Knowledgebase & Documentation
Our documentation is the best way to get immediate answers and guidance. We also provide numerous references for the more advanced features and functionality such as the CMS and the API.
News Management Basics
Why should you care about News management? The News system is a good way to inform visitors of content updates on the site or sharing the latest promotions and poker gossip. It is also of tremendous value in building your SEO, especially if you spend time crafting custom content for your site. This guide will help get you started with using the PAS News system.
Some quick definitions before we get started:
News Admin: This is the admininstration section found under the Content tab in the control panel. You have the ability to create new (custom) posts here, and view any global news items available.
Quick Rakeback News: Works as both a navigation widget(default) and/or a content item which includes teaser text for each News post. The file is found in the CMS at rakeback-news > quick-rakeback-news.html.
Rakeback News: The page in the CMS that displays what is seen at http://your-rakebacksite.com/rakeback-news/quick-rakeback-news.html. It uses a loop to dynamically display all of the News posts. The order goes from most recent to oldest post. The file is found at rakeback-news > rakeback-news.html.
Global News: This is news that is generated by PAS directly, and cannot be edited by a publisher. A publisher may choose to make these posts visible or hidden on his rakeback site.
Note
The Global news feed may be enabled or hidden by accessing Rakeback Websites > Website Summary > Edit Website Settings.
Creating a News Entry
Login to your control panel, and go to Content > News Management > Create New Post.
In the Create new News Post screen, you’ll first choose which (if you have multiple) site(s) you want to publish the post on.
The Subject field is required and is the title of your post.
The SEO Options* are optional, but highly recommended.
Finally, the body of your post goes in the Message field.
Finally, click ‘Publish Post’ to publish the article to your site. The entry will appear on yoursite.com/rakeback-news/rakeback-news.html. You may also ‘Save as Draft’ for publishing later.
Note
The News Management feature is not a full-featured blogging solution, so it doesn’t have functionality such as choosing a future date for publication.
Editing a News Entry
Go to Content > News Management. You’ll see a list of available posts. To edit a post, you may either click on the post subject or you may click on the edit icon under the Options column. You cannot edit Global news posts.
Make any necessary changes, then click on Save Post.
Customizing Quick Rakeback News
Including Quick Rakeback News
In order to include the Quick Rakeback text into your page, you’ll need to add the following code fragment to the desired location on your page:
``{% fragment rakeback-news/quick-rakeback-news.html? %}``
Limit Number of Posts Displayed
Note
This section was updated on 13 September 2010 to reflect code changes to this functionality.
To control how many posts are displayed, simply add the string ?nav_limit=X to the above code. For example:
``{% fragment rakeback-news/quick-rakeback-news.html?nav_limit=3 %}``
would show 3 posts.
Note
Please see Quick Rakeback News Limit Parameter Bug Fix for more information.