Here’s a quick visual guide on how to create a new article with the CMS.
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Create New Article Button: Navigate to the section you want the article to be published in. Click on the “Create a New Article” button. This will open an article form.
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Article Title: In the “Add/Edit Article” screen, enter the title of your article in the “Title” textbox.
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SEO URL: Put in SEO-friendly URL in “SEO URL Alias” field. After entering the article title and SEO URL field is blank, the system will auto-fill the SEO URL based on the article title.
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Article Text: Enter the body of your article in the WYSIWYG editor.
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Image Settings Pop-up: Clicking on the image in the WYSIWYG will bring up the “Image Settings Menu” that allows you to set Image Alignment, Size, Title and Descriptions, and even enter CSS Style.
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Publish Status: Enable article to be published or un-published.
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Publish Date/Time: Ability to set a future publish date and time.
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Comments: Enable/Disable User Comments for this specific article.
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Permission Previews: If this article is to be published in a permission-secured section, you can still allow an article preview to be viewed on the homepage or public-accessible sections. This is a great feature if you want to provide a teaser to upsell a subscription package.
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Sections: This displays the current section for this article. Clicking on different section will move the article to that section.
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Categories. Click on any categories for the articles.
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Permission Read Access: This lets you know which user-groups can read this article.
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HTML Title: This is what you want displayed on the browser title.
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Meta Descriptions. By default, if the user does not fill this in, the system will automatically will fill this with the first 100 characters.
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Meta Keywords: Add any meta keywords for this article.
