Add a News Post | Govstack

You can create an individual news posts within the Govstack content management system (CMS) and assign it to one or more established News Categories.

Create a news post

To create a news post, follow these steps:

Navigate to and expand your 'News' node in the left-hand tree menu under the 'Content' tab of Govstack's back office
Select 'Posts'
Select 'Create News Post'

This will add a new news post to your website. You are now ready to write the content for the post, assign any news categories or authors and configure the settings. When you are satisfied with your News Post, select 'Save and publish'.

Your news post must have a Summary heading and text description, at minimum, for it to appear in a news feed category.

A note about Original post date

'Original post date' is the first field you encounter when creating the settings for your new news post and the purpose of this field can be unclear for new users.

'Original post date' determines where you post is listed when it's displayed in chronological order, such as in news feeds, news tickers, and on the News page. It's also the date displayed with your post.

If you want to move your post up in these lists you can edit the 'Original post date' when you make updates to your page.

'Original post date' is not related to when you post will publish. If you want to schedule your post to publish in the future or expire at a specific date you can find instructions under Publish, Preview, and Delete a Page.

Configure the news post settings

Under the 'Settings' tab, enter the following details:

In the "Enter a name...' field, add the name of the post
In the 'Original Post date' field, enter the date you would like associated with your news post. This date will allow your news post to fit chronologically with your other posts (so you may set the date before or after previous posts). This date does not allow you to schedule your post to publish in the future.
Enter one or more News Categories you would like to associate with your post by selecting 'Add', then selecting one or multiple categories from the slide-out panel. Select 'Submit' when you are finished.
Enter the Author(s) of the post by selecting 'Add' in the 'Author' field. You may select more than one author for a single post. Select your Author(s) in the slide-out panel that appears and select 'Submit' when you are finished.
Select the 'Disable comments' toggle if you would like to disable comments for the post (this is only relevant if you have a 'Disqus' account set up and you have added your username on your News Category).
Select the 'Send Subscriber Notification' toggle if you would like to send an automated email notification to anyone who subscribes to the news category associated with this post
Enter an optional custom message that will appear at the beginning of the email notification sent to subscribers.

Add your news post's Summary information

Under the 'Summary' tab, enter the information you would like to appear with this News Post on the news landing page and when previewed in a News Feed or on the News Category listing. For example, you can:

Enter the title of your news post in the 'Heading' field
Enter a secondary heading in the 'Secondary heading' field if applicable
Enter the preview text/description for your news post in the 'Text' field
Add an image that will appear beside the News Post when it appears in News Category listing or News Feed

Add content to the news post

To add content to your news post, select the 'Content' tab located at the top. From here you can add content the same way you would add content to a standard web page.

Select the 'Add content' button to get access to all of the content components so you can customize the look and feel of the news post.

Additional settings

You can also add any considerations and information under the 'Extra Content', 'Navigation', 'SEO and Share' and 'Advanced' tabs. Options are the same as when building a regular web page.

Schedule a news post

If you would like to schedule your news post to publish at a later date, follow these steps:

Select the arrow beside 'Save and publish' when editing your news post
Select 'Schedule', then select 'Set date' under 'Publish'
Choose the date and time you'd like to publish the post
You can also set your News Post to be unpublished at a future date and time.
Select 'Schedule' when finished

Edit an existing news post

To edit an existing news post, navigate to the news post you'd like to edit and select the name of the news post. This will open the news post details. When you are satisfied with your edits, select 'Save and publish'.

If the "Send Subscriber Notification" property is enabled, an additional news subscription update email will be delivered. We recommend you disable the toggle after the first time the news post is published, if the edited information isn't substantial enough to notify subscribers.

If you would like, you can change the original post date after making edits so that it appears higher up in the news feed.

Unpublish a news post

To unpublish a news post, navigate to the 'Posts' folder under the News node and select the post you would like to unpublish. Do not click the post name or it will open for editing. Once the post is highlighted, select 'Unpublish' in the menu bar that appears above your news post. Select 'Unpublish' again when prompted.

Delete a news post

To delete a news post, navigate to the 'Posts' folder under the News node and select the post you would like to unpublish. Do not click the post name or it will open for editing. Once the post is highlighted, select 'Delete' in the menu bar that appears above the news post. Select 'Yes, delete' when prompted to complete the process.

Reminder!

When unpublishing or deleting, make sure to double check that you are unpublishing the News post, and not the News node. Unpublishing the News node may lead to bulk email notifications for past news posts going to subscribers.

You can learn more about controlling who has access to the News node on our Users and Permissions page.