News & Articles

The News section is where you write and publish articles, organise categories and authors, and manage the publishing queue for your site.

Article statuses

Articles move through a small set of practical statuses:

Writing an article

Start a new article

1. Open News
2. Click New article
3. Add the title
4. Review the slug if needed
5. Write the excerpt
6. Write the main article body

Add category, author, image, and schedule

From the article sidebar you can:

• Assign the article category
• Choose the author
• Add a featured image
• Decide whether the article header should show or hide that image
• Choose the article header layout
• Decide whether comments are enabled
• Set a future publication date for scheduling

The header layout picker offers five presets so the same article body can open with very different visual treatments:

• Standard — image appears below the title, inside the normal article card
• Image top — image appears above the title, for a classic editorial opening
• Wide — widescreen banner image above a narrower text column
• Overlay — title, category chip, and meta sit directly over the image
• Hero — full-bleed parallax hero that spans the full viewport width, with the rest of the article flowing below it

If your site uses different editorial styles, this is useful for cases such as:

• prediction articles that should not open with a large image
• standard news posts that should keep the normal image header
• premium or feature stories that should use a wider, overlay, or full-bleed hero header

Categories can also define the default header layout and image mode, and each article can either inherit that default or override it.

Save, review, schedule, or publish

The editor offers the main actions directly at the top:

• Save draft
• Send to review
• Schedule
• Publish
• Archive

The article editor

The rich editor is designed for normal editorial work, not for writing code.

It supports the core things most teams need:

• Headings
• Bold, italic, strikethrough, and inline code
• Bullet and numbered lists
• Links
• Images
• Quotes
• Horizontal separators

Data context

In the article sidebar you can also fill a Data context block.

This lets you save shared IDs for the story, such as:

• match
• team
• league
• player
• season
• bookmaker
• broadcast / TV provider

This is useful when one article is clearly tied to a specific match, team, league, or commercial partner.

The editor helps with this instead of forcing manual IDs everywhere:

• leagues and teams can be selected from search
• players can be searched by name
• matches can be picked from fixtures related to the selected team or league

Using modules inside articles

Articles can include native modules directly inside the story.

In the toolbar, click Modules to open a searchable picker. From there you can insert sports widgets, content blocks, news widgets, engagement modules, and monetization blocks.

The picker also includes a Layout group for multi-column article sections.

Examples that work especially well in articles:

• Match summary in a match report
• Match stats in tactical analysis
• Match lineups in Text mode when you want the starting XI to read like editorial copy instead of a boxed widget
• League standings in competition coverage
• Team or player modules in profile features
• Two-column comparison sections mixing text and widgets
• Video, quote, poll, CTA, or newsletter blocks in long-form stories

You do not need to write the shortcode manually. The editor inserts it for you.

If the module needs an ID:

• the editor uses the saved Data context first when it exists
• otherwise it asks you for the ID while inserting the shortcode

On the public site, the shortcode renders as a real module inside the body of the article.

See Using Modules for the full explanation.

Article body vs article template

It is useful to separate:

• Article body modules: used only in one specific story
• Article template modules: used on every article page

Typical article-template setup:

• news-post in the main content area
• Built-in tags and share buttons inside news-post, or extra author/share modules around it
• Related news or newsletter in the sidebar or below the story

Managing the article list

The News screen helps you manage the whole article library.

Available tools include:

• Grid view for a visual overview
• List view for a denser table-like view
• Search by title, slug, or excerpt
• Filters by status, language, and category
• Scheduled queue for upcoming articles
• In review queue for articles waiting for attention
• Editorial badges next to each article (No image, No SEO, No author, Old draft, Scheduled soon, Featured, Breaking) so problematic stories stand out at a glance
• Bulk actions — multi-select articles in either view and a floating toolbar lets you archive, delete, or change status across many articles at once

This makes it easy to switch between writing, publishing, and content operations.

Editorial calendar

The Calendar tab on the News screen shows scheduled and published articles on a month grid. Each day shows a coloured dot for scheduled articles (cyan) and published ones (emerald). Click any day to see the full article list for that day in the side panel and jump straight to the editor.

Tag manager

The Tags tab on the News screen lists every tag in the site with its real article count. From there you can:

• Merge duplicate tags into a canonical one (e.g. premier-league, Premier League, and epl collapsed into a single tag across every article)
• Rename a tag site-wide
• Delete tags that are no longer in use

All operations rewrite the affected articles in place — no manual cleanup needed.

Auto-save and version history

While you edit a draft, Scorecenter auto-saves your work every 5 seconds. Published, scheduled and in-review articles are not auto-saved to prevent accidental updates to live content — they require an explicit Save click.

Every save also stores a snapshot of the article. The History button in the editor toolbar opens a panel listing past versions with the editor and timestamp. Click Restore on any version to roll the article body and editorial fields back to that point. Restoring is itself versioned, so undo always works, and the publishing status is intentionally never changed by a restore.

Editorial fields and breaking news

The article editor's right panel includes a Media & flags section with:

• Image alt text, used for accessibility and search
• Image caption and Image credit, displayed under the article hero image
• Breaking news toggle — flipping it on shows a red animated badge across cards and the article header

The SEO section also exposes a Canonical URL override and a No-index toggle for individual articles when needed.

Article series and co-authors

The Series & promotion section in the editor lets you:

• Group articles under a Series ID (e.g. world-cup-2026-preview) and number them with a Series part field. The reader sees previous/next links and a "Part X of Y" callout when browsing any article in the series.
• Add Co-authors as a multi-select. They render as "with B, C" after the primary author byline.
• Pin an article above non-pinned ones in featured-first feeds, with an optional auto-unpin date.

Categories

Categories are the main way to organise your editorial content.

Use them to:

• Group related articles
• Power article listings and news feeds
• Keep the editorial structure clear

Keep categories broad and stable. Use tags only when you need extra flexibility.

Authors

Authors control the byline shown on articles.

Each author can have:

• Name
• Role
• Bio
• Avatar

This is especially useful when your site mixes newsroom content, analysis, and branded editorial work.

Recommended workflow

For most teams, a simple process works best:

1. Write the article as a draft
2. Add image, category, and author
3. Insert modules only where they improve understanding
4. Send to review or schedule publication
5. Publish when ready