§Writing and Editing Entries.
The 'Write a new Entry'-screen is accessible through the shorcut on the top of every screen and through
under in the left side menu. The most common options for writing entries are directly accessible now. By using the option (near the top right of the window) you can get access to the more advanced options.
The most important fields are:
'Title': you should always give your entry a title.. Even if you don't use them in your templates, it'll also make it easier to find your entry in the pivot interface if you want to edit it later.
'Post Status': You can set an item to 'Publish' or 'Hold'. Items that are on hold are not published, so the will not show up on your weblog until you publish them. 'Timed Publish' is a feature that will be added later.
'Category': Select the category in which you want to publish your item. If you want to select more than one category, use the category selector in 'extended view'
'Introduction' and 'Body': These make up the main text of your entry. Usually the text in the introduction shows up on your weblog. Text typed in Body, can usually be accessed through a '(read more)'-link on your weblog's front page.
'Allow comments': Using this you can enable or disable comments on this entry.
'Publish on': determines the dat the entry is published.
'Trackback Ping': Paste Trackback urls in this field, and after posting this entry a Trackback Ping will be sent to the url.
§ Writing your entry:
For 'introduction' and 'body' you can either use the wysiwyg editor, or the plain text editor. The wysiwyg editor allows you to directly see how markup is applied to your text, but you have less control over the actual HTML that is used to represent your wrtinings. With the non-wysiwyg editor you can always keep an eye on what's going on with your code. Both ways of entering text have their advantages and disadvantages, sou you should try them both and use whatever feels best. You can set your preference under 'my info'. If you use the plain text editor, you can choose between three options for text processing (in 'extended view')
- None (use the text as is. do nothing)
- Convert linebreaks to <br /> (newlines in your entry are converted to their HTML equivalent. This way you don't have to worry about making linebreaks and paragraphs)
- Textile (process the text as Textile. Textile is a powerful, yet easy to learn markup style.
When writing an entry you can use the buttons near the editor to help you formatting your text and inserting images. They work like this:
'B': Make selected text bold
'I': Make selected text Italic.
'Make Link': Opens a small popup to insert a link to an other site. If you selected some text prior to clicking this button, the selected text will be linked.
'Insert Image': Opens a small popup allowing you to upload an image, or select a previous uploaded image, and inserts an image snippet into your entry.
'Insert Image Popup': Like the 'Insert Image', Insert Image Popup' opens a small popup allowing you to upload an image, or select a previous uploaded image. Then you can choose whether you want the link to the popup to be textual, or if you want to use a thumbnail. Use '(edit thumbnail)' to create this thumbnail from the image you uploaded or selected. After clicking 'Ok', Pivot inserts an image snippet into your entry.
(inserting an image)
(Inserting an Image Popup)
§ Editing Comments
With the 'Edit comments'-button you can go to a screen that lists all the comments for that entry (note: unsaved changes will be lost, so save first, before clicking). From this screen you will be able to edit and delete comments, and you can add people that abuse the commenting option to the IP block (blacklist).