Displaying Content in Core Publisher

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Displaying Content in Core Publisher: Web Clip

Adding Content: Web Clip A Web Clip allows for quick posts of external content. If you find a new article or post somewhere on another site, you can easily link to it using the Web Clip. You can also add an extra introductory paragraph, so that your readers will have context as to how the article relates to them. To add a Web Clip, go to your Add Content page and select Web Clip.

Anatomy of a Core Publisher Web Clip Add a custom title to your Web Clip.

Anatomy of a Core Publisher Web Clip Add your own lead in text to add context to your attached post.

Anatomy of a Core Publisher Web Clip Powered by Embedly, your Web Clip will appear with some teaser text, image and external link to the article.

Creating Web Clips Add the link to your external post to the Embed a URL field. In the Title field, add a custom title for your Web Clip.

Creating Web Clips Add a plain text introductory paragraph to the Lead in text field.

Creating Web Clips Think of the Via as a “retweet” or “hat tip” on a social media site. Add information about where you found the article online.

Creating Web Clips Clicking on the Embed button will show a preview of how your post will look in the web clip.

Creating Web Clips Use the Display on the river? checkbox to control where your Web Clip will be displayed. You can add a Category and Tags to your Web Clip, like with a Post.

Getting NPR Content from the API

Using the NPI API: Getting Started What is the NPR API? The NPR API contains posts published for NPR.org and NPR programs, as well as posts published by other stations using Core Publisher. You can search the API for posts that you can publish to your site. Why should I use the NPR API? The main benefit of using the API is the ability to publish posts from other NPR sources to your site for your web visitors to read without having to leave your site.

Using the NPI API: Getting Started How do I get content from the API? There are two ways to get content from the NPR API: “Top Posts” from NPR are automatically published into a block on your homepage called “Latest from NPR” You can grab the URL of posts you see on NPR.org and post them to your site. Where does my content from the API live on my site? Besides the “Latest from NPR” block, you can tag any content from the API with a Category or tag to control it’s placement on your site.

Publishing and Managing your NPR Content At Get NPR Content, you can: See posts that you have published from the API See posts available from the API that have not been published Search for content Pull posts from NPR.org using the URL

Publishing and Managing your NPR Content Published posts are now live on your site.

Publishing and Managing your NPR Content Click on the light blue text of an unpublished post to preview and publish it.

Publishing and Managing your NPR Content Preview a post published on NPR.org before adding it to your site. Click Publish Now to save. The post will display in your Latest from NPR block.

Publishing and Managing your NPR Content Type a term in the Search field to search the API for posts related to a certain topic.

Publishing and Managing your NPR Content Select Find by URL or ID to add a post from NPR.org to your site.

Publishing and Managing your NPR Content Copy the complete URL of the post from NPR.org into the NPR API story URL field and select when you would like the story to publish.

Publishing and Managing your NPR Content Edit the Category, Slug, Urgency and Tag fields to select where and how the post will display on your site.

Displaying Content in Core Publisher: Sticky Strip

Displaying Content: Sticky Strip Your Sticky Strip is located under your Flexi Menu and Skyboxes, where applicable.

Displaying Content: Sticky Strip Your Sticky Strip is located under your Flexi Menu and Skyboxes, where applicable.

Displaying Content: Sticky Strip What kind of content goes in my Sticky Strip? Ongoing Coverage topics Current Events coverage (e.g. Elections) Local breaking news (e.g. School Closings, Weather Emergencies) Station news (e.g. Transmitter status) Recurring series from your station or partners Any tag on your site or URL can be featured in a Sticky Strip. We suggest having no more than five items in your Sticky Strip

Managing your Sticky Strip

Managing your Sticky Strip

Managing your Sticky Strip Add a custom title to your Sticky Strip to the Block header field

Displaying Content: Sticky Strip You can add a simple, eye-catching custom title to your Sticky Strip to customize the purpose of the block.

Managing your Sticky Strip To add a link to a Tag page, add the tag to the auto-completing Tag field. Enter the text that will show up in the Sticky Strip in the Title field. Leave the URL field empty.

Managing your Sticky Strip Check the Activate the Sticky Strip block so that your Sticky Strip will show up on your site. Uncheck this box to hide your Sticky Strip.

