Create an Article

Click on Articles in the Content Pages section of the Administration Menu.

Select Add a new Article

Enter Title, Author, and Date information

• Enter a Title for your article. This will appear on the site sidemenu as a link to the article.
• Optionally, enter an Extended Title for your article. If entered, the Extended Title will appear at the top of your article's content in centered, bold letters.
• Enter the date the article was Authored on to show when the article was actually created.
• Enter your name or your user name in the Authored by field to display who created the article.

Enter Parent Location, Sort Value, Accessibility and Publish Status

• Choose a Parent for this article (optional) By default, the Parent is Main Page (Home). This is good for most articles. By choosing a different parent, you can make this article a subarticle or hide it altogether. Subarticles will be explained later.
• Choose either Link to Article above the Parent Content or Link (with Summary) below Parent Content These options are mainly for use with subarticles and are explained later.
• Enter a Sort Value for the article (advanced, optional) The sort value determines the order of appearance relative to other articles.
• Link to this Article automatically on the Site Sidemenu If this is selected, links to this article will be placed in sidemenu blocks where appropriate.
• Link to this Article below Parent Content (with Summary) The link and summary will appear below the content of the parent article.
• Link to this Article automatically on Sidemenus If this is selected the article will appear on the sidemenu. It only applies to non-explicit links in this article.
• Link to this Article on Sitemap If this is selected, the article will appear with the other articles that are listed on the sitemap.
• Link to this Article as News (with Summary) If this is selected, the article will appear in news.php and optionally appear on the main page.
• Include this Article in Syndication Feeds (with Summary) If this is selected, the article will appear on your syndication feeds.
• Link to this Article even if viewing is secured / restricted All links to this article will be displayed regardless of a user or guest's viewing privileges.

Edit Page Security



• Viewable by lets you choose who can view the article you are creating. You can allow access to certain groups or user levels. Anyone at or above the level you have chosen can view the article.
• Owned by allows you to select the group that can manage this article. If a Group is chosen, such as (99) Super Administrators, only members of that group and members of higher level groups will be able to modify or delete this article.

Choose Your Type of Article



• All options will be explained in Types of Articles. For this tutorial, we will choose Normal (with Content).
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Select Your Content Settings



• Hide the Site Sidemenu when viewing Article Content This will completely hide your site's sidemenu on this article. Use this with caution, because it may distort your site's graphics. However, this is a good way to free up space on the page.
• Hide the Side Header when viewing Article Content This will completely hide your site's header graphics as well as your site's topmenu and navmenu.
• Hide the Site Footer when viewing Article ContentThis will hide your custom Site Footer as well as the Home, Printer-Friendly Format, etc., links at the bottom of the page.
• View Content over HTTPS if SSL is availableThis will display the page via SSL if you have purchased an SSL Certificate.
• Disable Content (Summary ONLY)This is mainly for use with Subarticles and will be explained later.

Enter Content for your Article



This can include graphics, links, and formatted text using the graphical editor.

Enter a Summary



• If you chose to Link (with Summary) below Parent Content, there will be a place to enter a Summary.,
• This should be a short description of your article. This is used in Search results, and can also be used in subarticles.

Other options



Meta Tags

• In the Keywords Meta Tag field you can type notable words or phrases that appear in (or are relevant to) your article. Good keywords here may occasionally slightly increase search engine rankings for the article.
• In the Description Meta Tag field you can type a sentence or a short paragraph concisely explaining the article. Search engines will sometimes show this to people whenever it shows a link to your article, so a catchy intro here might win you more visitors.

Child article settings

• People can subscribe to the Child Syndication URL if they want to be notified whenever you post a new child article to this current article. (Site URL) should be replaced with the address to your home page.
• At the bottom of your article, summaries of all its child articles can be displayed. The Child Summaries per Page option here lets you control how many of these summaries can be displayed on a single page.
• These summaries will appear in the order specified by the Child Sort Order option. Choosing Sort Value will use the Sort Value option described above. Choosing either Authored on option will sort the articles chronologically (forward or backward).

Comment options

• You can allow comments on an article by checking the Comments checkbox.
• You can limit this permission to certain groups of people by using the Allow Comments by drop-down.
• If you want to keep all comments private, or if you want to moderate them before displaying them on your site, you can choose an option from the Initial Comment Status drop-down.

Save



• Click Save when you're done, and your article will be published to your web site!