Content platform module

The Content platform allows you to publish articles on your website. The possibilities here are much more extensive than with, for example, the news module (standard). The Content Platform can be used to supplement or even replace a physical magazine. On this platform, articles can be pinned to the front page, authors can be displayed on author profiles with a biography and overview of all articles, and articles can be tagged.

In addition, the Content Platform can be expanded with editions and volumes, which are also explained in this article. If you are interested in this expansion, please email support@genkgo.nl.

When the Content Platform is selected, it consists of up to six tabs, which are explained in this article:

• Articles
• Authors
• Front page
• Tags
• Editions
• Volumes

Articles

Create a new article

To create a new article, go to the page that contains the content platform in the Website application. Click on ‘New article’ in the toolbar.

• Enter the title of the article;
• Choose the language of the article;
• Enter the categories of the article. Existing categories will appear as suggestions when you are typing;
• Choose the author(s). You can choose one or multiple persons from the Organization application.
• Use the text editor for the content of the article NB! Write the article itself in a text editing program such as Microsoft Word. The system will log you out automatically if you work in one screen for too long. Your work will not be saved if this happens.
• Write a summary of the article. This will be displayed above the article on the website (often in larger or bold letters).

Click on ‘save’ to confirm.

Overview of articles and actions

After saving the article, it will be displayed in the overview of articles. This overview displays relevant information about each article. The following actions are possible:

• Edit – Click on the title of the article.
• Take offline – Click on . If the article is not published yet, you can publish with .
• Add cover image – The cover image will be displayed on the website in the overview of articles and above the article itself. Click on to add a cover image.
• Add slideshow – You can add multiple images to each article. To do this, either click on  in the overview of articles, or click on the title of the article and click on ‘Slideshows’ in the toolbar.

Authors

Every person who is added as an author to an article has an author profile on the website. This profile contains the author's name and all articles written by this author as standard. However, additional information can be added to the author profile.

Go to the Content Platform and click on the ‘Authors’ tab. You will see a list of all authors. Here you can see how many articles an author has, whether they are included in the author list, and what URL name this author has. Click on an author to edit their author profile.

• Name – By default, this is the author's name. You can edit this here, for example, if the author wishes to use a pseudonym.
• Organization profile – Here you can see which member is linked to the author profile. You can also change which member profile it is linked to.
• Hide on author list – Here you can hide the author on the author list on the website.
• URL name – If you have changed the author's name in ‘Title’, it is advisable to also change the name in the link to the author profile. You can do this in this field.
• Biography – In this field, you can enter the author's biography.
• New photo – To add a photo to the author profile, click on ‘Browse’. You can then select and upload an image.

Click on ‘Save’ to confirm the changes.

Front page

You can pin articles to a prominent position on the Content Platform. To do this, go to the Content Platform and click on the ‘Front page’ tab. Here you will see a number of positions where articles can be pinned. You can fill each of these positions with one article. Once the positions have been filled with the correct articles, click on ‘Save’. If you have a bilingual Content Platform, you can place separate articles on the front page for both Dutch and English articles.

Tags

Tags (or categories) can be assigned to articles to place them in a specific category or because they belong to the same group of articles. Tags can be added to articles by editing them, as described in ‘Articles’. Tags can be added under the ‘Tags’ tab in the Content Platform. Click on ‘Add’ to create a new tag. Click on the name of an existing tag to change its name. In both cases, click on ‘Save’ once you have entered the name of the tag.

Editions

It is possible to bundle articles into an edition. This can be done under the ‘Editions’ tab in the Content Platform. Create an edition by clicking on ‘Add’. First, you can set a title and select a volume.

Now that the edition has been created, articles can be added to it and the settings for these editions can be adjusted. Click on the name of the edition in the overview to go to the settings page for that edition.

Click on ‘Add article’ to add articles to the edition. In the screen that appears, you can select an article, add a section, and choose whether it is possible to respond to the article and whether it will be displayed publicly. On the settings page, you can also change the order of the articles by clicking on ‘Adjust order’.

Change

Click on ‘Change’ to adjust the settings for the edition.

• Properties: Here you can change the title and the selected year.
• Access: If you have the Webshop application in your environment, it is possible to link an edition to a product purchase. A member will then have access to the edition when a specific product is purchased in the webshop. Link the edition to a product purchase by selecting a specific product under ‘Product purchase for access’. Under ‘Access’, you can also set how many paragraphs are visible at the paywall and for which groups the edition is accessible by default.
• Description: Add a description to the edition.
• New cover: Add a cover image to the edition.

You can also use the ‘Preview’ button to view a preview of the edition. Publish the edition by clicking on ‘Publish’. On the next screen, you can set the time of publication, the languages in which the edition should be published, and the website on which the edition should be published.

Volumes

Under ‘Volumes’, you can create the volumes that can be linked to the editions. To create a volume, go to the ‘Volumes’ tab in the Content Platform, click on ‘Add’ and enter the name of the new volume. In this tab, you can also change the names of the volumes by clicking on the pencil icon.