How to Add a Blog Post from Your Phone or Tablet

Blog / January 5, 2017

With site builder you are able to write and publish blog posts from your phone or tablet.

Site builder

BLOG APP

Tap the App menu to display the sidebar of your apps

The main menu

Select Blog from the App menu

Blog list page

GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR BLOG POST

Here you’ll find a list of your blog posts. There will be a default post in your Drafts as an example. To create a new post, tap the red plus circle.

New blog post

You’ll be presented with several fields to create a blog post from your phone

Adding content to your blog post

To fill in your Post title and Post content, tap on the field and type your blog post

ADDING A FEATURE IMAGE

Adding images, categories and tags

Scrolling down, you’ll have the choice to add a Feature image, Category and Tags* to your blog post

Uploading an image

Adding a Feature image gives you the regular options of adding an image

Adding images

You can learn more about adding image here

ADDING CATEGORY AND TAGS

Choosing an existing category or adding a new one

Adding a Category is a good way to organise your blog posts. Tapping on the field allows you to create a new category or choose from any existing categories

Feature image and category added

To add Tags to your blog post, tap into the field and type. Tap return on your keyboard to confirm the tag and add another, or to save what you have so far

Adding tags

POST SUMMARY

Adding a summary of your post

The Post summary allows visitors to read a brief summary of your post before clicking through to the page

PUBLISHING AND SAVING DRAFTS

Tap OK to publish your blog post

When your blog post is complete, tap Publish and the post will go live on your website. However you are also able to save the post to your drafts to finish at a later date on any other device.

Permalink

The new blog post will automatically get a URL within your website, however you can customise this in the Permalink field

FINISHED BLOG POST

Your blog post live on your website