Creating a News Article

To create a news article, navigate to the news modal, by going to Site Settings > News, and then clicking +Add Article.

Here, you can add a title, content and style your news article. 

To add an image, select the Image tab in the media section. Click Add and select an image from your uploaded images. A caption can be added to the photo by ticking the Display photo caption box and entering the text into the field below. 

There is also the option to display the photo in full width. To do this, tick the Display photo full width option.

This is how the news article will display the image when using the News Article widget:

 

You can add a video by clicking the Video tab. Click Add and paste the URL into the box pop-up box. Only You-Tube videos are accepted. Caption text can be added on videos, however, it will intentionally not display on the news article. 

To embed media within the content section click the Media Embed icon in the editing toolbar. On the image or video you want to embed, right click and select copy link address. Paste the URL into the pop-up box and click OK. 

News articles can be grouped with like articles by adding them to a category. To do this click None selected under Categories. Tick the categories in which you want the article to be added to. Note: if you have not yet created categories, please view this support article.

On this view, you can also set the summary text that shows for each news article when they are displayed on a News Feed Widget by unticking Auto generate summary and typing in your own news article summary on the text box that appears.

You can also opt to not display a news article on mobile by unticking the Visible for mobile option.

Click Save Article

 

Managing News Articles and Categories

How to edit or delete a news article

How to create Categories and assign one a news article to one or more Categories