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News Module Overview

Manage News Items with this step-by-step guide.

One of the features of WebEd is the News Module.
News items are an important part of content marketing.
They allow the site admin to quickly publish articles of content, similar to blogs.

News Categories

News can often become a large part of your site.
Breaking the content down into categories allows you to display different news on different areas of the site.

Creating a News Category

The news details are the default in WebEd and should not be edited by the user.

STEP-BY-STEP

1

Log in as an administrator and go to the Admin Dashboard.
Learn how to log in here →
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Go to News -> News Categories
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Click Add News Category
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Enter the Name of the News Category
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Enter an Abstract (description) of this category
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If this category is a child of another category, select the Parent Category
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You can set the order for this category.
- The order determines where in the list of news categories this category will appear
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Click Create

Creating a News Article

Important Note: The newly created/updated news will be added/displayed on the top of the listing.

STEP-BY-STEP

1

Log in as an administrator and go to the Admin Dashboard.
Learn how to log in here →
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Select News
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Then select News Items and click Create New News button
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Enter the Title of this news article
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Set the status
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if you have a Title Image, upload the image
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Put Date Start and optionally Date End for this news article.
- The dates determine when the news article will be displayed
- This allows you to create articles well before they are needed and have them automatically appear on this date
- You can also have news articles expiring automatically for articles such as Xmas or Easter
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Set the Categories this article will appear in
- News Articles can be displayed in multiple categories
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Enter an Abstract for the article
- Abstracts are displayed under the title in a news listing to give the visitor an idea of the article
- They can then click a read more button to see the full article
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Enter the Meta Title of your news item
- The Meta Title is the title that shows on search engine results apart from the page title.It acts as a name tag for the web page and is also read by search engine robots and seen by users searching the web.
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Add Meta Keywords for your news item
- Meta Keywords are usedto give search engines more information about a page's content.Meta keywords are distinguished from regular keywords because they appear “behind the scenes,” in the source code of your page, rather than on the live, visible page itself.
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Add a descriptive Meta Description
- The Meta Description appears under the meta title in search engine results.This information defines the content and quality of a web page. The meta description is the one usually displayed when the page for a specific query is listed as a snippet in search engine results.
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Enter the content for the article
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Once Content is complete you can go directly to 'Save'
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There may be a 'Hot News' item included in your website's news template. Hot news ensures an article is kept on the page at all times (or perhaps placed at the top - template depending). If this is the case, please ensure the Hot News checkbox is checked. See below
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Once completed hit Save

Adding a News Listing to a page

News listing is where the news information with a teaser and has a URL link to view the whole details of each item.

STEP-BY-STEP

1

Log in as an administrator and go to the Admin Dashboard.
Learn how to log in here →
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Go to Pages
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Click on Create New Page
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Name this page News Listing or whatever you want
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Select Curly Bracket Icon
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Click Configure button
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Search for News and select News Listing in the available curly brackets
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Select the category and template name and click insert
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Click OK in configure and save the page
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The results are displayed on the page