Writing a long post and wish the whole thing didn't show up on your blog's homepage? Just use a page break!
Page breaks are simple ways to show only the first portion of your post. This way your homepage stays clean, and your readers can click in to see more. You can even customize the "read more" sentence that people click on.
This is a page break in action, click to learn how to create your own!
One of the best parts of working at OnSugar is getting to read all the posts everyone is creating. Okay, so I’m not actually reading all of them -- there’s far too many and I’d get absolutely nothing done if I did! -- but I do see a lot of interesting things each day.
Starting this week I thought I'd share some of my favorite OnSugar posts with you. Here's what you had to offer this week: 
If you’ve got an OnSugar site you really like, or a post you find amazing, put a note in the comments below!
Last week our OnSugar developers rolled out another way to integrate your OnSugar activity with your Facebook account. You can already update your status when you post a new story, but now you can update your status when you leave a comment too! To do so, just check the "Post this comment to my Facebook feed" box right below the comment box. When you click post, it will post your comment and automatically update your Facebook status. Now all of your Facebook pals can see what you have to say.
Note: This feature is only available on blogs with unmapped domains (domains that still contain onsugar.com in their url).
While we've been working on adding new features to OnSugar, some of you have been working on making it look better.
Over the past few weeks several members have created hot new themes for the rest of you to use. Some of these are original works of art, while others are ports of popular themes from other places. From strange little pink towns to clean simple green designs, there's a fun new theme for everyone. Heck, OnSugar member persiancat has even offered you a Twilight-inspired theme! And if you like what you see, he's even created a site you can follow to find out when he makes more!
Learn how to use a shared theme.
If you’ve ever stumbled across something and thought, “Wow, I need to share that with my friends right now,” then we have great news for you. This week we’re happy to introduce our new OnSugar Bookmark Tool!
This tool will allow you to easily add a link type post to your blog. It pulls in the url automatically and allows you to create a title, add text and choose an image. You can even give your new post categories and tags. Once you hit the save button, the post automatically publishes to your OnSugar blog. Now you can post without being on your blog!
Here’s how to get started:
For more information, please read our OnSugar Bookmark Tool FAQ.
Lately our number one question has been how do you change your time zone. Believe it or not, this was something you couldn’t do until just this week!
Luckily, our development team are a great group of folks and have listened to your requests. Now you can change your time zone easily. To do so, click on “Blog Settings” in the dropdown menu and then scroll to the bottom of the page. There you’ll be able to choose from many different locations. Just let us know where you are, and your blog will reflect the correct time.
Thanks for the suggestions, and please do keep them coming!
While this blog has been pretty quiet lately, things have actually been buzzing at the OnSugar HQ.
Last week we rolled out a bunch of improvements -- check out the top navigation bar, now with a built in search! -- and while we're excited about all the features, there are two things that you absolutely can't miss.
First of all, let me introduce you to the Tracker. This tool is a great way to keep track of all the OnSugar blogs you're following, as well as PopSugar Community Groups and Editorial. Stories will appear here with the most recently updated (either posted or commented on) post showing up first. Now you'll never miss another post or comment! And if you're tired of a certain post, just click the box and mark it read. Learn more about using the Tracker.
Secondly, you can now easily find new blogs to follow. Attached to the Tracker are two tabs: Discover and Explore. Discover allows you to keep track of posts as they happen (OnSugar and PopSugar Network), while Explore lets you find new OnSugar blogs by genre. Now you can discover who else is blogging about topics you enjoy. And who knows, maybe your blog will be featured!
You can now use your keyboard’s left and right arrow keys to browse a gallery! Just click on any photo in your gallery (like this one), and navigate to the next one with your keyboard. It’s a new feature that is automatically built in to each gallery.
However, the fun doesn’t stop there. With a little bit of eyelash-batting, I was able to get our dev team to share the secret. With a few simple theme hacks, you can now build left/right arrow navigation into your blog (you can see it in action at the Daily Sabs). To add the feature, just place the following bits of code to the "Page" template of your theme.
Directly above the </body> tag add this code:
<script type="text/javascript">
onsugarInitSlideKeys();
</script>
And then add links for previous and next by using the following bits of code (you can change the bit that says "Go Back" and "Go Forward" and can place these links anywhere below the <body> tag and above the script code):
<a id='slide_previous' href="?page={$page_previous_page}">Go Back</a>
<a id='slide_next' href="?page={$page_next_page}">Go Forward</a>
Save your theme, and you should be set!
Remember, this is just a fun hack and it make take some tweaks to get it working right. If you need a hand, drop us a line at help@onsugar.com.
This week our dev team rolled out a new way to manage your comments. The tool — which you can get to by clicking on “Comments” in your blog dropdown menu — allows you to view all of your comments in one place. Now you can easily search through comments, see all comments from one reader, and even un-publish more than one comment at once.
Visit the help blog to learn more about the new comment management system.
If you've been a member for OnSugar for a while, you've probably seen our HTML popup tool. It was convenient, but let's be honest, it wasn't the easiest interface.
To remedy this, we're introducing a new way to toggle between the two views. With a quick click of a link, you can see your post in the regular "rich text" format or in the "raw HTML" view. No additional popups, and no more "which window" confusion.
As a bonus feature, we're also going to remember which format you last used. So if you last edited a post in HTML, your next post will be automatically set to HTML. If you want to switch back all you have to do is click the link.
To switch views, just click the link underneath the body box. Doing so will toggle the content directly in the body box. Also please note: the old HTML popup icon will be discontinued soon, so let us know if you have any questions about the new way.
And remember, to embed code into your post (such as youtube videos, etc.) you need to be in raw HTML mode.
