The blog will be a great tool, however will it become possible to alter text font and colour? Also will it be possible to add a link to images and not just text?

Hi

The blog looks great, however I have just created a blog but then accidently deleted it. How to I get it back? I deleted the actual blog box on the web page and I can't where you can insert it again. I am still able to post new blog post but they are not appearing on the website anywhere do to the fact I deleted the blog box?

Thanks

Hi

Sorry - I've just managed to solve the problem by inserting a new blog page. Thanks

Much prettier than the old one! I'm now in the process of drafting all my old blog posts into the new one so i can delete the old... tedious stuff...

I think you've probably answered this with the 'images' question - but is there a way of adding an embedded Youtube vid using the blog editor? As a workaround I left a space after the blog post using a load of line breaks, then added the vid as an HTML snippet to the page itself, but I'VE JUST REALISED this is going to move when I add another blog post! DOH! A pity, as youtube now offers 'embed' snippets for most clips, that we can't just copy & paste them into the blog/elsewhere.

Also, the tip about changing 'global' text styles is useful, but is it planned to add text formatting for individual blog posts, so (i.e.) you could use two colours, strikethrough, etc in a more casual way?

generally, though, a really big improvement and i've found no major (or minor, come to that!) glitches so far...   

Hi Guys, really loving the new blog page and especially the twitter and facebook plug in....i'm not sure if it's just my site but i can't tweet certain blog posts and the twitter icon disapears when i click it, i am of course logged into my twitter account?

Also i'd like to share certain posts with my facebook pages which correspond with each of my websites, so far it looks like the facebook link will only post to my personal facebook page and not a business page....and my facebook avatar appears as a social plug-in on the link...any thoughts? Cx

Hi All,

Is it possible to give someone else permission to create Blogs without them having access to the whole Editor, ie a login or similar feature ? I have three sites and don't really wan to have to manage the blogs but also don't want any 'accidents ' happening too !

Cheers,

Ade

hi the blog is great just having a minor issue and that is the positioning of the twitter and facbook links as the are in the middle of the blog (over the text) so that you cant read the blog properly can this be moved during design etc .........?? and could you clarify how to change the font colour in the blog message as mine is black and difficult to read ..thanks

Hi Gary, i didn't think you could move the Twitter and Facebook plug-ins...are they not fixed within the blog template?

Hi.  Is it possible to have the most recent blog totally visible, whilst having the older posts part visible in a quick view archive list at the bottom (the remaining text within the "read more" function.) 

I have been trying to move the boxes around and resize them which works when you do it, but then all snaps back to the top as soon as you click away, meaning that you have the most recent blog text on top of older posts.

It looks like it should be simple to do, but I might be hoping for too much?  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Garry

hi gary ..thanks for the reply ,, yes i have sorted the colour of the font on the blog ,, yet when i view the website the twitter & facebook icons are still over the text .. i dont understand why I have tried to move the text box further up or down on the webpage (within the design page) but to no avail ..... is there something im doing wrong...cheers ...barry 

Thanks.

So for now, does each blog entry only have the same amount of space available before a 'read more' break is needed?  I can't resize one to show more text than the entries below it?

Garry

Hi there,

I'm trying to work on my blog. The page layout is a page master and I would like it to be different from all the others? Longer. Is that possible to just edit the bloog to be different so it can show more than 2 post on the page?

AMJ

Hey Guys, not sure what's happened but on viewing my site a post which I put up earlier is now all mangled with the social plug-ins all over the place along with the newer/older buttons placed over text. I tweeted the post when i published it and the previous ones with no problem so a tad bizarre....?

I haven't changed any of the set up and for obvious reasons i don't want clients to see...help?

...i've just checked both my sites and blog has gone nuts are you guys have a play around with it right now? thanks C

yup looks like it's sorted...thanks for your speedy response, much appreciated.

Hi Gary,

Thanks for the instructions of how to change the master page layout. I am on the very first stages of getting to know this system and have to admit it is very user-friendly.

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Hi

I can't see how to make my blog page look like my other pages.  I would like a white background and darker text for a start.... and I seem to have some junky stuff at the top.

When I click on the editing box there is nothing editable... help, what am I doing wrong??

Hi Gary

That's great, The jumbled up text has gone.. but the body text is gray and I can't see how to change it.  Any idea?

Thanks

Heather

Is it possible to add links to your blog text? For example, e-mail addresses which open into an e-mail, or a link to another page in my website?

I can add these things as usual after posting, but they disappear when I log out.

