News listings & events

News listings

Within the home node you’ll see a node/page type called 'News listings', This can be used to create news or blog articles. All existing news listings/blog posts sit underneath this page type.

Adding and categorising news/blog posts

News listings are like other pages on the website; they are made up from a series of settings and content blocks. This allows the flexibility to create engaging news & blog pages, using content, images and video. Each blog post also has a ‘News settings’ tab, here you can:

• Assign a date to the post
• Pick a category
• Add an excerpt that is used on the blog listing page
• Add the Author

Events

You’ll see a node that sits underneath the 'Home' node called 'Event listing'. All individual event pages are created underneath this node. The events that sit underneath this page power the event listing page.

Event Categories

If you wish to use categories for your events, you’ll first need to create the categories. You can do this by clicking on the ‘Event Categories’ node. Categories can be created here, and then assigned to from individual event pages. If you have categories configured, then the user will be able to filter events by category on the listing page.

Event pages

Event pages are like other pages on the website; they are made up from a series of settings and content blocks. This allows the flexibility to create engaging event pages, using content, images and video.

Each Event page also has a ‘Event settings’ tab, here you can:

• Set when the event is taking place
• Pick a category
• Add an excerpt that is used on the event listing page
• Add key points about the event, these are listed at the top of the event page
• There's also an option to add a booking link, this will then be displayed in the event panel description at the top of the page.

Event instances (date)

When creating an Event page, you’ll need to specify when the event is taking place. This is done with the ‘Intanses’ field in the CMS. Each Event instance can have:

• Start date (required)
• End date (optional - used if an event runs over multiple days)
• Start time (if set, this will appear on the event listing)
• End time (if set, this will appear on the event listing)

An event can have multiple instances; this is helpful if the same event runs on multiple dates throughout the year. e.g. Weekends throughout August. Rather than creating the event multiple times, you can set multiple instances.The date of the event controls where it appears on the Event listing page. It will also automatically feed through to the opening times calendar, so if the user clicks on a date that has an event on, it will show here too.