News

The News feature allows you to create news listings for your site. Listings are organized in descending order by date posted, with the most recent listing appearing at the top of the News page. In order to create news, the News feature must be enabled on the website. If you do not currently have the News feature on your site but would like to have it set up, please contact webmaster@appstate.edu.

View a sample of the News page and Latest News block

Create News

To create News, from the admin menu, select Content - Add content. On the Create content page click News.

Title

Enter the Title for your News item.

News feature title bar

Image(s)

Upload a thumbnail image to be displayed with this news item on the news list, page, and block. Use the File browser link to use an image already uploaded to the website. Be sure to input Alternate text for screen readers. Text entered in the image Title field will be displayed as a caption with the image on the news page. Click Choose file to browse to an image and then click the Upload button.

Once an image has been uploaded you can add Alternate Text and Title  details.

  • Alternate Text: This text will be used by screen readers, search engines, or when the image cannot be loaded. See Insert/Edit Image for details on when Alternate Text is required for ADA compliance.
  • Title: The title is used as a tool tip when the user hovers the mouse over the image, and as the caption for the image during the slideshow.

News feature upload image

Body

The Body field is where you will enter all of the content for your new page - text, links, images, etc. The formatting toolbar (also known as the Editor) at the top has a variety of formatting options. See Editor Options for more information.

News feature create body field

Existing Link

Enter the external link (including the initial http://) for this news item if one already exists. Otherwise leave this field blank. 

Categories

Select categories for this news item. Learn more about adding and editing News Categories to the website.

News Categories

Header Image

Upload an image that will display in the header of this page.

Upload Header Image graphic

 Once an image has been uploaded you can add Alternate Text, Title and Caption details.

  • Alternate Text: This text will be used by screen readers, search engines, or when the image cannot be loaded. See Insert/Edit Image for details on when Alternate Text is required for ADA compliance.
  • Title: The title is used as a tool tip when the user hovers the mouse over the image, and as the caption for the image during the slideshow.
  • Caption: The caption will appear with the thumbnail on the news page.

Click the Add another item button to add additional images to the gallery for the News post. Use the drag-and-drop handle to change the order of the images in the News gallery.

 

Authoring Information

The site will automatically log the username and the date/time a new page is created.

Authoring Information

Menu settings

Since the News post is part of a feature and the post will automatically be added to the News page and the Recent News block, there is no need to assign a Menu link title to the News post.

For information on Revision informationAuthoring information, and Publishing options, see their respective instruction pages on this website.

Save

Click the Save button when you have completed entering the News content.

Edit News

There are two ways to edit a News post - by Browsing or via the Content list. See the Edit a Page section on this site for more information.

News Categories

You can manage Categories for News by adding or editing the terms in Taxonomy.

From the Create News page, in the Categories section, click on Manage news categories.

Manage news categories

You can also access News Categories from the Admin menu, select Structure - Taxonomy - News Categories.

To add a category, click +Add term. In the Name field, type the category you would like to add and then click Save.