---
id: blog
title: Adding a Blog
---
## Initial Setup
To setup your site's blog, start by creating a `blog` folder within your repo's `website` directory.
Then, add a header link to your blog within `siteConfig.js`:
```
headerLinks: [
...
{blog: true, label: 'Blog'},
...
]
```
## Adding Posts
To publish in the blog, create a file within the blog folder with a formatted name of `YYYY-MM-DD-My-Blog-Post-Title.md`. The post date is extracted from the file name.
For example, at `website/blog/2017-08-18-Introducing-Docusaurus.md`:
```
---
author: Frank Li
authorURL: https://twitter.com/foobarbaz
authorFBID: 503283835
title: Introducing Docusaurus
---
Lorem Ipusm..
```
## Header Options
The only required field is `title`; however, we provide options to add author information to your blog post as well.
- `author` - The text label of the author byline.
- `authorURL` - The url associated with the author. This could be a Twitter, GitHub, Facebook account, etc.
- `authorFBID` - The Facebook ID that is used to extract the profile picture.
- `title` - The blog post title.
## Summary Truncation
Use the `<!--truncate-->` marker in your blog post to represent what will be shown as the summary when viewing all blog published blog posts. Anything above `<!--truncate-->` will be part of the summary. For example:
```
---
title: Truncation Exmaple
---
All this will be part of the blog post summary.
Even this.
<!--truncate-->
But anything from here on down will not be.
Not this.
Or this.
```
## RSS Feed
Docusaurus provides a simple RSS feed for your blog posts. Both RSS and Atom feed formats are supported. This data is automatically to your website page's HTML <HEAD> tag.
A summary of the post's text is provided in the RSS feed up to the `<!--truncate-->`. If no `<!--truncate-->` tag is found, then all text up 250 chacters are used.