IP.Content Features
Brand new to IP.Content 2 is the Articles system, enabling your community to easily post news-style content to your website.
As you'd expect, you can create a wide range of custom fields for your articles. Create data fields that gather additional content to display with articles, including textboxes, upload fields, date widgets or member lookup fields, complete with look-ahead functionality. Or use fields as option toggles, and check their value using template logic in order to achieve a particular goal. Custom fields let you set up IP.Content articles exactly as you need them.
Bring quality content to the fore and increase visibility. Users with permission are able to automatically promote IP.Board forum posts to full IP.Content articles - either by copying the content, or by moving it. This of course brings all the article features to that content - commenting, templating, versioning and more.
The Article Manager makes it easy to find existing articles to work with. Sort articles inline with ease, and search more efficiently using filter criteria based on comments, category, status and more. Toggle the published status of articles with a single click, without leaving the page. There's also the Front Page Manager, allowing you to quickly see which articles are presently displaying on the front page, and giving you the ability to remove them if necessary, or change the sort ordering of your articles section.
Article templates give you incredible flexibility to display articles in any way you wish. Display the front page of your articles section in whichever format suits your site - use one of the three built-in Front Page templates, or create your own. Make each of your article categories unique by specifying a different Front Page template for each. And, of course, every article can have a different View template, enabling you to display each article in a format ideal to that content.
