How to post on someone else's personal blog as an administrator, editor, author, etc.
If someone adds you to his or her personal blog as an administrator, editor, author, etc., you can post to that blog.
Before You Begin
It is possible for someone at Illinois State University to add you to his or her personal blog so that you can assist in managing the blog. When you are added as a user on someone else's personal blog, you are assigned a role.
There are five types of user roles:
- Administrator - Full control over the owner's blog
- Editor - Publish and manage all posts on the owner's blog
- Author - Publish and manage your own posts
- Contributor - Write and manage your own posts (but the blog owner must publish them)
- Subscriber - Read comments and posts
These roles grant varying levels of privileges with administrator offering the most privileges and subscriber offering the least.
View a List of Personal Blogs You Can Access
To view a list of personal blogs you can access and make changes to, do the following:
- Go to http://my.ilstu.edu/blogs/.
- Log in to your blog with your ULID and password.
- Click My Blogs on the left side of the page.
All of the personal blogs to which you have access, including your own, appear on this page. If you have been added to someone else's personal blog as an administrator, editor, author, etc., those blogs will appear here.
Posting to Someone Else's Personal Blog
After you have been added as a user (i.e. an administrator, editor, author, or contributor) to someone else's blog, you can make posts to that blog. If you were added as a subscriber, you cannot post to another person's blog.
To post to someone else's personal blog, do the following:
- Go to http://my.ilstu.edu/blogs/.
- Log in to your blog with your ULID and password.
- Click My Blogs on the left side of the page.
- Click Dashboard under the blog you want to make changes to.
- Under Posts, click Add New.
- Type a title for your post in the long, horizontal box under Add New Post.
- Type the contents of your post in the large, white text box.
- Add rich text to your post using the buttons at the top of the text box. For example, add bold, italics, lists, etc.
- You can use keyboard shortcuts instead of the buttons if you prefer. For example, Ctrl+b for bold, Ctrl+i for italics, etc.
- For administrators and editors:
- At the bottom of the Add New screen, there is a Post Author drop-down menu, which contains the names or ULIDs of those who are administrators or editors on the blog to which you are posting. Select the person to whom you would like to attribute the post.
- For example, if you are ghost writing someone's blog, you can choose his or her name instead of your own.
- Do one of the following:
- To save a draft of your post so you can work on it later (without publishing it), click Save Draft.
- To preview your post so you can see what it will look like before you publish it, click Preview. (Your preview will open in a new window or new tab.)
- To publish your post so visitors to your blog can read it, click Publish. After your post has been published, you can view it on your blog by clicking View Post.