Managing your community blog

Manage access to the blog, hide the blog, or remove it from the community.

About this task

When you first create a community blog, all members of the community are granted author access by default. Depending on your community, you might want to change the access level for your members. Community owners can grant permissions to other members. All other community members can have one of the following roles:

Table 1. Community blog roles
Role	Description
Author	Allows user to post entries, but not to manage the blog. Users with this role can also edit and delete other users' entries.
Draft	Allows user to save draft entries only.
Viewer	Allows users to read blog posts but not to contribute to the blog.

In addition to managing access to the community blog, you can also hide blog activity or delete the blog from the community.

Procedure

You can manage the community blog in any of the following ways:

To edit basic information about the blog, select Community Actions > Edit Community on the Overview page and click the Blog tab.
1. Edit any of the basic information about the blog, such as its title, description, or tags.
2. Change whether all community members have author, draft, or viewer membership.
3. Change which community participants are members and which are owners.
4. Choose whether comments that are added to the blog are moderated.
  Moderated comments are saved into a draft state until you approve them for posting to the blog.
5. Click Submit when you are ready to save your changes.
To edit blog settings, select Blog from the navigation bar and click Blog Actions > Manage Blog and edit one or more of the following settings:
To add or remove a blog member, you must add or remove that person from the community membership.
You can do this procedure on the community's Members page.