Not every page in your newsroom is going to be an Article. For this reason, it's possible to add custom pages with 'evergreen content' to your Newsroom: a static page, not bound to time. Compare this to an Article that will lose some of its relevancy over time.
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Table of contents
- Examples of custom pages
- Create a custom page
- Custom page: Evergreen content
- Custom page: Theme Page
- Custom page: Directory page
Examples of custom pages
There are a lot of use cases for custom pages. Below is a non-exhaustive list, but this can go as far as your creativity takes you.
- An overview of your (most well-known) customers
- Your company fact sheet or even a full press kit
- A page showcasing your products on offer
- A contact page for all PR / marketing people in your company
- Other biographical pages, such as 'meet our management' or 'meet the team'
- An overview page linking to all articles grouped per theme or accompanying tag
In practice, this means there are a few differences to a regular page. A custom page contains no timestamp and no modules by default. This leaves you with the header and footer of your template, and a blank canvas in between. If you go to the Page Layout right after creating the custom page, you'll see that it's completely empty.
Create a custom page
Custom pages can be added by going to 'Pages' in the navigation bar:
Then, click on 'Add page' and select the 'Custom page' option:
Choose a page name and a language and click 'Save'.
You can now edit the custom page and start adding content to the page.
Custom page: Evergreen content
- If you have an investor relations section in your Newsroom environment, you can use a custom page to create an undated page linking to documents related to compliance, legal, corporate governance and different types of regulations.
- Calendar page. If you're a business with a lot of events, make a dedicated page with a Calendar. Add a Video (gallery) or Headline for related content.
- Contacts page. Meet the team page, or a page sharing your communications team and/or channels so journalists can easily find who to contact. Include a General Contacts Module for the organization, add a Personal Contacts Module for individual team members, embed a Google map with a custom module, add an Inquiry form or Form module connected to a shared inbox so visitors can send messages. Lastly, use the Accordion to create a FAQ.
Custom page: Theme Page
A thematic page, for example around Financial Reports. Typically, you'll have these once every quarter so it you can group them together and create some sort of a theme page. In the main column, start off with showcasing the most recent reports in a News Carousel. If you have a tag configured for all financial reports, you can add it as an include tag. The rest of the content can be displayed by using one or more Headlines.
Custom page: Directory page
Buttons can be very useful to create overview pages. Create a product page with buttons for each product. These buttons link to other custom pages with a headlines module configured to show all news items about that specific product.