# Creating a Blog Article

https://docs.wisecp.com/de/creating-a-blog-article

Write a blog article, file it under a category, and mail it to your newsletter subscribers in the same step.

## Reaching the Screen

Panel menu: **Site Management**, then **Blog**. Above the list, click **Create Article**.

`{admin}/manage-website/blogs/add`

## What Is on the Screen

The page form, plus the category and newsletter settings that only articles carry.

- **Language tabs**: One tab per published language, at the top of the form.
- **Category**: Where the article sits in the blog.
- **Newsletter box**: Mails the article to your subscribers when you save.
- **Search Engine Optimization (SEO)**: An indexing switch, a page title and a meta description.

### The language tabs

The tabs choose which language you are writing. **Title**, **Link Structure**, **Content** and the SEO boxes hold one value per language.

The category, the images and **Hide Sidebar** are shared by every language, so they appear on the default language tab only.

### The category

**Category** lists the blog categories you have created, with **None** at the top. An article filed under a category shows up in that category's listing.

Categories come from their own screen. With none created, the list offers **None** alone.

### The newsletter box

**Notify newsletter subscribers** mails this article to everyone on your newsletter list. It appears while you are creating the article, not later.

The mails leave in the background, so the save itself finishes at once.

### The web address

**Link Structure** shows the address the article will get, and follows the title as you type. The pencil button lets you rewrite the bold part.

The panel checks the address and warns you when another page already holds it.

## Fields

- **Title**: Required on every language tab. Saving stops while one is empty.
- **Link Structure**: Optional. Left alone, it is built from the title.
- **Category**: Starts at **None**. One category per article.
- **Notify newsletter subscribers**: Off, and only on this screen.
- **Close Comments**: Off. Turn it on to hide the comment section on this article and stop accepting new comments; the global comment setting (Settings → Blog) applies to every article, this box closes only this one.
- **Hide Sidebar**: Off. Turn it on to show the article at full width.
- **Listing Image**: Optional. Shown only next to the article in listings; the cover on the article page comes from the Background Image. The screen suggests 1440 x 900 px (16:10), up to 2 MB, JPG, PNG, SVG or WebP. The upload is scaled to 1440 px wide and keeps its own proportions, so the height is not fixed; a smaller image is not enlarged.
- **Background Image**: Optional. The screen suggests 1920 x 400 px, up to 2 MB, same formats. The upload is scaled to 1920 px wide and keeps its own proportions.
- **Content**: The article body, written per language in the editor.
- **Enable SEO**: On. Off keeps the two boxes below from being saved.
- **Page Title**: Optional, per language. Empty falls back to the title.
- **Meta Description**: Optional, per language.

## Tasks

### Write and publish the article

1. Fill in **Title** and **Content** on the first language tab.
2. Open each remaining tab and write the same article there.
3. Back on the default tab, pick a **Category** and click **Create**. The article is saved as active and the article list opens.

### Mail it to subscribers

1. Go to the default language tab.
2. Tick **Notify newsletter subscribers** before saving.
3. Click **Create**. Subscribers receive the article by e-mail shortly after.

## Things to Watch

> **The newsletter goes out once**
> 
> The box works on this screen alone, and only during the first save. Editing the article later never mails subscribers again, so tick the box before you click **Create**.

> **Every language needs a title**
> 
> The save is refused when a language tab has no title, and the message names the language. Content may stay empty, a title may not.

> **Create the categories first**
> 
> The category list is built from what already exists. Set up your blog categories before writing, or the article lands under **None** and misses the category listings.

## Required Privileges

The screen and its save need `MANAGE_WEBSITE_OPERATION`. Without it the create button is missing from the article list.

## Related Articles

- [Articles](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/blog-articles)
- [Blog Categories](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/blog-categories)
- [Article Comments](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/blog-comments)
- [Creating a News Item](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/creating-a-news-item)