The blog
Publish articles on your site at /blog. The blog needs a plan that includes it, and the Manage blog permission.
Write an article
- Open Website → Blog and click New article.
- Write the Title, an optional Subtitle, and the Content.
- Under Publishing:
- Status: Draft or Published.
- The publish date: leave it empty to publish now, or pick a later date and time to schedule it.
- Author: one of your members, or No author.
- Category (or Uncategorised), Tags and Featured (themes can show featured articles first).
- Address: the end of its web address, made from the title.
- Add a Featured image: shown at the top of the article, on cards and when it's shared.
- Fill in Search (title and description for search engines) and any Custom fields. Required custom fields are only needed to publish.
- Click Save.
A published article goes live when you save it, unless it's scheduled. The list shows each article as Draft, Scheduled or Published.
Categories and tags
Click Article categories to add topics with their own page at /blog/category/{address}. An article has at most one category, and deleting a category leaves its articles uncategorised. Tags are added on the article itself, and each tag gets a page at /blog/tag/{address}.
On your site
/blog: the latest articles, 12 to a page./blog/{address}: each article.
To replace the first page of the blog with your own page, publish a page with the permalink blog.
Still need help?
Send a request to the Mattersimple team and we'll reply by email.