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Before you start
- Know where news lives on your site: usually a folder called News, Blog or Updates. You always create a new item inside the place it belongs (Content items and the tree).
- Have the text and, if you like, one picture ready.
Steps
- Open Content structure and click the news folder.
- Under Sub items, press Create new. A list of the content types you may create here opens.
- Choose Article (your site may call it News, Blog post or similar). An empty form opens (Create a new item).
- Fill in the Title. Keep it short and clear; it often becomes the web address of the page too.
- Fill in the Intro: one or two sentences that make people want to read on. Lists of news often show only this.
- Fill in the Body: the full text.
- Add a picture, if the form has an Image field: press Upload new to take one from your computer, or Add existing to pick one from the media library (Adding a picture).
- Press Preview to check, then Send for publishing.
The new item now appears in the news folder and, on most sites, on the news list and the front page.
Writing a good news item
| Part | Tip |
|---|---|
| Title | Says what happened, in under ten words |
| Intro | Answers who, what and when in one or two sentences |
| Body | The most important information first; short paragraphs; headings for longer texts |
| Picture | Your own or properly licensed, with an alternative text |
| Links | To the page where readers can act: sign up, buy, read more |
Publishing later
- Store draft and exit keeps it as a draft, visible only to you, under My drafts.
- Some sites can publish at a set date and time. Whether yours can, and how, depends on how it was set up (Scheduled publishing).
- If your site uses approvals, Send for publishing sends it to the approver first.
If it does not work
| What you see | What to do |
|---|---|
| Create new is missing | You may not create items here. Check you are in the right folder, or ask your administrator. |
| Article is not in the list | This folder accepts other types only. Use the news folder. |
| The form comes back red | A required field is empty; the message says which. |
| The item is not on the front page | The front page may show only some news, or a cache is showing the old page (Caches explained). |
| You created it in the wrong folder | Use Move on the item's page (Move, copy and remove). |
Related pages
- First steps
- Changing a page
- Content calendar
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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