Welcome to Craftig! Craft is good, and we’re excited for you to start sharing links to all of the crafts that you discover. So, where to start?
1. In order to start posting stories, you’ll need to register for a free Craftig user account. Just plug in your username, your email, a password, and you’re ready to start posting!
2. After you’ve registered, you can submit new stories right away. Copy and past the URL or type it in, and you’ll be taken to a page where you can customize the story title, add a short description, and select a category and tags for the story so other readers can easily find it. From there, you can preview the story and submit it.
You can find stories by clicking on one of the categories listed in the right column or by using the search form included on every page of the main site.
3. Craftig also has a nifty bookmarklet that you can find in your user profile area. This will allow you to submit stories from anywhere. Pretty neat, huh?
4. In addition to submitting stories, you can use the icons and links shown at the bottom of every story to comment on submitted stories, save stories to your own personal bookmark collection (very handy), and share the stories with everyone you know. You can also become friends with other crafty users and exchange private messages with them through the site. You may have to login to see specific links.
5. If you catch a spammy story, or if you just plain don’t like a story (we hope there won’t be much of this), then you can “Cut” the story or, in other words, vote it down.
Add Craftig to Your Site
You can allow your visitors and readers to easily add your stories to Craftig by copying and pasting the code corresponding to your site below:
Wordpress
In the admin panel, go to Appearance > Editor. You will need to edit both the Main Index template and the Single Post template in the theme files list. Find <p class="postmetadata"> in the Main Page template and <p class="postmetadata alt"> in the Single Post template, and add this code somewhere after:
Typepad / Moveable Type
In your entry archive template, add the following code after the <p class="entry-footer"> tag:
Blogger
Blogger recently updated their templating system, and I’m working on a fix that will allow the “add to craftig” code to work on Blogspot blogs
Other
Replace (your URL goes here) with the URL of your page:
Link to Craftig
We always appreciate it when you give us a link. In order to make it quick and easy to link back to Craftig, we’ve provided the following links for you if you want to link to the main site, if you’re a Craftig contributor, if one of your crafts has been a pick for Craft of the Day, or if you’ve had any of your crafts linked to here at Craftig.
You can grab any of the images below and save them to your server, or you can just copy the code in the box to the right and paste it somewhere in your blog code to link. Thank you!
