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Extension Resource - Adding a summary to articles

Keith McGuffey Author
07/11/2019 Added
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Information on adding a summary to articles on a Nebraska Extension websites.

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  • [00:00:00.000]By default, the news feed will bring in the first few lines of the body field.
  • [00:00:04.473]This isn’t necessarily the best for our users.
  • [00:00:07.053]As we can see in this example, the body content of this article
  • [00:00:10.109]is being pulled into the news feed.
  • [00:00:12.103]We can control the text that is displayed in the news feed by adding a summary.
  • [00:00:16.119]Let’s edit our article.
  • [00:00:18.793]Next to the label for the Body field, click ‘Edit Summary’.
  • [00:00:21.784]Include a brief summary of the article.
  • [00:00:24.492]We could preview our results, but since the summary does not display on the
  • [00:00:28.200]article itself , we won’t see any changes.
  • [00:00:31.154]Let’s save the page and go back to the homepage of the county site.
  • [00:00:36.412]We can see now that the news feed is pulling in a readable summary for our users.
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