Creating Your First Post

A post is a short listing of content on your website, such as a news item or a blog article.Each post has a title, an image and a teaser, and usually links through to a page holding the full article.

This guide covers creating a post, filing it under categories, choosing what happens when a visitor clicks it, and hiding it until you are ready to publish.

Before You Begin

If you have not worked with posts before, read Understanding Posts first.
You need at least one post category.

Creating a Post

Go to Dashboard > Website > Posts.
Click New Post.
Enter the Post Title.
Select one or more categories in Categories. See Choosing Categories below.
Upload an Image.
Write a Teaser / Short Description to give visitors a reason to click through.

Choosing Categories

Every post needs at least one category. Categories control where the post appears on your website.

In the Categories field, click to open the list.
Select a category. Select as many as you need if the post should appear in more than one place.
Drag the selected categories to change their order.
Click outside the list to close it.

If your categories are nested, the list appears as a tree that you can expand and collapse.

The first category in the list is the primary one. It decides where the post's full version page is created, so put the category the post belongs to most in first place.

Creating a Category While Writing a Post

You do not have to leave the post to add a category you have not set up yet.

Type the new category name into the Categories field.
Select Create "your category name" from the list.
The new category is created and selected straight away.

Tips and Notes

Posts created before this change keep the categories they already had, and the previous primary category stays first in the list.
A new category created this way starts with no page attached. Give it a page if you want posts in it to have their own full version pages.

Linking the Post (Full Version / Link To)

The Full Version / Link To option allows you to specify what happens when a user clicks the Post on your website. In most cases, this will be set to "Create a new page", which creates a new page for the content of your article.

The following options are available for linking the post:

Create a new page - Creates an empty page for you to add the content of your article.
Link to existing page - Links your post to an existing page which you've already created.
Link to external URL - Links your post to an external page address, such as https://www.youtube.com/.
Link to a file - Links your post to a file uploaded from your computer, such as a PDF document.
Link to event - Links your post to the RSVP form for an event you've created within Oncord.
Link to product - Links your post to a Product that's been configured within your Product Catalog.
No link - The post is static, and won't be linked.

To Hide the Post (Offline)

If you would like to hide the Post while you're working on it, open up the additional attributes tab and tick the "Offline" option. Note that when your post is offline it will be hidden from standard website users, however administrators will still be able to see it.

Don't forget: You'll need to make the post visible again when you're finished, otherwise website visitors won't be able to view it.

Once you have finished creating your post, click the "Save & Create Linked Page" button. If you selected the "Create a new Page" option, you will be re-directed to an empty web page where you can start writing your full article.