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Our database for blog posts is ready.
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Now we can start building and adding new blog posts. To go back to the blog post collection, click on
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CMS from the left bar and then blog posts.
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Make sure you don't click on the gear icon.
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That's gonna take you to the place to edit the settings.
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This is one place to add new blog posts. But this can also be done from the editor.
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We can add new blog posts from this blue button. Webflow actually
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has this option to generate some dummy content for us.
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So let's do that.
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Let's add 5 or 10 new items.
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Give it a few seconds and you'll get this.
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So, we have 5 new blog posts.
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If you click on one of these, you will open up the blog post.
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Here we can see all those fields we created previously.
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This time all filled with some dummy content, that Webflow generated for us.
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There is a headline, and there is a main image,
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we have a post body, and the post summary.
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All of that is editable, even after we publish and make our post live.
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Let's create a new blog post from scratch. So we can understand how each of these fields work.
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We can use content from our designs.
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So let's go ahead and fill out each of these fields.
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When you enter the headline, it will automatically be used as the URL. If you want to have something different
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for the URL.
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No problem.
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You can edit this URL right here.
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I keep headlines and URLs always the same.
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Just makes more sense that way.
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Then we have the main image, which is same as the hero image.
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And I'm going to upload this image right here.
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Now the post body is a special kind of field.
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It's called Rich Text.
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We can put headlines in this text, subheads, images, videos, quotes, bullets and that sort of stuff.
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We have different types of headlines, we have images, we don't need individual fields for all of this
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stuff.
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One rich text field can take care of all the content like that.
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And within this Rich Text field, we have a lot of freedom to style text in different ways.
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Or add YouTube videos, right between the text.
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This even has some layout controls to display the video in many different positions. Although this isn't
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really how the final result will look like, the final result depends on how we style this block. And more
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about that later.
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Lastly, we have a post summary field, which is this.
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Click create and will be added to the database. The status has this message staged for publishing.
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It means next time we publish our website, all those blog posts that are pending, will go live. But in our
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case, they actually won't go anywhere, because we have only created the database. We haven't created a
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blog page that is going to pull this content from the database.
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We shall do that in the next video.