An Assortment of Tutorials

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Tagging posts

On DW, post tagging works differently than more modern platforms. Here, your tag archive is easily accessible to you and others, and manageable. Check out my list. (I made those nested ones by using tags fandom: wod and fandom: temeraire--the system understands that's actually two nested tags.)

You can even display them as a widget in your blog's sidebar, like I did on mine: prettyarbitrary.

The post creation module also makes it very easy to review and select the tags you want to apply to any given post. So if you have categories you want to keep organized, such as 'my art' or 'my fic' or 'book recs,' apply them consistently and you can end up with a premade library. Which, yes, you can link to. Here's my 'dreamwidth' tag.

How to @ a user or community

<user name=blog-name>

Shows like e.g. pillowfolks. The user or community you link to this way will not get a notification they've been mentioned. But it does make their name linkable.

How to do that text box thing I just did

<textarea also optionally cols="45" rows="5"> Handy for showing the code you're trying to demonstrate. cols sets a desired display width of the box. It counts in the number of characters from left to right, so this will show 45 characters before you have to scroll. rows sets a desired display height. It counts the number of lines from the top, so this would force it to show five rows before you have to scroll.


How to make linkable text

Most platforms make this easy to do these days, but hey, just in case you want to do it by hand and you don't know how:

Here I'm linking to <a href="url of the post or site or whatever">The text I want to be visible</a>.

And it shows like this: Here I'm linking to The text I want to be visible.

How to add a read-more cut

Part of the post you want automatically displayed. <cut text="Your cut will look like this"> Stuff under the cut. </cut> And you can even have stuff after the cut, if you want.

And here's how it comes out.

( Your cut will look like this )

( In fact, you can have multiple cuts in a single post, if desired! )

Note that this does automatically start the cut-text on a new line. If you want to hide or black out a spoiler or potentially triggering text in the middle of a paragraph, it doesn't work well for that purpose.

How to embed an image in your post

Perhaps it's surrounded by blog post text. <img src="https://site.com/url-in-quotation-marks-here.jpg or maybe .png or .gif or whatever" width="600px or whatever width you want to set"> You can keep typing below this, too.

How to embed a clickable image in your post

Blog post text above, if you want. <a href="url where people can see the full-sized image"><img src="https://site.com/url-in-quotation-marks-here.jpg" width="600px or whatever width you want to set"></a> More blog post text below, if you want.

Crossposted to newcomers pillowfolks