You can create categories to organise your news articles. This then lets you easily display a particular category of new on a page of the website or within the eNewsletter.
- Creating categories
- Categorising News Articles
- Using Categories with the News Article Widget
- Using Categories with eNewsletters
- Creating Tags
- Adding Tags to News Articles
- Using Tags with the News Article Widget
Creating categories
- Click on Site Settings > News
- Click on the Categories tab
- Type a category in the Category Name text field, and click + Add Category
- Repeat to add more categories
Now that we have some categories, we can categorise news articles. A news article can have multiple categories.
Categorising News Articles
When adding or editing news articles, there is a Categories heading to the right of the article. Click on None Selected and select the category you want to put it in.
Using Categories with the News Article Widget
You can choose to display news articles from one or multiple categories by selecting them from the dropdown list.
Using Categories with eNewsletters
You can select to display any number of news articles in an eNewsletter from your selected categories. You can choose to display news articles from one or multiple categories.
For more information on eNewsletters please read this support article.
Creating Tags
Tags are similar to categories, but they are visible to the public and those who are viewing your website can sort the news articles they are reading by tags.
- Click on Site Settings > News
- Click on the Tags tab
- Type a tag in the Tag Name text field, and click + Add Tag
- Repeat to add more tags
Adding Tags to News Articles
When adding or editing news articles, there is a Tags heading to the right of the article. Click on None and select the tag you want to add to the article.
Using Tags with the News Article Widget
Same as to how you can curate the news articles that show on each News Article widget, you can choose to display news articles with one or multiple tags.
You can then set the tag to show on the news feed widget by going to the Display tab and ticking on Show article tag. Once ticked, you can then set the Article tag colour.
This is how the tag is shown on the News Feed Widget:
