How To: Use labels

Labels are a useful way of organizing your posts. When you’re adding a post, at the bottom of the text box you’ll see a box that says ‘Labels:’ and also has Show All next to it. Click in this box to add your label, a label can be anything you want and you can have as many different ones as you want (the limit is about 5000, but are you really going to use that many?!) You can add more than one label to each post. I would recommend each member of your group have their own label; then each member can “label” the posts they did within your blog. This will help you keep track of who wrote what. You can also create labels for the different sections of your work, for example planning or research. Then even if you have multiple posts for each section, you will be able to group them all together under labels. This will also make it easier for moderators marking your work.

When you have added labels to your posts, you need to have them viewable on your blog so you can navigate using them. This will enable you to group all posts with the same label together. To do this, go to the design tab on your dashboard. You should see the ‘Add and Arrange Page Elements’ page. On one of the empty boxes, click Add a Gadget. I suggest using one of the boxes near your Blog Archive. When you click Add a Gadget, a window will pop up with all the gadgets you can choose from. Scroll down, to near the bottom of the list and you should see the Labels gadget. Click on the blue + button. You will be given options on how you want this gadget to look, choose these for yourself. Then click the orange SAVE button. This will add the Labels gadget to your blog. Now click on the orange SAVE button on the ‘Add and Arrange Elements Page’.