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With News for Stanford Sites, managing and displaying your site's News content is easier than ever.

News allows site owners and contributors the ability to create News articles, organize news by taxonomy terms, and display news articles on the dynamic News List page.

The News List is available by navigating to [your site url]/news, and displays a list of your published News content and relevant article details (including editorial content, media, and taxonomy terms). The News List also contains a News Topics Menu, which allows you to filter your News items according to their related taxonomy terms.

Add a News item

  1. In the administrative toolbar hover over All Content > Add Content  and click on News.
  2. Fill out required headline.
  3. Add additional editorial content and media as desired.
  4. Add taxonomy terms to help label and organize your article with other related topics under the News Topics Terms section.
  5. The Components section allows you to add the body text content of the article. 
  6. Add additional paragraph types in the Components section, including Text Area, Banner, Card, Media with Caption, and Spacers.
  7. At the bottom of the page, check the box next to “Published” to have the News item published, or uncheck to make the item unpublished.
  8. Click Save.

Edit a News item

  1. Click on All Content in the administrative toolbar.
  2. In the filter section, click on the arrow under Content type and select News.
  3. Click Filter to show a list of all News items created using the News content type.
  4. Find the News Item you are trying to edit, and click on the Edit button that appears on the same line as that News item.
  5. Edit the news item as desired.
  6. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and click Save.

If a news item already exists on another site, your news item can link directly to the news on the other site. That means when you click on the title, it will take you to the other site. When adding or editing a news item:

  1. Copy the title of the existing news item from the other site and paste it into the Headline field
  2. Optionally download an image from the existing news item and add it to the Featured Media
  3. Copy the URL from the existing news item and paste it into the External Source field
  4. Save

Check it out:

  1. Go to your news page at /news
  2. Find the news item
  3. Click on the title. It should take you to the other site.

Delete a News item

  1. Click on All Content in the administrative toolbar.
  2. In the filter section, click on the arrow under Content type and select News.
  3. Click Filter to show a list of all News items created using the News content type.
  4. Find the News item you are trying to delete, and click on the arrow icon next to the Edit button that appears on the same line as that News item.
  5. Click Delete.
  6. A second delete confirmation will appear. To confirm deletion, click Delete

Bulk editing multiple News items:

  1. Click on All Content in the administrative toolbar.
  2. In the filter section, click on the arrow under Content type and select News.
  3. Click Filter to show a list of all News items created using the News content type.
  4. Check the box to the left for each of the News items that you are trying to perform the bulk edit on. 
  5.  Click on the dropdown under the Action section, and select your desired bulk edit action.
  6. Click on Apply to selected items.

Tools for using your News content

Once you have entered news on your site, there are a variety of ways you can add news to your pages.

News List Page

The News List Page is a dynamically generated page that shows your news items, sorted by most recent.
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Lists Paragraph

The Lists Paragraph provides the ability to dynamically generate a list of content.
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Teaser Paragraph

The Teaser Paragraph allows you to easily highlight other content from your site on a page

Related topics

Taxonomy

Taxonomy provide a way to group similar types of information together, which can be leveraged to categorize content and improve your site's flow.

News Types

The News Types vocabulary gives you the ability to organize and categorize your news content.