Site Organization Tags

Using tags on UNL CMS can be a helpful way to organize content and display it on your site. As with tagging in Media Library, it's important to create clear, consistent, and meaningful tags that help organize content effectively while avoiding overlapping tags. 

There are two different ways to use tagging on content of your UNL CMS site. One is to use tags on News Items in order to filter them  to separate display components that can be embedded on respective Builder pages on your site using the News Aggregation component. The other way is to use tags on Builder Pages, which UNL CMS will then automatically aggregate into distinct pages for each respective tag. Those pages can then be linked either within the navigation of your site or by linking it within the WYSIWYG editor of any component or page on your site. 

Tagging News Items in UNL CMS

To tag News Items on your site and then add a feed of specific items with a certain tag, follow the steps below (or watch the above video):

  1. In the "Content" tab of your site, locate a News Item that you want to tag, click "Edit" to change this piece of content (or click the "Edit" tab on any published News Item on your site).
  2. When editing the News Item, go to the "Page Options" tab (3rd option on right side of page editing options). 
  3. Under "Site organization tags," start typing the name of the tag that you want to use to organize your news items. Once you have selected this tag, it will appear as a small gray "pill" with an "X" icon that will allow you to remove it. Tags already in the system on your site will autocomplete and can be selected that way. 
  4. Save the page.
  5. Repeat this process with as many News Items that you want to tag. 
  6. Go to the Builder page that you want to add your new news feed and click the "Layout" tab to choose layout builder. 
  7. In Layout Builder, choose the part of the page where you want your news feed to be located, click the "Add Section" button and choose a "One Column" layout with all the other settings as default. 
  8. In the new section, click the "Add Component" button, then within that list choose "More...".
  9. In the Block selection dialogue, choose "News Aggregation" and then customize the heading of your new news feed (IE "Student News" for news items tagged "student-news" then select how many News Items you want to display.
  10. Under the "Tag" field, start typing the name of the tag that you previously added to the News Items, then select it and click the "Add Block" button. 
  11. Save the changes you've made in the layout builder tab and your page will be live with your nearly tagged News Items.

Using Site Organization Tags in UNL CMS on Builder Pages

This feature works best for pages that have a similar design that you want to group together using tags then display on a page that UNL CMS automatically creates. 

To tag Builder Pages on your site for automated aggregated pages of content, follow the steps below (or watch the above video):

  1. In the "Content" tab of your site, locate a Builder that you want to tag, click "Edit" to change this piece of content (or click the "Edit" tab on any published News Item on your site).
  2. When editing the News Item, go to the "Page Options" tab (final tab on right side of page editing options). 
  3. Under "Site organization tags," start typing the name of the tag that you want to use to organize your news items. Once you have selected this tag, it will appear as a small gray "pill" with an "X" icon that will allow you to remove it. Tags already in the system on your site will autocomplete and can be selected that way. 
  4. Save the page. 
  5. Repeat this process with as many Builder Pages that you want to tag. 
  6. To see the page for the tags, go to https://yoursite.unl.ed/tag/EXAMPLE-TAG-NAME. 

Note: There are four fields populating the aggregated page for each of the respected Builder Pages that you add. They are

  • Title of page (title will automatically link to the full page)
  • Publish Date
  • Thumbnail of Hero Image (this will need to be added to each respective page in order to display)
  • Summary text (pulled from Body Summary field - this will need to be added to each respective page in order to display)

 

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