You start on the Administrator backend. Log in on http://athomeplate.com/administrator/ to get there.

To add a new article, you either select the "Content Items Manager" from the "Control Panel"

or select "Content->Content By Section->Articles->Articles Items" from the horizontal menu on top.

Both ways bring you to the "content item manager".

You can now either edit an existing article by clicking on its title or hit the "edit" buttom from the menu above or you can create a new article by hitting the "new" button from the same menu. "Select category" and "Select Author" will filter the displayed articles to make it easier to find a specific one to edit.

Lets go with "new" to create a new article. Before you start entering the article itself, you first have to decide on the section and category of the article. You select "Articles" as section (the only choice and already preselected if you came here via the horizontal menu) and either "Regular article", "Fantasy Article" or "review" as category depending on the actual article.

Next, you need to enter title and title_alias (tagline). The title will be displayed in blue on the front page and above the article's page, while the title alias will only be displayed under the title on the front page, but not on the actual article page. When you enter old articles from the old site, the title_alias is not that important, but enter something appropriate anyway, because the tagline might be used again in the future, you never know.

Then, you have two fields where you can enter the article. First the "intro text" and then the "main text". Where you enter the article does not matter right now, since we do not use this function at the moment. Theoretically, you enter a few lines in "intro text" and the rest into the "main text" so that on the front page, a "read more" link appears after the intro text (check out beyond the boxscore to see how it works). So far, I have entered all articles into the "main text" field, so it might be a good idea to continue that. The article can be formatted using the (mostly) familar icons above.

When you are finished, you might want to set the articles creation date and publishing date. Therefore, you have to select the rider Publishing on the top right.

First, you select the original author from the "Change Creator" List. If he or she is not yet present in the list, he or she has to be added to the user menu on the control panel, or, if it's a one time guest author, you can just put his name into the field author alias and select At Homepage Staff as the creator.

Next, you want to either "Override Created Date", if you have an old article at hand, or "Start Publishing", if you have a new one.

If you have an old article, click on the three dots and you will be able to select the article's original publishing date from the calendar. Don't worry about the time stamp, just setting the date is enough. If you have a new article, you more often than not set the correct date manually, because the server's system clock is several hours behind, something we can not change, it appears.

If a new article should be published immediately, you don't have to do anything else, just proceed to the next step. But if the article should be published in the future, set the start publishing date to the appropiate time. The article will automatically appear on the frontpage once the given time stamp is reached. However, remember that the system time is off, so you need to calculate the appropiate publishing time. This is inconvinient, but unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about it.

To save your changes, it is necessary that you hit the Save button in the top right. You will then exit the editor and return to the content item manager. Hitting Apply will also save your changes, but you stay in the editor (you might want to do this if you are afraid that the site logs you out because you need too much time), while cancel will undo all unsaved changes and return you to the content manager. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you only leave the editor screen via the Save or Cancel button. Otherwise, the content will not appear on the front page and can not be edited by other users until it is checked out by you (e.g. you open it and then hit Save or Cancel).

Ok, I hope that is enough information to allow you to enter articles yourself.

You can contact Bjoern Hartig via the writer's Profile or the AHP Staff via the contact form.

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