Creating a News Post

Overview

The News tab is where you can add, remove, or edit News posts. You can find the News tab in the backend, at the dashboard.

News posts look similar to pages but are used differently in that you can publish them by date, Often newer articles are programmed to automatically replace older articles in key areas like the homepage and the main news directory page.

Press releases and newsletters are often streamlined into news, with Press Releases and Newsletters as their news article category. This approach is recommended instead of treating them all like separate things.

Please also consider expiring or deleting your news after a certain date. Usually a couple of years. Old news is just that, old news.

Creating A New News Article

1. In the Dashboard hover over News
2. Click on Add News
3. Enter in a Title. At this point you can publish or save a draft of the page
4. Add content. Click on Update as you go to save your work.

Publishing

You can backdate to show an older date than the current date or forward-date a post (the Post will not show on your site until that day).

1. Go to the Advanced Settings pane on the right and make sure you are on Post (not Block)
2. Next, to publish, click on the status, which will then pop up a date picker
3. Select the date
4. Update

Creating Categories

Categories are helpful so users of your site can filter the posts appropriately.

1. In the Dashboard, click on News
2. Click on Categories
3. Add a new category by adding in a Name and then clicking on Add New Category

You can edit already created categories by clicking on Edit underneath the title.

Assigning a Category

You can assign the post to a category. This will help the users of your site filter posts by categories.

1. On the Advanced Settings pane on the right, under the News tab, scroll down until you see Categories.
2. Check the appropriate category
3. Update

Assigning A News Type

The main news page has a featured section for news and blog. While you can go in the page and selected your featured articles manually, it can also pull them automatically by using the news type category.

Featured Images

You can set a featured image for each post. When you assign a featured image, it will show up anywhere posts are syndicated on your site.

The recommended sizing of a news article featured image is 600 pixels by 400 pixels. This will be oriented for most sites in a news grid appropriately.