Hello,

I am using your new blog website and was wondering if I could get a side bar similar to the one you have on blog.moonfruit.com where it has categories and posts by month/year etc. I have been searching for it for awhile but maybe I am just missing it?

Thank you

Jess

Gary.. you are a star!!!!!!  Thank you!

Hi again - I sort of asked the same question a while ago, but not sure if the answer above (Gary, July 28) applied to my question or the one underneath it...

I've constructed my site using 'Arial' as the main / global body font, but because text is generally added via textboxes have varied the point size for different pages etc. The 'default' arial font size is too small in the blog, but can't be changed. If I change the global body font for one where the default size is more readable (as has been suggested elsewhere) it messes up formatting on other pages where I have positioned html links over the top of underlined text to open youtube vids etc in pop-ups.  Sorry if it sounds a bit whinging, but while the new blog is a huge improvement over the old one the feature I'm really missing is the ability to use text visually - different colours, sizes, strike-throughs etc etc , so is the text entry box going to be expanded to include these kinds of features?

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I've just spotted the question above regarding disappearing links. When available, will this allow me to link pictures hosted on (i.e.) photobucket so they are 'embedded' on my page, as i've tried every which way I can think of to embed images hosted elsewhere without success (all the photos currently in my blog have needed to be hosted in the site's file manager).  If not, will the blog at some point allow for 'html snippets' to be added, which is the way I solved the youtube/text link problem mentioned above?

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Finally: The 'tweet' button in each new blog works fine as a way of instantly advising followers on tweet that I've posted a new blog, but I haven't found a way of doing this on facebook (unless i've misunderstood what the 'like' button does?) I've added a facebook 'share' button to the pagemaster, which I thought would work, but when I hit that it just adds another 'share' comment to the original thread I started on facebook rather than a separate post in the 'current' timeline iyswim(?)

Sorry if i'm asking really dim questions, but the whole 'social networking' / blogs / facebook stuff is all pretty new to me and i'm trying to get up to speed with no one to ask, few basic skills and only guesswork, trial and error and a very small portion of common sense to guide me...

Oh, may be easier to comment on the fonts and stuff if you can see what i mean:

http://www.lovely2cu.moonfruit.com

Thanks

Thanks Gary - worked perfectly for increasing font size! Easy when you know how :D

I'm guessing if i use the same tip to browse to whatever layer the twitter 'like' button is on I could add the 'share' button too, so it shows up in every post? Not got time to try that at the mo, but will later and post back what it does on facebook page.

Ta very Muchly!

NB: the above should say facebook 'like' button, for anyone who's now confused. Doh! 

I'm wondering on how to change the post length...cause I've only add like 3 lines....and there's soo much blank space between the first post and the second post..how can I change that!

Here's my site www.once-upon-a-time.moonfruit.com

Thanks

Suzette

Sorry forgot...the blog feature is under updates

Suzette

I am using google chrome 13.0.782.112 which updates Flash Player automatically

Im not sure what the flash version is, i guess its what ever the lastest update is as the adobe website says that i dont need to update my flash as google chrome does it automatically. 

i'm referring to the news page, I envisioned using the moonfruit blog as alternative way of presenting news and updates.

Just to let you guys know..that I won't be using the blog feature anymore...have been working on it...but somehow I can't get it to work!

Suzette

Sorry i forgot to mention that i had'nt replaced the news page with a blog yet but only tested the blog page out by adding it at the back of the website, Just like what you've done. I have posted on the blog 2 page and the same problem has occurred. 

Please find attached a screen capture of the problem.

The problem been that the post appears right at the bottom of the page, and as far as i can see there is no way of changing that. 

Thanks

Guy

Thank you so much for your time and help, just one more thing how do you change the colour of the text in the post?

Guy

Hi,

I have just been introducing myself to the blogging tool on my website. Unfortunately every time I enter a link to another site in a text/article it seems to dissappear and not link at all. Am I doing this correctly?

Stuart

It thinks its great and so easy - will be even better when you can share this to a facebook page - I have a personal facebook page but i would like to share blogs to my business page which i think you may be working on - Ive set up a blog for someone before and using yours was much simpler - thanks very much

I am afraid I am not very techie and am finding the new blog difficult to install. I cannot see the text in the postings, i cant see where people comment, or how to approve the comments. any help much appreciated. thanks.

