Hashtags are also sent to the fediverse. So if your blog has federation enabled, your tagged blog posts will show up with all the other posts that people have similarly tagged when someone does a search in Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.

You can also add as many hashtags as you want to your posts, with any kind of capitalization:

#tutorial #HowTo #organization #WriteAs

![Image description](https://i.snap.as/D1yn3zC.png)

Here, Image description will be used as the image's alt text, and the photo from https://i.snap.as/D1yn3zC.png will show up in your post. Replace these two pieces of text with a description and URL of your own image.

Uploading Photos

You'll need to upload your photos to the internet to include them in your posts in this way. You can use any image hosting service, including our integrated platform, Snap.as. Write.as Pro members already have access to Snap.as through their subscription, and can connect their account here.

On Snap.as, you'll first upload your photos by clicking the “Upload” box, or dragging and dropping images into the box. Then, go to your Photos page, click the image you just uploaded, and copy the Markdown shown below the image into your Write.as post.

Snap.as Extension

You can optionally use the browser extension (available for Chrome and Firefox) to upload a photo and quickly add it to your post, like this:

Read more about this on the Snap.as blog.

#tutorial #HowTo #photos #SnapAs

1. Publish a post to your blog
2. Go to your blog home page by clicking your blog name in the top-left corner
3. Hover over the post
4. Click Pin

That's it! You'll see a link to that post from every page on your blog.

Note: on Write.as, this requires a Pro or Support subscription.

Here's what it looks like in practice:

Types of Pinned Pages

Now that we know how pinning works, we can create pinned pages. But what kind of pages should be on your blog? Much like a table of contents or index for a book, pinned pages act as a frame of reference for your blog. With that in mind, let's examine four pages you could create

About

Your readers could be asking themselves, “What is this blog about?” This is the page where people can learn more about the “what” and “who” of your blog. Be as specific or vague as you'd like – it is your blog. Choose who you want to be and what you want your blog to be about.

Contact

Once people learn more about you and your blog, perhaps they want to get in touch – to leave positive feedback or make a suggestion. How can they do that? This is the page where you can list the ways people can contact you, everything from an email address to a contact form.

Social

This blog is just one part of your online presence. Where can others find you? Link to your social media, videos, code repositories, and anywhere else where readers can find you on the web.

Subscribe

Tell readers about all the ways they can subscribe to your updates. You might mention some of methods offered through your Write.as blog:

• Link to your RSS feed (simply add /feed/ to your blog's url).
• Share your blog's fediverse handle so that people can follow your blog from Mastodon (learn about enabling federation).
• Enable email subscriptions so readers can receive beautiful emails of your posts. Insert this special code: <!--emailsub--> to your post, generating an email subscription box for people to fill in. (learn more about enabling email subscriptions).

Give the readers of your blog more context with pinned pages.

#tutorial #HowTo #StaticPages #PinnedPages #writeas

To create a draft, select the “Anonymous” option (called “Draft” in WriteFreely) from the dropdown menu in the editor before publishing. When you're ready to save your draft, simply press the Publish button.

This will create a post at a secret, but shareable, URL. You can choose to share that URL with someone you'd like to have review your draft, or just keep it to yourself to have it remain private. Now, you can continue editing this draft and saving updates with the Publish button. You can find it listed on your “Posts” page (again called “Drafts” in WriteFreely).

When you're ready to publish to your blog, navigate to your Posts / Drafts page, scroll down to your post, and click “move to {your blog}”. (If you have multiple blogs, instead you'll see a dropdown menu that says “move to...”) Once you do that, your post will be live on your blog!

#tutorial #HowTo #drafts #writeas