The document provides instructions for using various content modules in Tendenci CMS including pages, stories, news, articles, and forms for adding and customizing different types of content on a website. It describes the purpose and key fields for each module and how to add or import content using the module interfaces in the Tendenci admin area. Overall, the document serves as a guide for navigating and utilizing Tendenci's different content creation and management modules.

1. Working with the latest
Modules

4. Go to www. [your site here] .com/en
In the admin bar at the
top of your screen, click
on “Content”
Go through the dropdown to “Pages” and click the Plus
symbol to add a new page

6. When you go to the Pages Module, you will see a list of pages that have been
created. You can also add a page here.

7. When adding a page, you can customize it to your
needs. You have your:
• Title – Page Title
•URL Path – automatically generates to match the page title,
however you can edit it to what you want
•Content – The WYSIWYG editor allows you to format the
content and give it the desired look
•Tags – this is used to pull in certain pages or content to
areas in the sidebars, homepage, etc.
•Header image – A photo that goes above the page
•Template – if your site has multiple templates, you can
choose the one you want the content to appear in
•Permissions – this is to determine who can view the page,
i.e. public, members, “superusers”
•Administrator only – this is if the content needs only be
visible to the “superusers” who can access anything on the
site
•Category – this is similar to tags in that you can have areas
pull in pages or content from a specific category
•SEO Meta – For optimization purposes and search engine
information

8. To make the content move easiest, we recommend copy + pasting from these
programs. TextEdit and NotePad both remove formatting (bolding, erroneous
spacing, colors) in order to make editing your content in the any content module
easiest.

10. The Stories module is generally used to
maintain and add content for your site’s
rotator.
* You can add Stories from the admin bar and
Tendenci dashboard – just like pages.
Differences:
•Content field – used to write excerpt of text to
entice the reader to “Read More”
•Full Story Link
•Link title, i.e. “Read More”, “Check it out!”
•Tags – to easily add more stories to the rotator
•Start & End Date/Time – If it’s a contest,
featured article, etc.
•Expiration – if you only want it to run until your
specified end date/time

11. An example is YMCA
Houston, using the
Tendenci Stories
module for their
rotator.

12. This module is used to highlight and share official
press releases and/or pieces printed about your
company or organization.
Differences:
•Headline – Title of the news release
•Summary – for when someone searches your news
publications on the site, they’ll see this
•Body field – the content of the news article
•Source/Website fields – If you were mentioned on another
site and are repeating the content, it is best to put the
original news piece URL here, as a courtesy and for link-back
purposes
•Release Date/Time
•Contact fields – for someone inquiring about more
information, this is the details on who they would contact

13. The Articles module is essentially the same
layout as the news module, with the same
fields.
However, the Articles module is intended to
be used for knowledge sharing. This is similar
to blogging for your company.
Here you would post content that your
company has published, or depending on
your industry – product reviews, industry
related advancements and news, etc.

14. Forms are used through your site to
collect site visitor information.
These are used to create contact forms,
contest submission forms, quote request
forms, etc.
When you add a form, you are first prompted to create the title,
introduction text, confirmation text after submission, and set up the
emails that will be sent to the submitter (if you want) and the person
collecting the submissions. You can also use this to create a thank you
email or confirmation email to send.

15. Once you’ve created the text and description aspects of the
form, you can now create fields.
There are several field types and also special functionality
fields. A few examples are seen here below.
Label is the field name
Type is what you want the field to be, i.e. checkbox,
dropdown, one line of text, paragraph, etc.
Special Functionality is for specific fields such as
First Name and Last Name, these are logged within
the Tendenci backend for you to export.
Default text is what shows up in the field before
someone begins to type in it.

16. Helpful tendenci links:
Tendenci Help Files - http://tendenci.com/help-files/
Tendenci Features - http://tendenci.com/features/
Tendenci Product Videos - http://tendenci.com/videos/