Writing and publishing an article

Once your blog is set up, writing is a two-part job: fill in the article's details, then write its content in an editor much like the page editor.

Articles go live the moment you save them. They're not part of a publish snapshot: the blog pages you built are, but the articles themselves are read fresh on every visit. So the setup gets published once, and after that a new article is public as soon as it's saved and switched on.

Create the article

Open the category and press Add publication. You'll be asked for:

Press Create. The article appears in the category list with an Active badge.

Note what you're not asked for: category and language. Both come from the category you're standing in, so create the category first.

Scheduling and taking articles down

The two dates are the publish window:

• Write now, publish Monday: set a start date. The article stays invisible until then, with no further action from you.
• A campaign that ends: set an end date and it retires itself.
• Take it down now: the ⋮ menu on the article has Deactivate. The badge flips to Disabled and the article disappears from the site immediately. Activate brings it back.

Deactivating is the one to reach for when something's wrong with a live article: it's instant, and nothing is lost.

Write the content

Click the article's title to open the content editor. The left side is your article; the right column has four tabs:

Then press Save changes. Leaving the page with unsaved work prompts you first, but don't rely on it. Save as you go.

Two differences from the page editor:

• The article's title, summary, image and dates are not edited here. They're in the ⋮ menu's Edit on the category screen, which reopens the dialog from before.
• The Display settings tab in this editor only attaches display sets. The per-element styling panel isn't part of it. Style articles through the display sets on the article's elements, and through the publication container on the article page. See Display sets.

Author and date

Both come from ClickWhale, not from you: the author is the account that created the article, and the date is when it was created.

They only appear if the Publication container on your article page has Show author and Show publication date switched on, and in the overview, the date shows as "3 days ago" rather than a full date. See Adding a blog to your website.

Renaming an article

You can, but the web address is built from the title, so an article you rename gets a new address and the old one stops working. If the article has already been shared or linked, either leave the title alone or set up a redirect from the old address under Manage → Settings → URL redirects.

Common issues