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 List, Events List, Issues List 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
When you create a post list block, for example, News List, it automatically pulls in all of your News Posts on the site. So if you create two separate News Post blocks, they'll both pull in the same News Posts by default. However, you can use our tagging feature to create News Lists that contain different Posts. Simply add tags to the tagging section in the News List block sidebar and also add tags to the individual posts to control which posts show up in which lists.
Individual posts can be tagged in the accordion under them when listed in the sidebar or on the Post Settings sidebar, when you're visiting that individual post page.
Additionally, when creating a new post from within the sidebar of a post list block, that post will by default be tagged with the same set of tags that that post list uses, making it easier to maintain separate lists without actively tagging posts one by one.
Draft posts
To move posts between Draft and Active status, simply drag them between the two sections in the sidebar. Draft posts will not appear in any post lists or get published on your live site.
Post Publishing Setting
Each post by default has two sets of content associated with it. A "preview" (sometimes called a blurb) and a full post. The preview is what shows on the post list block, and from there, links to the full post by default. However, in many cases users want to link somewhere else instead, or to simply have no button on the preview at all. If either of the latter options is selected, the individual post page for that post will not be published, so there aren't "ghost posts" showing up on your live site. (Unpublished post pages however, are still accessible in the CMS.)
Importantly, this is a site level setting, such that when you set it for an individual post in one location, that post will behave the same anywhere it might appear on the site.
Default: Has a button that links to the individual post page
Custom Link: Has a button that links to something other than the individual post page. The individual post page will not be published.
None: Has no button, and the individual post page will not be published.
