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How to add Blog- and News-entries?

  1. Log in to the administrator area
  2. Click on the Add New Article button in the left panel to open the New Article screen
  3. The New Article screen contains options for categorising and naming the article, editing content and selecting parameters
    • Enter a title in the Title field
    • Enter an Alias. This is mandatory for Blog entries and should correspond to your title. No spaces and under scores are allowed, use lower letters and hyphens (-)
    • Choose under Category between Blog or News entry (mediatEUr Blog / News and Events)
    • Choose an Author's Alias (optional and only for Blog entries) to use another name than the author's for display
    • Enter comma separated Keywords for search engine optimization
  4. Now enter your Content using the editor in the New Article screen
    • Toggle Editor (HTML View)
    • For Blog Entries enter the following:

      <h2>mediatEUr Blog</h2>
      <h4>Title</h4>
      <div class="iteminfo">
      <span class="published"> Published on Date</span>
      <span class="createdby"> Written By Author</span>
      </div>
      <p>Text</p>

    • For News Entries enter the following:

      <h2>News and Events</h2>
      <h4>Title</h4>
      <h6>Time Frame</h6>
      <p>Text</p>

    • Toggle Editor (Advanced View)
    • For Blog replace Title, Date, Author and Text
    • For News replace Title, Time Frame and Text
    • Make sure the fields listed below are following these rules:
      • Title - corresponds to the Title Text Box
      • Date - current-Date, format 'Monday, 1st April 2011'
      • Author - yourself / Alias
      • Time Frame and Text - free text fields with no rules
    • when you add text in the standard editor by copy&paste use the remove formatting button in the menu bar
  5. Click the Save button to save your article
  6. You should see a blue message: Successfully saved changes to Article: article_title
    • If you have not completed the Article Title, Category fields or Content you will see an error message indicating this
  7. Double check your entry carefully
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