Homepage Content

Hello, and welcome back to Module 5 of the Basic CMS Training. This video will show you how to customize your content of your homepage.

If you go to the Homepage Editor screen and expand the “Content” tab, you will see an “Add Item” button, which allows you to add different types of content to the homepage. Each of these items can be added once.

Let’s add a “Text Block”. Here, you can add a “Text Heading”, which will be the title of the text. And this “Text Area” field is for the body text. You will see some formatting functions similar to a post’s editor.

“Quick Links” is also a very commonly used type of content, so let’s add one. You can have 3 or 4 quick links on your Homepage. Here, you can edit the heading for the Quick Links block, but this is optional. The tabs below allow you to customize your quick link cards. You can add a title and an excerpt to introduce what the quick link is about. Then, you link the card to a page or content on your site or an external site. Finally, add a thumbnail to your card by uploading your own image or using a preset thumbnail.

Last but not least, let’s add some content listing. You can list News, Events, Videos, People and FAQs. The steps for all these listings are fairly similar, so I will demonstrate with a News Listing in this tutorial.

Again, I can edit the listing heading. If I don’t make any edit to this, “News” will be used by default. Then, I can set the number of news items being displayed, and which categories of item I want to display. I also have the option to add a “Load More” button.

So, I have added some information to my Homepage. Now, I’m going to click “Update”, and see my page on the front end!