News Posts

In addition to managing Pages and Navigation, the Website section of the Manage Team console is where you set up smart content such as News "Posts".

Covered in this Article:

• News Posts Website Display
• Options for Creating a New Post
• Managing Published News Posts
• Managing Draft News Posts
• Publishing and Unpublishing News Posts
• Images in News Posts
• Recent News Snippet

News Posts Website Display

To manage where your News Posts will reside, go to Manage Team > Website and you can drag and drop the News page where you'd like it to appear in your navigation. 

Learn more about this topic ➞ Managing Menus and Navigation.

You can rename your News Page by clicking on "Properties." 

» Note: The News page is a Smart Page, indicated by a small gear icon - . Smart pages automatically display news posts, schedule, registration, and login pages and can not be added manually or deleted.  These pages shouldn’t be repurposed—in other words, the News Page should always just be the News Page.

Options for Creating a New Post

➧ From the News "Posts" Page

Click the +New Post button and enter a title for your post and more details in the text box.

➧ From the Navigation Menu

To quickly add a News Post while browsing your website, click Add News Post link in the Manage Website menu. 

After entering your text in the Content box, click Save as Draft to save your post without publishing, Publish Now to publish your post, or Cancel to exit. 

➧ While Sending a Communication

You can create a news post when composing a communication (i.e., an email or alert).

The “Publish as news post” option when composing a message will create a news post along with the communication sent out that uses the subject as the title and the message as the content of the post.

» Note: Attachments will not be included on the news post. 

Learn more about this topic ➞ Communications: Emails and Alerts 

Managing Published News Posts

Go to Manage Team > Website > Posts to see and manage the news posts which appear in the Recent News snippet and on the News smart page.

Here you can edit (pencil icon) or delete (trash icon) any news posted you've created.

Managing Draft News Posts

Clicking on the Draft() sub-tab under Posts will display all the posts that are currently unpublished. Drafts will not display publicly until they are published. 

Here you can edit and publish (pencil icon) or delete (trash icon) any news posted you've created.

Publishing and Unpublishing News Posts

A published post can be unpublished by editing the post using the pencil icon or clicking the checkbox next to the title and selecting the Unpublish button at the top. Drafted posts work in the same way but with Publish instead of unpublishing. 

Editing a published post

Multiple posts can be selected at once by clicking the checkbox at the top of the list, this will apply any changes to every post selected on the page (50 max).

Selecting multiple posts

»Tip: The Remove button will delete the post(s) selected, there is no trash tab so make sure you are certain. 

Images in News Posts

» Note: It’s better to not use special characters such as “#” in image file names.

➧ Image Format

Recommended image formats are jpg, png, and gif.

➧ Image Sizing

Images are not resized automatically in News Posts like they are in image and text snippets, so we suggest resizing per our recommendations before uploading.

• Pages with Sidebars: The ideal sizes for images for pages with sidebars should be no wider than 600 pixels for page content areas (best is 580px), and images for the sidebar should be no wider than 280 pixels.
• Full Width Pages: Full width pages can be as wide as 900 pixels (best is 880px).

Recent News Snippet

You can display a summary of several of your most recent news posts on one of your pages or in a sidebar by using the Recent News Snippet.  With the snippet, you can decide how many recent posts will be displayed, and the most recent posts will be automatically updated.  

For more information, ➞ See our Help Center article about the Recent News Snippet.

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