User blog:Spike144/New Blog Post Features

Hello, as many of you surely know, people on our wiki have created a smaller number of blog posts in average in a last few months, because most of the posts made in the past were ideas for BTD5 (or even BTD6) which are now mostly posted to Bloons Conception Wiki or another similar wiki projects. As there are not many new posts on the wiki, when you create a new post now, probably more people will notice it, so feel free to share your favorite topic.

Despite of the smaller number of posts, Bloons Wiki has been improved by some new blog post features:

Auto-archiving
When a blog post hasn't been commented for 30 days or more, then it is automatically archived, which means that it is no longer possible to comment the post, so blog posts are generally less spammed. However, if you want to disable this auto-archiving feature on your post, you can add it to the Category:Never archived posts, and then it can be commented permanently. If you use the group in the post, that has been already locked for commenting, then the commenting is enabled again. Feel free to add any of your posts to this category.

Special thanks to Mathmagician, who is one the authors of this feature, and who helped us with the feature settings, and also SW8573, who originally implemented this feature on our wiki.

New Blog Listing Pages
You can find new items on the Top Navigation Menu under Miscellaneous &rarr; Blog posts: If you open these pages via Top Navigation Menu, then they are also automatically updated by the most recent content.
 * Recent posts – this isn't surely a new page for you, however you can access it from the menu now.
 * Bloons Wiki News – you can review all previous Bloons Wiki News there.
 * Featured posts – the same as &uarr;, however for the Featured blog posts (also called Community News).
 * Popular posts – here are latest 50 blog posts sorted by popularity (number of comments).
 * Create New Blog Post – self explanatory.

That's all from me for now. See you on the wiki.

19:41, September 13, 2012 (UTC)