Creating a News Item

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Announce something on your website, choose who reads it, and mail it to subscribers and clients in one step.

Reaching the Screen

Panel menu: Site Management, then News and Announcements. Above the list, click Create News.

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What Is on the Screen

The page form, plus the audience and newsletter settings that only news carries.

Language tabs One tab per published language, at the top of the form.

Audience switches Whether the news is published at all, and whether it is limited to signed-in clients.

Notification boxes Mail the news to your newsletter list, to clients who accept marketing emails, or to both, 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 switches, the images and Hide Sidebar are shared by every language, so they appear on the default language tab only.

Who reads it

Display on Website starts on and is the publish switch: while it is on, every visitor can open the news. Signed-In Clients Only narrows the audience instead of widening it. Turn it on and only signed-in clients see the news; anonymous visitors get a 404 error at its address.

Turning Display on Website off unpublishes the news completely. It leaves every listing and the sitemap, and its own address returns a 404 error for everyone. There is no combination that shows it to signed-in clients only while it stays unpublished.

Notify newsletter subscribers mails this news to the addresses on your newsletter list. These are visitors who subscribed through the newsletter form on your website. You can add more under Clients > Marketing > Bulk Notifications > Create Draft > Newsletter Subscribed Users. Client accounts are not on this list.

Notify clients mails it to active clients who turned on Marketing email notifications in their preferences. These are the same clients Bulk Notifications reaches. Tick both to reach both groups. An address that is on the list and also belongs to a client gets a single email.

Both boxes appear while you are creating the news, not later. Each recipient gets the email in their own language. The mails leave in the background, so the save itself finishes at once.

With Signed-In Clients Only on, the newsletter box is hidden and the list is not mailed. Its visitors could not open the news. Notify clients still works and mails only people who can sign in.

In 5.0-beta.3 and earlier versions, only Notify newsletter subscribers is on this screen. To reach clients there, send the news from Bulk Notifications.

The web address

Link Structure shows the address the news 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.

Display on Website On. Every visitor can read the news.

Signed-In Clients Only Off. On, the news is limited to signed-in clients and anonymous visitors get a 404 error at its address.

Notify newsletter subscribers Off. Only on this screen, and only sends while Display on Website is on. Hidden while Signed-In Clients Only is on.

Notify clients Off. Only on this screen, and only sends while Display on Website is on. Reaches active clients with Marketing email notifications turned on.

Hide Sidebar Off. Turn it on to show the news at full width.

Listing Image Optional. Shown next to the news in listings. The screen suggests 600 x 600 px, up to 2 MB, JPG, PNG, SVG or WebP. The upload is scaled down to a fixed width and keeps its own proportions, so the height is not fixed.

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 news 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

Publish the news

Fill in Title and Content on the first language tab.
Open each remaining tab and write the same news there.
Click Create. The news is saved as active and the news list opens.

Mail it to subscribers and clients

On the default language tab, leave Display on Website on.
Tick Notify newsletter subscribers, Notify clients or both before saving.
Click Create. The emails are queued in the background and appear under Tools > Notification Queue; recipients receive them shortly after.

Things to Watch

The emails go out once

Both boxes work on this screen alone, and only during the first save. Editing the news later never mails anyone again, and a news item saved with Display on Website off sends nothing at all.

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.

Both switches off hides the news

The news is then unpublished. It appears in no listing and its own address returns a 404 error, so the link cannot be shared for preview either. Turn Display on Website on unless you are preparing something you will announce later.

5.0-beta.3 and earlier: an unticked box is not kept on create

In these versions a news item created with Display on Website off is still saved as published. To keep it hidden, open it from the news list after saving and turn the box off there.

Required Privileges

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

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