News articles
A news article is a time sensitive piece of content that reports news about your organisation.
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News can be added to a Homepage using the Latest news widget.
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A News RSS feed is available at [your website URL]/rss/news.
Managing news articles
News articles are managed via the Publishing menu. An automated News page is available at [your site URL]/news.
News article fields
The following fields are provided to store data about news articles.
| Field | Notes | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Title | The news article headline. | Yes |
| Categories | Navigation items assigned to this article. | Yes |
| Metadata | Keywords, description, etc. to help site visitors find this article in a search engine. | Yes |
| News date | The published date of the news article. Defaults to the current date. | Yes |
| News time | The published time of the news article. Defaults to the current time. | Yes |
| Image | An image related to the article. | No |
| Summary | A short description of the content of your article. This text will be shown in lists of news articles, on the full news article page and often when news article content is reused in other areas of the site. The field is limited to 200 characters by default. | Yes |
| Content | The main content of your news article. This area can include links, images, videos, formatted text etc. and is managed using the Document Editor. | Yes |
| Top story | A single article on your website can be flagged as the "Top story". The "Top story" will be posted in a prominent position on the news pages of your website, and this flag may be used to determine which news article is shown on the homepage of your website. It is used by the Latest news widget. | No |
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Making a News article Top story, will toggle any existing Top story to No.