Posts are the most frequent type of content you will be creating in Planet 4, such as Press Releases, Publications and Stories (aka Blogs, News, Featured Stories, Articles…)

📚 Create Content > Posts > Create a New Post

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Login and create a new Post

🔎 Where can I find this ? Dashboard > Posts > Add New

  1. Login to P4
  2. Select New Post
    • Top nav: + New > Post
      OR
    • Left nav: Posts > Add New

Post layout

The post page consists of a full description of an article, including social media buttons, author’s block, and a take action boxout. Under the description, the related articles block is displayed followed by a comments block.

The post layout

Author name and picture

🧑‍💻 To learn more about Roles and Access, go to this page in the Handbook.

The Author field is automatically populated with the Username of the Post author. When clicking the name, users are redirected to the author’s profile page, which lists all posts authored by this person.

The Author’s profile image is now pulled out right underneath the Post title and displayed next to the name

The new author profile image pulled out in posts

As overridden Authors lack author page and bio, when the “Author Override” feature is set, the author image is removed.

The hidden author image on a post where author is manually overridden

Sidebar Options

Overview

🧑‍💻 To learn more and get a complete overview about everything in the Sidebar, go to this page in the Handbook.

Related Articles

Editors can add Articles block directly in the body posts. This is can be used as an alternative way of adding customized related articles. In that case editors can simply disable the “Include Articles In Post” option.

Post Articles Element Fields

At the bottom of the page, you will find another section where you can edit the following fields:

Author Override

The Author field is automatically populated with the Username of the Post Producer (you). If you are posting for someone else and they have a User Profile change it to their name in the Author dropdown. If they do not have a User Profile use the Author Override field. Use the Author’s full name only — no job titles here.

🤔 Key info >> Only names in the Author dropdown will generate Author Profile Pages. If you attributed a Post to an author using the Author Override field their name will not be enabled on the front end and they will not have an Author Profile Page

Take action Page Selector

It’s recommended to use this field for Stories and Publications only.

From the drop down menu choose the related Take Action page, if one exists. Otherwise, you can also customise the card. Learn more in the Take Action Boxout block page.

Post Content/ Body

Copy – paste content from Docs, Word or email, etc. into the Visual mode of the body and it will keep all your hyperlinked URLs. If there is no need to keep the formatting, then click on Paste as Text button or paste your copy into any Text Editor, then paste into the content/ body field.

To open hyperlinked URL in a new tab, select the content, click on Insert/edit link from the WYSIWYG menu, paste the URL in the box that appears, click on the little arrown on the right corner of the box and a new window will open.

In the new opened window, click on Open link in a new tab and then on Apply or simply click anywhere outside the block.

Single images / photos

click the Add Media button, then Upload Files -> Drop files OR Select Files. 

If the photo was imported via the GPI Media Library (Image Archive) plugin, the image meta data will be automatically populated; such as description, alt text and photo credit. This content will appear automatically on the front end of the site when the image is used.

Be sure to check/edit the following fields:

You should never alter or delete any credit line as provided by the Greenpeace Media Library (this includes adding “Greenpeace” where omitted, or changing the order of attribution).

These are the fields in Edit Mode:


And here’s an image in the live site:

When no caption is present there is no blue caption field present.

On mobile devices, on embedded images the caption will appear below the image, not over it.

Image Gallery

Add Media > Create Gallery > Choose Images > click Create New Gallery

It’s easiest if you upload all of your images first then go to your Post and create the gallery.

To Edit a Gallery:

To Edit a Gallery Caption:

🤔 Image tips
  • Images should have a minimum width of 1140px. (Download Medium Res from Greenpeace Photo Library, do not use images with burned in credit lines or watermarks).
  • For more details about images sizes, go here
  • If the image looks too small, click on it > select the edit mode (the pencil icon) > Select Full size from the Display Settings

Embed Videos and other media

There’s loads of things you can add to your Post. You can insert Tweets, YouTube videos, Spotify tracks and much more. For this example, we’ll embed a YouTube video in our new blog by selecting the YouTube option in the Blocks bar on the left.

After that, you’ll see the Block appear in the article. Simply copy/paste the URL from YouTube into the bar and click on Embed. The video will be loaded into your Post.

🤔 Key info : embedded YouTube videos are by default in privacy-enhanced mode, to avoid 3rd party cookies fired by Google and protect our users’ privacy. 

Add video from GPI Media Library

To add a video from the GPI Media Library, copy the .mp4 URL

Click embed code under the video, then grab the .mp4 URL only.

Add PDF and other docs

Manage Posts in the back end

Once logged in, go to the left side navigation bar and select Posts -> Page Types. Click on the number under count corresponding to the category you are interested and it will take you to a new window with filtered results according to you selection.

As mentioned above, you can copy / duplicate posts from the backend / Admin dashboard:

Quick Edit a Post

Some information about a Post can be edited from the dashboard. To Quick Edit a Post, go to Posts > All posts. When the list of posts appears, hover over the post you want to edit and the option for Quick Edit will appear.

Information such as the title, the slug/URL, publication date, author, categories, tags, post types and status can be edited with the Quick Edit option. When finished editing, click Update. 

Comments

🧑‍💻 To learn more about Discussions and Reading settings, go to this page in the Handbook.

Comments are available in POSTS only, and anyone is able to post a comment (apart from spams or bots, of course).

When not logged in, users can comment anonymously using any name they prefer.Whenever a comment is posted, a P4 Editor has to approve it in Dashboard > Comments, moderation settings will differ from office to office.

Managing a comment in Planet 4, either on an individual basis or bulk selecting multiple ones – GPI Development site

Enable comments for several posts

To enable comments section on posts pages for several posts (for eg, after the migration of content), the editor should follow the next steps:

  1. go to All posts
  2. select the posts that are needed, either choosing a specific author, category or tag, by clicking on the specific keyword, so all results are loaded
  3. select Bulk actions
  4. select all the filtered posts – by ticking the box before Title or by selecting each one of posts individually
  5. change the status to Edit and click Apply
  6. a new menu will open
  7. go to Comments and change status to Allow
  8. click Update

Now all the selected posts should have the comments sections enabled at the end of the posts.

Video tutorials

Creating posts

Gutenberg intro

Links & resources