Delete a news item
Go to the yellow admin box at the foot of the discussion group view of the news item, via the greyed out Discuss link under the news item, if you're a managing or content editor.

Manage and edit comments
Use the Discuss link to edit your own comments or if you're an editor you may edit others too. Get around the spammer barricades and add links to comments in the Discuss version of the thread, if you're logged in. Use the Comment link to delete comments quickly.

Trackback
Other sites talking about this item can ping you with a snippet of their own news item and a link to it. To send a trackback ping to someone else's news item, to let them know, use the link under the grey # to add to the 'URLs to Ping' box to add your trackback to their site. Sometimes, I ping my own news items from the past; it's a handy way of linking threads over great time spans.

Edit
Does what it says on the tin.

Departments
You can add, edit and delete Departments. If you delete one with news items inside, they'll become available only in the main archive, still there in the searches too. You can assign a picture to a Department. Like I have with 'Your school's website sucks.' And Bodnant to their star of the week. Editors only: ==> Prefs ==> News Items ==> Departments. About the only time you'll use Editors only: ==> Pictures.

Print this title
Greyed out under each news item, a tick box. If you add more titles with Google juice, you'll get a different title, which may be more appropriate for a printed version of your news item. For this is what it does. Atop your blog is a Title area and 'Print checked news items' button. Pick one, or dozens. We format the news item in a box of it's own. There's pink edit buttons for you to add school logo, to make it look like your letter head. Awards and achievements logos at the foot. You can have the form, or not or edit it. Warning! HTML isn't good at formatting page breaks for print. And thumbnailed Word documents et al don't seem to print.

Google juice
The greyed out link using the same text as your title, links to a version especially formatted for Google of your news item. It uses the title, again in the URL. Google understands this page well. Sometimes, you'll want to add different keywords to your titles. With this you can have several versions of your page utilising different keywords. This is good SEO. (Search Engine Optimisation.) Even when you, yourself, come to search for your own page, you may use different keywords to look. You'll be pleased you thought of these extra keywords when you go-a-searching. (Do as I say, not as I don't do :-)

#
Legacy stuff. When blogs first came out, their permalink was always under a #. New we just store it for use in trackbacks.

Posted by You
should fill in your profile from here. And remember everybody will be looking.

Hidden in the HTML
Formatting, structure and directions for Google. For trackbacks. # Posted by steve hooker at 30/1/09; 12:09:29 PM to the How tos dept.
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The greyed out text under a news item

The grayed out text under a news item