Users' Guide

Adding a Post

You can add posts from this section. After clicking "Add Post" link from the navigation, you will see post format options. You need to select one of these options to add your post.

Title: Post title.
Slug: Slug for SEO friendly URL. If you leave this field empty, the system automatically generate your title slug.
Summary: You can add short description about post.
Keywords: You can add Keywords (Meta Tag) for post.
Visibility: You can hide or show your post.
Category: You should select a category for post.
Subcategory: You can select a subcategory for post.
Show Right Column: You can hide or show right column. If you hide it, your post will be displayed full page.
Add to Featured: You can add your post to the featured posts.
Add to Breaking: You can add your post to the breaking news (newsticker).
Add to Slider: You can add your post to the index slider.
Add to Recommended: You can add your post to the recommended posts.
Show Only to Registered Users: If you want to show post only to the registered users you can select this option.
Scheduled Post: You can select a future date for your posts. Your posts will be automatically published when the date you select is reached.
Tags: Tags for post.
Optional Url: If you enter a url here there will be a button in your post page to access this url.
Show Only to Registered Users: If you want to show post only to the registered users you can select this option.
Main Image: Image for post.
Content: Post content. You can add image and video with text editor.

Additional Images: If you want to add more than one main image to your post, you can select more images from this section. If you select an image from here, the slider will be active (There will be a slider in post details page).

Files: If you want to add downloadable files to your posts (PDF, ZIP, DOC .. etc), you can add them from this section.

Adding Video Post

You can upload or embed your video to add a video post. If you want to upload your video, you can upload it via file manager and then select it for your post. If you want to embed a video from Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion or Facebook, you can enter your video URL to "Video URL" field. After adding your link to this field, you need to click "Get Video" button. When you click this button, your video will be added to your post.
If you want to add a video from sites other than these sites, you can add your video embed code to the "Video Embed Code" field.

Some servers may show an error when you want to add images or videos to the post content, or may not add your post to the database. If your server has some security settings, you may see such problems. In this case, you need to contact your server provider and change these security settings.

Bulk Post Upload

You can upload your posts with a CSV file from this section. There is a CSV file template on the "Bulk Post Upload" section. You can download this file and add your posts to this file.
You need to add your posts to this file according to these rules:

Field	Description
lang_id	Data Type: Integer Required Id of the language of the post Example: 1
title	Data Type: String Title of the post Required Example: Test post title
title_slug	Data Type: String Slug of the post. You need enter a valid slug if you want to fill this field. If you do not add the slug, the system will generate the slug automatically. Optional Example: test-post-title
keywords	Data Type: String Keywords of the post Optional Example: test, post, title
summary	Data Type: String Summary of the post Optional Example: This post summary
content	Data Type: String Content of the post Optional Example: This post content
category_id	Data Type: Integer Category id of the post Required Example: 2
post_type	Data Type: String Type of the post (article or video) Required Example: article
video_embed_code	Data Type: String Video embed code of the post Optional Example: https://www.youtube.com/embed/V9ypxcc0TpI
status	Data Type: Boolean Status of the post (1 or 0). If you want to add posts as draft, you need to write 0. Required Example: 1
image_url	Data Type: String Image URL of the post. If you add an image URL, the script will download the image and save it in your server by resizing. Optional Example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Labrador-sea-paamiut.jpg
image_description	Data Type: String Description of the post image Optional Example: Labrador sea
tags	Data Type: String Tags of the post Optional Example: test, post, title

NOTE: Do not use double quotes (") in your texts. It can breakthe CSV structure.

Posts

You can add, update or delete posts from this section.

Post Options

You can access post options by clickling "Select an option" button in the posts page.

Edit: You can edit posts with this option.
Add to Slider: This option will add the post to the slider.
Add to Featured: This option will add the post to the featured section (the four boxes at the right side of the slider).
Add to Breaking: This option will add the post to the breaking news (newsticker).
Add to Recommended: This option will add the post to the recommended posts (the posts in the sidebar of the site).
Delete: You can delete posts with this option.

Pending Posts

You can see the posts that have not been approved yet from this section. Admin can select "Approve" option for these posts to approve them. Also, if you select "Hide" for "Visibility" option for posts, these posts will be added to Pending Posts.

Scheduled Posts

You can see your scheduled posts from this section. Your post will be automatically published when the date you select is reached. If you want to publish immediately, you can click "Publish" option.

Drafts

You can see drafts (the posts not yet added) from this section.

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