How to add, edit and remove News articles

Overview

News articles can be great ways to drive engagement with your platforms and deals. They allow you to publish information relevant to your users, building your brand and interest in your investment opportunities.

They can be featured on your platform and included in promotional emails and newsletters from the platform to users. 

This help article covers: 

• How to add a news article

• How to edit a news article

• How to remove a news article 

How to add a news article

Click the hamburger icon (≡) to open the menu. The menu opens in a left-hand sidebar.

Select Settings to open up the Settings Menu. 

From here select Manage Homepage. 

This will open up a new screen, select News on the left hand menu. This will display a list of any existing news articles already on the platform.  To add a new article, select Add News. 

This will bring up a form where you can add a Title, Author and Summary for the article. 

The main content of your article should be added to the Body text box. Within the Body text editor you can format text, add imagery and more.

You can also upload an accompanying article image in the News Image uploader. To do so, click on the icon or drag an image into the box. 

Once you’ve added information, there’s the option to save as a draft or publish, via the buttons at the bottom of the page.

If you save as draft, you will be taken back to the previous screen with the list of News articles on the platform. The draft will be marked as such via the ‘Status’ column. 

To edit the draft again, click on the three dots and select edit. This will open up the article again.

Once happy with the content, you can select Publish. The news article will then be available via the News section of your platform. 

How to edit a published news article

If you need to edit an existing article, navigate to the Manage Homepage settings via the steps above and select News.

Find the published article you want to edit in the list and select the three dots and select Edit.

Here you can make any necessary changes and select Save as draft or Publish to save the changes.

How to remove a published news article

If you want to remove an article from your platform, you can either change it back to a draft or delete it. 

To change it back to a draft, navigate to the Manage Homepage settings via the steps above and select News.

Find the published article you want to change to a draft in the list and select the three dots and click Save as draft. This will remove the article from your platform and keep it stored in the list of articles.

To delete the article, navigate to the Manage Homepage settings via the steps above and select News.

Find the published article you want to change to a draft in the list and select the three dots and click Delete. Please note that this will remove the article from your platform entirely and you will not be able to access it on the platform again.