Re: Website - News and Press Releases

[Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi Darton,

2010/2/21 Darton Williams <dartonw gmail com>:
> Imported everything back to 2001; the publishing date dropdown doesn't
> go back any further. All new imports are still unpublished and do not
> have short URLs.

Awesome, thanks! To enable short url editing for your account, go to:

http://website-editors.gnome.org/personalize_form

while logged in. Check the option 'Allow editing of Short Names' and save.

Next time you edit any content, you'll see an text entry to change the
short url.

Cheers!

--lucasr



> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've the necessary content updates to allow us to post press releases
>> on the new website. They are under a 'Press/Media' folder in the
>> Contact section.
>>
>> http://website-editors.gnome.org/contact/press/releases
>>
>> I started importing the existing press releases to our CMS. So far,
>> I've migrated all press releases from 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Need
>> volunteers to finish this as there still quite many press releases to
>> import. Anyone?
>>
>> Some general guidelines:
>> - Each press release is added as a 'News entry' in the 'Press Releases' folder.
>> - I'm trying to keep the same page names than the current website. So,
>> if a press release page is '2009-11-guadec2010.html', the respective
>> press release entry in the new website will have a
>> '2009-11-guadec2010' short name. If have to enable short name editing
>> in your profile to be able to define short names on website content
>> items.
>> - Set the publish date to the same date than the original press release
>> - Keep same title than the original
>> - Copy/pasting the content in the Plone text editor gives good
>> results, no need for extra editing.
>>
>> We need a volunteer to import all news from the current website to Plone too.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> --lucasr
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