At the top-right part of the Article Customization screen, from left to right, you can preview the article, edit it, add a comment, copy the URL, or delete it.
Decide which destination you want to publish your article by selecting single or multiple destinations from the dropdown menu. To remove the article from the chosen published destination, click on the (x) button. If the article has been already published and you consequently changed its destinations, don't forget to Update the articles’ settings.
Destination suggestions
Featuring your articles into multiple feeds isn't always an easy task - here is where this feature comes into play. Within the Article Customization screen, we’ve integrated a destination suggestion functionality that will help you feature your articles faster into the desired destinations without relying on your memory.
Our smart "recommender service" will offer you suggestions based on your article's content. You can add each destination by simply clicking on the "plus" icon.
Pin-to-top
Give the article the best location of broader appeal by pinning it to the top of the selected destination for 8 hours. The article will be automatically unpinned from the destination after 8 hours from the publishing time, or you can manually unpin it at any time.
Note that if more than one article has been pinned to the top within the same destination, the last modified article will be presented first.
Publish time
Decide if you want to publish an article now (by default) or schedule it for later. In this case, set the date and time according to your local time zone.
Re-feature articles
Republish your article to manipulate its order among other publications. To do so, you should remove an article from an existing destination, add the same destination again and click on the Publish button.
You can choose whether to acknowledge or hide the owner of the article by clicking the Hide button. You can also give three more authors credit by clicking on the Add Author button and searching for the relevant authors you would like to add.
We have created a coupled category for every existing Feed page within your sites (The Category names were taken from the feed pages' names).
From now on, every new Feed page that you create will automatically create a coupled category (using the same name as you have used for the page upon its creation).
Any user with Craft permissions will be able to view the site's category list within a table view that will be nested under the new Craft section called "Categories.”
The category names will be presented on top of the Post-pages and used to label articles on your site.
The Post-pages’ labels will be linked to their coupled feed page within your site and lead readers to them when clicked.
Before publishing an article, you will select its "Main Category" using the new dropdown - added to the top of the "Article Customization" side menu.
Important Notes:
- The Category’s names can be edited via Craft (by clicking on the "Edit" button on each item within the table) but can't be deleted.
- Be aware that the "Main Category" is only used for labeling your articles on the site-side. Make sure not to confuse it with the "DFP Category" that is used for targeting purposes.
- Selecting the article's main category isn't mandatory, yet it will help SEO by increasing your site's internal linking and your page’s ranking in Google.
- If you have Evergreen content already published to your sites, you can search for those articles via the publisher table, click on them, and add the relevant categories.
Target ad space on your article page more effectively by assigning a relevant DFP category to it.
Make the URL of an article more appealing by editing its ending. Note that only digits, Latin letters, underscores, and dashes are accepted in the URL. This part of the URL should not be less than 10 characters.
Turn on the Google index deactivation button if you do not wish for the article to appear within search results.
Add teams from the drop-down to ensure the article appears on the corresponding team page.
Please note that the Teams Feature is only available to the SI organization and only applies to sports sites.
Add commercial tags if you want certain ads not to be targeted to your article. Commercial tags are a useful tool for ensuring no irrelevant ads are running over your sponsored campaigns.
Article Disclaimer
Voltax users now have the option to add a disclaimer message to articles in cases where it is legally required (commerce, affiliate links, etc.).
Add the disclaimer to the article through the Publisher by adding a “disclaimer” commercial tag.
Within the Publisher, you can switch on the “Sponsored Article” toggle to add custom branding to an article. By inserting the logo and brand name, you acknowledge that you have the right to use it. The item will not show up on the post page if one or more fields are left empty.
Logo image
Upload the logo that will be used for the sponsored article. The logo file format must be SVG.
Note for the logo designers or providers: The logo SVG file must be monochromatic and without height & width params to look good on the site.
Logo URL
Add the URL to redirect the readers when clicking on the logo.
The “sponsored” rel will automatically be added to the logo’s URL on “sponsored articles”.
Sponsored text
Add the text which will be placed before the brand name. For example: “Presented By.” The field is limited to a maximum of 40 characters.
Brand name
Add here the brand name that provides the sponsorship. The field is limited to a maximum of 40 characters.
If necessary, before publishing an article, editorial teams can toggle ON the "Exclude from RSS" button below:
Once toggled ON, the specific article won't be included within the site's RSS feed, which is accessible via the site itself and shared with syndication partners.
This button will be toggled "OFF" by default, which means all articles will be included within the RSS feed unless decided otherwise by the editorial.
In cases where a different "Canonical" should be added, Voltax enables editorial teams to customize the articles' canonical URLs via the Publisher's "Article Customization" screen.
Turn ON the button and insert the URL that should be used as the article's Canonical:
Important notes:
- If the "Canonical URL" field remains empty, the article's URL will be used as the "Canonical"
- The "Canonical URL" must start with “http://” or “https://”
- Articles with an external canonical URL are recommended to be excluded from RSS
If necessary, before publishing an article, editorial teams can toggle ON the "Exclude from Recommendations" button below:
Once toggled ON, the specific article won't be included in the finite scroll or the recommendation units of articles.
This button will be toggled "OFF" by default, which means all articles will be included in the recommendations unless decided otherwise by the editorial.
After you finish customizing your article and adding the relevant destinations, you can click on the Publish button for the article to go live on your website. Alternatively, you can schedule your article by clicking on the Calendar icon to the left of the Publish button.