Our database for blog posts is ready. 1
Now we can start building and adding new blog posts. To go back to the blog post collection, click on 2
CMS from the left bar and then blog posts. 3
Make sure you don't click on the gear icon. 4
That's gonna take you to the place to edit the settings. 5
This is one place to add new blog posts. But this can also be done from the editor. 6
We can add new blog posts from this blue button. Webflow actually 7
has this option to generate some dummy content for us. 8
So let's do that. 9
Let's add 5 or 10 new items. 10
Give it a few seconds and you'll get this. 11
So, we have 5 new blog posts. 12
If you click on one of these, you will open up the blog post. 13
Here we can see all those fields we created previously. 14
This time all filled with some dummy content, that Webflow generated for us. 15
There is a headline, and there is a main image, 16
we have a post body, and the post summary. 17
All of that is editable, even after we publish and make our post live. 18
Let's create a new blog post from scratch. So we can understand how each of these fields work. 19
We can use content from our designs. 20
So let's go ahead and fill out each of these fields. 21
When you enter the headline, it will automatically be used as the URL. If you want to have something different 22
for the URL. 23
No problem. 24
You can edit this URL right here. 25
I keep headlines and URLs always the same. 26
Just makes more sense that way. 27
Then we have the main image, which is same as the hero image. 28
And I'm going to upload this image right here. 29
Now the post body is a special kind of field. 30
It's called Rich Text. 31
We can put headlines in this text, subheads, images, videos, quotes, bullets and that sort of stuff. 32
We have different types of headlines, we have images, we don't need individual fields for all of this 33
stuff. 34
One rich text field can take care of all the content like that. 35
And within this Rich Text field, we have a lot of freedom to style text in different ways. 36
Or add YouTube videos, right between the text. 37
This even has some layout controls to display the video in many different positions. Although this isn't 38
really how the final result will look like, the final result depends on how we style this block. And more 39
about that later. 40
Lastly, we have a post summary field, which is this. 41
Click create and will be added to the database. The status has this message staged for publishing. 42
It means next time we publish our website, all those blog posts that are pending, will go live. But in our 43
case, they actually won't go anywhere, because we have only created the database. We haven't created a 44
blog page that is going to pull this content from the database. 45
We shall do that in the next video.