# Write a blog post

Start a post from the New menu of the website, write its text in the editor, give it a cover, a subtitle and tags, and choose how post pages look before you publish it.

A post, called **Blog Post** on the screen, is one article of a blog. You write it on the site itself, in the editor; its details (subtitle, tags, author, date) are also in a form. A new post stays unpublished, seen only by editors, until you publish it.

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

- You need the **Editor and Designer** access right on **Website**. The **Tags** and **Tag Categories** menus of **Configuration** also need the **Administrator** role.
- The blog exists: the demo's is **Legal insights**, and new blogs are made in [Create a blog](create-a-blog).

## Start the post {#start}

1. Open **Website/Site/Homepage** and click **New** at the top right, then **Blog Post**.

![The New menu of the website; Blog Post starts a new post.](https://jaah.app/web/image/17224-5ede3adc/website-write-a-blog-post-new_menu-en.png)

2. In **New Blog Post**, check **Select Blog**: it proposes the first blog in alphabetical order, even when you start from the page of another blog. Type the **Title**, here `Blog demo: Notice periods in a lease`, and click **Save**.

![The blog that receives the post, and its title.](https://jaah.app/web/image/17226-c2c812d0/website-write-a-blog-post-new_post_dialog-en.png)

On a phone, **New** is not shown at the top of the site: open **Website/Site/Content/Blog Posts** and click **New**, which opens the same window. The post then opens on the site without the editor; click **Edit** on a computer to write it.

## Write the text {#write}

The post opens in the editor. Its title sits in the cover, with **Subtitle** below it, and the text starts with **Start writing here...**: click it and type over it. Select words to format them with the toolbar. To add sections, images or columns, use the editor's blocks as described in [Edit a page](edit-a-page).

Click the cover to change it: **Blog Post Cover** sets its **Background** (a color or an image), its **Size** and its **Filter Intensity**, and lets you pick the post's **Tags**. Click **Save** when the text is ready.

![The new post opens in the editor, with its title in the cover and a first line to write over.](https://jaah.app/web/image/17228-8ed77512/website-write-a-blog-post-post_editor-en.png)

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

With nothing selected on the page, the **Style** tab shows **Blog Page**:

- **Layout**: **Title Inside Cover** or **Title Above Cover**, with **Increase Readability**;
- **Sidebar**: a column with **Archive**, **Author**, **Blogs List**, **Share Links** and **Tags**;
- **Breadcrumb**: the path to the blog above the text;
- **Bottom**: **Next Article**, a link to the next post, and **Comments**, a discussion under each post where visitors comment once signed in.

![The options of the post pages, in the Style tab when nothing on the page is selected.](https://jaah.app/web/image/17230-171bfdca/website-write-a-blog-post-post_page_options-en.png)

These options apply to every post of the current website. The options of the blog pages themselves are in [Create a blog](create-a-blog#look).

## Add the subtitle, tags and author {#details}

Back on the site, the post is marked **Unpublished** at the top: only the website's editors see it, with an **unpublished** label on the blog's page.

![The post on the site, still unpublished; only the website's editors see it.](https://jaah.app/web/image/17232-b377b06d/website-write-a-blog-post-post_unpublished-en.png)

Click **Blog Post** at the top to open its form; on a phone, it is the cog at the top. There you set the **Sub Title**, the **Tags** (type a name to pick a tag or create it), the **Author**, who is you by default and whose name shows on the post, and the **Publishing date**. **No of Views** counts the visits. Click **Save**.

![The post's form, with its subtitle, a new tag, its author and its publishing date.](https://jaah.app/web/image/17234-36d5ac77/website-write-a-blog-post-post_form-en.png)

Tags appear under the post, and a visitor who clicks one sees the posts that carry it. **Website/Configuration/Blog/Tags** lists every tag with its color and **Category**; **Website/Configuration/Blog/Tag Categories** groups tags in the sidebar's tags list. Two tags cannot share a name.

To write the post in the other language of the site, follow [Translate a page](translate-a-page). To put it online, see [Edit, publish or delete a post](edit-publish-or-delete-a-post).

## FAQ {#faq}

### I cannot find my new post on the site. {#not-found}

It is unpublished, so only editors see it, on its blog's page with the **unpublished** label. Publish it to show it to visitors.

### The post went into the wrong blog. {#wrong-blog}

Open its form with **Blog Post** at the top and choose the right **Blog**. The post's address changes with it.

### Can someone else be shown as the author? {#author}

Yes. Choose any contact in **Author** on the post's form; the post then shows that contact's name.

### Can visitors comment on a post? {#comments}

Only when **Comments** is on in the **Bottom** of the **Blog Page** options. Visitors must sign in to write a comment.

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