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Updated January 11th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Admin email notifications

Necessary when we use outgoing webhooks. All the administrators who are mentioned in the field would receive email notifications. Whenever there is a failure of events that are triggered based on the webhooks set in AT, the administrators mentioned here would receive a notification informing the failure. When there is a failure in triggering the web...

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Updated May 10th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Story - Social Notifications

Use this tab to control the notifications shown to readers whenever this story is published. Additionally, you can specify messages to be used when this story is promoted on your multiple social media accounts.  ...

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Updated April 18th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Paypal Transaction Route on Bold Static Pages

On implementing the Paypal Recurring subscription, we had to handle the routing part separately. Hence our team came up with creating a route via Bold Static Pages. Incase the static page route is not added on bold, this is how the transaction popup shows up and is a bad UX(but in the background transaction would’ve happened). To overcome the above ...

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Updated August 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Timeline

As a story is being edited, each time it is saved, a new version of the story is created. In the top right-hand corner of the Story Editor,  click on 3 dots and select timeline to view an audit trail of all the instances when the story was saved. Use the View button shown against a version to view that version. The story is opened in a 'view only' m...

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Updated November 21st, 2022 by Rachana TR

Footer Style

Header layouts can be picked from a list of 3 options:   Footer settings include: Logos that appear on the footer Footer background colour Footer text colour Social icon styles: Buttons and links: To display buttons and links on the header or no. These include: The Subscribe button Login Buttons Links for Android and IOS apps    ...

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Updated November 19th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Third Party Integration

We can add various third-party tool’s integration IDs and publish the changes. We can add the Tracking ID of GA and GTM, can add a widget code, an AdSense client ID, and verification tags of Facebook, Yandex, and Google site verification.   This option can be found under Page builder> general settings> manage > third-party integration.   No...

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Updated July 4th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Style Settings

1.  Row title design:   The colours used for all row titles can be set here The row title design styles can also be set here Section Tab: The colours used for all section tags can be set here The section tag design styles can also be set here  ...

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Updated August 23rd, 2024 by Rachana TR

Text Story Templates

We support 6 story templates. Each template is designed for different scenarios. Hero Priority Headline Priority with aside space Hero Vertical Hero Overlay Hero and Headline Priority Hero Priority with aside space Hero Priority "Hero Priority" gives more emphasis on hero image. Layout will have hero image at beginning. Ads will only be supported ro...

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Updated December 20th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Breaking News Settings

Breaking News refers to the flash news scroll that typically appears on news websites to highlight snippets of information. Breaking news settings include: Breaking news style:           Full bleed            Within the width of the container News Separators:           Dotted separators           Pipe separators Breaking news titles Breaking news sp...

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Updated June 9th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Images, Videos and Audio file sizes

What is a good recommended image size in Bold? Google recommends a minimum 1200 pixels width as mentioned for content to appear in Google Discover. Available here. What is the maximum file size for an image? There is no restriction on the image file size or dimension. However, we do not recommend image sizes beyond 8192x8192 pixels. What are the typ...

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Updated June 10th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Ads on Visual stories

Here are the prerequisites to serve ads in web stories: 1. Create a web story with at least 8 cards/slides: Ensure that your story contains a minimum of 8 cards or slides. Each card represents a section of your web story and may include text, images, videos, or other interactive elements. 2. Create a smart banner or 1x1 advertisement in Ad Manager: ...

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Updated July 1st, 2024 by Rachana TR

Facebook Autopost Integration with Bold

Facebook auto-post refers to the automatic publishing of content from a CMS to Facebook. Quintype provides integration with social media platforms like Facebook, allowing users to share their content on their Facebook pages or profiles easily. In order to set up a Facebook Auto post, you need to follow below steps: 1. Setting up a Facebook developer...

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Updated January 11th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Customer email notifications

Enabling this would trigger email notifications for end users based on the event chosen here. At the moment, AT supports two events: Subscription creation Subscription renewal notification Customization of these email templates is not possible- a default email template set by AT would be sent out...

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Updated October 14th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Back-End Resource Scaling

Your website is run by a collection of best-of-breed technologies at the back-end to ensure an error free and smooth browsing experience to your users. Each time a reader attempts to visit a story on your website, the reader request is served by the CDN (Content Delivery Network) network of proxy servers and their data centers. The CDN in-turn is su...

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Updated November 8th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Creating a plan within a subscription group

Creating a plan for your subscription group is easy. Follow the steps below: Go to  https://www.accesstype.com/subscription_groups Click on the required subscription group to which you wish to add plans Enter the name and description of the plan. Choose the occurrence, whether it is a one-time or a recurring plan If it is a recurring plan, then you ...

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Updated June 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

How To Create A Live Blog

Usecase: A live blog template can be handy when there are any current events happening and you wish to create a story around the event while it is occurring. Example: A cricket match, election results, verdicts of important cases. Workflow of a live blog: A live blog follows a different workflow when compared to other story templates. Here is how a ...

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Updated September 7th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Plagiarism

Enable Plagiarism Detection with Bold CMS: To enable the Plagiarism Detection feature within Bold CMS, follow these steps for seamless integration with Copyscape, a trusted third-party plagiarism detection service. Steps to integrate Copyscape to Bold: 1. Login to Bold2. Navigate to settings3. Select Integrations4. Click on the 'Add Integration' but...

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Updated October 31st, 2022 by Rachana TR

Favicon

A Favicon is the image that appears on your browser’s tab along with the page title - taken from a file containing one or more icons or images, typically representing your brand or company logo. Note that some browsers may display the icon in the address bar, or history or bookmarks list as well. To add a Favicon, go to Settings > General >Fav...

