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Setting categories and other options

How to set categories

Different systems have different features, so not everything below will apply to every weblog system.

You can set the category for a post via the Category popup in the toolbar. For systems (such as TypePad and Movable Type) that support multiple categories and that support a main category, this also sets the main category.

For setting multiple categories, click Options in the toolbar. A drawer opens that lists your categories. Check the categories you want for this post.

Options Drawer screen shot

Movable-Type-compatible options

For Movable-Type-compatible sites, you can also set Formatting, Comments, and whether or not to accept Trackbacks.

These options appear below the categories list in the Options drawer.

You can also set a list of trackback URLs to send: click Trackbacks in the toolbar. Click the + button to add a URL. Click OK when youÕre finished.

To set Extended, Excerpt, and Keywords entries, click the corresponding tabs near the upper-right of the editing window.

Note: To make it easier to see which of body, extended, excerpt, and keywords is currently active, you can customize the text and background colors for each tab. See How to change editing colors.

Radio UserLand options

For Radio UserLand sites, you can specify that a post should or should not appear on the home page. This checkbox appears below the categories list in the Options drawer.