# Create a blog

Create a blog with its name and subtitle, choose the website that shows it, see where visitors find it in the menu, and set the look of the blog pages of the website.

A blog is a series of articles on your website, such as legal news for your clients. A website can hold several blogs, and each post belongs to one of them. The demo holds one blog, **Legal insights**, with one published post and one that is not published yet.

## Before you start {#before-you-start}

- You need the **Administrator** role, which shows **Configuration**, and the **Editor and Designer** access right on **Website**, which an administrator already holds ([Create a user and set access rights](/docs/general-settings/create-a-user-and-set-access-rights)).
- Writing the posts comes next, in [Write a blog post](write-a-blog-post).

## Create the blog {#create}

1. Open **Website/Configuration/Blog/Blogs**. Each blog shows its number of **Posts**. The handle at the start of a row sets the order in which the blogs are listed on the site.

![The blogs of the database, with the number of posts of each; Legal insights is the demo's blog.](https://jaah.app/web/image/16504-dec48306/website-create-a-blog-blogs_list-en.png)

2. Click **New** and type the **Blog Name**, here `Blog demo: Firm news`, and a **Blog Subtitle**, shown under the name at the top of the blog's page.
3. **Website** keeps the blog on one website. Leave it empty to show the blog on every website of the database. The field appears once the database has more than one website.
4. Click **Save**.

![A blog needs a name; the subtitle shows under it on the blog's page, and an empty Website field puts the blog on every website.](https://jaah.app/web/image/17188-a358d4e8/website-create-a-blog-blog_form-en.png)

The blog starts empty. Its followers receive a message each time one of its posts is published.

## Where visitors find it {#on-the-site}

Every website starts with a **Blog** entry in its menu, which opens `/blog`: the blog itself when there is one, otherwise **Our Latest Posts** of all blogs, with a bar to keep one blog (a list next to the search box on a phone).

![With two blogs, the Blog entry of the menu opens the latest posts of both, with a bar to keep one blog only.](https://jaah.app/web/image/16512-e51e20a6/website-create-a-blog-blogs_index-en.png)

To give one blog its own entry, open its page on the site, choose **Website/Site/This page/Properties**, turn on **In Menu** and click **Save**. An entry named after the blog is added at the end of the menu of the current website; turning **In Menu** off removes it. To rename or move menu entries, see [Edit the menu](edit-the-menu).

## Set the look of the blog pages {#look}

On a blog's page, click **Edit**, then the **Style** tab. With nothing selected on the page, the tab shows **Blogs Page**:

- **Top Banner**, with **Full-Width**: the band with the blog's name and subtitle;
- **Layout**: **Grid** or **List**, with **Cards** and **Increase Readability**;
- **Sidebar**: a column with **Archives** by month, **Follow Us** (social links and a box to follow the blog by e-mail) and **Tags List**;
- **Posts List**: **Cover** or **No Cover**, with **Author**, **Comments/Views Stats** and **Teaser & Tags**.

![The options of the blog pages of this website, in the Style tab of the editor.](https://jaah.app/web/image/17192-810f8e95/website-create-a-blog-blogs_page_options-en.png)

Click **Save** to keep them. They apply to every blog of the current website; the page of a post has its own options, in [Write a blog post](write-a-blog-post#look).

## Archive or delete a blog {#archive-or-delete}

In the list, tick the blog and open **Actions**:

- **Archive** hides the blog and archives all its posts, which also unpublishes them. **Unarchive** brings the blog and all its posts back, still unpublished: publish again the posts you want online.
- **Delete** removes the blog after a confirmation, and all its posts with it. The recycle bin keeps an entry for the blog, not for its posts ([Find a deleted record](/docs/recycle-bin/find-a-deleted-record)).

## FAQ {#faq}

### My new blog is not in the menu. {#not-in-menu}

The **Blog** entry opens the page of all blogs, where it appears in the bar at the top. For an entry of its own, turn on **In Menu** as shown above.

### Can a blog appear on one website only? {#one-website}

Yes. Choose that website in **Website**; its posts then appear on that website only.

### What happens to the address when I rename a blog? {#rename}

The address is built from the blog's name and number, such as `/blog/legal-insights-3`. After a rename, the old address still works: it sends visitors to the new one.

### Can visitors follow a blog? {#follow}

Yes, when the **Sidebar** shows **Follow Us**: they type their e-mail on the blog's page and click **Subscribe**, then receive a message for each new post.

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- Source: https://jaah.app/docs/website/create-a-blog
- Updated: 2026-10-29
- Version: Website 19.0.1.0
- Verified: 2026-10-29