# News & categories

The **News** section is a blog / article feed. Posts are shown at `/news`, an individual article at `/news/{slug}`.

## Creating an article

1. **News → Create**.
2. Fill in:
   - **Title** and **URL (slug)**.
   - The article **text**.
   - **Category** (optional).
   - **Image** (cover) — picked from [Media](/docs/panel/media).
   - **Status** — `Draft`/`Published`.
   - **Publish date** — controls the order in the feed.
3. Save.

Published articles automatically appear:
- in the `/news` feed;
- in the RSS (`/rss.xml`);
- in the sitemap (`/sitemap.xml`);
- in the "latest news" block on the home page (if the theme outputs it).

## Categories

The **Categories** section groups articles by topic. A category is available at `/category/{slug}` and shows all of its published posts.

1. **Categories → Create** — set a name and slug.
2. When creating/editing an article, pick a category.

## SEO

Like pages, an article has an SEO title, description and OG image. Fill these in for articles that should index well.

## Comments

If comments are enabled, visitors can leave them under an article. New comments go to moderation — the **Comments** section:

- **approve** — the comment appears on the site;
- **reject/delete** — it won't be shown.

The number of comments awaiting moderation is shown in the notifications "bell".

## Custom fields

If articles need extra fields (expert author, reading time, etc.), add them in the **Custom fields** section and then fill them in when editing an article. In the template they're available as `{news.fields.<field_slug>}`.
