# Posts: news, events, videos and press on your website

> How Website › Posts keeps your own lists — news, events, videos, press or any type you name — what a post can carry, how posts are mapped to artists and exhibitions, and how a Posts block puts them on a page with a filter and a search.

Source: https://support.wrklst.art/website/posts-news-events-and-videos-on-your-website
Language: en

**Under Website › Posts you keep the lists your website needs beyond works, artists and exhibitions: news, events, videos, press — or any other type you name. A post type says what its posts are made of; a post is one item of a type. A Posts block puts them on a page, and the pages of artists and exhibitions show the posts you map to them. This article describes the Posts tab in WrkLst 10.**

## What a post type is

A **post type** is one kind of list your website keeps. WrkLst offers four to start with — **News**, **Events**, **Videos** and **Press** — and you can make your own with **New post type**. Each type has:

* a **name**, which your website shows over its lists and in the filter;
* an **address word** — short, in lower case, without spaces, such as `news` or `events` — which becomes part of a post's web address;
* its **fields**: what a post of this type is made of. A title is always there; switch on what else you need — **Text**, **Date**, **Picture**, **Video**, **Link**, **Document**, **Artists** and **Exhibitions**. A type that has no date field shows no dates, however many its posts carry;
* how it is **described to search engines**: the schema.org type Google and others read the posts as — *NewsArticle* for news, *Event* for events, *VideoObject* for videos — or none at all.

The pencil beside a type's name opens it again; there you also delete a type together with all of its posts. The post types are optional: a website without them has no Posts tab to fill, and nothing changes on it.

## Writing a post

**New post** opens a form with the fields of the chosen type. Besides the **title** a post may carry:

* a **text**, set like a text block, with links and emphasis;
* a **date** — when an event takes place, or when a piece of news appeared. Your website lists posts newest first by this date; a post without one counts from the day it was written;
* a **picture**, chosen from your images or uploaded. By default it stands whole on its panel; **The picture fills its frame** lets it fill the 16:9 panel instead, cut at its focal point;
* a **video** by its address — from bunny.net, YouTube or Vimeo. Your website never loads a video with the page: visitors see the post's picture as a poster with a play button, and the video loads and plays only when they press it. Without a picture, the film's own still stands there — the picture the video's host keeps of it, fetched once into your images and shown whole at the video's ratio;
* a **link** to another website, with the words it is shown under — the link opens in a new tab and carries the little arrow that marks every way off your site;
* a **document**: a PDF from your library that is switched on for websites, such as a press clipping, with its own words. It opens in a new tab too;
* the **artists** and **exhibitions** the post is about. A post appears on each of their pages, and the artists stand in the filter of the Posts block.

**Featured** lifts a post into the *Featured* section at the top of a filtered list; **Published** switched off keeps a post as a draft that your website leaves out. Every row of the list shows a post's type, its date, the artists it is mapped to and whether it is featured or a draft; its pencil opens it, the bin deletes it after you confirm.

Posts, like everything else, reach your website with the next publish.

## Putting posts on a page

In the page editor the **+** menu offers, under **More**:

* **Posts** — on a page of its own, such as a News page: the site's posts, newest first. The block takes its settings from **Post types** (which types it lists; none chosen means all of them), **Which posts** (all, the featured ones only, or all but the featured), **Heading** (none, the types' names, *News* or *Press* — or a **Heading of your own**) and **Filter and search**. With **Filter and search** on, the block stands as a news page does: the featured posts first under *Featured*, then the rest under *More News / Events* with a **Filter by** menu — every type, then the artists of the listed posts — and a **Search** field. Filtering and searching happen in the visitor's browser, at once. The list does not load every post with the page: **Loaded at once** says how many come with it — twelve unless you change it — and the next ones follow as the visitor scrolls down (or presses **Show more**); a filter or a search always covers every post. **At most** caps the list; 0 is no cap.
* **Posts about this** — on artist and exhibition pages: the posts you mapped to the artist or the exhibition, under *News* or *Press* (or the types' names, or no heading), up to the number you choose. Each post's title leads to it on the page that lists its type.

Both blocks draw a post with its picture or video poster, its title, its text, its link and document, and — for a type with a date field — its date.

## Search engines

Each post of a type with a schema.org type is described in the page's structured data: its title, words, picture, date and the artists it is about, in the type you chose. This is what lets a search engine show an event with its date, or a news item as an article.

## Related articles

* [Your WrkLst website](/website/your-wrklst-website) — pages, blocks and publishing.
* [Works, artists and exhibitions on your website](/website/works-artists-and-exhibitions-on-your-website) — the pages a post can be mapped to.