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Article Templates allow you to select specially designed template layouts available out of the box for date or period sensitive content such as news articles , and blogs, FAQs. These are typically date-defined pages but . However, the article system can be used for other purposes such as to render a staff list and staff bios and sets of FAQs. Article template layouts work in similar ways to other templates, are configured just like other page templates in the Customer Self Service eCommerce Platform - using zones and widgets to organise page content and configure options. The ability flexibility to customise article layouts depends on whether zoned or non-zoned layouts are in use, and on your website version.
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Three built-in article templates are available for all sites from the Articles tab, under the Content → Pages & Templates menu.
Each built-in template contains default widgets and can be customised.
- Article List Item Zoned and Article List Page templates: provide options for creating arranging the content of an article list layout
- Article Page Zoned template: used for rendering the in-built arranging the content of the zoned article page. If you are using the the non-zoned article template option, content follows is arranged by the default article layout:
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An article list displays all articles available for an article type and allows the user can to click on an article one to access the full content. In the example, the 'News Articles' list shows all articles available on the website. The standard 'Article List Page' (without zones) can be selected for the layout of article lists. To be able to customise zones, use the 'Article List Item Zoned' template instead.
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The standard non-zoned layout is rendered using the built-in 'Article List Page' template (which defaults to the 'Paged Content List Layout') and either the Article List widget or the Article List All widget.
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If you wish to display your articles in a slider format (rather than as a static list), simply replace the Article List All widget with the Article Slider widget on the 'Article List Page' template. Note - the Article Slider will only support the standard list item fields - zoned layout is not available. |
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This template allows you to further customise an article list with more flexibility than the standard Article List Page template. You can adding features rearrange widgets and add extras such as custom fields, a filter to display content by layer and rearrange widgetsa feature sorting tool. See Article List - Zoned layout help for details.
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This template determines the layout for the full article (the detail page the user sees when they click to 'read more').Excerpt Include Article Page - Zoned layout Article Page - Zoned layout nopanel true
If your site is on 4.23+, you can create and use completely custom layouts for articlesevery article. (See help on Custom Templates for Individual Articles.)
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