Many of the pages on your site, such as article pages, are dynamically created as the website visitor requests that content. The objects that appear around the dynamic content, such as ads and extra modules, are controlled via Content Wrappers. A Content Wrapper includes up to four containers (as shown in Diagram A). For each of those containers a Template…
Optimizing your content for both your web audience and for search engines is a challenge unique to writing for the web. The recommendations here will help you fine-tune your writing to both boost your search rankings and improve your visitors’ experience on your site. In the past, web writers relied on metadata and tags to improve their SEO. However, after…
Adding social media content such as Facebook or Twitter posts is as simple as finding the post link and pasting it into the article body. Instructions for getting the social share URL from the most popular social platforms are listed below. Important: It is important not to use the embed code that the different social media platforms provide but to…
There are three main ways that you can add images to your articles: as the featured image, as an in-article image, or as part of a gallery. Featured images and in-article images and all of their particularities are discussed in this article. (See Galleries for more information about images in a gallery.) Whether you are working with a featured image…
List Templates control the layout of Lists on landing pages. The List Templates define: What information is displayed for each item, or card, in the List How cards are arranged on the page To review, edit or create List Templates, go to Lists > All List Templates. You can also access a specific List Template on a page by opening the…
Menus let site visitors navigate to landing pages on your website. They make up the content in your site’s navigation bar. Creating & Editing Menus Select A Menu To Edit Go to Appearance > Menus. To edit an existing menu, select a menu via the pulldown options and click Select. To create a new menu, click the create a new menu…
A website is a series of plugins, files, code and services that all come together to generate each web page. In most cases, the great majority of that code is managed by the Rayos Team. However, if you have requested customizations and/or integrations, there may be plugins, files and code that are custom to your website and content that are…
Categories and tags are metadata (information) about your site content that tells WordPress, plugins, search engines, and website visitors what each article is about. Category & Tag Basics Categories Selecting Categories Creating A New Category Hidden vs Public Categories Categories for Article Advertising Category Groups Assigning Categories To A Group Create A New Category Group Tags Selecting Tags Categories vs…
Core TownNews Developed Plugins Ad Manager Alerts (Breaking News and Weather) Atom Feed Customization (Broadcasters Only) Author Bios & Bylines Conditional Shortcode Content List Content Syndication/Ingested Articles Content Wrapper Directories Elections (Broadcasters Only) Excerpts Featured Images Field59 Video Integration Gallery Issues (Publishers Only) Links Lotame Oembed Extension Popular Posts Post Expiration Rayos Analytics Related Posts Scheduled Elements School Closings Trending…
Google promotes a couple different tools, Test My Site and Page Speed Insights, to help you understand what could be improved on your website to make it faster. At the end of each test, Google gives you a score for mobile and desktop to indicate whether you have areas that could improve in order to be a fully speed-optimized site by…
