What are Articles?
The Articles feature provides an integrated and flexible way to create and publish grouped content (pages). Grouped content (what we call 'an article type' may be news about your business, promotional articles or product discovery blogs, etc. Every article page belongs under an article type. And access to an article type is simply a matter of adding a link to a list of its pages (in an 'article list page') through an existing or new navigational or section menu.
The most common use of Articles is to create a space to communicate with customers. Whether it's latest news, blogs or product stories, our article system can help you present and organise fresh content about your business and products offered. Strategic and rich informative content through news, promotional articles and product stories can have positive effects such as:
- nurturing customer relationships and engagement
- improving product discovery
- converting visitors to purchasers
- improving SEO scores.
The ability to add posted, start and/or expiry dates for each page allows easy maintenance. Fresh content can be ordered to appear first in the list and old pages are automatically removed from viewing.
You can also take advantage of the structural features of Articles to manage other kinds of content. For example, use it to create FAQ lists and staff member bios.
Getting started with Articles
For Administrators
The Articles feature must be enabled and configured in Settings by the Administrator before articles can be created and published.
For Article creators
If you are new to Article publishing, go through the How-to guide to creating and publishing an article and article list with the out-of-the-box template and layout.
Advanced article publishing
If you are an article creator, note that the extent you can customise article-related layouts depends on settings configured by your Administrator and site version.
