Blog posts are the dated articles of your website — news, advice, announcements. You write a post once in the admin; TruCMS publishes it as a polished article page, adds it to the journal listing, groups it by category and tag, and lets signed-in visitors discuss it.
Posts → All Posts. Each row shows the post’s picture, categories, tags, publication date and any Featured or Editor’s Choice badge.
Create categories and tags → Write a post → It is published at once → Appears in the journal, its category and tag pages → Visitors read, share and comment
| Part of the blog | Where it is managed | What visitors see |
|---|---|---|
| Posts | Posts → All Posts / New Post | One article page per post, at the post’s own address. |
| Categories | Posts → Categories | A topic menu on the blog page and a page per category. |
| Tags | Posts → Tags | Tag links under each article and a page per tag. |
| Blog page | Pages and Settings → Page Setup | The journal front page at /blog. |
| Comments | On the article page itself | The conversation under each article. |
Posts → New Post. Write the article on the left; choose the author, categories, tags and picture on the right.
Posts are published immediately
There is no draft state. A post is public as soon as you save it. To prepare an article without publishing it, write it in a document first, or save it and delete the post if you need to withdraw it. Deleting a post removes it permanently.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Title | The headline of the article. Required. Shown large at the top of the article and in lists. |
| Slug | The address of the post: the slug spring-colour-trends gives https://your-site.com/spring-colour-trends. Must be unique across all pages and posts. Avoid changing it once the article is shared. |
| Content | The article body, written in the rich-text editor with headings, lists, links, pictures, quotes and tables. The first letter of the first paragraph is shown as a decorative drop cap. |
| Excerpt | A one- or two-sentence summary shown under the title and on listing cards. |
| Meta title / Meta Description | What search engines show for the post. If empty, the title and excerpt are used. |
| OG title / OG Description | What appears when the article is shared on social networks. |
| Author | The user credited in the “Words by” line. Choose any user who writes for the site. If the author is later deleted the article still displays without a byline. |
| Categories | The topics the post belongs to. Tick one or more. Posts without a category are shown without a topic label. See Categories & Tags. |
| Tags | Separate tags with commas. Each tag becomes a chip; existing tags are suggested as you type, and a tag that does not exist yet is created for you. Reuse existing tags where you can. |
| Featured Image | The main picture. It heads the article, appears on cards and is the share picture. Use a wide image of at least 1200 × 630 pixels. Posts without a picture still look good: they use a typographic design. |
Editing an existing post. Everything on the New Post form can be changed later.
When more than one language is enabled, the form shows a tab for each language. Fill in the title, content, excerpt and search details of each translation. The slug, author, categories, tags and picture are shared by all languages. See Multilingual Content.
| Column / control | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Search | Finds posts by title. |
| Picture, Title | The featured image thumbnail and headline. |
| Author, Categories, Tags | Who wrote it and how it is grouped. |
| Date | The publication date and time. A Published badge is shown; Featured or Editor’s Choice badges appear when set. |
| View (eye) | Opens the article on the public site. |
| Edit (pencil) | Opens the post for editing. |
| Delete (bin) | Deletes the post permanently. |
| ⋮ menu | Marks the post as Featured or Editor’s Choice, or removes that mark. |
The three-dot menu at the end of each row sets Featured and Editor’s Choice.
Two marks help you highlight posts. A post can carry one mark at a time: choosing the other replaces the first.
| Mark | What it does |
|---|---|
| Featured | On the automatic journal page, flagged posts are listed first and the first flagged post becomes the large lead story (labelled In focus). Without one, the latest post leads (labelled The latest story). Use it for the one or two stories you want every visitor to see. Either mark counts for the lead story. |
| Editor’s Choice | Marks a post as recommended by the editorial team. Use it to build a “recommended reading” list: in Widgets, the Posts widget can be set to show only Featured Posts or only Editor Choice posts. |
The blog page is the page selected as Blog page in Page Setup. It has two modes:
The public blog page: a topic menu (All stories and your categories), a search box, and the stories.
Under the heading, visitors find a menu of All stories plus each category, and a Search stories box. Searching looks in the titles and excerpts of published posts in the visitor’s language and shows the results as a numbered list. Category and tag links lead to archive pages that list the matching posts.
A category page lists every post in that category, newest first, with page numbers when there are many.
An article page: headline, excerpt, author and date, large picture, and a reading rail beside the text.
| Part | Details |
|---|---|
| Breadcrumbs | Home / Blog / Category / Post. Visitors can click back up the trail. |
| Headline and byline | The title, the excerpt, the author’s name and picture, the publication date and an automatic min read estimate. |
| Reading rail (computers) | A sticky column beside the text with a link back to the journal, the In this story contents list (generated from your headings), a reading progress bar, and Share this story. On phones these tools move below the article. |
| Share this story | Icons for LinkedIn, X, Facebook and email, a More ways to share list with further networks, and Copy link, which copies the address to the clipboard and confirms it. |
| Tags | Each tag under the article links to its tag page. |
| Explore further | Related stories from the same categories. |
A tag page collects every post that carries the tag.
Every article has a discussion section titled The conversation.
The discussion: comments with replies, an Appreciate button on each, and a form for adding yours.
Moderating comments
There is no separate moderation list. To remove an unwanted comment, open the article while signed in as the main administrator and choose Delete next to it. A comment that has replies is shown with its replies; delete the replies first.
| Permission | Allows |
|---|---|
| manage post | See the Posts menu and list. |
| create post | Use New Post. |
| edit post | Edit posts and change Featured / Editor’s Choice. |
| delete post | Delete posts. |
| Symptom | What to do |
|---|---|
| The new post is not on the blog page | If your blog page is designed in the Page Builder, check the Blog Cards block’s category filter, its number of posts and its page. If a page cache is in use, see the FAQ. |
| The post address shows “page not found” | The slug was changed, or another page already uses it. Check the slug on the edit screen. |
| The In this story menu is missing | The menu is built from Heading 2 and Heading 3 headings. Posts without headings do not show it. |
| No comment form | Visitors must be signed in to comment; guests see an invitation to sign in instead of a form. |
| The picture looks cropped on cards | Cards crop pictures to a fixed shape. Keep the subject near the centre of a wide image. |
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