Content blocks

An Article block can be added as supporting material to the body of all three main content types–articles, videos, and galleries.

The purpose of the article block is to enrich the main content type you are working on. For example, if you are working on a specific topic about Manchester United, adding another article on the subject can give further information and context to readers.

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In article blocks, you can only add articles that you have already created inside the CMS. To add an article, you need to filter existing articles either by article title, team, or player.

Once you are done and select the Save block button, your article block will appear inside the body of the content type you are creating as shown below:

Gallery blocks offer two ways to enhance the substance of your main content type–either by adding an existing gallery or creating a new one.

Adding an existing gallery

You can add an existing gallery in two ways:

1. From the Choose gallery drop-down menu or

2. By typing a team or a player in the Filter by team or player tab.

Once done, you can choose the main image for your gallery by simply selecting the image you want to appear as the so-called opening image of the gallery. Furthermore, you can select the desired width and alignment of your main image from the image properties at the bottom of the gallery block.

The image below shows how your saved gallery will look like with the main image width 100% and centered alignment.

Creating a new gallery

To create a new gallery inside the gallery block, you need to select the +Create tab.

You will notice that the title field and the category of the gallery you want to create are prefilled with the title and category you have given to the main content type (article, video, or gallery) you are working on. If you wish to copy the additional (if any) categories, tags, and football connections of your main content type and assign them to the images of your new gallery, select from the options–Copy additional categories, Copy tags and Copy football connections (teams, players and match).

When you select the Continue to adding images button, you will be prompted to add images and choose a cover image for your newly created gallery. Also, you can copy the football connections associated with the main content type to the images of your new gallery.

Once you select a cover image, your gallery will preview in the body as shown below:

Image blocks follow a similar logic as that of gallery blocks; you can either add an existing image or create a new one.

What is particular for image blocks is that when you select an existing image or choose to create a new one, the description associated with the image will be the description you have assigned to your image in your image library. You can not add a description inside the Image block.

To add a description, origin, football connections, and type to your images:

1. Select the Images tab from your dashboard sidebar.

2. Select the Pencil icon at the bottom left corner of the image you want to add a description to.

3. Enter Image description, Origin, Football Connections, Type, and select Save.

Video blocks are simple to use and offer two ways to add existing videos to the body of your content:

1. You can either select a video from the Choose video drop-down menu or

2. By typing a team or a player in the Filter content search by teams and players tab.

Embed blocks allow creators to add any type of content that has an embed code. To do so, you need to copy and then paste the embed code of the content you want to add to the body of your article, video, or gallery.

Once you add the code, you can select from the options below whether the embedded content is a video, a social media post, or something else.