I had published a handful of blogs before I upgraded to rainmaker. All I had to do was click on my blog, hit the little edit button, scroll to the bottom, and change members only to public. That does not re-publish, just updates. So comments, points, etc. stay the same. It also doesn't "push" the blog back to the top

After you upgrade you will need to go back and edit any older posts to make them public.

A simple process, call me if you need any help with this.

Bob

You can edit the original blog and change the audience to public.  The general consensus is to repost the blog as a new blog so it gets indexed by Google quicker.

As others have said, once you make the leap to rainmaker (good decision!) you'll need to edit your older blogs to make them public.  It's a quick fix if you don't have too many posts.

I believe all you need to do is edit the post and change status to public so it can be viewed by all. Just make sure that any posts that are Members Only are OK, in your opinion, to be shared with the public before changing the status.

Cody's got it.  I might redo some of your more popular ones then & forget about the public change.

Cody Carmen said it.

I think if I was going to change to Public I will probably rewrite using better tags, links and quality content to make the modified blog better.

You can manually change it to PUBLIC

What Cody Carmen said...

You can easily change the settings on those blogs.

Jean Stevenson - you'll have to go to each and every post and uncheck that 'member only' box.

Just edit your post to be Public. You don't have to write a new post every time.

If you want it to go to the public I believe you will have to change it.

Just changing to public should fix it.

Jean,

Cody Carmen gave you the perfect answer.  A

Cody Carmen may be new but he's a sharp guy and he'll share his knowledge which is especially nice.  

Jean Stevenson Cody Carmen has the answer to this one.

I think you can change it to a public blog by going back and editing the settings.

Jean - If I understand you correctly, yes, you will have to go in and edit your old blog posts and change them from members only to public.

Nope  - IMO best to create new blog posts and move on from there.

I believe you have to go back and mark the members only posts as public.

Edit your older post

Checked out your blog and saw you figured it out

If the post has been set to "members only" then you manually need to change it to "public" if you want the particular post to be viewed by the public.  ActiveRain will not automatically change the settings on the post.  You need to change each post separately.

You will need to change it from members to public.  It won't change automatically. Sometimes a post is intended to be members only ... regardless of account status. 

Jean, this is very good question.

Cody hit the nail on the head! And I only found out when another rainer asked me to change a blog to "public"!

Manually change it to Public.

Looks to me others are thining the same way I am.

You will have to edit each one changing it to public. 

yes, just change members only to public....