Posting

To create your first post, you can use the quick post box or the big editor.

Quick post box

The quick post box will appear at the top of your homepage when you’re logged in.

You can make small text posts by entering text into the box and pressing Post.

Big editor

For posts with titles, images and more, use the Big Editor.

You can get to the big editor using the Open big editor link below the quick post box.

Post type

You can select between the post types of Post, Reply, Like, Repost and Bookmark,

This page will only discuss plain posts. To learn about the other post types, see interacting with other sites.

Title

You can enter a title for your post in the Title field.

Next to the Title field, there’s the More Fields button (looks like ⋯ this). Pressing it will reveal the Summary and Language fields.

Summary

The Summary field serves as a preview or lede for your post. It will be shown on the homepage below the title, as well as by search engines.

Language

The Language field is the language of your post. Denizen will set this to the language of your site by default, however, you can write posts in another language.

Selecting the correct language for your post is important to help people find posts in their language, and for users of assistive technology to be able to read them.

Content

You can write the body of your post as formatted/“rich” text, plain text, Markdown or raw HTML. You can choose this using the Content type menu below the content box.

Images

There are two ways to add an image to a post.

• If the post consists entirely or mostly of images, use the Add Image entry to make an image post. The image will be shown above the post’s text, if there is any.

• To add an image in the middle of a post’s content, drag and drop the image into the content box.

Also see interacting with other sites.