Writing and publishing articles

An article needs three things to exist at all: a title, content, and an author. Everything else — category, position, translations, SEO fields — sits on top of that minimum.

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Writing

The content editor is the same rich-text editor used elsewhere in the dashboard, not a separate Markdown dialect to learn. Formatting, links and images work the way they already do when you’re composing a reply. Every new article is created as a draft, regardless of what status you try to set on creation — publishing is always a separate, deliberate second step.

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States

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Authorship

Every article belongs to a User — an agent on your team — and that field is required, not decorative. You can’t save an article with no author, and reassigning one later is an explicit edit, not a side effect of someone else touching the content.

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SEO fields

Separate from the content itself, an article carries a small properties panel backed by a single meta field: meta.title, meta.description, and meta.tags — one JSON column, not three separate database columns. These feed the page’s title and description for search engines and link previews — they don’t change anything a reader sees on the page itself.

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Ordering and search

Articles carry a position for manual ordering within a category, and can be reordered as a batch. Outside of a specific category view, the default list order is most-recently-updated first. Search covers title, description and content together, weighted so a match in the title ranks above the same match buried in the body — and long articles don’t win just by repeating a term more often.

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