Adding & Modifying an Article

When adding or modifying a product you are presented with the same fields and options.

Article Details

Article Status: If an article is set to Publish it will be visible on the front end to your visitors. Articles set to Draft will not show up for your visitors and they will instead get a 404 page not found warning. Article Title: The title for your article. URL Slug: This is only important if you are using friendly urls. The url slug is a means to provide a more readable and seo friendly url for the product. For example a standard product url might look something like http://www.mysite.com/?product=1234567890 and if you enter an url slug eg. widgets/green/myproduct the new friendly url would be http://www.mysite.com/widgets/green/myproduct/ - It is recommend to settle on a slug and not change it once set. If you change the slug on an established page then any manually placed links going to the old friendly url would ideally need to be updated. Publish Date: The date the article was published. Main Content: This is where you can add and edit the main content for the article. Usually this will be the text for your article and can be anything from a simple line of text to a few paragraphs or even more complex content such as embeded images, videos or widgets. If you want to copy and paste content into a content area please bear in mind that the copied content might bring across extra unneeded html code that can bloat or even break your page layout, to help get around this there are “paste as plain text” and “paste from word” buttons in addition to the normal paste function. There are two ways to upload and add images to a content area. The first way is to use the method outlined below under Article Media. The other way is to use the file browser. To open the file browser, click the Insert/Edit Image button (the little tree on the toolbar) then on the dialog box that pops up click the Browse button to the right of the image url field. This will open the file browser where you can upload images and then select them to add to into the content area. Images uploaded thought the file browser are stored in the data/images directory and are included with any backups you make. For advanced html editing you can click the html button on the toolbar or toggle the editor toolbar off and edit the html code directly. If the article is using a page template that has more than one content area specified then additional content areas will be shown here below the main content area. Each content area has it’s own toolbar to allow you to easily format text. Meta Description: This is used mainly to provide search engines with a useful description of the page. Search engines will sometimes use this text when displaying links to the page. Enter one or two sentences with appropriate keywords but don’t just list keywords. Meta Keywords: Comma separate keywords and keyphrases in this field to help search engines index your pages better. SEO wise this is less important than the Meta Description. The cms search feature will check against any keywords entered here and also against the article name. Categories: Select which categories that you want this article to appear in.

Article Media

Article Image: Use this to upload an image for the article. When the article has been added you can modify it later and add more images. Any images added to the article will be displayed in a gallery on the articles detail page. When modifying an article you can also drag or copy these uploaded images into your content areas and resize them as required.

Article Display Options

Page Template: Select the page template that you want to use for this article. Page templates are typically designed and uploaded by a web developer and they determine the overall design and layout of the page. Related Articles: You can select other articles that are related to this article here and if the page template is setup to show related articles they will be shown.

Advanced Article Settings

Comments: Change this to show or hide submitted comments on this article. Comment Form: Enable this if want to allow people to post comments on your article. Commenting Permissions: Restrict who can submit comments by selecting user groups here. For example you might only want to allow registered users. Comment Moderation: You can choose whether comments have to be approved before being published or just to publish automatically when submitted. Comments can be moderated by going to Messages from the admin menu.

User Group Permissions

Select who can view this article. If you check “Everyone” then anybody can view it. If you check “Registered Users“ then only registered users who are logged in will be able to view it. You can also setup custom user groups and only allow specific users access.

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