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+---
+draft: false 
+date: 2024-12-15
+updated: 2024-12-15
+authors:
+  - nicole
+categories:
+  - General
+  - Documentation
+tags:
+  - MKDocs
+  - Material MkDocs
+  - Documentation
+---
+
+# Implementing the Blog Plugin
+I had decided that I wanted to experiment with the built-in blog functionality of Material MKDocs because it might be a way to catalog my thoughts as I work on projects.  A lot of time, my notes are scattered across RocketChat and Discord, and get thrown into disarray, so I hope that I can instead centralize my thoughts, projects, and things of that sort here.  This is the first step on that journey.
+
+## The blog workflow
+When I write a blog article, it is generally based on the official [Blog Documentation](https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-a-blog/).  The formatting uses a few metadata tags, and looks like the following:
+
+```md
+---
+draft: false
+date: 2024-12-15
+updated: 2024-12-15
+authors:
+  - nicole
+categories:
+  - General
+  - Documentation
+tags:
+  - MKDocs
+  - Material MkDocs
+  - Documentation
+---
+
+# Example Post Title
+Placeholder Text / Body of the Blog Post.
+```