Last week our dev team surprised us with a cool new feature. Under the "Advanced Options" section of your post (below the text area and above the save button), you now have two more ways to control your homepage.
The first option is called "Homepage" and it determines whether or not your post shows up in the main area of news. It is checked by default, meaning that every post will show up on your homepage. If you uncheck the box, your post will not show up in the regular place, and you will need to link to it in order for folks to find it. Some reasons for doing this might be a thank you page, a poll you want to link to from navigation, creating galleries or other content you'd like to call out on a tag page but not publish in your river of news, among other things.
The second option is called "Feature" and it will make a post stay at the top of your homepage. Some of you might know this as "sticky," and it is not-checked by default. Checking this box will push your post to the top of everything. A good use for this would be to promote contest you're running, or news you want to make sure everyone sees.
We noticed that the most popular type of widget happened to be a list of sites folks love (aka a Blogroll). Now you can easily create lists of your favorite sites or links with our new Blogroll Widget. You can add as many blogrolls as you like and give them different names (Blogs I Love, Blogs I Secretly Love But Pretend To Hate, etc.)
To do so go to "Widgets" in the dropdown menu and find the "Blogroll" module in the left hand column. Click on "Blogroll" and another box will pop open where you can begin creating your list. Title your blogroll (you can name it anything you'd like), and then begin adding links. Add a name, url and then click the "Add Link" button for each site added. To rearrange them, drag the items in the right column up and down until they are in the correct order. Once you're done be sure to click the "Save Options" button at the bottom.
We've gotten a lot of requests for anonymous comments and we're happy to say that we now have them!
By default, all sites are set to accept registered comments only. However with a few clicks, you can open up your site for everyone to comment.
To do so, click on "Site Settings" in your site dropdown menu. From there, scroll to the bottom until you see the "Allow anonymous comments" checkbox. Check the box, hit "Save" and ta da! Now anyone can comment on your site.
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 1:54PM by sabs1 Comment - 336 Views
This week the team made some changes to our email notifications. Prior to today, you could only receive individual email notifications. Now members can choose between individual emails, a daily digest email, or both.
If you choose Daily Digest, this means that instead of receiving an email each time a site you’re following posts, you’ll receive a roundup at the end of the day. This roundup will contain links to all posts created by sites you follow.
To do so, click on “Edit Profile” in the dropdown menu. Next click on the “Notifications” tab. Here you’ll see the settings.
Each site you follow has its own setting. This means you can mix and match settings, receiving some as they happen (ASAP), others at the end of the day (Daily Digest), or some with no notifications at all.
Ask and ye shall receive. Based on your requests, we've created a number of new themes this week. We've got a customizable wedding theme in blue, green, and rose; a new minimalist theme called Clean Sweep; and three existing themes that we've adapted for OnSugar: oneoneone by Quantum Thinking, museum theme by paulgiacherio, and bygone era by Robert Boylan.
You can try them out on your own site by clicking on "themes" under your site drop down and navigating to the last page of featured themes.
Just in time for Christmas, we’re releasing some new ‘wrapping’. Theme customization is now available on thirteen of our most popular themes. You can change colors, fonts, add your own header and more. We decked out the OnSugar blog in a matter of minutes.
To customize your own theme, go to your site menu, click "Themes", then set your blog to one of the featured themes with the “customizable” banner. Next head over to the the “Active” tab where you’ll see all the customization options for that theme.
Different themes have different customization options, so be sure to check out each one. We plan on rolling out more customized themes, so let us know what you’d like to see.
As some of you have noticed, there have been a lot of new additions to the layout tool, some of which I've highlighted above. In the coming weeks, we'll launch even more features. Stay tuned!
We are very proud to announce the launch of ShopSense. With ShopSense, you can get paid for the traffic you send retailers when you feature ShopStyle products, links and widgets on your site. There’s no code to download or special steps to take. As an OnSugar user, all you need to do is register your account and start blogging. Use the image uploader to access ShopStyle’s catalog of over 500,000 products, then find your favorites and select images and captions to add to your post. It’s that simple.
There are tons of ways to integrate ShopSense into your blogs. We've already seen some amazing layouts on the network. You can also add custom widgets to your site and get paid for those clicks as well. Learn more about ShopSense here.
To register your account and get started, click on “ShopSense” on your user dropdown menu.
We want to hear what you think! If there’s something you’d like to know about or see on ShopSense, drop us a line.
You asked, we built. It's now easy to publish and manage two widget sidebars on your OnSugar blog. To check it out, go to your widget management page. You'll notice there are two column under the active tab. Toggle between the two to add widgets to each.
There are currently seven featured themes that work with the new three column format, but we’re adding more all the time. Have a three column theme you'd like to see OnSugar? Let me know.
Did you just see the craziest thing on your morning commute and wish you could've blogged about it right there and then? Well now you can.
This week our development team unveiled our new post by email feature. Now you can post from your email equipped phone, or — and of course we don't actually endorse this — publish brilliant posts under the guise of composing work email.
To get started click on "Edit Profile" in the drop down menu. To learn more about posting by email, visit our help blog.
I should also mention that this featured was developed because many of you asked for it. So if you have other ideas for us, be sure to send them our way.
Last week our dev team surprised us with a cool new feature. Under the "Advanced Options" section of your post (below the text area and above the save button), you now have two more ways to control your homepage.
We noticed that the most popular type of widget happened to be a list of sites folks love (aka a Blogroll). Now you can easily create lists of your favorite sites or links with our new Blogroll Widget. You can add as many blogrolls as you like and give them different names (Blogs I Love, Blogs I Secretly Love But Pretend To Hate, etc.)
We've gotten a lot of requests for anonymous comments and we're happy to say that we now have them!
To do so, click on “Edit Profile” in the dropdown menu. Next click on the “Notifications” tab. Here you’ll see the settings.
To customize your own theme, go to your site menu, click "Themes", then set your blog to one of the featured themes with the “customizable” banner. Next head over to the the “Active” tab where you’ll see all the customization options for that theme.
You asked, we built. It's now easy to publish and manage two widget sidebars on your OnSugar blog. To check it out, go to your 
