News and Events Pages (Races site only)

• From now on, upcoming events and recent news/results will be automatically displayed on the global front page using information supplied by the country editors.

• There is no longer a separate 'News Item' or 'Event item'- instead, we select an option to make any page appear in the 'Latest News' or 'Upcoming events' section.

• Previously, creating an event item meant that a green sidebar appeared on the right hand side of the page, which some people did not like. Now, you have the choice as to whether that sidebar appears or not.

• Any page which has been marked as an upcoming event will appear in the 'Upcoming events' section of the global front page. There is an 'English title' field whose contents will appear on the global front page instead of the title, so you can keep the title of the event in your native language.

• Any page which has been marked as a news item, will appear in the 'Latest News and Results' section of the global home page. Again, it is important for non-English countries to fill in the English title, and for everyone to fill in the location if applicable.

• Once you have filled in the event or news information, you can also automatically display listings of events, results and news items in your country by using 'views', similar to the global home page. Read more.....

• In addition, there are 2 sidebar blocks - 'upcoming events' and 'latest news' which will display the pages you have marked as events/news. Note that these only display on the front page of your country site.

 See below for more pages on creating and displaying events and news items: