Setting the Featured Story for the Social Reporters homepage
By Ed Mitchell 22nd November 2012
This is for Social Reporters who are editing the Social Reporting homepage and also appears on the handy guide to ‘Editing the Social Reporters homepage‘.
1. Click on the ‘Edit Panel’ tab at the top of the Social Reporting homepage
2. To get the ‘Featured Story’ in the featured story slot on the homepage
First publish the blog post, then…
Left hand, middle navigation in boxes, click on ‘Contexts’.
Then click on the cog next to ‘Featured story’:
3. In the ‘Edit context ‘Node” dialogue box that pops up, start typing the title of the featured story
It will present you with an autocomplete thing which should bring up the title of the item you’re looking for.
This can be quite specific, so make sure you know the *exact* title of the post you are featuring (capitals and all)
Click submit – the pop up will close
4. You still need to ‘Update and Save’ the whole thing
So when you’ve done #3, scroll all the way to the bottom of the main ‘panel admin’ page and choose ‘Update and save’.
It’s a really long page full of computer guff, go all the way to the bottom
That’s it done. You should go back to the ‘panels’ admin page. And from there you need to re-type the Stories URL into the browser URL field …