Blog and events

Alongside your pages, sitefern has two content types for things that arrive over time: a blog for articles and events for dated happenings. Both are listed on your live site and styled by your theme.

Writing a blog post

The Blog area lists your posts with their status and cover image. New post opens the writing screen.

The sitefern blog list showing a published post — The blog list, with each post's status at a glance.

The post editor has the writing area on the left and a settings sidebar on the right. You write the body in a rich editor that handles headings, lists, links, quotes and images, so a post reads well without any code. The title and a short excerpt sit above the body, and the excerpt doubles as the summary shown in listings and search results.

The sitefern post editor with the rich text body and the settings sidebar — The post editor: rich text on the left, settings and SEO on the right.

The sidebar holds everything about the post besides the body:

Cover image and alt text. The image shown at the top of the post and in listings, with alt text for accessibility and search.
Category. One category per post, used to group related writing.
Tags. A comma separated list of finer topics.
Status. Draft keeps the post private while you work. Published makes it live. Scheduled holds it until a date you set, when it goes live on its own. Archived takes an old post off the site without deleting it.
Featured. A flag themes can use to highlight a lead post.

Save draft and Publish both sit in the top bar, so you can save privately or go live at any point. The SEO tab works the same way as it does for pages, with a title and description and a live preview of the search result. The excerpt is used as the description if you do not set one.

Published posts appear on your blog index, each on its own page with article structured data, and are added to your sitemap and your blog feed automatically, so readers and search engines pick them up. Themes can also show related posts at the foot of an article to keep people reading.

Publishing an event

Events work like posts but are organised around a date, so they list in chronological order and can be upcoming or past. The Events area lists them with their date, location and status.

The sitefern events list showing a published event with its date and location — The events list, ordered by date.

The event editor mirrors the post editor, with the same rich body, cover image and SEO tab, plus the fields an event needs:

Start time. The date and time the event begins. This is what events are ordered by.
End time. Optional, for events that run over a period.
Location. A venue or "online".
Summary. A short line shown in the listing and used as the search description.
Status. Draft or Published, the same as posts.

The listing puts upcoming events first, in date order, then past ones, so the next thing happening is always at the top.

The sitefern event editor with start and end time, location, and a rich body — The event editor, with start and end times and a location.

Published events appear at /events on your live site, each with its own page carrying structured event data so search engines understand the date and place. They are added to your sitemap too.