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e107 News Management Overview
Admin Area » Content » News
News Front Page
Admin Area » Content » News
ID
Title
SEF URL
Author
Date stamp
Category
Visibility
Render-type
Thumbnail
Sticky
Comments
Comment Total
Create News Item
Admin Area » Content » News » Create News Item
General Body will be displayed on the main page; extended will be readable by clicking a 'Read More' link.
Show title only Enable this to show the news title only on front page, with clickable link to full story.
Activation If you set a start and/or end date your news item will only be displayed between these dates.
General Information
Category
Title
Summary
Author
Body
Extended
Upload
Upload an image or file for use in the news item
Image
Refresh
====Image selector===
e107_images/generic/blank.gif
Choose an image for this news item
Preview
Post News to Database
Stay in edit mode
SEO
Friendly URL string
To make this work, you need to enable 'SEF URLs' config profile from URL Configuration area
Meta keywords
Meta description
Advanced Options
Comments
Enabled
Disabled
Allow comments to be posted to this news item
Render type
Select how and where news item is posted
Default - post to front page
Title only - post to front page
Post to other news menu
Post to other news menu 2
Activation
Activate between entered dates.
Only show news item between certain dates
Date stamp
Check box to update date stamp of news item to current time
Set the date stamp for the current news item
Visibility
Choose which visitors will see news item
Everyone (public) (Fixed class)
PRIVATEMENU (Grants access to private menu items)
PRIVATEFORUM1 (Example private forum class)
... Active user class list is displayed
Guests (Fixed class)
Members (Fixed class)
No One (inactive) (Fixed class)
Admin (Fixed class)
Sticky
If selected, news item will appear above all others Select if news item will be sticky
Categories
Admin Area » Content » News » Categories You can separate your news items into different categories, and allow visitors to display only the news items in those categories.
Upload your news icon images into either ../e107_themes/-yourtheme-/images/ or themes/shared/newsicons/.
Create News Category
Category Name
Required field
Category friendly URL string
To make this work, you need to enable 'SEF URLs' config profile from URL Configuration area
Category meta keywords
Used on news category list page
Category meta description
Used on news category list page
Category management permission
Which group of site administrators are able to manage this category related news Category Icon
Set a string to be used in news pages URL. This will only work proper .htaccess rules and eURL config Resolved URL based on current value: <http:/> /yourwebsite. tld/news/
Manage Site URLs
Configure Core URLs
Main
Default
News
Default
Config Profile [SEF URLs]
SEF URLs
You'll need mod_rewrite installed and running on your server (Apache Web Server). After enabling this profile go to your site root folder, rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess and uncomment the corresponding line.
First update the preferences with the changed display per page setting, then update again after setting the news archive preference. (0 is un-activated)
Set the title for the news archive
Modification of the news-item author can be done by
Submit-News maybe accessed by
Enable WYSIWYG editor on Submit-News page
Enabled
Enable Image uploading on Submit News page
Enabled
Automatic resizing of submitted image
width in pixels or leave blank to disable.
Show new date header
Enabled
If this box is ticked, a box containing the date will be displayed above news items posted on a new day, useful for distinguishing posts on different days
Use non-standard template for news layout
Enabled
if the theme you're using has a news layout template, use this instead of the generic layout
