Blog posts are articles, news and updates that appear in your website's blog. You manage them in **Strengthen → Content → Posts**. Each post belongs to one or more blog categories, and those categories decide which website's blog it appears on and what its web address looks like.

## Before you start

- Your package must include the blog. If **Posts** isn't in your menu, see [Package and add-ons](/account-and-access/package-and-add-ons) or ask a subscription administrator.
- You need permission to view posts, and permission to create posts to add new ones. See [Users, teams, groups and permissions](/account-and-access/users-teams-groups-and-permissions).
- Set up at least one blog category and one author first. Both are required on every post. See [Blog categories and authors](/strengthen/content-categories-and-authors).
- An administrator must turn the blog on for your website in **Account → Settings → Content**. See [Content settings](/settings/content-settings).

## Find your posts

The posts list shows all your posts. Summary tiles above the list show how many posts are **Published** (with the change over the last 30 days), your **Publishing rate** (posts per week over recent weeks), and how many posts have **Drafts** or are **Scheduled**. Select the **Drafts** tile to filter the list to posts with a draft.

Select a post to open it. Depending on your permissions, the actions menu on a row also lets you **Enable**, **Disable** or **Delete** a post, or **Clear Frontend Cache** so your website picks up the latest version.

If you see **Unavailable** instead of the list, select **Try again**.

## Write a new post

- Step 1: Go to **Strengthen → Content → Posts** and select **New**.
- Step 2: If your organisation has more than one post template, choose one.
- Step 3: On the **General** tab, enter a **Title**, **Subtitle**, **Short Description** and **Body Text**. The short description is used on post tiles and as a fallback meta description.
- Step 4: On the **Media** tab, add an **Image** and a **Thumbnail Image**.
- Step 5: On the **Categories** tab, tick one or more categories in the **Category List**.
- Step 6: On the **SEO** tab, set the **URL**, **Meta Title**, **Meta Description** and **Author**. If you leave **Meta Title** empty, the post title is used when you save.
- Step 7: Optionally, on the **Related Posts** tab, choose up to 3 **Related posts** to show alongside this one. Drag them to change their order, or select **Remove** to take one off.
- Step 8: Select **Publish now**, or open the **Actions** menu (the button next to it) to **Save Draft**, **Schedule** or **Schedule with revert**.

The fields you see depend on the post template your administrator has set up, so you may see extra tabs or fields.

## How post addresses are built

A post's web address is made from your website's blog path, then the post's main category, then the post's own **URL**. For example, a post with the URL "spring-update" in a "news" category might live at /blog/news/spring-update. Your administrator sets the blog path for each website.

If you change the URL of a post, Structurell automatically creates a permanent redirect from the old address to the new one and updates links to it in your other content, so existing links keep working. See [Redirects](/strengthen/content-redirects).

## Publish, draft and schedule

Posts use the same publishing options as pages:

- **Publish now** makes your changes live and returns you to the posts list. **Publish and continue** keeps the editor open.
- **Save Draft** stores your changes without touching the live post. Use **Edit Draft**, **Exit Draft** and **Delete Draft** to manage it.
- **Schedule** asks for a **Go live at** date and time for your changes.
- **Schedule with revert** also asks for a **Revert at** date and time, after which the post goes back to its previous version.

Once a post has been saved:

- Select **Preview** to see it on your website in a new tab. The preview updates as you edit.
- The **Versions** tab shows its history and the **Comments** tab lets your team discuss it.
- The **Review History** tab shows the **Publishing Sign-off** panel, where you can **Submit for review** if your organisation uses publishing sign-off.

For more detail on drafts, scheduling and sign-off, see [Creating and editing pages](/strengthen/content-pages).

## Get help from AI

If your package includes AI for Content:

- In the posts list, choose **AI Suggestion** alongside **New** to plan post ideas based on your existing posts.
- In the post editor, select the **AI** button at the bottom left and choose **Writing assistant** to improve the content or SEO metadata. You approve each change before it's applied.

See [AI content suggestions](/strengthen/ai-content-suggestions).

## Troubleshooting

- **The post doesn't appear on the website**: check that it's enabled, published rather than a draft, and in at least one category that belongs to that website's blog.
- **You can't add a fourth related post**: you can choose up to 3 related posts.
- **You can't save the post**: check that you've ticked at least one category and chosen an **Author** and a **URL**. The editor opens the tab with the missing field.