Adding a new article

  1. Select and copy article template text from _articles/template/index.md

  2. In the _articles folder, select Add file > + Create new file from the menu located in the top right section of the page.

  • Name a name for the new article using the input area with Name your file... placeholder. The file name should be a short name for the article (using lowercase text, numbers and hyphens) followed by /index.md. For example, monument-valley/index.md
  • Paste the article template text into the input area with Enter file contents here placeholder. The pasted text contains the front matter for the article. The article front matter is used for indexing and display.
  • Update the front matter fields:
    • title:
    • description:
    • author:
    • date: Publish date in the form of YYYY-MM-DD
    • tags: Optional tags for categorizing the article. Multiple tags are space separated. Refer to the Adding a new tag page for information on how new tags are added.
    • thumbnail:
    • permalink:
    • published: This is set to false initially. When the value is false the article will not appear in the article index.
    • featured: This is set to false initially. Set this to true if the article should appear in the Featured Articles section of the home page.

Adding a new tag


Writing article text


Adding images to an article


Publishing an article