docusaurus/docs/guides-blog.md
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---
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 Example
---
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.
```
## Changing How Many Blog Posts Show on Sidebar
By default, 5 recent blog posts are shown on the sidebar.
You can configure a specific amount of blog posts to show by adding a `blogSidebarCount` setting to your `siteConfig.js`.
The available options are an integer representing the number of posts you wish to show or a string with the value 'ALL'.
Example:
```
blogSidebarCount: 'ALL'
```
## 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 characters are used.
## Social Buttons
If you want Facebook and/or Twitter social buttons at the bottom of your blog posts, set the `facebookAppId` and/or `twitter` [site configuration](api-site-config.md) options in `siteConfig.js`.