In this article, we explain how to edit and craft content for live blog posts.
Building a blog post
FORGE LIVE BLOGGING is where reporters create posts by combining text, visual, and structured parts into a live blog.
Producers assign live blogs to reporters. Each reporter enters the assigned blog and creates posts in FORGE LIVE BLOGGING:
On top of the text editor, available post parts display:
Post parts are the analogous of the editorial entities in FORGE Back Office: they are the building blocks of the posts. There are two built-in post parts:
(Text Part): It contains a text
(oEmbed Part): It embeds a web resource into the post
Custom Post Parts can be either coded (Post Parts) or defined through a dedicated section (No-Code Post Parts). See Set up external data sources and no-code post parts for more information about No-Code Post Parts).
Configuring a blog post
Reporters can assign tags to each post and define some properties:
Style: Position and highlighting of the post
Sponsored post: Assigning the sponsor of the post
Reporter: In case the post is about ‌a match between two teams, it sets whether the reporter is writing for the away or home team
Graphic Assets: Graphic assets that the reporter can add to the post