What is an Article in exPub?
This article will try to explain what an article is and what elements in consists of in exPub.net.
An article is a written document with text, images, links, tables and other elements. A website can consist of many articles.
In order to display an article on the website, we need to put it into a section. exPub.net has many types of sections and, in brief, a section can only contain one type of content. Articles is one of these types. (More about sections here)
In exPub.net, we have the following elements
Pre Heading
Use this field to write a short introduction to the main heading. Recommended use of this field would be like "New product" or "The president said:" or similar. This text is normally displayed in a smaller font than the main Title.The Pre Heading should not be used without a Title.
Title
Title is the main heading of the article and should always be used.The Title is used in the list of articles in admin area to easily find what you are looking for. Without a title, it will be hard to find your article.
Ingress
Write a brief introduction to the main content of the article. This text is normally displayed on a list of articles where you will have a "Read more" button to go to the main article text.Whether or not this text will be displayed, depends on the template you are using on the page to display the text.
Read More (Body text)
This is the field where you add the main body of the article and where you can add images, links and tables to be displayed inline in the article.Whether or not this text will be displayed, depends on the template you are using on the page to display the text.
Read More Link
In case you want to take the user to another page than the automatically generated page, enter the full link to the page that will be on the "Read more" link.Tags
Type single words or short phrases separated by comma with keywords related to this article. These tags will be visible on the article page and linked to other articles with the same tags. More information about Tags here.