Create an Article

To add a new article select Articles from the Content section in main administrative menu, or choose Add new article link from Dashboard. 

Add / Edit Article Form

To start creating your Article, you need to enter the Title of the article (since it is a required field). After that you can enter a short description of your article in two or three sentences (Abstract). After that you can select an abstract image using file picker (this is the main image of the article and it will be shown along with the title of the article), and a caption for that image (short description of the image).

The body content of the article can be managed by WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Text Editor which allows you to edit and format text, insert pictures and other media files. You can copy and paste from Microsoft Word, Excel and other programs into the content editor. The text editor keeps the formatting from the original document.

On the image above, you may see the different buttons that are available on WYSIWIG toolbar. They are almost identical to the ones in MS Word, so we won’t explain the way they work in detail.

We will mention only File picker   button which you can use to upload and insert images into article body.

Tiny MCE styles describe the rectangular boxes that are generated from the article's body elements. Each text box has a content area (text, an image) and surrounding border and margin areas. After you select the article content, from the Styles drop-down menu choose one of the offered option, highlight right or highlight left. This will create the article, similar as shown on picture below.

After you have entered the content of the article, in the lower right corner of the main screen, you can choose from one of the three available options for saving article:

1. Save & add new - Saves your article and loads. Add new article form
2. Save & continue editing - Saves your article while leaving you on the same page for further editing
3. Save & return to list - Saves your article and returns you to article list

Publishing options

The left side of the main editing article screen handles a number of parameters which control how the content of the article is displayed.

Parameters that you can change on the left side of the main screen are:

• Status of the Article. Default value is Active which means that it will be visible to visitors immediately. Other options are:
   
  • Pending – set pending status if you want your article to be reviewed by other moderators before it is published
     
  • Archived – set article status to archived if you want to create an article that will be archived as soon as it is created
• Category that you feel the most appropriate for the text you plan to write.
• Author of the article. You can choose it from a drop down list or type optionally some writer alias and then select who should be the author of the article from the dropdown menu.

In the Advanced options, you can set:

• Publishing date of your article. Today’s date (your system’s time and date) is shown automatically which you can easily change. You can put any time and date you wish for the publication of your article by clicking on calendar
• If the Comments will be shown or not for this article
• If this article will be exported to RSS feed

In the SE friendly tab you can set:

• Search engine friendly name - We suggest you to enter page name that will be in some way related to your article content. . Note that in order to be able to use the Friendly URLs functionality, it should be turned on in the General preferences screen. (For explanation of Friendly URL see Modules preferences section in Preferences).
• META keywords, that are used by search engines and they will be inserted in the hidden head area of your page. Enter 10 to 12 keywords in relation to your article separated by a comma.
• META description that is also inserted into the head area of your web page. It is used by search engines and is not seen by those viewing your page in a browser. Use up to 250 characters for your description.

When finished with setting up article preferences you may start with article creation process.

Article Revisions

Vivvo 4.5 introduces completely new feature Article revisions. This feature enables you to auto save copies of your articles to prevent data loss in case something happens.

A revision of your article will be created every time you change and save your article. You need to save the article before any revision or auto draft is created. It will not work on a new article before you save it at least once.

In the Article preferences section you can set if you like to keep revisions, number of copies and the auto-save period.