Feature (s)

The Sportal365 CMS lets journalists/editors create and manage four major types of content:

• Articles

• Videos

• Galleries

• Images

All content types follow a similar creation and optimization logic and can be displayed as a separate entity on your website.

In addition, all types of content can be mix-used; articles can contain videos, images, and galleries, and vice versa.

See Support for various content types.

“Blocky” is an advanced editor that helps journalists customize and enhance their content. Generally speaking, “Blocky” is the body of articles, videos, and galleries created with the Sportal365 CSM.

Blocky allows creators to write and edit in “blocks”, each with a set of editing, formatting, and widget options. It’s a break from the standard WYSIWYG editor with one big what you see what you get area.

Blocky is inspired by the Gutenberg editor used in WordPress-powered sites (See integration between Sportal365 and WordPress) to make the process of content creation simpler, more reliable, and intuitive for users.

See About Blocky.

The “Blocky” editor offers a myriad of features that let you easily create, edit, and optimize content so that it's indexed by search engines, and displayed natively on all devices.

Writing in blocks improves the speed of content creation because of the faster processing of data by the system. It’s a bit like building the structure of your content with LEGO. Each block has specific functions and an editing panel to enable you to structure and customize your content.

Blocky lets you highlight important passages, insert contextual widgets and football statistics, copy/paste blocks, as well as combine various types of content inside the body of articles, videos, and galleries.

See About Blocky.

When you create content with the Sportal365 CMS, you can add more than a dozen blocks organized under four categories–Text, Content, Football widgets and Most popular blocks.

Text blocks:

• Paragraph block

• Heading block

• Quote block

• List block

• Table block

Content blocks:

• Article block

• Video block

• Gallery block

• Image block

• Embed code block

• Highlight block

• Link block

• Banner block

Football widget blocks:

• Odds widget block

• Compare odds widget block

• Team profile widget block

• Squad / team players widget block

• Player profile widget block

• Team comparison widget block

• Match widget block

• Match list by Stage / Round widget block

• Fixtures widget block

• Top scorers widget block

• Standings widget block

• Player H2H widget block

*The Most popular blocks sections is a compilation of the most used blocks.

See Explore blocks.

The Sportal365 CMS offers several features to optimize the articles, videos, and galleries you create.

With the help of specifically designed content-property tabs, you can optimize your posts for search engines, add media and related reading to your posts, as well as redirect readers to an outside URL.

See Content properties for specific content titles--> Media, Related content, SEO, URLs.

The Sportal365 CMS lets you structure, organize, and navigate content on your website through Categories, Tags, Lists, Authors, and Statistical entities.

In more details:

Categories group the content on your site into general topics so that visitors can understand what your website is about and easily find what they are looking for.

Tags describe your posts in more detail and focus on specific topics, like keywords used for topics discussed in a post. With tags, you can organize your content in a page that lists all the posts using a certain tag.

Lists enable you to group several articles, videos, or galleries under a common theme and display them in a certain place on your website.

Authors is a feature that not only allows you to credit the posts you create but also organize and categorize them by a specific author. This means that you can display all posts written by a certain author on your website, say, show all posts by “tipsters” or authors who write content with betting tips.

Statistical entities is a group term for all the statistical information that comes from the Football API and can be used to tag your content. Statistical entities are a type of statistical tags, also called “Football connections”, used to specify to which match, player, or team a certain news article is related to.

See Categorization & organization of content.

Now, the Sportal365 content management system lets creators integrate 12 sports-focused statistical widgets with more than 40 configurations in their posts.

Depending on the settings of a widget, it can entirely change the way it looks visually on your website, as well as the information it provides. In the case of the Odds widget, you can choose whether to display the widget header and market selection, transforming it into a variation of the main odds widget.

Yes, the Match widget offers minute-by-minute comments with information fed directly from the data provider.

For more information, see Widgets → Match widget.

Soon.

We are currently estimating SDKs and hope that option to create custom widgets will be available in the near future.

Yes, Sportal365 supports canonical URLs.

Canonical URLs are part of the content properties available for optimizing your posts. They are meta tags that tell search engines what specific page to index in cases where you have duplicating or similar content on your website.

See Content properties for specific content titles → URLs.

The News tracker allows journalists to create feeds and follow their preferred news outlets, video, and social media channels without leaving the Sportal365 CMS.

The News tracker lets you follow:

• RSS (XM) feeds

• YouTube channels

• Twitter accounts

• Instagram accounts

See News tracker.

The Sportal365 CMS’s dashboard lets users view content statistics for individual contributors, all users, or for a specific player, team, or category.

Also, the CMS tracks the number of content items that have been uploaded for the four main content types:

• Articles

• Videos

• Galleries

• Images

See Content statistics.