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Writing news and events

Create a news item or an event in the editor with More actions → New… (News or Event), or from the lists in Settings (New news, New event). A new item goes live on the website straight away; to write it in peace, clear the date in the Publish state section to make it a draft. For an event, the publish date and the event's own date are two different things.

You write the text and blocks of a news item or event on the website, in the editor. When you create one, you name it and, if you have categories, can pick its Category, then build it yourself or let AI draft it. A new event opens straight on its settings, because it has no date yet. The settings are in the editor panel's Page view, in sections you open and close.

News settings

  • Content – the News title and the Lead: one or two sentences under the title.
  • Meta – Category (a news item belongs to at most one) and Author name.
  • Card – the image shown on news cards and its Image description (ALT).
  • Publish state – Publish date: empty means draft, a future date means scheduled, going live then. The Active per locale switch and Highlighted are here too.
  • SEO – meta title and description, share image, indexing.
  • Advanced – Slug per locale.

Event settings

The same, plus:

  • When & where – Event starts, Event ends, Date only, no time, Date in words, Venue, and a Ticket link with its Ticket button label.
  • Publish state – External event (not held at your own venue) and Archived (moved among past events regardless of its date).

An event has two dates: the Publish date decides when the event page is live, and Event starts says when the event itself happens and orders the lists. An event next month is usually published now. A past event stays published, and its address keeps working. An event without a date is left out of chronological lists.

Where do they appear?

A news item shows wherever you place a News list or Chosen news story block; an event in the Event list or Chosen event block. If a news item does not show, check that it is published, active in that language, and that the page has a news list whose filter matches it.