IMPORTANT: Only users who belong to the HLBlogger Security Group can write blog articles. This change was made August 6, 2021 in order to combat spammers using blogs to post malicious content. See Spam Mitigation - Restrict Blog Creation to learn more, and for steps on how to add users to this Security Group.

NOTE: Our knowledge base articles reference blogs and blog articles. Depending on your product model, you might see news and news articles in your community. These are different names for the same feature and references to blogs are also applicable to news.

A blog is a free-form posting of thought or commentary, usually maintained by an individual or groups of individuals with regular entries.

Blogs in your community

Higher Logic understands the importance of and attraction to blogs so, the Blogs module is automatically enabled on every Community site.

In your community site, blog articles can be:

• published at the community and user levels.
• made available to the entire site, specific communities, and/or externally to users who aren't members of your community.
• made easier to organize and find via tags.
• rated in order to indicate those that are of interest to you.

Related articles

Visit the Blogs section of our knowledge base to learn how to:

• Group Your Blogs with Categories
• View & Create Blog Articles
• Manage Your Blog Articles
• Comment On & Recommend Blog Articles
• Change a Blog Article's Publish Date