Once you've completed the initial setup of your Stacks site, its now time to get into creating the content that will populate it.
This article is a high-level overview of the steps and considerations for creating and editing content on your site, subsequent user guide articles will dive deeper into the step by step process for creating, editing, and deleting content, as well as how to add it to your site.
What content to create?
As mentioned in the Considerations Before Creating Content article, there may be multiple feature types that could be used to display your content. There are no rules as to what you should use, this is ultimately your choice. The Stacks Site Examples article provides links to various sites that highlight different ways of building your Stacks site and the various features you could use.
Once you've decided what you want to create, navigate to the Dashboard to find the appropriate feature tile (Callouts as example). When the tile is clicked, the page will open displaying a list of any callouts that may have been previously created.
Near the top of the page is a button for adding new content. Once clicked, complete the fields and follow the prompts to create the content. Note: more detailed, step by step instructions on creating, editing and deleting content is available in the user guide articles related the to the feature type.
Publishing workflow
For much of the content you create, there is a set of fields and settings that are common across most of the core features in Stacks.
These settings typically relate to how your users/patrons may be able to access and view the content and can include options for: adding a link to the content in your main or top menu, settings for controlling who has access to the content, creating a custom path to the content, and more.
It's important to note that these settings are configured for each piece of content. For example, two different Callouts could have different publishing workflow settings based on who needs access the content or when you want users/patrons to see it on your site.
For more information on these settings, see the Publishing Workflow article.
How do I display content on my site?
Once you've created content, the next step is to make it accessible on your Stacks site.
This process may vary a little depending on what the content is and how you want your user/patrons to navigate to it. More detailed step by step instructions are located on the user guide articles that explain how to create the content, but at a high-level, options for this can include:
- Adding the content to your homepage or another landing page via the Layout Builder
- Adding a link to the content in your main menu or top menu
- Adding a link to the content via another feature type
Editing or deleting content
For any content that you have created and placed on your site, you can make edits or even delete this content at any time.
As mentioned earlier, after new content has been created, it will be displayed in a list on the feature type's main page when the tile is clicked from the Dashboard. From, here under the 'Operations' column, you will see a button to Edit that content; or if needed, click the drop-down arrow to access the option to Delete it.
Edits to existing content will almost immediately be visible on your site once the edits are saved, there is no need to re-add the content to you site as discussed above.