Managing your Sticky Strip You can also add a link to a webpage. Leave the Tag field empty. Enter the text that will show up in the Sticky Strip in the Title field. Enter the Relative Link of the page that you are linking to in the URL field. If you are linking to an external page, use the full URL.

Managing your Sticky Strip Checking the Hot checkbox makes that Title stand out in your Sticky Strip by making it bold.

Managing your Sticky Strip Check the Display checkbox so that your items will show up in your Sticky Strip.

Displaying Content in Core Publisher: Skyboxes

Displaying Content: Skyboxes Your Skyboxes are located in your masthead region under your Flexi-Menu.

Displaying Content: Skyboxes What kind of content goes in my Skyboxes? Any posts on your site (even posts from the API) can be featured in a Skybox. Use your Skyboxes to promote posts (preferably with images) that would be especially interesting to your web visitors (like human interest stories) or timely pieces (like politics stories during an election night). You must have three posts in the skybox for it to show up. Make sure to keep this content fresh by swapping old stories for newer ones regularly.

Managing your Skyboxes

Managing your Skyboxes

Managing your Skyboxes Check the Activate the Skybox block so that your Skyboxes will show up on your site. Uncheck this box to hide your Skyboxes.

Managing your Skyboxes Enter the name of a piece of content (Post, Page, Program, Topic, etc.) in a blank field to add it to your Queue.

Managing your Skyboxes Typing in a field activates the auto-complete function, which will generate a list of posts based on what you are typing. Select the piece of content that you want to add to the Queue from this list.

Managing your Skyboxes Make sure to check the Display check box for each piece of content that you want to show up on your site. Unchecking the Display box will hide your content, allowing you to queue it up for the future.

Managing your Skyboxes Use the crossed arrows to drag and drop your content into the desired order and hierarchy.

Managing your Skyboxes To add more rows to your queue, enter the number of desired rows in the Number of rows field and select Rebuild.

Displaying Content in Core Publisher: Featured Content

Displaying Content: Featured Content Block The Featured Content block automatically rotates through four posts, displaying the main image and headline from each post. It is located under your Flexi-Menu and/or Sticky Strip.

Displaying Content: Featured Content Block What kind of content goes in my Featured Content block? Any posts on your site (even posts from the API) can be featured in the Featured Content block. All posts added to the Featured Content block must have images. Images should be 480x320, or they may be distorted. You must have four posts in your Featured Content block. Make sure to keep this content fresh by swapping old stories for newer ones regularly.

Managing your Featured Content Block

Managing your Featured Content Block Notice that there is no “Activate” checkbox for the Featured Content block. To deactivate this block: Uncheck all of your Display checkboxes, OR Remove it from the Top Region in your Homepage Layout Manager. The admin for this block is identical to that of the Skyboxes.

Managing your Featured Content Block Use the Preview button to see what your block will look like before saving it.

Managing your Featured Content Block In Preview tablequeue, make sure that all of your posts have appropriately formatted images, and check the rollover teasers for each post.

Displaying Content in Core Publisher: Lead Stories

Displaying Content: Lead Stories Block The Lead Stories block displays either one or three stories with image, slug, header and mini-teaser (for top story). It lives in the same space as the Featured Content block. We suggest only using one of these two blocks at a time on your site. When there are there three posts in the Lead Stories block, the first story in the queue is featured with a larger image and headline, and a teaser of the post.

Displaying Content: Lead Stories Block The Lead Stories block displays either one or three stories with image, slug, header and mini-teaser (for top story). It lives in the same space as the Featured Content block. We suggest only using one of these two blocks at a time on your site. When there is one post in the Lead Stories block, the title of the block changes to Lead Story. Also, the teaser for the post is longer. However, you can shorten the teaser by creating a break in the post.

Displaying Content: Lead Stories Block What kind of content goes in my Lead Stories block? Any posts on your site (even posts from the API) can be featured in the Lead Stories block. You can feature either one or three posts. Make sure to keep this content fresh by swapping old stories for newer ones regularly.

Managing your Lead Stories Block

Managing your Lead Stories Block Check the Activate the Lead Stories block so it will show up on your site. Uncheck this box to hide your Lead Stories block. The admin for this block is identical to that of the Skyboxes.

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