# News

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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

Click **Create News Category** / **Update News Category** / **Cancel**.

### Existing News Categories

* ID
* Icon
* Category / SEF String
* Manage Permissions
* Options
  * Edit
  * Delete
* Order

## News Preferences

**Admin Area » Content » News » News Preferences**

### URL identifier

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.
  * Profile Location: /e107\_files/e\_url/core/news/apache\_mod\_rewrite/
* Users
  * Default

Configure Plugin URLs

* The list is empty

### Show News-Category Footer Menu

* Enabled

### News Category Columns?

### News posts to display per page?

### News posts to display in archive ?

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

### Text to show at the top of Submit News

## Submitted News

**Admin Area » Content » News » Submitted News**

Lists submitted items pending approval.

## Maintenance

**Admin Area » Content » News » Maintenance**

Recalculate comment counts

[Category:User Guide](https://app.gitbook.com/Category:User_Guide) [Category:Admin](https://app.gitbook.com/Category:Admin) [Category:Content](https://app.gitbook.com/Category:Content) [Category:News](https://app.gitbook.com/Category:News) [Category:SEO](https://app.gitbook.com/Category:SEO) [Category:Meta Tags](https://app.gitbook.com/Category:Meta_Tags) [Category:WhatsNew](https://app.gitbook.com/Category:WhatsNew)


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