Create OHIO Story

"OHIO Story" is a content type used by the University News team for different types of news or content articles. It has different functionality and display options than the OHIO News content type and allows for more flexible, visual elements. Stories are created in 2 different interfaces. The first one resembles the regular news article. You will utilize a second interface called Layout in order to build the body (actual content) of your page.

Getting Started

Log in to the News CMS site via:
Select the OHIO News Group

Choose Group Content from the top navigation.

If you are searching for a page to edit, use the filters and choose Apply.

To create a new page, choose Add new Content.

Choose OHIO Story

Edit Page

Add Title: This is a required field. The title will be displayed at the top of the article and be used in URL creation. As such, please keep all titles to alphanumeric characters and hyphens. While special characters (like quotation marks and apostrophes) can be used, they require encoding within a URL to work correctly and should be used only when necessary.

Add Story Author

Add Publish Date
- This is a required field. If left to the default value, the article will publish as soon as the created content is saved. If the article should publish on a future date, these values should be edited to reflect that.

Choose Story Title Display (from four options)

Centered Below Featured Image

Centered over Full-Width Featured Image

Centered Text Only

Left-aligned Text Only

Add Featured Image
- If an image is uploaded here, it will display at the top of the news article when viewing it online. This image is also used as the teaser image with the abstract on the listing pages.
  Recommended Image Size: 1140px width

Add Abstract
- The abstract is a short summary of the story. It shows on any news feeds and at the top of the article. You can write a summary or use the first couple of sentences from the story. If you do use the first sentence or two, you need to delete them from the actual story because they will be duplicated.

Add Story Category

Add Story Placement
Story placement will only be used if the news team wants to feature it on the ohio.edu/news homepage.

Add appropriate Story Tags
- Apply tags to the story for organic grouping and to route stories. More than one tag may be added. If a tag exists, it will display while you are typing. Select the correct tag to be consistent with your other stories.

Add Organizational Tags

Add Facebook Post Link
- Once your story is published, you can share it to Facebook. Paste the FB URL that is created back into this field. This will allow readers to follow the story and comment on Facebook.

Save the Article as a Draft

Once your page is saved as a Draft, you will see the option for Layout at the bottom of the screen.

Use Layout Builder

Layout Builder utilizes a variety of pre-designed blocks to add content, instead of content rows like a modular page. Blocks will be added along the right side of your browser and can be easily edited or dragged and dropped to reorder sections.

NOTE: The options for saving or discarding your layout edits are at the top of the screen. The checkbox for "Show content preview" allows you to show or hide the preview of the content you have added in order to move blocks around more easily.

Select Add Block

Choose Create Custom Block

Select the Custom Block Option

General Instructions

If the box for "Display title" is unchecked, it will only be viewable in the Editor view. You can use the title so that when you are rearranging the blocks on the layout screen, they are easier to identify. (Not recommended: If the box IS checked the Title will display on the live page as an H2 heading.)