Often, people will see a news post on another department or office website and decide they would like a similar post in their own News section. Maybe someone in their department is mentioned in the post, or it discusses one of their area’s programs, or for some other reason.
However, posting a duplicate news post is something that really needs to be avoided. It splits up Web traffic (which can result in a lower search-engine page rank) and may create confusion if more than one page is offering the same information. Having two or more posts about the same topic may also end up providing inaccurate information if one post is updated but the other is not.
There is a far better way to display any news post on your site: using the Sticky News option.
Sticky News allows you to display any news item from anywhere on the IUP site without needing to actually make a news post.
Here’s how:
- In the CMS workarea, open your main News folder (not the news blog folder).
- Go to View > Collection
- You’ll see your site’s Sticky News collection.
- Open it and click the yellow plus sign. Then, using the folders in the right-hand pane, navigate through the IUP website until you find the news item you want. Check the box next to that item’s title, and click the yellow plus sign again.
The selected news item will now appear at the top of your News page and will remain there until you remove it from the collection. It will also appear at the top of the Recent News box on your site’s homepage. This post will be in addition to the number of news items selected to appear in that box.*
You can also do this with your own news posts: for instance, if there are news posts that you want to receive attention but keep getting pushed down the list by new posts. Just add this post to the Sticky News collection, and it will remain on top until you remove it from the collection. (The original news post will also stay in its “correct” location, so it will actually appear twice on the News summary page.)
* If there are no news posts at all on your website and you add a Sticky News post, you may see some odd code appear above the Recent News box on your homepage. If this happens, please contact the Web Team for assistance.
