Blog
Write, schedule and publish blog posts to your public blog, its RSS feed and your sitemap, with built-in SEO checks.
The blog is where you write longer pieces: a behind-the-scenes look at a firing, glaze care tips, a recap of a workshop. Each published post gets its own page at lahuta.org/<your-org>/blog/<post>, and appears in your blog's RSS feed and sitemap so search engines find it.
Open it from Blog in the sidebar.
Write a post
Select New post, type a Title, and select Create draft. The dialog shows the address the post will live at.
Write the post in the editor. It saves as you type, and the header shows Saved, Saving… or Unsaved changes.
Open Post settings to add a cover, excerpt, byline and keywords, and to check how the post will do in search. On a wide screen the settings sit beside the writing.
Select Publish, or open the arrow next to it and choose Schedule for later… to pick a date and time.
Post settings
The settings panel has three sections.
Post
- Cover. The image at the top of the post. It's also the preview image when someone shares the link.
- Excerpt. A short summary shown in post listings and when the post is shared. If you leave it empty, the opening of the post is used.
- Byline. Select Add author to credit one or more teammates. A post with no author still publishes.
- Keywords. Select Add keyword to tag the post. Readers can filter your posts by them.
Search engine
- Web address. The end of the post's address. It follows the title until the post goes live. After that, changing it breaks every link to the old address, so Lahuta warns you first. Follow the title again switches it back.
- Focus keyword. The phrase you want the post to rank for. Setting one turns on the keyword checks.
- Meta description. What search engines show under your title. If you leave it empty, the excerpt is used.
SEO checks
A score out of 100, a word count, and a badge: Good, Getting there or Needs work. The checks are grouped under Basics, Focus keyword, Content and Images and links, and each one says how to fix it. They cover things like title length, a meta description, a cover image, the keyword in the title, opening, a heading and the web address, post length, headings, sentence and paragraph length, images with alt text, and links.
The score updates after each save.
Publish, schedule and unpublish
What you can do depends on where the post is:
| Status | Meaning | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Draft | Not public. | Publish, Schedule for later…, Archive, Delete |
| Scheduled | Goes live on its own at the time you set. | Publish now, Reschedule…, Unschedule, Archive |
| Published | Live on your blog, feed and sitemap. | View post, Change the date…, Unpublish, Archive |
| Archived | Hidden from your blog, feed and sitemap. | Delete |
- Unpublish and Unschedule turn the post back into a draft.
- Change the date… sets the date the post shows as published. A future date takes it off the blog until then.
- A published post can't be deleted. Archive it first.
- Changes to a published post save to the live post as you type.
In the editor, the less common actions are in the ⋯ menu at the top. Each row on the Blog page has a ⋮ menu with the same actions, and that's where you archive a scheduled post.
Find your posts
The Blog page lists your posts with All, Drafts, Scheduled, Published and Archived tabs. Use Search titles… to find one. Each row shows the byline and when the post went or goes live.
Where your posts appear
- Post pages. Each published post is at
lahuta.org/<your-org>/blog/<post>. Select View post in the editor to open it. - RSS feed. Readers and feed tools can follow your blog at
https://api.lahuta.org/blog/<your-org>/feed.xml, for examplehttps://api.lahuta.org/blog/northside-pottery/feed.xml. - Sitemap. Search engines can find every post from
https://api.lahuta.org/blog/<your-org>/sitemap.xml. You can submit it in Google Search Console. - Your Express Page. Add the Blog block to list your posts. See Express Page.
- Your own website. Your web developer can show your posts on your own site with the Org API.