A blog is a personal journal published in a SharePoint environment consisting of posts
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How to publish blog posts on behalf of another user in SharePoint 2010?
I have blog for our management team. Assistants will be posting instead of the managers. I have created a column called "Author" which is "people/group" lookup field for the assistants to add a person ...
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Weekly newsletter alert on Blog library shows pending entries
We have setup an alert on our internal blog that sends an email once a week with all the new blog posts, as follows:
The problem is that it sends both Approved and Pending blog posts.
Is there a ...
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How to add blog categories in drop-down menu of global navigation?
I am working on a corporate SharePoint site for my company that is made up of several blogs. I have the Global navigation set up to show each blog.
I am trying to add blog categories in the drop-down ...
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Sharepoint 2010: Approve Blogpost with REST
Is there a way to automatically approve Blogposts I created with a .Net Webrequest/REST?
I can currently add posts to the Blogs list just fine, but I can't get them to be approved/be published ...
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Follow a post in SharePoint 2007 blog
Is there any OOTB way to follow a post in SharePoint 2007 blog? I mean maybe get an email each time the post is commented or changed?
Thanks
Eliya Amanoeel
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Sharepoint 2010 posting to a blog via email body of the post epmty
I am trying to post to a SharePoint blog via email. It is working partially. I am able to send an email to the Blog but it only posts title of the post and body of the post is empty. Is there special ...
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SharePoint Wiki Versus SharePoint Blog for building a knowledge base library for our company
I am new to SharePoint and after reading about the available features inside SharePoint 2013 I have decided to either:-
Build a Wiki Site using the Wiki Page Library
OR to use the Collaboration -> ...
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Reset SharePoint blog homepage
I tried to change the filter applied to the blog posts displayed on the home page. I created a new view and applied it to the "posts" web part on the home page, and now it just displayed all the blog ...
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Deleting a blog post leaves related .png files in Photos list
I used the blog template when creating a new subsite within mysites and in the process an associated list called Photos got created.
While this has worked well, I've noticed that when I delete a blog ...
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How would I go about branding a blog subsite with publishing enabled in sp2010?
I am trying to add a blogging subsite to an already existing site collection. However, the site is heavily branded and I'm trying to figure out how to apply branding to the blog. Sharepoint 2010.
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How to allow sharepoint users to comment on blogs as anonymous?
I have blog create for my staff in sharepoint. The staff are all users. But when they comment on some posts, they want to comment as anonymous. Is there a way for it without an external solutions?
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Any way to bypass redirect from old blog to new location
In using Google and Bing to seek topics related to Sharepoint 2010, I get lots of hits to a blog called GetThePoint at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/
Recently, I notice that ...
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Blog archive View full posts view in SP2013
I created a Blog in my SharePoint 2013 and played a bit with views and certain Webparts on it.
In my default posts view I see a full view on the Posts. Now my problem:
I destroyed the archive view. ...
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Is there a way to add web parts to an individual Blog post?
WSS 3.0, standard included Blog template. End user site admin only, no access to server farm etc.
What I need to be able to do is add a unique instance of a content editor web part to each blog post. ...
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Searching blogposts returns 404
I've got a blog on a intranet site, based on the blog template.
Whenever I search for a particular post, it returns the correct post, but not the correct url.
The link returned from search:
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'Like' button on Intranet Blog - SP2007
does anyone know if a webpart exists for adding a 'like' button on a Sharepoint Blog post?
the button will not link to facebook (applet) it is solely for an Intranet site.
the counter for the ...
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Featured post on Sharepoint main page
Is there a way to feature a blog post on the main page of a SharePoint 2010 blog site by keeping it above the most recent post?
I know you can create a sticky post for the manage post section, but I ...
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How to Retrieve the Data from an Individual Blog Post
I am trying to brand a blog post according to our standards, and to do that I have simply created a custom visual web part to take the place of the SharePoint default. What I am wondering is how am I ...
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How to add a blog post programmatically?
I'm trying to create a C# script that will allow me to import blog posts from a different system (exported as CSV) into a SharePoint blog. I have found a script for comments to a blog post, but I'm ...
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Create Blog for Every Site Owner
There is a site collection ready. Now I plan that every site owners will have their own blog.
The site owners can edit their own blog and view others blog.
How can I create a blog for every site ...
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Blog posts on main frontpage
I have a main company site and a blog subsite. I want to display the posts & comments from the blog on the main homepage of the main site, along with some other content.
I have looked into ...
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How to tag people in SharePoint Blog site
For now we are using "out of the box" feature, we go to persons profile site, copy his url and create simple link.
I would like to accomplish next:
When writing a Blog post I would like to have ...
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Can the Default blog page layout be edited?
I have created custom page layout for my other 'normal' pages.
However i can't find how to set my blog to use my page layout? Or any other page layout for that matter.
Is it possible to change a the ...
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How to add quick launch to the blog site in SharePoint 2010?
I want to remove the default blog navigation which is categories and archives and just create custom links with the SP navigation feature in All Site Settings. The problem is that in blog sites, the ...
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What are the advantages of SharePoint 2010 blog compared to WordPress
we already have SharePoint 2010 in our company, and we are considering which blog platform to use in our company, we have the option to chose between SharePoint or WordPress.
