How to contribute to this blog

Everyone’s voice matters!

We want to publish your content on all things you build with code, low-code, no-code on and around Microsoft 365. This blog is backed by a GitHub repository and all contributions are done by Pull requests.

extensive guidance on how contributing works

If you feel like you need some more support with that, you can

• Read the full contributing guide (with step-bt-step instructions)
• Sign up for our Sharing is Caring sessions, where we provide you with hands-on guidance on how to use GitHub, submit samples, contribute to documentation and more.

tl;dr - how to guidance for experienced GitHub users

If you are already familiar with GitHub, please follow this high-level overview:

1. Fork this repository https://github.com/pnp/blog
2. Create a new branch that matches the article name that you want to write
3. In the content/post folder, create your own folder (you may use the title of your post as the name of the folder, use - (dash) instead of (space))
4. In the newly created folder add an index.md file with your article
5. Insert metadata at the top of this file and adjust with your values:

---
# this is the title
title: "this is the title of your blog post"
# this is the publishing date of your article, usually this should match "now"
date: 2022-04-25T08:40:00-04:00
# This is your name
author: "your Name"
# This is your GitHub name
githubname: yourGitHubUserName
# Don't change
categories: ["Community post"]
# Link to the thumbnail image for the post
images:
- images/myImage.png
# don't change
tags: []
# don't change
type: "regular"
---

6. Create a new folder images in your article’s folder. In the images folder you may save any image/graphic which may be used in your article
7. Pull request your changes, targeting the main branch
8. A maintainer will review, so that your article is published soon

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