What are posts?
Posts include Events, News, and Issues.
Posts operate differently than other types of content, as they "populate" blocks and pages, and are not blocks or page themselves.
Definitions
News, Events, Issues blocks: These blocks are containers that hold previews of many of the posts of that category in one particular block. These types of blocks can be added and deleted anywhere on the site.
News Post, Events Post, Issues Post blocks: These blocks are containers that show a single post, but the same block displays different posts depending on the "slug" (a.k.a. link or URL) of the page. Currently these blocks and the pages they are on are locked - the pages and the Post block can not be deleted. If any design edits are made to the page, they will affect all the posts of that same type.
For example, if you're on an individual issue page, and add a donation block below the Issue Post block, that donation block will show up for all the individual issues, since they're all actually on one page.
Change post slugs (a.k.a. link or URL)
A slug refers to the last part of the URL or link name. For example, in www.janeforcongress.com/issues/minimum-wage, "minimum-wage" is the slug. In this way, the system uses the slug to figure out which post data to use within the context of that page.
You can change the slugs of posts by navigating to that post and then clicking Post Settings, near the top left of the CMS. The slug can be edited on the sidebar that shows up.
We currently do not allow the changing of the parent folder name, so that all issues will fall under www.janeforcongress.com/issues/{slug}.
Tagging (future upgrade planned)
We're currently working on an upgrade that will allow posts to be tagged in order to create separate feeds of posts. Currently, all post blocks will contain a list of ALL posts of that type. For example, every News block, even if you have more than one, will pull in all of the individual News posts you've created on your site. This can create confusion currently, as people assume that adding two News blocks, will create two separate lists of News posts, but it will not.