Create an article

As a publishing platform, CORE allows you to tell your Army story to the world. You can do this by writing articles and publicly releasing them to www.army.mil. Each article has its own dedicated URL, based on the following formats:

• https://www.army.mil/article/article-id
• https://www.army.mil/article/article-id/article-title

Keep reading below to learn about some basic features available in our article editor.

1. Click Create on the main menu.
2. Click New Article to open a draft article page.

Click in the Title box at the top of your new draft and enter a title for your article. The title must be 100 characters or fewer.

The author creates a byline that tell visitors who wrote the article they’re reading — either a person or an organization name. By default, the person who first created the article is automatically set as the author, but you can change the author manually to attribute it to a different person or organization.

The creator’s name appears next to the article wherever it is displayed in CORE, but the author’s name displays below the title of your released article on www.army.mil.

To edit the author:

1. Click on the creator’s name to activate the author field.
2. Edit your name, or change it to another person’s name altogether.
3. If you co-wrote an article, click on Add an author... and enter a new name.
4. Click Enter on your keyboard or simply leave the input field to apply changes.

Your new draft includes a basic text box to help you get started. Click Start typing, or copy and paste your article here…

Text formatting options are available in the WYSIWYG Text Toolbar, located just above your article. To apply some basic formatting:

1. Highlight a word or phrase you want.
2. Click on Formatting Options in the toolbar.

You can also visually enhance your article by uploading images and documents, or embedding a video from YouTube. These media elements can be inserted anywhere within your article body using the WYSIWYG Toolbar.

To add an image, document or video:

1. Go to a new line in your article body and position your cursor where you want to insert your media element.
2. Click the , , or in the WYSIWYG Toolbar.
3. A lightbox editor will appear, depending on the type of media that you selected to insert.:
• For Images or Documents, click the to browse and upload images from your desktop. You can also drag and drop files on top of the Drag & Drop placeholder box.
• For Videos, click Enter a YouTube link… and paste the YouTube video URL.
4. Click Insert to close the lightbox and place your image, video embed, or link to a document in the article.

You can organize your article by relevant topics by adding tags and Army Priorities to your Article Settings sidebar.

Tags group your content by keywords, allowing more people to discover it on CORE and Army.mil. They are used in search results, in custom news feeds, as well as on published articles under Related Stories.

To add a tag:

1. Click Add a tag… in the right sidebar.
2. Enter a topic or keyword. As you type, CORE will auto-suggest popular tags along with the number of times that each tag has been added to an article.
3. Continue typing and click Enter on your keyboard to add a new tag, or select a popular tag from the dropdown list to increase the chance that your article is discovered.
4. You can add more tags, or remove a tag by clicking the X to the right of the tag.

Army Priorities are categories that align your article with the Secretary of the Army’s priorities. This allows Army public affairs professionals to track their organization’s communication efforts. To learn more about these priorities, visit the Public Affairs Portal (CAC access required for login).

To add an Army Priority:

1. Click Add a strategic priority… in the right sidebar.
2. Select a priority from the dropdown list. The priority will appear as a tag.
3. You can add more priorities, or remove a priority by clicking the X to the right of the tag.

CORE offers more customization options to finalize your article in the sidebar menu on the right side of your screen. These Article Settings include editing SEO metadata and connecting to Google Analytics.

Once you have finalized your article, the next step is dependent on your user role within your organization.

Contributors

Click the Submit for Review button at the top-right corner of the action bar. To find out more, visit Submit a draft.

All other user roles

You can either click Release at the top of your article to make it immediately visible on www.army.mil, or you can click to schedule it for a future release date.

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