Inside the News section, in the upper left part, we can find the Latest News button to post more news.
Creation of a News post
The creation of a news post requires to fill in a series of fields as it follows:
Internal name: Internal name of the post. It will not be displayed in the eCommerce. Only for internal purposes.
Internal comment: : Field with a greater length than the above field, which allows to write comments on the news post. Not displayed in the eCommerce.
Publication date: Publication date of the post. It is possible to choose earlier and later dates than the current date. Even if the selected date is later than the current one, the news will be posted today (it is a merely informative field). The publication date can be displayed in the post or not (depending on the layout of the eCommerce website).
Small image: Image that will be displayed in the news section.
Large image: Image that will be displayed inside the post.
Languages tab (there will be as many tabs as active languages).
Title: Title of the news item that will be displayed in the FrontOffice.
Short text: Short text to display a brief summary of the news item that will be displayed in the eCommerce news list.
Full texto: The content of the news post. It is possible to add styles, images and modify typography colors in the text editor.
SEO tab (there will be as many tabs as active languages).
URL SEO: String that will replace this element’s traditional link for a user friendly one.
Title: Title that will be displayed as the window title (not the News post title).
Meta description: The content introduced in this field will be entered as the content in the metatag description.
Keywords: Key words related to the news post, separated by commas and will be entered as content of the keyword metatag.
Active periods tab
Add activity period: The news post will only be displayed in the FrontOffice in the selected period between the “From / To”. Once the activity period has passed, it will be disabled.
News posts can be prepared beforehand and left “inactive” which means that they will not be displayed in the FrontOffice
To successfully create a new news post, the following fields are mandatory: Internal name, Publication date and Name (in all the active languages).