How To Use The New Blog/Journal features?

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riddleme

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I have set up my new Journal (Riddlemes Nuggets, sig link) to show everyone what is possible, now let me explain how to do it :bigjoint:

In your My Rollitup bottom left is a link called journal, this is your control panel, when you click it, it will start on the privacy & settings page simply select how you want it to act.

Once you have done this, you need to name your Journal if you don't give it a name it will default to your screen name.

Once you have chosen a name you need to manage/create catagories. If you look at mine you will see I have several, this is how you seperate/organize topics so others can find them more easily. Think about and plan how you want to lay your journal out and what kind of things you will be posting there and name your catagories accordingly.

Understanding Parent Catagories. If you look at mine you will see that I have created a catagory called Grow Journals, This is a parent catagory allowing me to have more than one (in the future) I then created a Goin Loco catagory to copy my first journal into and chose the parent catagory grow journal to place it in.

Once you have created your catagories you are ready to blog/journal. you can click the create new post button and start from scratch or you can automatically copy a forum post by clicking the "journal this post" link found bottom left of every forum post (and yes you can blog other member post you find helpful or interesting, I have done this in my Member Nuggets catagory).

Please understand that you are limited to 10,000 characters per post and 10 images (includes smilies) this is why you see Part 1 and Part 2 post in my journal.

Once you have written (or copied) your post check the box of the catagory you want it in, use the manage attachments button to add pic's (HINT, I prefer the "As Attachments" option as it displays them neater) Hit the post now button and walla your new journal has begun.

To edit a post simply click the litte pencil icon next to the title.

Now what are Custom Pages, if you look at my journal you will see a link called Research Links that is on the right side under my statistics and right above the ad, this is a custom page that I created (you are allowed 5 of these) You can make these pages be whatever you want

Hope this helps everyone get started and if you have questions ask away :bigjoint:
 

Blazed Hippie

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do you know wat specifically you can put on those special pages u can make. Like is it txt only, can u put pics? can u use html? can you make a poll or something? Just wondering I don't really wanna waste my time until I can figure out what I really wanna do with it lol.
 

riddleme

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do you know wat specifically you can put on those special pages u can make. Like is it txt only, can u put pics? can u use html? can you make a poll or something? Just wondering I don't really wanna waste my time until I can figure out what I really wanna do with it lol.
Have not seen anything to tell us what we can or can not do with em, don't know about html? I imagine the pages would use the BB Code since it is tied to the script.

Perhaps one of the mods or admin could chime in to tel us if there are any limitations?
 

Blazed Hippie

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Have not seen anything to tell us what we can or can not do with em, don't know about html? I imagine the pages would use the BB Code since it is tied to the script.

Perhaps one of the mods or admin could chime in to tel us if there are any limitations?
was hoping an admin would chime we will see lol
 

riddleme

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Hey BH

noticed in your blog post about nature and me making it rain that you added links to my post that show up as well regular links

in other post I have told members how to get thier sig links to show like mine and it is the same code to clean up links on your new journal post, I will have to type it out in a un-normal way so you can see what I'm talking about otherwise the forum script will change it (which I will demonstrate at the bottom)

so where I type "open" it = [ and where I type "close" it = ] here is how to do it

openurl=http://YOUR LINK HERE.comclose Type what you want to show here open/urlclose

This is not an actual link but am properly typing the brackets so you can see what happens

Type what you want to show here

happy coding
 

Blazed Hippie

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Hey BH

noticed in your blog post about nature and me making it rain that you added links to my post that show up as well regular links

in other post I have told members how to get thier sig links to show like mine and it is the same code to clean up links on your new journal post, I will have to type it out in a un-normal way so you can see what I'm talking about otherwise the forum script will change it (which I will demonstrate at the bottom)

so where I type "open" it = [ and where I type "close" it = ] here is how to do it

openurl=http://YOUR LINK HERE.comclose Type what you want to show here open/urlclose

This is not an actual link but am properly typing the brackets so you can see what happens

Type what you want to show here

happy coding
wow you read my mind i didnt think I would ever get someone to help me with that lol. kept that question to myself lol. Thanks man
 

riddleme

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Also want to point out that you can use the same code to put a video from youtube up

simply change "url" to "video"

like this

openvideoclosehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iimHkskETgopen/videoclose

here it is with brackets typed properly

[video=youtube;-iimHkskETg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iimHkskETg[/video]
 

fin24

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hey i am asking on this one because ive noticed your good at replying so i wondered is it bad/good or irrelevent to snip shade leaves before harvest?
 

riddleme

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hey i am asking on this one because ive noticed your good at replying so i wondered is it bad/good or irrelevent to snip shade leaves before harvest?
My personal advice is to never cut shade leaves, there is a ditty on the truth about shade leaves in my journal (Riddlemes Nuggets, sig link)
under Research Nuggets, and if you need to ask growing questions better to post here,,,
https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/322278-who-needs-help-ask-here.html

Thank You
 

zoso914

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:-PHey my friend riddleme you are awesome once again great job dude:clap:.Fan Leaves, "Amen" riddleme don't kill the money makers if your the pimp right.:weed:

peace out,
zoso914:fire:
 

pabloesqobar

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I've been looking on here for awhile and trying to find out how to edit my signature so I can tailor it like most everyone else does. Anybody have a simple way of explaining it to someone that doesn't know the first thing about code, hyperlinks, html, etc.? Thanks!
 

pabloesqobar

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Forgot my other question: When I'm posting in my journal and adding pics via the "manage attachment" tool, they never appear in the order I selected them. The site never unilaterally shuffled the order of my pictures before, but now it does. Any way to get my pics to appear in the order I upload them? Thanks so much.
 

riddleme

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I've been looking on here for awhile and trying to find out how to edit my signature so I can tailor it like most everyone else does. Anybody have a simple way of explaining it to someone that doesn't know the first thing about code, hyperlinks, html, etc.? Thanks!
it is already covered go back to page one and read post #6
 
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