What’s New – Week Ending 4/28/12

By BoW Admin | Enhancements
29 Apr 2012

Purpose Journals

Purpose Journals are specific types of posts, with more focused features and organization. We hope that you are blessed through the feature.

New Purpose Journals!

  • Praise
    • The purpose of this journal is to simply record and share your praise for your Heavenly Father. How amazing would it be to see a history of all that you’ve been thankful for over time, especially during times of trial or “valleys”?
    • Praise can be organized with tags
    • Praise entries do not have a title. You just write your praise and post.

Updated Purpose Journals:

  • Prayer Requests
    • Removed the title field – we don’t feel a “title” is applicable to a prayer request. We welcome your feedback.

Blog Theme Updates (the look and feel of your blog)

Beauty theme

  • Added “Posts” submenu for Praise

Notepad Chaos theme

  • Added sidebar link to Praise posts

Diary theme

  • Added sidebar link to Praise posts

Community Feature Enhancements

Recent Posts Page

The Recent Posts page is found on the main BoW site, under the “The Community” menu.

The following updates have been made:

  • The page’s styling was updated to give visual clarity to the different post types (general posts, prayer requests, etc).
  • The page now offers buttons at the top to filter the list by Purpose Journal (post type)

New Community Pages

Similar to the Recent Posts page, new pages have been implemented on the main site (in the “The Community” menu) that provide listings of the most recent posts within specific Purpose Journals.

  • Recent Praise

Blogging Enhancements

Admin Bar

The Admin Bar is the bar that appears across the top of your browser when you are logged into Beginning of Wisdom.

The following changes have been made:

  • In the “BoW” drop-down menu, in the “Discover” submenu, we added links to the Purpose Journal community pages (Praise, Prayer Requests, Lessons, and Book Reviews)

Dashboard

The Dashboard is where you manage your blog’s content.

The following changes have been made:

  • Added menu for Praise Purpose Journal
  • Removed a couple of theme options that were completely unused, so that efforts could be focused on the most popular themes (blog designs)

User Profile

Your user profile can be found from your Dashboard menu under Users > Your Profile.

The following updates have been made:

  • Added option to hide the Praise Purpose Journal

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