Articles

Every story on your site: finding it, writing it, and keeping the list tidy.

The list#

Articles lists every story, newest first, ten to a page.

The tabs along the top filter by status: All, Drafts, In review, Scheduled, Published and Archived.
Search headlines finds stories by their headline.
Filters narrows by status, category, author, language and date — Today, Last 7 days, This month or your own range.
Sort by Newest, Oldest or Title A–Z, and switch between a list and a grid.
The date shows when a story went live; for a scheduled one, when it Goes live; otherwise when it was last edited.

You see every story on the site, but you can only edit your own drafts.

Writing a story#

New article opens the editor. The page is in two parts.

Part	What's in it
Main column	Pictures (up to 5; the first is the cover), Title, Summary and the Story.
Content tab	Category, Byline, Tags, and the Breaking news and Featured switches.
Settings tab	Standfirst, Search & sharing, the story's Languages, who created and edited it, and Delete article.

The story's toolbar has headings, bold, italic, underline, links, quotes, lists, a divider, pictures, and Embed video or post for YouTube, X, Instagram and Facebook links. The word count and reading time are at the bottom.

Summary appears under the headline on cards. Leave it empty and it's taken from the story when you publish.
Standfirst is the line under the headline on the story page.
Search title and Search description are what Google and WhatsApp show. Leave them empty and the headline and summary are used.
Featured makes a story eligible for the top of the homepage. Breaking news puts it on the ticker — see Breaking news.

Saving and versions#

There's no need to save: the editor saves a second after you stop typing (⌘S or Ctrl+S saves at once). A new story is saved as soon as it has a headline.

Version history lists earlier versions; open one and press Restore this version to go back. The last 20 versions are kept, with quick edits in a row counted as one.

Tags#

Type tags separated by commas — up to 20 a story, 60 characters each. Each tag gets its own page on your site (/tag/…) listing its stories. Tags belong to one language: the Hindi version of a story has its own.

Duplicate, archive, delete#

The ⋯ menu on each row has Edit, Preview (or View on website), Duplicate and Version history.

Duplicate makes a draft copy, with the same category, byline and language. Choose whether to copy the text, tags and cover picture.

Archive takes a story out of the lists and off the site without deleting it. Restore as draft brings it back.

You can delete your own drafts. A published story has to be unpublished or archived before it can be deleted.

Admins and owners can delete anyone's story.

Many stories at once#

Tick the boxes on the left and a bar appears with what you can do to all of them: Delete, and under More, Send for review, Move back to draft, Archive and Export selected.

Editors also get Publish, which can publish them now or schedule them together.

Import and export#

Make a CSV with these columns: title, summary, body, category, tags, language. Only title is required; separate tags with ;.
Press Import and choose the file — up to 200 rows and 5 MB.
Every row becomes a draft, ready to check and publish.

Export downloads the list as a CSV — headline, status, category, author, date, word count and link — for up to 5,000 stories.