Can you explain please ...
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Embedding Video in Blog Post?
Is it possible to embed a video into a blog site post using a simple URL from the end user's perspective?
I have tried two approaches:
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LiveWriter Post to Blog generates SOAP Exception when post contains images
My company recently moved our wiki, blogs and internal knowledge base to a outsource SharePoint host sherweb.com. I have been using LiveWriter (2011 - 15.4.3555.308) to post my updates to the blog and ...
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Where can I edit the blog page layout?
I'm using the sharepoint 2010 blog site template for a few of our sites.
I'd like to add some default web parts and add some classes to a few extra elements so I can get the page styled properly but ...
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How can I prevent anonymous users from seeing unapproved blog comments?
Anonymous users are able to post a blog comment, but are able to see unapproved comments that are simply draft items on the Comments list. This seems like a bug that MS simply has not addressed yet.
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Turn on Anonymous blog comments
I've created an anonymous blog subsite. My root site is also anonymous. I can access default.aspx anonymously, but not /Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1
I've tried breaking permission inheritance and ...
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CAML Now Instead of Today - CAML Bug?
I have a CAML query, in which the <Where> node looks like:
<Where>
<Leq>
<FieldRef Name='PublishedDate'/>
<Value Type='DateTime'>
<Today/>
...
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SPListItem item[“Author”] throws ArgumentException on blog lists only for some users
We have a webpart on our SiteCollection home page which aggregates the most recent posts from a number of blog subsites. The code looks like this:
using (SPSite site = new ...
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How can I get custom CSS to load into a publishing subsite?
I have a SharePoint 2010 farm that will have thousands of site collections in it. Each site collection will be a personal externally facing publishing site collection for individual employees. Each ...
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Master Page background picture change
I am creating a blog in sharepoint 2007 and i need to change the blue background that is standard on the masterpage. so far I have not been successful with this. I have read posts that say each ...
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How can i customise blog template -Want to use the same menu as site collection
I have a custom drop down menu i use across all my site collections and subsites.
When i try to use it in a blog site template i can see my menu but when i hover i can't see the child menus.I know i'm ...
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Anonymous blog posts and comments?
We have an HR blog on the SharePoint and would like everyone to post and comments, issues or feedback on it. However, we want it to say annonymous for the user that posted rather than the actual ...
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Blog customization - removing delete options
We'd like the 'delete' capability for Posts and Comments to be unavailable. Just being able to See and Create Posts is all we want [so technically, removing the Manage Posts, Manage Comments and ...
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How do I include email attachments to a blog post through incoming email
I am publishing posts to a SharePoint 2010 blog through incoming email. This is working perfectly but I'd like to send any attachments to an attachments library and include the attachments at the ...
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Can you disable email notifications for a blog post saved as a draft?
In SP 2010 Foundation, I have a blog setup to allow contributors to post as a draft. However, all of the users that have alerts setup for posts receive an email when these drafts are created. That ...
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Link to Another Blog Post from Within Modal Window
I have a simple blog on my internal development site which has two posts. I use JavaScript on a custom application page to launch the Post.aspx?Id=3 page in a modal window. Works great. The only ...
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Search Core Results showing My Site Blogs
I'm trying to create something like "Recent blogs" after some research I came up with two feasible options.
Use Search Core Results - has been suggested that it is possible to create some sort of ...
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Edit date format of Blog post and comments
I'm trying to change the date format of blog posts and comments in Post.aspx, but having trouble. What I want to do is change the $thisNode/@PublishedDate value with ...
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How do I import posts into a SharePoint 2007 blog?
I had a blog on our 2010 installation but have replaced it with a blog on our 2007 instance (because it's public). I want to move some of the posts from the 2010 blog into the 2007 one but seem to be ...
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Display a custom column from a blog list in a summary view
I have created a blog using sharepoint 2010
I added a few new column using sharepoint designer
List-post-add new column.
Of couse each post I edit and added the content to the extra field.
...
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Setting up alert for comments based on categories in a Sharepoint Blog
I have set up a blog on my sharepoint site and need users to be able to subscribe to the blog using the "Alert Me" option. I need each user to be able to subsribe to a certain cateogory so they only ...
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CSOM Query on Hidden User Information List returning nothing
I'm trying to retrieve a user's profile picture from the hidden User Information List within Silverlight. I can't use the UserProfileService.asmx because I don't have the login name nor the GUID of ...
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Add custom field to blog post.aspx page (SP 2010)
I have changed the default look of the post.aspx and default.aspx page for the OOB SharePoint Blog 2010 by using custom XSL file based on the OOB one only changed the option to show custom logo in the ...
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Change default view on sharepoint blog
I am trying to figure out how to have only certain categories of blog posts show on the default page of the blog.
Any time I create a new view or modify existing views the default page does not show ...
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SharePoint 2010 Main Summary Blog Page
Is there a way to get posts to roll off on the main summary blog page? Basically we don't want posts to keep displaying after so many days (i.e. they need to roll off once they reach the set ...
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Reorder - Blog categories in Sharepoint 2010?
Is it possible to reorder(by default it sorts by asc) the blog categories in SharePoint 2010?
