Content Blog Post

Summary

Add a new blog post

Prerequisites

Steps

Prepare the branch

1. Open up the terminal to the dendron-blog vault

• > Terminal: Create New Integrated Terminal
• Select Dendron.Blog

1. Checkout a new branch

   git checkout -b feature/{article-title}
   

Posting

1. Create a new blog note at blog.{YEAR}.{date-separated-by-dash}-{title} inside of Blog (Private)
   • NOTE: the auto-generated title will include the date in the note title, be sure to remove it
2. Apply Blog Post Template (Private)
   • fill out relevant frontmatter
   • date: check the Publication Windows and set the date to the earliest available publication window
   • excerpt: an 250 character or less description of the article
   • image: url to an image for the article
3. Add blog post
4. Add a header image

• see Image Sources for list of open source image providers
• follow process Upload Images (Private)

1. Submit for PR
2. When PR is approved, merge
3. When the blog goes out, set publish: true and push straight to master

After Release

1. Make sure the blog post is announced during the weekly release
2. Cross post the blog post in other channels by following Blog posts and cross-posting

Examples

• Growing Knowledge Bases from the Bottom Up (Private)

Reference

Publication Windows

• Mon-Th 7AM-11AM PST

Image Sources

• https://www.pexels.com/

Checklist

Templates

Lookup

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Backlinks

• Content Blog Post
• Content Tutorial Post
• Posting Content