News Widget

The Cureo News Widget allows you to easily present public news and communications on your website.  Update instantly simply by publishing an article into Cureo.

Advantages:
  • Keep your website fresh every time you publish an update in Cureo.  -- no need to get your webmaster involved
  • Save time with one-step publishing -- push to your audience via email, and to your website simultaneously
  • Delegate to Staff & Volunteers: provide updates without granting them web access
  • Automatically remove old news using the Expiration Date feature in Cureo

Prerequisites: 

  1. Getting Your Organization ID and Channel ID
  2. Difference Between Public & Private Data

Success Hint: A regular process of publishing a public news article to your website drives more traffic to your brand and builds your credibility. 

Steps to Deploy:

  1. Create / Identify the channel you want to use for the article widget.  
  2. Add Articles to the channel (making them public in the wizard).  Need at least one to start.
  3. Get the OID and CID for the channel. 
    The Article Widget requires you to have OID.  If you leave CID as an empty string ("") all public articles for your channel will be returned to the widget.  Put a CID in to limit the public articles displayed to just the channel. Prepare the code by replacing the OID & CID to match yours.
  4. Download sample file:  text example | html example
  5. Deploy your code to your website, test and publish.

Helpful Hints

  • Setting Articles to non-public will remove them from the public views of albums
  • Using an expiration date when you create the article will automatically remove them from your website on the expiration date.

Various Deployment Ideas

  • As a link on your main site for News.  Setup the widget without a CID value, and all public articles for your organization will automatically display.  (if you set the data-showchanneltags="1" the widget will automatically create tags for your channels as a filter.  If you want all of the articles together, newest at the top, leave the value as 0.)
  • You may want to feature articles specific to a part of your website -- for example, the Opiate Task Force  -- This can easily be accomplished by putting the articles in their own channel and setting the widget's CID to that channel.
  • You can feature the most current article on a page using the example found here.

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