News articles
News articles is a content type generated through the PressForward plugin
Like with the other content types, it is useful to develop a workflow and set of standards for the news section of your site. Some considerations include:
A list of sources: compile a list of news sources that regularly publish information that is relevant to your topic. Check them frequently for new items. Diversify your sources so you are not pulling from the same ones too often.
Frequency of publication: How often do you want new news content on your site?
Relevance: which topics are included? Which are out of the usual bounds for your Research AMP site?
Formatting: Set standards for how each news article should be formatted. To avoid breaking copyright, it is best to post just an excerpt from each news article, not the whole piece.
How to nominate a news article
The PressForward plugin should already be installed on your Research AMP site. To begin nominating content, navigate to Dashboard > PressForward > Tools, and drag the "Nominate This" bookmarklet into your browser's bookmarks bar.
To nominate content, navigate your browser to an article or report you would like to see posted on your Research AMP site. Click the "Nominate This" bookmarklet; this opens up a pop-up window allowing you to fill in some metadata about the content, including the author name and the date of publication. Click "nominate" and the article will enter the nominated content queue in the Dashboard of your Research AMP site.
How to post a news article
To post a news item from PressForward, open WordPress. Navigate to PressForward > Nominated.
Find the item you wish to post, and press the >> icon (Draft.) Then delete the item from PressForward using the (X). Pressing this button will only delete the item from the PressForward queue, not from WordPress.
In the Dashboard, click on Posts, then Drafts. Click “Edit” on the piece of content you wish to edit.
Remove all images and HTML code from the post body. (In some cases, it is easier to paste in unformatted text from the source.) You can view code in WP by toggling between “Visual” and “Text” views.
Remove any featured image.
Reduce the body text to an excerpt, ensuring that the reader is presented with just enough text to get a sense of what the larger piece is about.
Add any additional formatting you would like to include, like block-quoting the quoted text.
Ensure that the author, date, and source are correct.
Assign the post a research topic and focus tags.
If the article was written by a scholar in your network, or is about that person, assign the post to their profile.
Preview the post to make sure the formatting is correct, and publish it.
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