Website content

After you have created the layout of your page, you proceed with populating the page with content. To display content you use widgets. The widgets are controls which you drop on the page (in page content editing mode) and configure them to display already existing content. If you do not create content first, the widgets have nothing to display.

You create content using the content modules on the Content tab. The content you create using content modules is reusable – once you create news, an event, or other content item, it is stored in the Sitefinity project and other users can view, use, and edit that content.

You display the content you have created with these content modules using the widgets. You can configure the widgets to display different part of content, by combining widgets and by tagging and classifying content.
For more information about using widgets, see Widgets.

Section contents

• Using the content modules
  Use this procedure to create reusable content items, such as news, and events, or to upload images and videos. Use it manage permission for each content item and to publish them on the website.
• Creating and editing email campaigns
  Use this tab to create email campaigns, manage lists of subscribers to email campaigns, and to compare email campaigns.
• Creating and editing content while browsing the website
  Use this procedure to create, edit, and upload content while you are browsing the website. You do not need to open the website in the backend; you can use the inline editing function to edit your website directly while browsing it.
• Viewing version history of a content item
  Use this procedure to view and compare different versions of a content item.
• Managing comments for content items
  Use this procedure to hide and publish, edit and delete comments that are left for content items on the website.
• Adding custom fields to content items
  Use this procedure to add a custom field to a content item, such as news, events, or images. A custom field is a field that you create.
• Using the text editor
  Use this procedure to learn how to use the functions of the Text Editor. Use the editor to enter and format text, tables, and more. You can also insert already created text.
• Classifying your content
  Use this procedure to classify the content items you have created by categorizing and tagging them. Classify your content items helps you organize them and you can use tags and categories to filter the content items when displaying them.
• Translating content items and classifications
  Use this procedure to create a new language translation of a content item or classification.
• Creating and editing feeds
  Use feeds to publish frequently updated information. You can publish an RSS or Atom feed for a blog, news, or events on the website and the users can subscribe to this feed. This way they will receive updates of that blog, news, or events without having to visit the website.
• Defining search indexes
  You use search indexes to define different sets of content to be searched, using the internal search of your website. To configure your website’s internal search, you must first define a search index and then drop the Search and Search results widget somewhere on your website.