Community-Blog

Submissions for posts to the PowerShell Community blog.

Participation in this blog is governed by the Microsoft Community Code of Conduct.

See the Wiki pages for detailed instructions.

How to write a new blog post

• Create a new .md file in Posts directory, follow existing posts for naming convention
• Write the blog post!

  • Use GitHub flavored markdown.

  • The blog post MUST have this header:

    ---
    post_title: <Title of the blog post>
    username: <Author username as seen in wordpress, not github ID>
    categories: PowerShell
    tags: PowerShell
    featured_image: <Image url>
    summary: <Summary of the post>
    ---

  • categories and tags are comma-separated lists. categories need to be pre-existing. You can add more categories and tags in the blog dashboard.

  • featured_image is optional. It will replace the blue PS icon next to the blog post with your selected image.

  • PowerShell code snippet:

    ```powershell
    Get-Help # this would be highlighted with PowerShell syntax
    ```

  • Console output snippet:

    ```powershell-console
    C:>_ # this would be highlighted with royal blue background and white foreground.
    ```

Publishing draft to blog

Go through the normal review process by submitting a Pull Request. Once the PR is merged, a draft post is automatically created on the blog. WP admins will review the draft in Word Press to ensure the conversion from markdown to HTML worked correctly before publishing the post.