Using the CMS

Creating & categorising content on the CMS

Writing using Ghost

Log in to the CMS

We use the Headless Ghost CMS. You must have a standalone login to use the CMS site, which you will need to request.

Sharing

You can use the Options pane in the CMS content editor to manage how content is shared to social networks and other websites.

Sharing checklist

• I have ensured the slug is correct before publishing (this can be incorrectly auto-generated in some circumstances)

• I have made sure I am not unintentionally including a language in the URL (which will override our users' previously selected language preference)

• I have reviewed the social media cards in the Options pane

The CMS automatically generates social media cards from the title, excerpt and header image provided, and you can edit them centrally using these three options.

Resetting a card

Social networks, and other websites, generally cache the cards quite heavily, but often provide a tool to purge the cache for your website. You can reset the card for major sites here:

Twitter

Facebook

Limitations

As we are using Ghost headlessly, some functions are still present in the CMS UI that do not work, e.g. post previews. This is intentional on our part.

Posts

Posts must be placed in one of the category tags available on the CMS.

If you wish to hide the author of an article, you can use the anonymous user IWGB Staff.

Press releases and job adverts are anonymous

Posts with category:press-release or category:job as the primary tag will not show an author publicly.

A post must be featured and have a header image in order to take the main box on the homepage.

Archived content

This tool is currently under development

Posts made before around February 2019 are not available on the CMS. You can view and delete (but not edit) content on the archive tool.

If you need to edit a piece of archived content, create a backdated post in the CMS and request the archive link to be redirected.

Pages

To show in the navigation, pages must be created under one of the existing page categories, category:about and category:resources, and be tagged in a subcategory.

Campaigns

All pages tagged category:campaign take their own place in the navigation. Featured campaigns appear on the homepage.

Featured campaigns show the excerpt from the CMS options pane on the homepage, not the main post body.

You can temporarily hide a campaign from the public site by unpublishing it.

Special pages

Special pages must have the appropriate slug and tag.

Slug	Tag	Purpose
join	special:join	Dynamic content on the join page
confirmation	special	Online joining confirmation page

More help

You can access more help using the resources from Ghost.