Create and Edit News Items and Articles
News items and articles are often, but not always, created in pairs. The item, which should always be short because it has to fit on the home page, summarises some news or topic of interest and the article, a link to which is put in the news item, contains further details. Website editors (users whose account has been assigned the role of Editor) can create, edit or delete them.
Create News Item and Articles
To create a news items or article:
- log in as an Editor,
- click More (in the top navigation bar),
- click News Items (or Articles),
- scroll to the bottom of the list and click New,
- fill in the details but, for now, leave Active unchecked,
- the details are:
- for a news item: headline and story (Markdown),
- for an article: title, category, year, authors, access level and text (Markdown),
- click Save,
- examine your work and if unsatisfied, click Edit, update the details, click Save, and repeat if necessary,
- when ready click Edit, check the Active button and then click Save, to publish it.
Published news items appear on the home page, while published articles appear in the searchable list.
Editing News Items and Articles
Note that you cannot edit news items or articles created by other editors.
To edit a news item or article:
- log in as an Editor,
- click More (in the top navigation bar),
- then click News Items (or Articles),
- search for the item (or article) you want to alter and click it's headline (or title),
- scroll to the bottom and click Edit,
- update the details and click Save,
- repeat as required.
Deleting News Items and Articles
Note that you cannot delete news items or articles created by other editors.
To delete something, follow the instructions above for editing but click Delete (instead of Edit) and confirm your intention.
Markdown and Shortcuts
The story (of new items) and text (of articles) are both written in Markdown, a simple syntax (easier than HTML) for entering plain text plus optional formatting if you need it (headers, paragraphs, lists, links and so on). A general reference for Markdown is on Wikipedia and there's a cheat sheet on this website.
Links (to articles, games, images etc) can be input using Markdown but, where available, you should use Shortcuts which are custom extensions of Markdown for this website. Shortcuts also support the display of images and FEN diagrams.