Have you seen a news post on another department or office website that you would like include in your own News section? Don’t duplicate the news post—instead, you can import that news post into your own site’s news feed.
“Why can’t I just make my own version of the news post?”
Sharing another department’s news is great. But, having two or more posts on the IUP website about the same topic may end up providing inaccurate information if one post is updated but the other is not. It also splits up web traffic (which can result in a lower search-engine page rank) and may create confusion if more than one page is offering the same information.
News posts on your site appear on three different pages:
- Main site index page*
- Main news index page
- Yearly news index page
(See the image for an example of these page locations.)
Imported news will appear on your main site index and the main News index page, but not on the yearly news page.
Adding to the News Page
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Open the News index page for editing, located at /your-site/news/
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Scroll down to “Manually Add News Page(s) to the above most recent news listing.”
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If the Yes check box is blank, put a check in it. The “News Page Selector” section will appear.
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Hover over the first news item. A menu of options will appear to the right. You can move items up and down in the list, remove items (red X), or add items (green plus sign). Click the green plus sign. -
The window will reload and a new blank line will appear in the second position. Hover over it and click the Up arrow to move it to the first position (so the most recent news appears at the top).
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The window will reload. Now click the Choose Page button.
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Browse to the site which has the news post, go into their news/year/month folder, and select the news post that you want to display. Click the Choose button at the top.
Adding to the Main Page
*Your site’s main page will have the news in a different section.
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Open the index page for editing.
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Scroll down to the Content Row/Column containing the type “News Listing.”
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Open that column and scroll down to “Manually add news page(s)?”
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If the Yes check box is blank, put a check in it. The “News Page Selector” section will appear.
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Put a check in the Yes box, and the “News Page Selector” section will appear.
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Hover over the first news item. A menu of options will appear to the right. You can move items up and down in the list, remove items (red X), or add items (green plus sign). Click the green plus sign.
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The window will reload and a new blank line will appear in the second position. Hover over it and click the Up arrow to move it to the first position (so the most recent news appears at the top).
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The window will reload. Now click the Choose Page button.
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Browse to the site which has the news post, go into their news/year/month folder, and select the news post that you want to display. Click the Choose button at the top.