Before hitting "Publish," please go through the checklists below.
Post components
Headline
Character limit: 60 (including spaces)
Author name
"Author Name Override"
Author title and affiliation
"Author Title Override"
Example: communications specialist, University of Utah Communications
Primary Category
This only applies to feature posts; not "Announcements"
"Primary Category" drop-down
Do not use "News Releases" as a primary category
Excerpt
"Excerpt"
Word limit: 30
Categories
"Categories" sidebar checkboxes
This is where you can check the "News Releases" category
Tags
"Tags" sidebar
Featured or header image
- "Featured Image"
- Then, “Set featured image"
- Note that "Announcements" do NOT have a "Featured Image"
The "Featured image" for your post (aka header image) needs to be BOTH of the following:
- 16:9 ratio
- 2000x1125 pixels
Here is how to resize and save your image properly.
Editing components
Formatting components
Headings
- Section headers
- Questions in Q&As
- "About" headers
- Other similar instances
Please do not use all caps for these headers. Adhere to the basic capitalizing rules: proper nouns and the first letter in a sentence are capped.
"Heading 4" with "UU Red Text" + Bold
Links/Hyperlinks
When you are hyperlinking in a story, be sure to manually underline it and enable it to open in a new tab. You DO NOT need to manually add the "UU Red Text" to hyperlinks. They automatically appear red.
How to enable a link to open in a new tab
- Highlight the word(s) that you want to hyperlink.
- Click the "Insert/edit link" icon in the menu.
- Enter the URL of the link.
- Click the "Link options" icon.
- Click the box to check it next to "Open link in new tab."
- Click "Add Link."