Blog
If you are a Photo Station administrator, you can sign in to enable, manage and back up your personal blog. Moreover, you can also personalize your blog space by adjusting its layout.
Modify Blog Settings
Go to Settings > Blog and tick Enable the blog function to enable the blog function and manage its settings.
To modify blog layout, do any of the following:
- Click Blog Banner and customize the banner section (below the logo image) on the blog's main page.
- Click Theme to customize blog layout.
- Click Layout & Modules, and do the following:
- In the Layout section, choose a layout to put your modules into the left or right panel on the main page.
- In the Modules section, drag and drop the modules between the two folders to decide which modules will be used for your blog.
- If you want to modify the settings of a module, choose it from the drop-down menu in the Module Settings section, click Customize, and then follow onscreen instructions to complete the settings. The modules can be used to search previous articles or display various information (your personal info, an album slideshow, or links to your friends' sites, blog archives, etc).
Note:
You are not allowed to customize a module if its name is appended with "(Setup unavailable)".
Manage Blog Posts
Navigate to Blog to add, edit, and delete blog posts. Your readers can view or share your posts, and add their comments to interact.
To add a new post:
- Click New post.
- In the compose window, click the Settings tab if you want to manage the following settings:
- Choose who can read the blog post from the Readers drop-down menu.
- If you want to display a post abstract on the main page, tick Show abstract when article is on main page and enter the abstract message in the text field.
- To allow visitors to post comments, tick Allow comments.
Limitation:
- For the post title, you can enter up to 512 characters, whereas 40,960 characters are allowed for the post content.
- The following html tags in article content will be filtered out automatically:
form, input, script, table, td, tr, tbody, th, html, body.
To edit or delete a post:
Click the post title to see the full article, click Edit or Delete, and then follow onscreen instructions to edit or delete the post.
Readers can click the post title and do any of the following to interact:
- Click Add Comments to add comments to the post.
- Click the Facebook, Plurk, or Twitter icon to share the article's link to the social networks.
Back up Your Blog
Go to Settings > Blog to back up your blog and save the backup file on your computer.
To back up your blog:
- Choose Back up blog and click Start.
- Follow onscreen instructions to save the backup file (synoblog.backup) on your computer.
To restore the backup data:
- Choose Restore blog data, choose to overwrite or preserve existing blog data, and then click the button next to Select a backup file to locate the backup file on your computer.
- Click Start to restore the backup data.
Migrate Your Blog to WordPress
Go to Settings > Blog to export your blog and import it to WordPress.
To export your blog from Photo Station:
- Click Export to download your blog in .xml format to your computer.
To import your blog to WordPress:
- Login to your WordPress account, and click Tools > Import in the admin page.
- Select the WordPress option.
Note: If the WordPress Importer is not installed, you can get the plugin here. - Use WordPress Importer to upload the XML file you have exported from Photo Station.
- Assign new authors in your WordPress account for the imported blog.
- Click Submit to finish the migration.