Creating and Managing Categories, Tags & Topics

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Creating and Managing Categories

Creating and Managing Categories: Getting Started What is a Category? A Category is a way to group content, making it easier for site visitors to browse your pages and find information. How are Categories created? Your categories are originally imported from your previous site. You can also add new Categories to your site at any time.

Creating and Managing Categories: Getting Started Where do Category pages live? Like standard Pages in Core Publisher, your Category pages will not show up in your Local News river. You can link to your pages in your Flexi Menu, Flexi Footer and Sticky Strip.

Creating and Managing Categories: Getting Started What Categories should I have on my site? Consider two things when creating Categories: What topics does your station focus on? What topics are important to your listeners and web visitors? Category pages are hubs of content that can be used to draw visitors to your site. Your Categories should be subjects that you will be adding content to often that pertain to your station’s goals while fulfilling a need in your listening community.

Creating and Managing Categories: Getting Started Best practices about Categories: Categories should be one word, two words max. Broadest way to capture your content.  What are the broadest possible topics for your site? What’s the most succinct way to say that? Five is great, ten too many.  This is a way to organize your content, if you have too many you lose your focus. Is this category warranted?

Creating and Managing Categories To add a new Category, first select Add term.

Creating and Managing Categories In the Name field, enter the title of your new Category. In the Description field, enter your Category page’s metadata.

Creating and Managing Categories If you plan to submit the podcast created for this Category to iTunes, you can create a Custom Podcast Title.

Creating and Managing Categories Make sure to select news_blog_xxxx from the Parent Blog section before saving your category.

Creating and Managing Categories In the Custom Podcast Description field, enter the description that you want to appear in iTunes.

Creating and Managing Categories You can also add a Custom Podcast Image to appear in iTunes.

Creating and Managing Categories Select the edit option for any Category term to make changes to it. (The hide option only controls visibility for stations that are using the River of News layout.)

Creating and Managing Categories You can edit the Name and Description fields for your Category. Think of the Description field as metadata for your page.

Creating and Managing Categories: Merging You may also want to merge existing categories to remove redundant entries and combine all content under one category.

Creating and Managing Categories: Merging You may also want to merge existing categories to remove redundant entries and combine all content under one category. Select the two or more categories that you want to merge and hit the Merge selected button.

Creating and Managing Categories: Merging You may also want to merge existing categories to remove redundant entries and combine all content under one category. Select the category that all terms will be merged into, or type a new term for all categories to be merged into.

Creating and Managing Tags

Creating and Managing Tags: Getting Started What is a Tag? Tags have multiple purposes on a post. Not only are they helpful for search engine optimization and make it easier for web visitors to search your site for content, each tag links to a page containing all posts with that tag. How are Tags created? Every Tag that you add when creating a post is saved on your site. You can also manually add tags to your site.

Creating and Managing Tags: Getting Started Where do Tag pages live? Your Tags appear at the bottom of your post when published. Each tag links to a Tagged: page, that contains all posts with that same tag.

Creating and Managing Tags: Getting Started A few notes on Tags: Tags are not “smart”, so make sure that you are not duplicating a tag when you add it to a post. (ex. Holiday is not the same as holiday or Holidays) You should create best practices for your tags to avoid duplication. (ex. Decide whether you want to use election, Election 2012 or Election ’12) The Tag field on the post form is an auto-complete field. Once you start typing in your tag, select it from the auto-complete dropdown to avoid duplicating the tag.

Creating and Managing Tags To manually add a new Tag, first select Add term.

Creating and Managing Tags In the Name field, enter the title of your new Tag. In the Description field, enter your Category page’s metadata.

Creating and Managing Tags Select the edit option for any Tag term to make changes to it.

Creating and Managing Tags: Merging You may also want to merge existing tags to remove redundant entries and combine all content under one tag.

Creating and Managing Tags: Merging You may also want to merge existing tags to remove redundant entries and combine all content under one tag. Select the two or more categories that you want to merge and hit the Merge selected button.

Creating and Managing Tags: Merging You may also want to merge existing tags to remove redundant entries and combine all content under one tag. Select the tag that all terms will be merged into, or type a new term for all tags to be merged into.

Creating Topic Pages

Creating Topics: Getting Started What is a Topic? A way to gather posts on topics into one page using tags. What are Topics used for in Core Publisher? A Topic Page can be used to highlight content in several situations, including: Ongoing topics (Elections, legislative changes) News Series on topics of interest Local hubs for neighborhoods/counties in your listening area

Creating Topics: Getting Started How is a Topic Page different from a Category Page? Topic Pages Category Pages Content is automatically added to page based on up to five tags. Can have a custom title. Can have a custom description and image. Does not show up in your news river. Content is automatically added to page based on category. Can not have a custom title. Can not have a custom description and image. Does not show up in your news river, but is linked to in your site’s footer automatically.

Creating Topics: Getting Started Where do Topic Pages live? Your Topic Pages are like regular Core Publisher Pages. You will have to link to them in your Sticky Strip and Flexi Menu so that web visitors can get to them.

Anatomy of a Core Publisher Topic Page Custom title - Add a custom, eye-catching title to your Topic Page.

Anatomy of a Core Publisher Topic Page Custom images – You can add a custom image to your Topic Page. Use this space for custom logos and effective photographs.

Anatomy of a Core Publisher Topic Page Page description – Add a description of what your topic page is about. You can add links and contact information to this section.

Anatomy of a Core Publisher Topic Page Your posts will be displayed in a river of news with pagination at the top for your visitors to browse your content.

Anatomy of a Core Publisher Topic Page Posts with the tag(s) that you have selected for your topic page will be automatically added to your Topic page river.

Adding Content: Topic Page

Adding Content: Topic Page Add your title and description for your Topic page.

Adding Content: Topic Page Add you Title, Body/description and image to your Topic page.

Adding Content: Topic Page You can select up to five tags that will show up on your topic page. Note: You must select at least one tag before saving or you will not be able to see your topic page and you will get a “maintenance mode” error message.

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