🎁 This one's on us — thank you for being our first! Welcome to BlogHost!
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Welcome to BlogHost
Let's set up your private journal in a few quick steps. Your family will be reading along before you know it.
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Tell Your Story
These two lines appear at the top of your journal and introduce it to your family.
💡 Mac: Cmd+Ctrl+Space · Windows: Win+. (period) · New emoji replaces old one automatically
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Add Your Banner Photo
This wide image appears at the top of every page. A landscape photo works beautifully — your home, a travel shot, or anything that feels like "you".
Looking good! You can change this anytime from your Admin Panel.
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Create Your Password
This password protects your journal's admin settings. Save it somewhere safe — your password manager is perfect.
✗ At least 8 characters
✗ One uppercase letter (A-Z)
✗ One lowercase letter (a-z)
✗ One number (0-9)
✗ One special character (!@#$%^&*)
✗ Passwords match
💡 This is also the password for your journal's advanced settings at your-journal.bloghost.co/wp-admin
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Who's Following Along?
Add your family members' names and phone numbers. They'll get a text message every time you publish a new entry — no app needed, just a tap on a link.
They can reply STOP at any time to stop receiving texts. You can manage this list anytime from your Admin Panel.
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Get Instant Notifications
Know the moment your family reads a post or leaves a comment — even from the other side of the world. This uses an app called Pushover — free for 30 days, so you can try it before deciding if it's worth keeping.
How it works — you'll move between 3 places:
PHONEDownload Pushover from the App Store or Google Play — free to try, no card needed
PUSHOVER.NETCreate a free account (skip this if you already have one)
PUSHOVER APPTap Log In (not "Create Account" if you already made one) with that same email
HERECopy your User Key from the Pushover dashboard, paste it below
After 30 days, if you're enjoying it, Pushover will send you a reminder — a one-time $5 payment (to Pushover, not BlogHost) keeps them coming for good.
💡 If you skip this, you can add your Pushover key later from your Admin Panel → SMS Notifications section.
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You're all set!
Your journal is live and ready. Your family is about to love this.
Opens your journal with the writing editor ready to go
Browse your journal first — write when you're ready
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Setting up your journal…
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Advanced Site Settings
You're about to access the WordPress backend — the engine that powers your journal.
A few things to know:
• Changes here can affect how your journal looks and works
• BlogHost support does not cover changes made directly in WordPress
• A safety backup has been created automatically
A restore link will be emailed to you. Check your spam folder and mark it "Not Spam" for future delivery.
✏️ New Journal Entry
Default message that follows your personal note:
New post on Our Australian/NZ Cruise:
"(your title will appear here)"
https://tw17a-ls.bloghost.co/sacruise/...
Reply STOP to unsubscribe.
Full message your family will receive:
👀 Preview — nothing has been published yet
✎ Admin Panel
▶ Debug Mode
▶ Debug Timer Settings
default: 90
default: 60
▶ Blog Settings
Change your journal's name, text, and appearance. All changes take effect immediately.
💡 To Add an Emoji — Mac: Cmd+Ctrl+Space · Win: Win+. · New emoji replaces existing one automatically
Currently applies to this Admin Panel only — a site-wide color theme (affecting your journal's live pages) is planned for a future update.
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▶ Image Sizes
The sizes offered when you add a photo to a post, as a percent of the page width, so a photo looks in proportion on a phone, a tablet and a computer. Changing these only affects photos you add from now on — photos already in your posts keep the size they have.
Upload your header banner image from your computer. Once saved it persists through all future theme updates. Recommended size: 1440×200px wide landscape photo.
✅ Current banner image — saved permanently
No file chosen
Make the banner taller or shorter — your picture is cropped from the middle, never stretched. Type a number or use the arrows (10 at a time). Changes show right away; press Save to keep them. Phones follow this number automatically at a smaller size, shown beside the box.
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Phone banner height (upright): …
▶ Text Sizes
Version number
Welcome name
Nav bar text
Nav bar height
▶ Debug Tools
These tools are for testing only — not needed in normal use.
Preview the onboarding wizard exactly as a new customer sees it. Nothing is saved — your blog is completely safe.
▶ Site Settings
Contact Information
Used if we ever need to reach you about your account. If your phone number is ever missing, we'll email this address to let you know.
Access your journal's advanced WordPress settings. A safety backup is created automatically before you enter.
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Restore a Previous Backup
Your posts and comments are never affected — only appearance settings and theme files.
▶ Backup Journal
Download a Copy of Your Journal
Get a copy of everything — every post, every comment, every photo — as a single file you can open right in your own browser, no BlogHost login needed. Yours to keep, whenever you want it.
It's a good idea before a big change, like starting a new journal, since your current posts, comments, and photos don't carry over to a new one.
▶ Start a New Journal
Reuse Your Subscription for a New Journal
Going on another trip, or starting a new chapter? We'll set up a brand-new journal under your existing subscription — no new charge. Your password stays the same on the new journal.
⚠️ This can't be undone, and your new journal starts empty. Your current posts, comments, and photos stay only on this address — they don't carry over automatically. Your current address will always redirect visitors to your new journal, but it can never be used again — not even by you, later on. Make sure the new name below is the one you actually want to keep.
Submitting this sends your request through — we'll get your new journal set up and follow up once it's ready.
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▶ Preview Card (Link Sharing)
Controls what people see when the journal link is shared via iMessage, WhatsApp, or SMS.
Choose a Pre-defined Image to Share your Blog site Link
▶ Send Invitation
Send a one-off invitation text to anyone. They'll receive a rich link preview to the journal.
Preview of message they'll receive:
You're invited to Our Australian/NZ Cruise!
Join friends & family following along:
fonh.com/sacruise/
Reply STOP to opt out.
▶ Billing
Manage your subscription, including canceling it, through Stripe's own secure billing page.
If you cancel, we'll back up your journal (posts, comments, and photos) and email you about how to get a copy before it's eventually removed.
▶ Change Password
▶ Notifications
▶ Pause notifications
Taking a break from blogging? This silences every "someone read/commented" ping and the daily summary email — nothing else changes. If you publish a new post while paused, you'll see a reminder here to turn these back on.
▶ Update Pushover key
▶ Install Pushover
Get an instant push notification the moment your family reads a post or leaves a comment — free for 30 days, try it before deciding if it's worth keeping.
How it works — you'll move between 3 places:
PHONEDownload Pushover from the App Store or Google Play — free to try, no card needed
PUSHOVER.NETCreate a free account (skip this if you already have one)
PUSHOVER APPTap Log In (not "Create Account" if you already made one) with that same email
HERECopy your User Key from the Pushover dashboard, paste it below, click Verify
After 30 days, if you're enjoying it, Pushover will send you a reminder — a one-time $5 payment (to Pushover, not BlogHost) keeps them coming for good.
▶ SMS Notifications
Control who receives an SMS when a new post is published.
▶ Twilio SMS Settings
Enter your Twilio credentials to enable SMS notifications. These are stored securely and never appear in code files.
Manage all your journal entries. Drag ☰ to reorder.
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v8.01.1y55
A private travel journal · Friends & Family
Our Australian/NZ Cruise
Our Australian/NZ Cruise
Welcome we're flying to Australia in Business Class on our cruise from Sydney to Auckland, NZbecause it's a 19 hour flight, then we're off!
Porto Portugal
Porto Portugal
This is definitely a place I’d love to go. Check this out!
Not sure how to wrap text around this image but doesn’t this look phenomenal
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