### “Blog Manager for WordPress” Documentation by “OTWthemes”

# “Blog Manager for WordPress”

Created: 05/01/2015
By: OTWthemes
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## Table of Contents

- Description
- Installation and Activation
- How it works
- Blog Manager Meta box
- Additional Information

### Description - top

Present your Blog in so many ways. Blog Manager for WordPress adds tons of blog functionality to your WordPress based website. Create as many blog post lists as you like and add them to your pages/posts, sidebars or template files by using a shortcode or a widget.

### Installation and Activation - top

Unzip the .zip file that you downloaded from CodeCanyon. Look for a file called otw_blog_manager.zip. This is your plugin's zip file.
Install the plugin just like any other Wordpress plugin. There are two ways to do that:

- Using WordPress built-in installer
From the Administration Panels, click on the Plugins tab. Go to Add New->Upload. Choose the plugin's .zip file from your computer and click Install Now. Then click activate to activate the plugin.
- Traditional manual installation
Extract zip archive of your plugin. Upload to your server in the wp-content/plugins folder of your WordPress installation. Access the Plugin Panel in your Administration Panels. Scroll down through the list of Plugins to find the newly installed Plugin. Click on the Activate link to turn the Plugin on.

When activated the plugin will place one menu in your WordPress left menu section called Blog Manager.

### How it works - top

Here is what the process is:

- Create a list.
- Add the list where you need it.
- Edit the list any time.

Creating a list
Most of the settings have defaults so you can create lists within just a few minutes.

- Go to Blog Manager -> Add list
- Select the posts for your list - categories, tags, authors
- Choose template
- Select and re-arrange list content
- Select list options – order, pagination, link clicks, popups, excerpt length, hover style, etc.
- Style your list – use interface options or custom css

Blog Lists
Once a list is created you can edit it any time from Blog Manager -> Blog lists. You can also get the shortcode for a certain list there.
Adding a list to your site
Once you have created a list you can add it everywhere in your site

- In page/post content area (WYSIWYG editor)
- In template files
- In a sidebar

Every list has a shortcode that can be found in the Blog Manager menu -> Blog lists. You can use the shortcode to add the list in a page/post content area or in a template file by using the do_shortcode WordPress function. The shortcode can be added to a page/post content area by using the Add Blog List button in your WYSIWYG editor.
The plugin comes with a widget that can be used to add any blog posts list in a sidebar.

### Blog Manager Meta box - top

Once the plugin has been activated you will notice a new metabox called Blog Manger in add/edit posts. It includes the following filed:

- Post type - choose the post type for each post.
- Post media – this is where you uploads the media for the post – image, video, etc.

Note that if post type is Image then the Blog Manager will first look for a featured image assigned to the post and if it can't find any it will look in the Post media field. This is usefull when you already have a lot of posts with featured images. This way you will not need to upload images again.

### Additional Information - top

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