{"id":3179,"date":"2012-04-10T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help-o.ning.com\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2019-09-06T07:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:24:43","slug":"control-how-blog-posts-display-on-the-main-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/help\/control-how-blog-posts-display-on-the-main-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Control How Blog Posts Display on Main Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Network Creator, you have a lot of control over the blogs that are\u00a0displayed on your\u00a0Ning Network&#8217;s main page. Go to your Main Page and click the &#8220;Edit&#8221; button in the upper right corner of the Blog Posts module. You will see several options for what you can display on the main page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3183\" title=\"tester2blogpostmainp\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/tester2blogpostmainp-e1334101882354.jpeg\" alt=\"Control How Blog Posts Display on Main Page\" width=\"585\" height=\"470\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0how much\u00a0of\u00a0each blog post to display, select either &#8220;Detail View&#8221; or &#8220;Titles Only&#8221; from the\u00a0Display drop-down menu.\u00a0You can then\u00a0decide where to pull these blog posts from.\u00a0Your options are: &#8220;Recently Added,&#8221; &#8220;Most Popular,&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;Most Comments,&#8221; &#8220;Featured&#8221;\u00a0or &#8220;My Posts Only.&#8221; The &#8220;Show posts&#8221; drop-down menu accounts\u00a0for how many blog posts you&#8217;d like to\u00a0have\u00a0appear\u00a0on your Main Page. You can\u00a0show anywhere from\u00a00 to 10 posts. Last of all, you can use the Show HTML characters&#8221;\u00a0drop-down menu to display anywhere from 250 to 2000 HTML characters&#8217; worth of your members&#8217; posts. Click &#8220;Save&#8221; when you are done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you do not want any Blog Posts to appear on your Main Page, simply select &#8220;0&#8221; from the third drop-down menu, and the Blog Posts module will be hidden altogether on the Main Page.<\/strong>\u00a0While you will still be able to see the Blog Posts header and &#8220;Edit&#8221; button, your members will not see any of that. The Blog Posts will still be accessible as normal from the Blogs tab.<\/p>\n<p>To learn how to feature a Blog Post, see:\u00a0<a href=\"\/help\/feature-content-or-members-on-your-ning-network\/\">Feature Interesting Content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u00a0find a Blog Post or comment that is inappropriate, you or your Administrators\u00a0can delete it. Just click on the title link to go to the Blog Post&#8217;s detail page and click the &#8220;Delete Post&#8221; link.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on moderating Blog Posts, see:\u00a0<a href=\"\/help\/flag-content-on-your-ning-network\/\">Flagging Content<br \/>\n<\/a><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Let\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s start create a blog with Ning: https:\/\/www.ning.com\/create-a-blog-2\/&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Let\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s start create a blog with Ning: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/create-a-blog-2\/\">www.ning.com\/create-a-blog-2\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Network Creator, you have a lot of control over the blogs that are\u00a0displayed on your\u00a0Ning Network&#8217;s main page. Go to your Main Page and click the &#8220;Edit&#8221; button in the upper right corner of the Blog Posts module. You will see several options for what you can display on the main page.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0how much\u00a0of\u00a0each blog post to display, select either &#8220;Detail View&#8221; or &#8220;Titles Only&#8221; from the\u00a0Display drop-down menu.\u00a0You can then\u00a0decide where to pull these blog posts from.\u00a0Your options are: &#8220;Recently Added,&#8221; &#8220;Most Popular,&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;Most Comments,&#8221; &#8220;Featured&#8221;\u00a0or &#8220;My Posts Only.&#8221; The &#8220;Show posts&#8221; drop-down menu accounts\u00a0for how many blog posts you&#8217;d like to\u00a0have\u00a0appear\u00a0on your Main Page. You can\u00a0show anywhere from\u00a00 to 10 posts. Last of all, you can use the Show HTML characters&#8221;\u00a0drop-down menu to display anywhere from 250 to 2000 HTML characters&#8217; worth of your members&#8217; posts. 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