Merge pull request #3042 from XRPLF/contribute-blog

Contribution guidelines for blog posts

resources/contribute-blog/_blog-template.md

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+---
+category: 2025
+date: 2025-mm-dd
+seo:
+    title: SEO Optimized Title
+    description: SEO optimized description (recommend < 155 characters) that accurately reflects the page's content.
+
+labels:
+    - General
+markdown:
+    editPage:
+        hide: true
+---
+# SEO Optimized Title
+
+
+Congrats on taking the first step toward drafting your blog post! Use this template as a starting point to organize your blog post.
+
+<!-- BREAK -->
+
+
+Refer to [Contribute Blog](https://xrpl.org/resources/contribute-blog/) for detailed guidelines and examples.
+
+NOTE: Blog posts are currently only available in English and are not yet translated.
+
+## Section: Handy Reference
+
+To help you get started quickly, here’s a handy guide to the syntax for some of the most frequently used components in a blog post — perfect for streamlining your writing process.
+
+**Title**
+
+Use title case for the title and headings on the blog post. 
+
+Choose an SEO optimized title for your blog post. 
+
+It is recommended to limit your title to under 50 characters and keep it same as the meta `seo -> title` field for consistency.
+
+**Links**
+
+To include an internal link, use a relative path.  For example, to create a link to the Contributing Documentation topic, use the following syntax: 
+
+```
+[Contribute Documentation](../resources/contribute-documentation/index.md).
+```
+
+To include an external link, use the absolute URL instead of a relative path as shown in the following example: 
+
+```
+[Contribute Documentation](https://xrpl.org/resources/contribute-documentation).
+```
+
+**Lists**
+
+To include an unordered list, use the following syntax:
+
+- Item 1
+- Item 2
+
+To include an ordered list, use the following syntax:
+
+1. List item 1
+2. List item 2
+
+
+### Sub-section: Including Images In Your Blog Post
+
+To include an image, use the following syntax:
+
+```
+![image_description](/blog/img/my_image.png)
+```
+
+It is recommended that you store graphics in the `/blog/img` directory. 
+
+For example, `![XRPL Developer Portal](/blog/img/docs-iav3/xrpl-docs-home.png)` renders as follows.
+
+![XRPL Developer Portal](/blog/img/docs-iav3/xrpl-docs-home.png)
+
+### Sub-section: Embedding Videos In Your Blog Post
+
+For instructions to embed a video, refer to the [Contribute Documentation](https://xrpl.org/resources/contribute-documentation#videos) topic.

resources/contribute-blog/index.md

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+---
+html: contribute-blog.html
+parent: resources.html
+seo:
+    description: Contribution guide for XRPL Blog.
+labels:
+  - Blockchain
+---
+# Contribute a Blog Post
+
+Thanks for considering a contribution to the XRP Ledger Dev Blog!
+
+This page includes high-level instructions to create a new blog post. Detailed instructions and guidelines to contribute to the XRPL Developer Portal are available in [Contribute Documentation](../contribute-documentation/index.md).
+
+{% admonition type="info" name="Note" %}Blog posts are currently only available in English and are not yet translated.{% /admonition %}
+
+
+## Directory Structure for Blog Posts
+
+The source files are located in the `blog` directory of the public `xrpl-dev-portal` repository. 
+
+The image files used in blog posts are located in the `blog/img` directory.
+
+The blog posts are grouped by year, so all blog posts published in year 2025 are located in the `blog/2025` directory. 
+
+## Steps to Create a New Blog Post
+
+To create a new post, follow these steps:
+
+1. Before you begin, ensure that you pull the most recent updates from the upstream `master` branch of the `xrpl-dev-portal` repository.
+
+2. Create a new branch for the blog post using the format `blog-<short-desc-of-update>`.
+
+3. Create a new markdown file in the `blog/_current_year_` folder, for example https://github.com/XRPLF/xrpl-dev-portal/tree/master/blog/2025
+
+4. Refer to the template file [`_blog_template.md`](https://github.com/XRPLF/xrpl-dev-portal/tree/master/resources/contribute-blog/_blog-template.md) to compose your draft blog. 
+
+5. Update the `blog/sidebar.yaml` file to include the newly created file.
+
+6. Once the draft is ready for review, save and commit your updates.
+
+7. Create a new PR to merge your changes to master.