Posting new articles

General process

  1. Export from InDesign to HTML
  2. Process the exported HTML with the processing tool
  3. Copy and Paste processed HTML into a new article
  4. Deal with images
  5. Make sure Format for the article Body is set to “Leave text untouched”
  6. Add the excerpt as specified by the editor
  7. Add various meta information and settings, see below for details

Sort and Display

  • Status: Select “Live”
  • Section: Select “Articles-Test” (this is a temporary holding section so articles can be previewed before they go live)

Categories

  • Category 1: Select the appropriate Volume and Issue number.

Meta Information

  • URL-only title should be short but descriptive. It must be unique and should be hyphen-separated. For example “padmores-revolutionary-theory”. It must match what is listed in the Citation Info at the top of the InDesign file.
  • Description which summarizes the article in one brief sentence. (150 characters or fewer).
  • Keywords are optional

Custom Fields

  • issue_date: Enter the quarter and year of the issue, like “Fall 2007”. Or, for double issues “Fall 2012/Spring 2013”
  • type: “feature”
  • article_author: Self-explanatory
  • article_translator: Self-explanatory
  • book_title: N/A (only for book reviews)
  • book_author: N/A (only for book reviews)
  • sort_order: Use this field to specify the order in which articles appear on the Table of Contents. The numbers should always be two digits, ie: 00, 01, 02…10, 11, etc., with the Editor’s Note being 00.
  • article_editor: Self-explanatory