News (Classic)

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This tutorial will cover how to add news articles, edit articles, and how to add an introduction to the news page.

The news feed with images on the left and title, date, and summary on the right.

News articles will appear in the order they are posted, with the most recent articles at the top.

Create a news article

By default, the list of news articles lives under the 'News' link in the main menu. You can also access all news articles under Site Settings.

  • Title: A title is required.
  • Alternate URL: If the article exists as a page on a different website, you can use the Alternate URL to link there instead of duplicating the content on your website. With an alternate URL in place, clicking the title of this article will take visitors to the external website.
  • Body: Create the main content of your article as you would a normal page.
  • Summary: By default the first few sentences of the body will be used when the article is displayed on the news page. Use summary to define your own short description if you wish.
  • Thumbnail Image: This small image will appear when your article is displayed in the news page. Use the alternate text to briefly describe the image for screenreader users.
  • Publishing options: You can publish or unpublish an article, and modify the publication date.

Editing and deleting news articles

There are two ways to edit existing news articles.

  1. Find the article in the News page and click the edit button to the right of the news article.
  2. Go to Site Settings, then Manage News.
Screenshot of the Manage News screen
1. Add a news article.
2. Click a title to view the article.
3. Edit the article.
4. Click the dropdown arrow to delete an article.

News Introduction

Content editors who are logged in can edit the News Introduction by click the big blue add an introduction link at the top of the news page.

The news intro button is really big and blue at the top of the News page.

This is an example of a News Introduction. You can add text and images like a normal page.

A block of text and an image at the top of the news page.

To edit the introduction, click the blue edit button in the upper right. To remove the introduction, edit and then remove all content from the intro.

The blue edit button is in the upper right of the intro.