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Share useful advice with a blog post on your website.

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We’ll create a home-care checklist, review the draft, and walk through the publishing controls.

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Before you start, an administrator must enable Blog for your business and connect a compatible website.

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If Blog is missing or the website is not ready, ask your administrator to complete that setup first.

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Open Blog in your business workspace and choose New article.

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Add a clear title.

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The slug becomes part of the article address, so keep it short and readable.

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Add an excerpt that briefly explains what readers will learn.

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Write your article in the Article body.

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The editor supports Markdown, with a formatting toolbar for common elements.

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Use headings to organize the post and lists for practical steps.

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Switch between Write, Split, and Preview to check how the formatting looks.

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Check the author and tags.

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A cover image is optional; if you add one, include useful alternative text.

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Search and sharing includes an optional search title, description, and canonical address.

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Review these details along with the article before you save.

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Select the Save draft button to keep your work without publishing it.

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Read through the saved draft and check the preview.

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Make sure the title, links, formatting, and any image description are ready for readers.

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When ready, choose Publish and confirm.

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Publishing starts a website build, so allow time for it to finish.

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We’ve shortened the wait here.

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Use Check build to refresh the status.

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Once the article shows Published, choose Open live article and review the real page.

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Now let’s add images to the published article.

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A cover image and an image inside the article serve different purposes.

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We’ll add one of each, then compare them on the live page.

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Add a cover image using Upload cover image.

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This stores the image separately from the article body.

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Uploading also publishes the image file.

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If the status says it is still in progress, wait, then select the same file again to check it.

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Once uploaded, add descriptive alternative text.

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For an image inside the article, place the cursor where it belongs and use the editor’s Image button.

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Select the checklist illustration.

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This upload may also need time to publish; follow the same-file check if prompted.

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The editor inserts a Markdown image line at the cursor.

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The image line starts with an exclamation mark, a description in square brackets, and the image address in parentheses.

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Replace the description with useful alternative text.

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Here, the relative address did not load in the editor preview.

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Using the full public image address fixes that preview.

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Move the entire image line to reposition it in the article.

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Compare the editor views.

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Write shows the Markdown source.

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Split puts the source beside its preview.

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Preview shows the formatted article body, including the inline image in its new position.

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The separate cover image is not part of this body preview.

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Choose Save changes to keep your edits.

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Unpublished changes still need to be published before readers see them.

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Choose Publish changes and confirm.

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Allow the website build to finish, then use Check build to refresh its status.

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We’ve shortened that wait here.

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When publication is complete, open the live article to check the result.

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For this website template, the cover appears below the title and author, before the article body.

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The checklist image appears inside the article, after the checklist, where we moved its Markdown line.

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Use the cover for the article’s main visual, and inline images to support specific parts of your content.

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Your post is now live.

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Keep future articles clear, useful, and easy to read.