Hi Gary

No I haven't  changed the name of my site or added the new version of the blog page because I could not resize it to my page, then I could not see the comments, or approve comments to from other people to my blog, perhaps this is not a function? I am still using the old blog/news and whilst I can shrink it to a nice size, I cant enlarge the fonts, and I people cannot add.

hope this helps

many thanks Gary

Hi Gary

would you try the new blog on my sites page please, perhaps you will better understand what I am trying to explain here. I know how to create a new page and how to click on blog! could you read my problem again as I am not sure you understood my problem.

many thanks

Carole

I've just set up a blog on one of my sites and it seems to be working well - touch wood!  A couple of questions though...

When I'm in Edit or Add Post, I can't see how to get back to the normal page view for all posts - I can only view a single post.  In the end I "Refresh Page" but I'm sure there must be a button that I'm missing...?

I've set metadata for each post but when I test it, the post metadata isn't being read, only the site metadata.  Does the post metadata work?

And another question... is it possible to see who has subscribed to the web feed, or even whether anybody at all has subscribed?

I think im getting the hang of this blog thing, thanks for your help!

Guy

I am really quite confused here. I am new to Moonfruit. Can someone tell me how I can change the template or pick a different one to use? Please

Hey all

Just thought I'd share with you how i've incorporated the blog into my website. Only one post at the moment but check it out.

Thanks

Guy

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guywilkinson.co.uk

Really want to see this blog service made to be like others....or better!  Am impatiently waiting for the category or archives feature, plugins, widgets, etc....  Can't wait to see what becomes available - hopefully soon!

Hi Gary

I think my earlier post got missed but thanks for the reply about the RSS feed.  Here's the earlier post:

When I'm in Edit or Add Post, I can't see how to get back to the normal page view for all posts - I can only view a single post.  In the end I "Refresh Page" but I'm sure there must be a button that I'm missing...?

I've set metadata for each post but when I test it, the post metadata isn't being read, only the site metadata.  Does the post metadata work?

Re viewing all posts - thanks for that suggestion and it's a lot easier.  All I've got to do is click the Blog button and I see the full page, no problem now thanks.

Re the post metadata - I haven't put metadata in the single posts for the last few entries but I looked on some of my earlier posts, but when I click Edit and go to HTML view, I get the full page of the Blog and I only see the metadata for the page.  I might be doing something wrong though.

Thanks Gary, I've ticketed you.

My blog attempt http://www.elegantlushstylish.moonfruit.com/blog

My question is... can we have another add text box along with the add image button, so we can have image / text / image / text etc and not just a one liner below the image... cheers.

On my blog page, I've set the menu and the title to say News instead of Blog.  But on the RSS feed I get sent, it says Blog.  Also it could be anybody's blog because it doesn't say where the blog is from.  Is there a way of changing what it says in the header of the RSS feed, eg "News from My Company"?

Not necessarily just a 'blog' problem, but useful to know if using blog 'tweet' facility to share on twitter -

DON'T USE BRACKETS IN BLOG TITLES!  

I had written a series of blogs titled (pt.1), (pt.2) etc, which i'd used the tweet button to link on twitter over the past week. I never bothered checking, but after posting todays did and it came up with 'error 404 site not found' message. By a process of elimination, it appears that the tweet button (or the shortener) doesn't like brackets. You can manually delete the brackets before hitting 'tweet' in the dialogue box that opens -   

[i.e. change]:   Me Hollerdays (pt.4) -  http://www.lovely2cu.moonfruit.com/blog-news/4553672057/Me-Hollerdays-(pt.4)/177553

[to] : Me Hollerdays (pt.4) -  http://www.lovely2cu.moonfruit.com/blog-news/4553672057/Me-Hollerdays/177553

to preserve the 'intro', but probably easier to avoid brackets all together once you know.

I think this unlikely to just be a blog/moonfruit problem, but it could be something in the blog's tweet button code /shortener that can be fixed(?) either way, the workaround above solves the issue, as does not using brackets at all!

Hope that's helpful, and looking forward to seeing some of the proposed new features like HTML snippets, embedded (i.e.) photobucket hosted pics and improved text editing going in. :D 

I Purchased The Premium Package... And Already Used My Domain On ! Site And Recently I Changed The Name Of My Business Is There Anyway I Can Change The Domain Name??? I Want It To Go From pk-proz.com to Mesiapker.com any advise???

I'm surprised this is a recent addition as it actually works better (in some areas) than some more established blogs. Anyway to the point:

1) Is there anyway of distinguishing individual posts? Usually you can "click" on a blog post which would take you to that specific page/post, with a unique url. Am I missing something here? It seems to just act like one big page, rather than individual blog posts.

