User`s guide

Synology DiskStation User's Guide
Based on DSM 3.2
104 Chapter 11: Share Photos, Videos, and Blogs with Photo Station
Use the Blog
If you are a Photo Station administrator, you can sign in to enable, manage and back up your personal blog.
Moreover, you can also personalize your blog space by adjusting its layout.
Modify Blog Settings
You can go to Settings > Blog to enable the blog function and mange its settings.
To enable the blog function:
1 Tick Enable the blog function.
2 Click Save.
To modify blog layout, do any of the following:
 Click Other Settings and follow onscreen instructions to edit the blog's title, number of posts on the main
page, and the autosave interval.
 Click Blog Banner and follow onscreen instructions to customize the banner section (below the logo image)
on the blog's main page.
 Click Theme, and see To customize album layout for more information about theme-related settings.
 Click Layout & Modules, and do the following:
a In the Layout section, choose a layout to put your modules into the left or right panel on the main page.
b In the Modules section, drag and drop the modules between the two folders to decide which modules will be
used for your blog.
c Click Save.
 If you want to modify the settings of a module, choose it from the drop-down menu in the Module Settings
section, click Customize, and then follow onscreen instructions to complete the settings. The modules can be
used to search previous articles or display various information (your personal info, an album slideshow, or
links to your friends' sites, blog archives, etc).
Manage Blog Posts
You can go to Blog to add, edit, and delete blog posts. Your readers can view or share your posts, and add their
comments to interact.
To add a new post:
1 Click New post on the left side.
2 Do the following to add a new post:
 Enter the post title, edit the post, and insert images or videos if you wish. To insert a video, click the
Insert/edit embedded media button and enter the video URL.
 Select a label action from the Label actions drop-down menu.
3 Click the Settings tab if you want to manage the following settings:
 Choose who can read the blog post from the Readers drop-down menu.
 If you want to display a post abstract on the main page, tick Show abstract when article is on main page
and enter the abstract message in the text field.
 To allow visitors to post comments, tick Allow comments.
 Click Publish.
Limitation:
 For the post title, you can enter up to 512 characters, whereas 40,960 characters are allowed for the post content.
 The following html tags in article content will be filtered out automatically:
form, input, script, table, td, tr, tbody, th, html, body.
To edit or delete a post:
Click the post title to see the full article, click Edit or Delete, and then follow onscreen instructions to edit or
delete the post.