Write news: from draft to release
Who can write
Articles appear in the name of a professional page – an artist, a label or a supporter. You need such a page that you own or are an admin of. Articles should move the community forward or inform it about something general, for example tutorials, production tips, scene history or awareness. Plain promotion of your own events, releases or merch is not wanted; the guidelines are shown at the top of the editor.
Open “Create” › “Write an article”, or the tab “Articles” in “My entities”.
Building the article
- “Author page”: if you manage several pages, pick the one you write for. It is fixed after the first save.
- “Languages of the article”: tick the languages you write in. Every ticked language needs all texts. The “Main language” applies when a reader has no matching language.
- “Category”: required, every article belongs to exactly one.
- “Genres” (up to five) and “Linked pages” such as artists, events or venues are optional.
- “Title” (up to 140 characters) and “Teaser” (up to 300 characters; two sentences are enough).
- “Cover”: JPG, PNG or WebP, cropped to 16:9, with “Alt text (required)” and an optional “Credit”.
- Below, you build the content from widgets: text, image, gallery, audio, video, links, social post and poll. Click “Add widget”; you decide the order and the width.
The editor saves by itself and shows “Saved at …” at the top.
The article settings first, the widgets below.
Preview and submit
With “Preview” you see the article as everyone will see it; “Keep editing” takes you back. If something is still missing, a line above the form names it. Once everything is there, click “Submit for release” and confirm with “Submit”.
After you submit, the moderation checks the article.
The release
A moderator checks the article. While it is submitted you cannot edit it; with “Withdraw submission” you take it back at any time. Once it is released, it appears in the News and in the Articles widget of your page. If the moderation sends it back, the editor shows “Sent back: please revise” with the reason. The page’s team gets a notification about every decision.
Managing your articles
In the tab “Articles” under “My entities” you filter by status: “Draft”, “Submitted”, “Released”, “Sent back” and “Withdrawn”. If you change a released article, the released version stays online until the new one is released. “Withdraw” takes an article out of the news at once; “Delete” only works once no version of it is public.