Publishing a gaming news
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PGN uses CKEditor for Joomla to manage all of it's content. This tutorial will show you how to publish a gaming news as per PGN's specifications.
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Creating a new gaming news article
Head over to Content -> Article Manager and then click New.
Populating the gaming news article details
Title and Alias
- Article Title: The format for a gaming news would depend on the press release.
- Article Alias: Leave this field blank.
Make sure that every first letter is capitalized unless it's specified by the game developer/publisher. So a press if your press release title looks like the one below...
El Presidente Welcomes Visitors to the "World of Tropico" Web Site
would become...
El Presidente Welcomes Visitors To The "World Of Tropico" Web Site
Notice how "to the" became "To The" and "World of Tropico" became "World Of Tropico"?
Description
PGN gaming news are divided into two main sections, Intro and Main. When adding the gaming news intro and main sections, make sure that you edit it in Notepad first before you paste it in the description box. If you don't do that, it will have non-friendly HTML characters. In order to eliminate the non-friendly HTML characters, we must paste by Notepad (highlighted in green) 
using the following toolbar.
Intro Format
The Intro section should not contain anymore than one or two paragraphs. The text is preceded by a one screenshot/video. The text is then followed by the Read More tag (red horizontal line in CKEditor).
Main Format
The Main section will contain the rest of the press release including (but not limited to) screenshots, additional videos, and features list. If you don't know how to break down a press release, then please read Breaking down a press release. If the press release contains a video, then you need to upload it to Playwire. Please read Using Playwire to upload videos in order to be able to upload videos to Playwire.
We'll be using Kalypso Media's press release as an example. Here's how we broke it down.
This is how it should look like after. Take note that we're not finished yet since we have to check for non-friendly HTML characters.
Notice how we did not bold out every Tropico 4 string? That's because it's not needed and removing all formats before hand through (Paste by Notepad) is highly recommended.
Checking with FoxReplace
After copying and then pasting through Paste by Notepad, we need to check for non-friendly HTML characters. Click Source in the upper left corner of the text editor. You should now be able to see the raw HTML code for the gaming news you're currently editing.
Notice all the tagged non-friendly HTML characters? That's what you need to replace/remove. If you've setup the FoxReplace config for PGN, then all you have to do is press F2. Otherwise you have to replace them by manually (not recommended).
Here's how it looks like after a quick F2.
PGN's FoxReplace setup doesn't automatically replace characters since they might remove the only space between two strings or not. So it's up to the editor to replace or move these non-friendly HTML characters. In our example, we'll have to remove it since there's already a space between Tropico 4. and Everyone.
Click the Source button located at the upper left of the text editor. If you see any is present, you should replace or remove them if there's already a space between two strings. After removing all the non breaking space characters, press F2 (activate FoxReplace) to remove the rest of the non-friendly HTML characters. Double check to see if everything's evenly spaced out (no double spaces) and if there's no more non-friendly HTML characters. Click here to see all the non-friendly HTML characters not allowed by PGN.
Meta Data
Once you're done editing your gaming news, it's time to add some SEO tuning by adding meta data.
Meta Description
The meta description should be the same as the Intro or the Intro's first paragraph if the Intro has multiple paragraphs.
Meta Keywords
The keywords should contain some of the title, the game's name, the game's publisher/developer, and other details like trailer and gameplay.
