See how it all works on the example of social media posts like tweets inside articles.
of the social media posts.
Generally, the one element all social media posts have in common is the URL. Use a text element for posts’ URLs. Set it as required and add validation rules to prevent common mistakes that might break your app, like leaving out https://.
Besides URLs, you can add network-specific elements that would give your content creators some control over the rendering of the embedded content. To pick the most common examples:
Dark or light color theme?
Display or hide replies to the post?
Include media from the post, like video or image?
For these options, use mutliple choice elements. Here’s an example of a content type for tweets with options to select a color theme and show or hide replies to the linked post:
We also suggest you divide the URL text element and the control elements into separate groups to make your content type clearly arranged.
Once you have the content type ready, you can start enriching the content by embedding social media posts.You will most likely want to embed the posts into rich text:
InContent & assets, open an article for editing.
Place the cursor into a rich text element where you want to add a post.
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Martina Farkasova
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Content & assets, open an article for editing.
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