News: how to create and edit

News pages are used for communicating the latest news, and unlike Normal Pages, there isn’t a restriction on the number of pages you can create. 

Creating news pages
To create new news pages, sign in to Wagtail CMS for the Patient Portal and follow the steps described in the ‘User interface overview’ section to navigate to the ‘News’ folder, which represents the News section.

Once there, click + ‘Add child page' at the top of the screen, and select the option 'Blog page’.

You will be presented with a form to fill in the title of the page, post date, and a short introduction, which is placed underneath the page title, the content body, and tag any category related to the content you are creating.

You can add three different types of content to the body of your blog page:
1. Paragraphs
2. Images
3. Embedded content.

You can choose by clicking on the plus button in the body section.

Just as on the Normal Pages, the paragraph is enabled by a rich text editor, which allows a dynamic and creative approach to your content.

If you choose to add images, you will be prompted to upload your image or search within existing uploaded ones.

A recommended image resolution to use on the internet is 92 dpi

Upon uploading, you can add a title and tags to the image, making it easier to categorise and future search.

Lastly, the embedded content will load the URL within the page, for example, a video from YouTube or a post from X (Twitter).
Just like Normal Pages, you can save it as a draft page for further work, and when you are ready, publish it to the website. To remove an existing blog page, click on ‘Unpublish’.

Editing an existing news page
To edit an existing blog page, navigate to the News folder and click on the name of the page you would like to edit, or on the three-dots button, and select ‘Edit’.