Knowledge Base Article

Aurora: Edit blog posts

There are multiple scenarios in which you may need to edit an existing blog post. In these cases, the following tasks are necessary:

Authors typically have permission to:

  • edit their own blog post
  • view the history of their own blog post

Admins or moderators can:

Check out the walkthroughs below to learn how to edit a draft or edit a previously published blog post.

Edit a draft

10 STEPS

1. While creating your content you can always save the draft and come back later to work on it.
Click Save Draft

 

2. The draft is saved with a version number

 

3. Let's see how you can find this draft.

Go to the board where the draft was created. Click Options menu and click Manage Content

 

4. The Content Management Dashboard opens.

 

5. You are automatically taken to the Drafts tab

 

6. Depending on your permission, you can see all the drafts. Members can mostly see only their own drafts.
Click the article you want to work on.

 

7. When the draft is ready to be published, click Publish

 

8. The published version get a new version number.

 

9. Your draft is published.

 

10. Scroll up and that's it. You're done.

 

Here's an example of  how you can save progress on a new blog post and return later to continue working on your draft before publishing. 

https://www.iorad.com/player/2051697/Intermitted-save--drafts

 

Notes:  

  • Admins and moderators can access the Content Management dashboard by going to Account > Manage Content.

  • Authors can access only their own content on the Content Management dashboard. Go to Options > View My Drafts to open your drafts there.

Edit previously published content 

Let's take an example of editing a published blog post.

10 STEPS

1. Open the published article you want to edit.

 

2. The article opens

 

3. Click the Options menu and click Edit

 

4. The article opens in the editor

 

5. Edit the article. For example, you may want to hyperlink another content.

 

6. Use the hyperlink option on the editor's toolbar

 

7. Enter the URL

 

8. Click Insert Link

 

9.

 

10. You can either Cancel, Save Draft or Publish

 

https://www.iorad.com/player/2051832/Edit-Published-Content

 

Edit and restore older versions of content

To edit and publish an old version of a blog post that is still in your community, you can restore it as is or make additional edits to the previous version and publish it.

Learn more on how you can edit and restore old versions.

Every blog post gets a version number after it is edited and published. The published blog post displays the latest version number along with the date and time.

Permissions

Permission 

Purpose

Additional permissions required

Start new Blog posts

To create your own blog posts

Content > Start discussions and new content 

Edit own published posts

To edit your own blog posts

Start new posts

Edit any published post

To edit your own blog posts and blog posts published by others 

Start new posts 

 

Related topics:

 

Updated 6 months ago
Version 5.0
Blogs
communities aurora
content management
No CommentsBe the first to comment