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Introduction to Article Manager

Creating & Editing Articles

Articles are basically made up of a title, article summary, and sections. Other information found on the article can include information on the author and the date created or edited.

TITLE:
All articles need titles! Enter one here.


SUMMARY:
Type in a SHORT description of the article here. When a list of articles is shown on the site, this will be displayed as a teaser to get the user to read more.


SECTIONS:
This is the meat of the article. A article can contain as few or as many sections as you like. When you create or start editing a article, all currently save sections are displayed as finished. After each section you will see buttons to edit that section or to move the section above or below its neighbors. See "Editing Sections" below for more information.

Near the bottom of the article a new blank section is created for you with its own "Save" button. See "Editing Sections" for a description of how they work.

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS:
Allow Comments:
Whether users can add discussion or comments to this article

Allow Anonymous Comments:
Whether unregistered user can add comments (NOT RECOMMENDED!)

Publication Date:
A story can only be viewable on the site after it is published. You don't need to change this value. It is automatically set to the date this story was created. If you want this story to be invisible until a future date, then you can set it here.

Expiration Date:
A story can only remain on the site until it expires. You don't need to change this value. The site administrator has set a default period before stories expire. If you want this story to be deleted before or after this date, then you can set it here.

Category:
The topic categories that this article falls under. If this article is assigned to a category, ArticleManager can then work with other phpWebsite modules to group related articles together and give interested users suggestions on other articles to surf.

Keywords for this article:
Enter keywords for this article, separated by commas. When this article is shown, these keywords will automatically be added to the site-wide keyword metatag to aid Search Engines in indexing this page.
example: "help,keywords,metatags,search engine,optimization"

Search Engine instructions (for Administrators only):
Select the instructions that you want search engine spiders to follow when they see this page. Select "Default Settings" if you're not sure which to pick. This option will use the site-wide setting selected in "Layout"


ARTICLE INFORMATION:
NOTE -- These items are not editable.
Created By: Who created the article
Updated By: the last person to edit the article
Created On: When the article was created
Updated On: When the article was last edited

Save Article:
Click this button when you're finished editing. If all information was entered in correctly, you'll be taken back to the main menu.
Creating & Editing Sections
Each section consists of a title and text (and sometimes an image). You can think of the title of a section as a subtitle of the article. Whenever you start editing a article or save a section, a new one is created for you.

START ON NEW PAGE:
This option enables multi-article stories. When enabled, this section will be the first of a new page.

Why would I want to use more than 1 section in a page?

Most likely you won't. However, using multiple sections allows you to:

• Compartmentalize information;
• Easily create blocks of information, like this Sidebar and the Pull Quote found elsewhere in this article;
• Manage repetitive display features;
• and other reasons that I haven't thought of.