# Blog

Blogging capabilities are essential component for any web site and web application. Blog entries help provide more context around products, services. It inherently creates more on-line presence and, if managed properly, better search engines results.

ContentBox comes with a built-in blog which you can turn ON and OFF from `System > Settings`. The default setting is **ON**.

![](https://2786315782-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LA-UVvYQ9YKIVXFz01w%2F-LA-UcIjNIclM_mn00Gl%2F-LA-UjsxTYfpXBR5FD2W%2Fcnb-blog.png?generation=1523647992361645\&alt=media)

The main Blog page in your ContentBox Administrator shows a table with all your blog posts. We have 3 useful indicators.

* ![](https://2786315782-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LA-UVvYQ9YKIVXFz01w%2F-LA-UcIjNIclM_mn00Gl%2F-LA-Ujt90QkVo7PxBp5Y%2Fpublished.png?generation=1523647991320161\&alt=media)

   Shows if your post has been published
* ![](https://2786315782-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LA-UVvYQ9YKIVXFz01w%2F-LA-UcIjNIclM_mn00Gl%2F-LA-UjtF_e90w-ta9GCM%2Fviews.png?generation=1523647992965534\&alt=media)

  Shows the numbers of views
* ![](https://2786315782-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LA-UVvYQ9YKIVXFz01w%2F-LA-UcIjNIclM_mn00Gl%2F-LA-UjtLHfAuXDqgpxGW%2Fcomments.png?generation=1523647988384644\&alt=media)

   Shows the number of comments

And you also have quick actions:

![](https://2786315782-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LA-UVvYQ9YKIVXFz01w%2F-LA-UcIjNIclM_mn00Gl%2F-LA-UjtTf7-1sWJfoEo4%2Fblog-info-actions.png?generation=1523647988485388\&alt=media)

Where you can check the info related to each individual post 

![](https://2786315782-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LA-UVvYQ9YKIVXFz01w%2F-LA-UcIjNIclM_mn00Gl%2F-LA-UjtWPF-dG80SM7JX%2Fblog-info.png?generation=1523647987686378\&alt=media)

And entry actions

![](https://2786315782-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LA-UVvYQ9YKIVXFz01w%2F-LA-UcIjNIclM_mn00Gl%2F-LA-Ujt_mRXbGnoBY-YM%2Fblog-actions.png?generation=1523647988433190\&alt=media)