362.png) -## Title & Alias +## Blog relationships -There are a couple things to know about your newly created blog. Each WriteFreely blog comes with an alias and a title. Both of these are taken from the name you gave your blog when you created it. +Each WriteFreely blog is publicly detached from its owner, meaning readers won't know that the same author owns any two blogs, by default. This enables writers to maintain separate real-name and pseudonymous blogs, blogs for personal and professional life, or simply different blogs for different topics. -The alias is the unique and unchangeable slug in your blog's address. In the previous example, the name "Blog for Writing" creates the alias "blog-for-writing". This will appear in the URL. For example, if your WriteFreely site address is `example.com`, then your blog address will be `example.com/blog-for-writing`. The title is the name you chose displayed on the header of your blog. If you want to change your blog's title, go to your blog's _Customize_ page. At the top of the page will be a form field with your blog's current title. Change the title to what you want and then scroll down and select "Save Changes" to save the new title. +### Privacy -To continue upon the previous example, we can change the blog's title from "Blogs for Writing" to "Blogs for Typing". Notice how the new title appears on the blog but the alias is still "blog-for-writing": - -![](https://i.snap.as/SBzoXVX.png) - -## Identity - -When you create a new blog, it is a unique, individual identity. No reader can see that your blogs come from the same writer. Only you know through your _Blogs_ page. This means that each blog can be used however you want. +This design offers writers a highly convenient way to maintain multiple personas with reliable privacy from readers. However, it does not offer complete privacy from your instance admin, who can see the association between your blogs just as you can. If you need more assurance that this association won't be known, it's important that you either trust you admin with this information or take additional steps to protect yourself, such as creating multiple accounts. From 05f290daf7b2691d9eb710dd689a379e8524a008 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Baer Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:34:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 6/6] Make new-blog guide title more descriptive --- writer/{new-blog.md => additional-blogs.md} | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) rename writer/{new-blog.md => additional-blogs.md} (98%) diff --git a/writer/new-blog.md b/writer/additional-blogs.md similarity index 98% rename from writer/new-blog.md rename to writer/additional-blogs.md index 5a4e0ed..a2edb8b 100644 --- a/writer/new-blog.md +++ b/writer/additional-blogs.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Creating a Blog +# Creating an Additional Blog WriteFreely makes it easy to publish multiple blogs from a single account, so you can separate your writing by audience or topic, and express yourself more freely.