Tips » Using Webjam's Saved Search

If you post many blogs on your site and want to create better navigation, then Webjam's saved search could be the answer. By simply tagging your blogs you can send them around your site with ease.

Here's what to do

Let's take the example of a website that covers music, art and film in their blog. Each topic has it's own separate page and you have set up a blog roll on each page. This is no longer necessary. You can now set up one blog and simply tag content to be relayed around the site.

Tagging is the process of adding keywords to content on a website that allows the content to be found through search engines.

To make the search work to it's full potential, it is advised to set up a keyword to add to your tags. This keyword should be something that is not going to be found within the text of other blog posts. For example, for the film page use the tag 'filmblog' or if you have a local area page on your site you could use 'localblog'.

Now place the saved search box onto the page where you want the content to appear. The saved search module can be found in modules > Webjam toolbox > Saved search - choose add to page and select the 'Edit' button on the module. In the pre defined query enter your tag 'filmblog' or localblog' and choose to search blog posts only. You can search by date or relevance and choose how many posts to display. Like many things on Webjam you can cutomise this to your own desires and it's good to play around until you have it set exactly as you want it.

Choose save and the search box will show all blogs with the tag you have set.

If you go back to within your blog light box you can then select co-editors - members of your network who you want to blog on your site. By making them a co-editor of the blog they can edit the blog, but not the content on the site, which gives you piece of mind that your site will have content on it but the look and feel will not be changed.

We hope this of use to your network. Please let us know what you think and how you are using the search and co-editor functionality.