Newsroom

Primary Featured Article

For the post featured in the red box above, please select the term Primary Featured Article checkbox in the Homepage Placements term group.

This section pulls the latest post tagged more stories and uses the featured image field to display an image. 

Featured News

For the Featured News section, please select one of the four terms checkbox in the Homepage Placements term group.  (Show above in purple box)

• Featured Community

• Featured Education

• Feature Patient Care

• Feature Research

This section pulls the latest story of the respective category onto the homepage and requires the use of the featured image field to display an image.

Featured Images: Sizes auto crop to 450x350PX unless the images are below that size.

In the News

For the in the news section, please select the term In the News in the Homepage Placements term group. (Show above in grey)

This section pulls the latest 3 posts tagged more stories and does not use a featured image.  

Health, Education, Research, Community, Campus 

These 5 pages are category feeds that load all posts that are tagged with their respective term. Featured images are optional but recommended. These terms can be found when editing a post through the Categories term group seen below. 

Frontend View 

This page loads all topic feeds that are in found in newsroom. To view all available topics, use the link below.  

Adding a Topic 

To add a topic, edit a post and locate the tags in the right-hand sidebar. Then select Choose from the most used tags. This will show you a tag cloud of all available terms that you can select from. 

Deleting Topics 

To delete a topic, navigate to this link below.  

https://news.uthscsa.edu/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=post_tag 

Hover over the name of the topic you want to delete and select delete.  

Post title 

Post details (Shown in red box in above picture) 

To see the author field, you may need to change your Screen Options.  

Featured Image (Shown in blue box in above picture) 

This is the featured image field in the backend.  

Related Posts  

This shows the latest 4 posts that have the same primary category as the post currently displayed. The title will say…… Read more about CATEGORY NAME . In this example the category name is Health. To change the primary category, edit the post and select Make Primary for the desired term in the categories term group. This will change the posts loading and the category name shown in the feed title.  

News is the default category for all posts and should not be used.  

Academic Schools 

Using these filters will push these news posts into other sites if the school marketing representative has opted into the feed.  

The following schools have opted in and have a new fed into the news feature found at the bottom of the page below. 

School of Medicine is in the process of getting the modern design with integration options. 

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences has a feed from https://pipettegazette.uthscsa.edu/ as their source of news. (GSBS Contact: Charlotte Anthony) 

School of Health Professions does not seem to be getting any news from newrooms. (SHP Contact: Carlos Castillo) 

My UT Health Terms 

To push a post to My UT Health, use the term My UT Health in the categories term group.  

To make this post sticky as a featured story in SharePoint use the Featured term in the categories term group.  

Future Updates 

In a feature release, we would like to separate categories from the My UT Health terms. The My UT Health term group seen to the right should be ignored for now. This is currently for testing purposes when the SharePoint team has time.