Floribama Riders

Here's a quickie tutorial on how to promote content to the home page. If you are in the site editors group, you have these permissions. (The Site Editors include the club officers, as well select club members with professional editorial and tech experience.)

To see a list of recent content, you can click on Content in the right nav. (Again, this link will only work if you're a site editor.) If you find a blog post that should go on the home page:

• Click on the headline for that post
• Click the edit tab and scroll to the bottom
• Expand the "publishing options" heading and check "promoted to home page." Also ensure that "published" is checked.

Once you promote a blog post to the home page, its "teaser" automatically goes to the top of the list. There are two ways to control the order of the teasers on the home page.

1. Sticky at top of lists
   Go back and edit the blog post. At the bottom under "publishing options," you'll see a checkbox that says "sticky at top of lists." Checking this box will push the teaser to the top of the teaser list on the home page. It will also affect the user's blog page.

   I see us using this for important events that should appear at the top of the home page for a limited amount of time. Or perhaps a professional-quality article that deserves some extra promotion for a week.
    

2. Authored on
   Go back and edit the blog post. At the bottom under "authoring information," you'll see a checkbox that says "authored on." Changing this date will affect the sort order. This is kinda messing with the integrity of your data, and I don't recommend it, but it worked for me in the following case.

   Someone promoted my blog post to the home page, and it pushed Nemor's TRTEAR writeup down in the list. I liked Nemor's photo better and thought it looked cooler than mine at the top of the page. I changed the "authored on" date for *my* article to move it earlier than his and thus push my post down the list.

-John "Ice" T