String freeze: Blog module help page

Copying over the relevant section of O Govinda's commentary from http://drupal.org/node/101090:

Home » Administer » Help » Blog

REVISED:

The blog module lets registered users maintain an online weblog, commonly known as a blog (or sometimes as an online journal or diary). Blogs consist of individual posts, time stamped and typically viewed by date, like a diary. Blogs often include links to webpages users have read (and may express opinions about).

To enable the use of blogs on your site, go to the MODULE ADMINSTRATION PAGE [link], tick the box for "Blog", and click "Save configuration" at the bottom of the page. [MY COMMENT: This instruction is essential for newbies.]

The blog module adds to your site a user blogs navigation link. (You can enable the link on the MENU ADMINISTRATION PAGE [link].) The link leads to a page that shows the most recent blog entries from all the users on your site. Also added to the navigation menu are a create a blog entry link (which takes you to a submission form) and a view personal blog link (which displays your blog entries as other people will see them). The blog module also creates a recent blog posts block, which you can enable on the BLOCK ADMINISTRATION PAGE [link].

For a user allowed to post blogs, the import module (news aggregator) will display a blog-it link next to each news item in its lists. Clicking this link takes the user to the blog submission form, with the title, a link to the item, and a link to the source into the body text already in the text box, ready for the user to add a comment or explanation. [MY COMMENT: That last sentence badly needs editing, but I can't do it, because I don't use that feature and therefore can't explain it.] This encourages people to add blog entries about things they see and hear elsewhere on the website and on your syndicated partner sites.

The blog module adds to the main navigation menu a user blogs navigation link, which takes visitors to a page that displays the most recent blog entries from all the users on your site.

For more information please read the configuration and customization handbook Blog page.

Blog administration pages
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