A POST is a piece of writing that is dated and contained inside a category. A POST is compiled during export—the title and text of its descendants are all collated to produce a single webpage.

Click on the BlogPOSTS tab in your Content Window. Find the demo category named [Sample Category]. I have placed the name in square brackets to indicate that it is a demo note and to float it to the top of the sort.

Click the triangle to the left of [Sample Category] to see its children. Notice that its export badge is a down-arrow. This means that its children will export but it will not. Consequently, if you export now, this note will be invisible to users of your website. This is intentional—it keeps a useless category off my website but makes its children accessible via links and frames.

But in this tutorial we want Sample Category to appear in your Categories Sidebar and Categories webpage as a category. To do this, first delete the square brackets. Then, with the note still selected, run the ⬍ Export Self stamp so that the export status badge becomes a green disk (meaning that both self and children are set to export).

Now hoist your Outline View to the level of the Sample Category container note by double-clicking on its document-shaped note icon:

To expand the sub-posts and sub-sub-posts inside a container, we should option-click on the triangle to the left of it. But this only works when the container is already collapsed, so click and then option-click on the triangle to the left of Sample Category.

Now, to preview the export of your post, click the Preview Tab of the Text Pane Selector:

You can see that the heading backgrounds are colored according to your Colors Dash settings. You can toggle these by unchecking the checkbox on the Colors: ON/OFF widget.

To get a fuller view, pull out the left edge of the window a bit and then hit ⌘4 to maximize the Text Pane (and thereby the preview):

To have a POST export like a PAGE, so that sub-posts receive their own export, use the NOCOMPILE export option by adding the string NOCOMPILE to the key attribute $blogExpOpt.

To make your own POST:

1. Make a new note inside of BlogPosts—your first category note. Give it a name.
2. Make a new note inside the category note you just made—your first post. Give it a name.
3. Write something. Add as many children as you like—they will become compiled subsections.
4. When you are done, click the (topmost) POST note’s $blogReady checkbox.
5. Choose File > Export > as HTML. Select BoxPressExport as your export folder. Click Export.
6. Go the the Finder and open index.html. You will be viewing your new home page. Navigate to your POST via the Categories sidebar, Categories page, or Archives page.