• Documentation

    by Published on 06.11.2009 07:00
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    Welcome to the new CMS. Here's a quick guide of the different areas of this page.

    [B]1. Section Navigation Widget. [/B]This widget allows you to go to different sections. The "plus icon" means that this section has sub-sections. Clicking on the "plus icon" will display the sub-sections.
    [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] [B]2. Category Navigation Widget[/B]. This widget will display all categories on CMS sections. The number next to the name displays the number of articles in that category.
    [B]3. Admin-Defined Navbar Section Links. [/B] The admin is able to define which sections can display in the top navbar. Please look at the "Managing Sections Article."
    [B]4. Articles. [/B] The content here is displayed in the "2x1" layout. "2x1" means 2 articles are displayed in the first row and all remaining content is displayed in a single column. In other sections you will see alternate content layouts like 1 column, 2 column, 3 column, 1x2 (first article spans 2 columns and all remaining articles displayed in 2 columns).
    [B]5. Create New Article Button. [/B] If a user has permissions, the "Create New Article" button will display. For more information please look at the "Create New Article" article.
    [B]6. Recent Article Comments Widget. [/B] This widget will display the latest article comments.
    [B]7. Recent Blog Posts Widget[/B]. This widget displays the newest blog entries.
    [B]8. Recent Forum Posts Widgets.[/B] This widget displays the most recent forum posts.

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    by Published on 06.11.2009 07:00
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    Here's a quick visual guide on how to create a new article with the CMS.

    1. Create New Article Button: Navigate to the section you want the article to be published in. Click on the "Create a New Article" button. This will open an article form.
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    2. Article Title: In the "Add/Edit Article" screen, enter the title of your article in the "Title" textbox.
    [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] 3. SEO URL: Put in SEO-friendly URL in "SEO URL Alias" field. After entering the article title and SEO URL field is blank, the system will auto-fill the SEO URL based on the article title.
    4. Article Text: Enter the body of your article in the WYSIWYG editor.


    5. Image Settings Pop-up: Clicking on the image in the WYSIWYG will bring up the "Image Settings Menu" that allows you to set Image Alignment, Size, Title and Descriptions, and even enter CSS Style.


    6. Publish Status: Enable article to be published or un-published.
    7. Publish Date/Time: Ability to set a future publish date and time.
    8. Comments: Enable/Disable User Comments for this specific article.
    9. Permission Previews: If this article is to be published in a permission-secured section, you can still allow an article preview to be viewed on the homepage or public-accessible sections. This is a great feature if you want to provide a teaser to upsell a subscription package.


    10. Sections: This displays the current section for this article. Clicking on different section will move the article to that section.
    11. Categories. Click on any categories for the articles.
    12. Permission Read Access: This lets you know which user-groups can read this article.



    13. HTML Title: This is what you want displayed on the browser title.
    14. Meta Descriptions. By default, if the user does not fill this in, the system will automatically will fill this with the first 100 characters.
    15. Meta Keywords: Add any meta keywords for this article. ...
    by Published on 06.11.2009 07:00
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    4. Promote,
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    One of the innovative new features on vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite is the cross-publishing "Promote to Article" ...
    by Published on 10.11.2009 07:00
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    Here's a quick Visual Guide on how to Manage Sections in the new CMS.

    [B]1. Editing a Section: [/B]If you have permissions to manage a Section, as you hover over the Section title, a pencil icon will display.

    After clicking the pencil icon, you will be taken to the Section Edit page. Here's what you will see:[B]

    2. Section Name:[/B] Enter the Section Name
    [B]3. SEO URL Alias:[/B] This is the SEO Friendly URL. By default, if this is blank, the system will automatically copy the section title.
    [B]4. Section Layout: [/B] For each section you can define an individual section layout.
    [PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] [B]5. Section Style:[/B] For each section, you can also assign an individual style and theme. This means that you can have a specific theme/style look for a Movies section, and a completely different look in the Video Games section.
    [B]6. Content Display Order: [/B] This option defines in what order do you want the articles to display. Options include: Newest Article First, One Newest article in each Section, and Manual Order. In Manual Order, you can define which articles should be in position 1,2,3, etc. Manual Order is an easy way to feature content. Let's say you decide to display 5 articles in this section and you manually picked #1, #2, #3. In this case, #4 and #5 will display the newest added articles.
    [B]7. Content Columns:[/B] This is the column display of the articles. Choices include: 1 column, 2 column, 3 Column, 1x2 column (first article spans 2 columns and the remaining displays in 2 columns), and 2x1 column (where the first 2 articles are displayed in 2 columns and the remaining display in 1 column). The current homepage uses 2x1 column.
    [B]8. Per Page: [/B]Here you can decide how many articles to display on this section.

    [B]9. Sections to Display in Navbar Sub-menu: [/B]This module decides which sections you want to display on the top Navigation Menu Bar and in what order.

    [B]10. Published: [/B] Indicates if the Section is published live or not.
    [B]11. Start Publishing Date and Time: [/B] Choose when you want this Section to go live.
    [B]12. Parent Section: [/B] This display the parent section. You can decide to move the article a different section by choosing another section.
    [B]13. Read Access: [/B] Displays which user-groups have access to this section.

    [B]14. HTML Title: [/B] This what name do you want to appear on the browser title.
    [B]15. Meta Description:[/B] Enter the Meta description.
    [B]16. Meta Keywords: [/B] Enter any meta keywords.

    On the bottom of the Section Edit page is the Content Manager. This module displays all the content in this section and it's child sections.

    [B]17. Article Title: [/B] This displays the article's title. Clicking on "Article Title" will sort the articles alphabetically.
    [B]18. Section: [/B] This displays the section in which this article displays. Clicking on "Section" will display all the articles sorted by sections.
    [B]19. Permission Preview:[/B] If this article is to be published in a permission-secured section, you can still allow an article preview to be viewed on the homepage or public-accessible sections. This is a great feature if you want to provide a teaser to upsell a subscription package.
    [B]20. Published: [/B] Indicates the publish state.
    [B]21. Order: [/B] If you choose to display in manual mode, this is where do decide which articles should be displayed in this section and in what order.
    [B]22. Author: [/B] Displays the author of the article. Clicking on "by" link will sort the articles by authors.
    [B]23. Date: [/B] This publishing date. Clicking on "Date" will sort the articles chronologically.
    [B]24: Hits:[/B] This displays the pageviews of each article. Clicking on "Hits" will sort the articles by pageview count. This is a great way of checking out which articles are the most popular.
    [B]25. Comments: [/B] This displays the number of comments posted for each article. Clicking on the comments icon will sort the articles by comment count.
    [B]26. Delete: [/B] Here you can check which articles you want to delete.

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