{"id":1916,"date":"2012-12-23T19:58:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T03:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainlitter.com\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2012-12-23T19:58:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T03:58:31","slug":"im-liking-the-sharepoint-2013-blog-site-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/23\/im-liking-the-sharepoint-2013-blog-site-enhancements\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m liking the SharePoint 2013 Blog Site Enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I continue our journey of moving our SharePoint platform and content over to SharePoint 2013, I wanted to take a moment and pass along some of the improvements I\u2019ve noticed in SharePoint 2013 blogs (as you may know, I\u2019m a big fan of <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">Blogs or<\/span> Shhh, we don\u2019t call them blogs, we call them knowledge managers\u2026 reference: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/canitpro\/archive\/2012\/07\/23\/building-a-knowledge-blogging-system-in-sharepoint.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Knowledge Blogging on Canadian IT Pro Site<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So far, I\u2019m a big fan of the changes.\u00a0 Tidy is the word that comes to mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image_thumb14.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"479\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a reminder. I don\u2019t use the web page interface for creating my blog posts. I use either (and if you aren\u2019t, you may want to explore these \u201cblogging apps\u201d):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Word or Windows Live Writer from a PC<\/li>\n<li>SharePlus when on my Mobile Device (iPad\/iPhone and I believe the functionality exists in their Android version too)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Key Changes\/Enhancements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Content Approval is no longer on by default \u2013 yep, that\u2019s right. Content Approval is not enabled by default on the Posts list anymore. More times than not, I prefer to turn it off (though of course it has good reason to be on in situations where you need moderation). Having it off by default makes more sense though, for most situations<\/li>\n<li>3 Choices for layouts for Categories and Posts \u2013 this is my favourite enhancement.\u00a0 Right out of the gate, I have 3 choices I can set for how Blogs will be displayed on the Home Page as well as how the categories are presented. For your viewing pleasure, I\u2019ve demo\u2019d those below<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Blog Layouts<\/h2>\n<p>Here are the three different layouts that come with SharePoint 2013 Blogs out of the gate.\u00a0 I\u2019ve listed the category display of them first followed by the home page view.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">The Blog Layouts are:<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Basic<\/li>\n<li>Boxed<\/li>\n<li>Inline (currently I\u2019m digging Inline the most for my tastes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Blog Layouts in Categories View<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image_thumb15.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"552\" height=\"219\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image_thumb16.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"552\" height=\"308\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image_thumb17.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"552\" height=\"192\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Blog Layouts in Posts\/Home Page View<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image_thumb18.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"487\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image_thumb19.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"479\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2012\/12\/image_thumb20.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"487\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I continue our journey of moving our SharePoint platform and content over to SharePoint 2013, I wanted to take a moment and pass along some of the improvements I\u2019ve noticed in SharePoint 2013 blogs (as you may know, I\u2019m a big fan of Blogs or Shhh, we don\u2019t call them blogs, we call them &hellip; 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