2) No headings, again, difficult to distinguish individual posts. Of course you can type this in with text, but I think we really need individual urls.

3) Photo resizing works really well.

Gary, thanks. Ticket is below (not sure why pastes in mad big letters!!). No, sorry, tried that already - you cannot delete or type over the name shown (I assume it's the 'author' field); whatever you do, it overtypes back to my user ID. I reported this under the ticket. Really annoyed at this as want to get the RSS feed working. Why remove the function that allowed us to delete it? Are others happy having their private ID visible?

[Ticket#2011090601002681] RE: [Ticket#201101200100 [...]‏

Hi Gary,

a couple of queries. I notice someone posted one earlier in the thread ... when I post a link using the add/remove link

nothing happens. Also i was wondering my blog posts have a transparent bckgrd, can I alter this?

Cheers

Jules

Gary, have just tried it again - highlight and delete the user ID in 'author', replace it with (in my case/choice) a row of blanks, click on Update, go to Post List view, select add a post, add one, click preview, and there it is again, my user ID shown. Also shown under View my site. Why is this affecting me only, it seems? 

Gary, the link is a news story from a newspaper website and I'm pasting it into the space that comes up when I click the safety pin type icon ... in Add Article post. I click 'Apply' and it just disappears ... and thanks for the bckgrd tip.

J

I have noticed an issue with the new Blog with Internet Explorer, The Text and image only loads to a certain page lenght, though on Chrome and FireFox it works fine.

The Blog lenght and page length setting lenghts are fine, though as you can see on

http://www.markboardman.moonfruit.com/#/showbiz-blog/4554037876

The text just cuts off, any ideas as to how all the 4 blogs were page can be shown? No questions as to which Explorer version...

As each new blog feature becomes available do we need to remove the blog page we have and create a new one?  How will we know when new features are available? Thank you.

I created a copy of my site and hadn't a clue how to upload it. 
I rang Moonfruit and a very helpful man named Ian, set it up for me. 
So grateful Ian. 
Thank you 
Josie 
www.impactdancers.co.uk

Gary, please can someone help with my issue - been a week now and no reply from the ticket logged, which is not really good enough.

Hi, I am a new reseller and have set up a couple of sites so far but haven't yet used the blog feature but plan to do so in the the future.  My query is that when I view the page source the blog refers to moonfruit eg. href="//yoursite.moonfruit.com/feeds etc, I really don't want my customers to see this.  Is there any way for me to remove this when not using blog and also when i do use the blog will it appear then also?

Many thanks

Gary. I'm using the latest firefox and I'm pretty sure the latest flash although I'm not sure ... its on magicgreenery.com thayt I'm having problem ... it doesnt matter what http:// I put in it just doesnt accept it?

J

ewww... Just read a post above  [mhorozewski sept 16 13:50] and gary's reply...

Does this mean I've got to 'update' my blog - i.e. start a new one and transfer all the old posts over?  If it does mean this I'll probably carry on using the 'old' new blog until such time as it's confirmed that all future updates will auto update without starting from scratch again (*boggle* ?)... gary, you said this will 'probably' be the case from the next update and you'll clarify then, but do you know yet when that's likely to be? Also, is there an easy way to transfer all the existing blog posts 'en masse' over to the new blog when I get round to doing it, or is the only option copy and pasting each individual one?

ta

D :D

ok my old problems are now sorted but another one has arisen.... The Article and Test post types allow insertion of a link, but when the post is published, they are not visible. Why? Appreciate this was asked above, sort of, but I'm not clear why it allows you to add a link for no purpose. And since the old tool allowed links with no problem, how is this better, or am I missing something? I suppose I could insert a link in a separate box, but it wouldn't stay with the post. Must say am finding this whole process frustrating - no user guide??

Hi again...

as well as the question above about blog updates i was wondering why I can now only have one 'blog' ... with the old style blog i had two, because the layout was well suited for another purpose. Looking to 'back up' my blog ready for the next update I found you can only have one now, so the 'other purpose' (see the lies lies lies page on my website: http://www.lovely2cu.moonfruit.com (comes up when you hover on "blog/news" in the menu) will have to stay old skool as it were...

I'm also really nervous about 'deleting/replacing' the new blog to update even though it says my posts wont be deleted . Has anyone done this, and did it work/any horror stories? Just a bit nervous really as my site is personal rather than business, and the blog is the biggest part of it... Any other way I can 'back up' the whole blog to date without having to do it post by post?

Thanks

OA