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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