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Configure blog server settings

Blogging systems support a variety of features that enhance blogging experience. Client applications, like Contribute, can access only those features to which the blog system provides access. Because not all blog systems support all the features, Contribute provides you a common set of features, which it can access from different blog systems. The following features are currently supported in Contribute.

  • Inserting images

  • Inserting audio

  • Inserting video

  • Commenting features

  • Categories

  • Trackback features

  • Pages

    • Parent pages

    • Page order

When you access a blog page, only those features supported by the blog server are enabled on the interface. However, you can choose to enable a feature that the blog server doesn’t support. This override works only if the server starts to support the feature before the blog is published. From the list of features supported by Contribute, you can personalize only three features — Images, Audio, and Video.

For example, if the server does not support embedding images, you can enable the option using the blog interface. The embedded image is published on the server only if the server starts providing this support before the page is published. You can also choose to disable features supported by the server. These settings are applied only on your computer, and do not affect settings on the server.

The configured settings for different blog systems are stored in the registry.

Note: The applied settings work only on your local computer, and you must reconfigure them when you edit blogs from a different computer.

  1. Select Edit > My Connections.

  2. In the My Connections dialog box, select the blog server that you want to configure. Click Configure. The Configure Blog Server dialog box appears.

    The features supported by the server appear selected next to the corresponding options. The features supported by the server that cannot be customized appear in the field below the options.

  3. To enable a feature that is not supported, check the option. The corresponding button and menu item for that feature are enabled in the interface.

  4. To revert to the default server options, and to check the current status of the features supported by the blog server, click Update Support.