Often, on the Old JS, I would insert a #SPLIT# tag in my longer entries so that visitors would not have a long post to scroll past in order to see older posts. I discovered how to do this on the New JS yesterday. Yippee!
When you insert a #SPLIT# tag (or on the New JS, a “More” tag), it will look like the link you see below.
Click on it (or the comments button) to learn how to do it!
Widgets can help you personalize your journal page by adding information that you use often or you think would help your readers navigate to, from, and within your page.
To add a widget to your layout, go back to the “Switch Theme” page we learned about a few days ago. Then, choose the “Widgets” link, located here:
Then, you will get the “Widgets” page. From here, you have a whole variety of options to choose from.
Step #1: Click the “Add” link to the right of any widget you are interested in to add it to your layout.
Step #2: If you have a 3-column layout (like SamanthaBaker’s journal), you can choose whether you want the widget to go in your Left Sidebar or your Right Sidebar. If you put it in the wrong place, remove the widget, change the Sidebar option to the correct side and then re-add the widget. Ta-da!
Step #3: Choosing the “Edit” link on each widget will present you with some options for each one, including the option to “Remove” the widget from your layout if you decide you don’t like it. Also, if you click on the blue box for each widget, you can drag and drop which order you want the widgets to be in for each sidebar on your layout!
Step #4: Once you have everything arranged to your specifications, don’t forget to “Save Changes”! Otherwise, you will have wasted all that time for nothing, and who has time for that these days?
I’m not sure why we can’t post YouTube videos at the moment, because you can on regular WordPress, but I’m sure it will get figured out soon! In the meantime, this is how to add a link to a YouTube video:
On the “New Post” screen, please note the “Add Media” section! The second button (that looks like a film strip) is the part where you can add a video. When you click on that, this screen will pop up:
In the “Video URL” line, insert the YouTube URL (rather than the embed code). Below that, it will let you title the video. Once you click “Insert into Post”, this is what you end up with:
The JS Disaster: A Leader in Turmoil
I’ll keep looking and exploring (as well we all should) to see if I can figure out why this is different than normal WordPress. If anyone else figures it out, let me know!
Let’s all try to stay positive here, yeah?
It seems that some of you have been having issues with this. It (like many other things on the New JS) is really rather simple if you take a little bit of time to look around.
So far, we have limited options in our design template, but I have every reason to believe they are working on giving us more choices and possibly even the ability to make our own layouts. Until then, this is how you choose from the design gallery:
When the “Themes” page comes up, you can scroll through and see the different themes available. The best part is that you can preview what your page would look like with that theme before you actually apply it! To do that, just click on any theme picture and the preview will pop up.
If you don’t like the way that theme looks on your blog, simply click the little “x” button and you will go back to the “Themes” page to continue browsing.
Or, if you think, “Hey! That looks pretty nifty!”, simply click the “Activate” link on the right-hand side of the preview window, like this:
Hope that helps you guys settle in a bit! 
CaptainMando