19. CMS - Articles

Create and publish article content organised by type, with rich content blocks, tags, authors, and SEO controls.

Articles let you publish content alongside your events - news updates, guides, venue information, artist profiles, or anything else your audience needs. Each article has its own page with a dedicated URL, and articles are surfaced to visitors through article blocks on your CMS pages.

Articles are organised into article types (categories), can be tagged for filtering and discovery, and support rich content through a flexible content block system.

Articles are managed from CMS > Articles in admin.

Articles must be enabled for your company before the articles section appears in admin.

Before creating articles, set up at least one article type. Article types act as categories that group related articles and give each group its own URL prefix and listing page.

For example, you might create article types like News, Guides, or Artist Profiles. Each article type gets its own URL structure - an article in the "News" type with the URL summer-announcement would be accessible at /news/summer-announcement.

1. Navigate to CMS > Article types

2. Click Create

3. Enter a Name for the type

4. Set the URL - this becomes the URL prefix for all articles in this type

5. Optionally set Meta title and Meta description for the article type's listing page

6. Click Save

Article types can be hidden by toggling visibility. A hidden article type does not appear in navigation or listings but its articles remain accessible via direct URL.

1. Navigate to CMS > Articles

2. Click Create

3. Fill in the article details:

1. Click Save

Each article must have a unique URL within its article type. If you try to use a URL that already exists in the same type, validation will prevent saving.

Once an article is created, you build its content by adding content blocks. Each block is a section of the article page - you can mix different block types to create rich, varied layouts.

1. Open the article from CMS > Articles

2. Navigate to the article's content area

3. Add content blocks in the order you want them to appear

4. Drag to reorder blocks as needed

Each content block supports these settings:

Blocks that display multiple items (galleries, related articles) support these layout options:

Each article has page settings that control its appearance and metadata, separate from its content.

Control how wide the article content area is on the page. Narrower widths improve readability for text-heavy articles, while wider settings suit image-heavy or multi-column layouts.

Add a call-to-action element to the article to direct readers to a specific destination after reading.

Articles have two visibility controls:

• Article date - articles are only visible to customers after their publication date has passed. Set a future date to schedule publication.

• Hidden - toggle an article as hidden to remove it from listings and article blocks. Hidden articles are still accessible via their direct URL.

Articles without a publication date or with a future date are effectively in a draft state - they won't appear in any article blocks or listings. Once the publication date passes, the article becomes visible wherever it's referenced.

Tags help organise articles and power tag-based article blocks. When you create an article block with the Articles with tags source, the block automatically displays all articles matching those tags.

Tags are managed at the article level - add tags when creating or editing an article.

Each article can be attributed to an author. The author name appears on the article page, and if you add an Author content block, it displays the author's biography and photo.

Deleting an article moves it to the trash. Deleted articles are removed from all article blocks and listings. You can restore a deleted article from the trash to bring it back.

Configure article blocks to display your articles on CMS pages

Create the pages where article blocks appear