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Article Templates allow you to select specially designed template layouts available out of the box for date or period sensitive content such as news articles and blogs. However, the article system can be used for other purposes such as to render create a staff list and staff bios, and sets of FAQs FAQ pages. Article template layouts are configured just like other page templates in the Customer Self Service eCommerce Platform - using zones and widgets. The degree of flexibility you have to customise article layouts depends on whether zoned or non-zoned layouts are in use. Options available also depend , and template override options available depending on your website version.
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What in-built Article Templates are available?
When designing your article-related layouts, you need to think about how you want to display (i) the 'Article List page' - the page that displays the list of articles, and (ii) the 'Article Page - the page that displays an article's content. Three built-in article templates come standard to cater for both. They are available for all sites from the Articles tab, under the Content → Pages & Templates menu→ Articles.
- Article List Item Zoned and Article List Page templates: provide zoned and non-zoned options for arranging the content of an article lista list of articles on a page
- Article Page Zoned template: used to arrange provides a zoned option for arranging the content of the zoned an article page. If the non-zoned article template option is active for your sitein use, content is arranged using the default article layout:
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Article List templates
An article list page displays all articles available for an article type and allows the user to click on one articles that have been grouped together, e.g., monthly customer newsletters, and provides article summaries and links for the user to access the full content. In the our example, the 'News Articles' list page shows all articles available on the website. The 'News Articles' available in this article group. This list has been created using the standard 'Article List Page' (without zones) can be selected for the layout of article lists. To be able to customise zones, use . An alternative way to create a layout is to customise it by using zones through the 'Article List Item Zoned' template instead. 
Article List Page template
The standard non-zoned layout is rendered using the built-in 'Article List Page' template (which defaults to the 'Paged Content List Layout') and the standard non-zoned layout. Selection of the group of articles to list requires either the Article List widget or the Article List All widget.
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If you wish Another option if you are using the standard Article List Page template is to display your articles in a slider format (rather than as a static list). To do this, simply replace the Article List All widgetWidget with the Article Slider widgetWidget on the 'Article List Page' template. Note - the Article Slider will only support the standard list item fields - zoned layout so this option is not available for zoned layouts. |
Article List Item Zoned Layout template
This template allows you to further customise an article list with more flexibility than the standard Article List Page template. You With zoned layout templates, you can rearrange widgets and add extras such as custom fields, a filter to display content by layer layers and a feature sorting tool. See Article List - Zoned layout help for more details.
Article Page Zoned
For arrangement of an article's content, BPD websites come equipped with a clean, well-organised article layout right out of the box. But what if you've got additional content to display in your articles? Or what if you'd prefer a customised page layout, completely unique to your site?
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Note - If your site is on 4.23+, you can override the built-in article templates altogether and create and use completely custom layouts for every article. (See help on Custom Templates for Individual Articles.)
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