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Updated June 19th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Syndicating Stories

Quintype makes it easy for you to syndicate stories from news wires or other publishers, with virtually no human intervention. Your administrator and the Quintype team work together to setup how Inward or Outward Syndication will work on your website. Inward Syndication Quintype recommends ‘pulling’ content from RSS 2.0 compliant sources. Once a sto...

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Updated January 11th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Settings

General settings: Publisher name - Name of the publisher. Platform- CMS used. Whitelisted domains- Managing multiple domains through one AT account. The subscriptions created in all of the whitelisted domains would be available in one AT account. JWToken - Useful only if the customer uses a third party CMS and not Bold. If they use bold as their CMS...

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Updated January 11th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Metered paywall settings

The part where you configure the number of free stories that could be read by end users(both guests/registered users) on the website before they get the paywall popup. You could toggle the paywall by clicking on the switch next to the appropriate field available in the right corner. We can also set the duration in which the paywall limit would be re...

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Updated June 12th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Entities

Think of entities as dynamic multi-dimensional tags. An entity can be either an individual, a place, or an institution, etc. For example, you can create an entity called Rafael Nadal, of type - individual. Just as Rafael Nadal has many facets to his life in the real world, in the Quintype universe - you can store data about the different facets of R...

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Updated November 8th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Group Subscriptions

This is useful for setting up corporate/organization/domain- based subscriptions on your website. Licensing options are available. If the user limit is set as 100, only 100 users with the mentioned domain in their email addresses would be able to access the premium content. Once the mentioned user limit is reached, no more users can access the premi...

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Updated October 31st, 2022 by Rachana TR

Promotional Messages

A Promotional message is a boilerplate note that is typically published as part of all stories on your site, like a signature or legal disclaimer as a footnote after each story. You can also use these as ‘Call to Action’ links to direct readers to specific pages. Using the Setting > configure> Promotions, your Administrator can set up to three...

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Updated July 29th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Steps required to setup Google Analytics 4 credentials in Bold

Here is what needs to be done: 1. Activate Google Analytics Data API2. Create a service account and private key3. Add service account email to GA4 property4. Update it on the Bold Integrations page Note: If you have already created a service account and private key for GA3 integration, then you can skip Step 2 1. Activate Google Analytics Data API 1...

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Updated June 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Media Library

The Media Library (Menu > Media Library) is a central repository where users can deposit their image files. At present, Quintype does not support uploading video files. Although, you can embed videos from other sources into your stories. Image files uploaded here are available to all users who have the permission to access them. Searching the Med...

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Updated October 13th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Scaling

Quintype monitors the volume of visitors to your site and scales performance up or down depending on the number of visitors at a point. Quintype is designed ground-up to ensure it can manage sudden burst scenarios. Our entire page delivery system is organized such that each layer can be scaled independently as and when needed. Our CloudFlare CDN, is...

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Updated July 15th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Enhancing User Experience - Modifying User Profiles

Only users with the relevant roles and permissions are authorized to create or modify other user profiles. To update a user profile, follow these steps: 1. Access the main menu and choose "Settings" > "Users and Roles."2. Locate and select the desired user from the list shown.3. You are now able to make the necessary updates to the following fiel...

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Updated June 12th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Twitter Autopost Integration with Bold

In this guide, we'll integrate Twitter with our CMS to enable automatic posting of articles on Twitter whenever we publish a new story. Before proceeding with the setup, make sure you already have a Twitter developer account. Let's get started! In order to set up a Twitter auto-post, you need to follow below steps: Step 1: Create a Twitter Project a...

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Updated October 13th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Mobile Browsers That Are Compatible With Bold

Bold is one of the few CMS’s that is responsive on mobile devices. Quintype encourages journalists and content creators to create content on the go. What mobile browsers do Bold CMS support? Here is a quick overview of the mobile browsers that Bold CMS is best suited for. Browser Matrix Details Browser Matrix Details S No. Browser OS Level of Suppor...

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Updated October 18th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Story Types

You can create different types of stories - using templates available in Quintype. Each template is built to make it easier to create a certain type of story. But some templates may be generic - for example, Blank. Blank: Provides a generic template to create text stories. Breaking News: Provides a template to create a breaking news or news flash an...

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Updated December 2nd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Pagebuilder Layouts

The Home Page layouts need to be configured in two places. 1. In Page Builder2. Home Collection & its ranking  It is a 1:1 mapping between a ranked 'Home Collection' in Bold against the layout in PB. Example:If you have 'Latest News' as the 1st 'ranked' in the home collection and a two-column six stories layout as the first layout in page builde...

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Updated June 22nd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Release Notes

Metype Release Note - 19th June 2023 Metype to allow widgets in different languages for two different websites within the same MT account Publishers requested to have Metype Widget to support different languages for their two different websites (English and Bangla) within the same Metype account. With the introduction of this change, publishers havi...

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Updated October 13th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Parts Of A Story

Every story in Quintype has a structure. There are mandatory and non-mandatory components to a story. Your administrator can decide what elements are mandatory or non-mandatory. Each story must have a Title, Subtitle, Hero image anda Card. For certain story types, the list of mandatory elements may be longer. For example - a Listicle story may manda...

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Updated June 30th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Video Stories

A video story in Quintype provides a template to add multiple videos into a single story. The template requires at least one video to be present in the story. The video providers you can link to can be configured by your administrator. Supported providers include YouTube, Bitgravity, JwPlayer, Vidible and Brightcove are supported. Note that Quintype...

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Updated December 5th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Story Workspace

After signing on, you can view the Workspace panel The page displays the following: Add New: Enables you to create different content types. My profile: Displays your login ID and enables you to view your profile or sign out. Search bar : to search for any story in the CMS Filter : To filter out list of stories based on any of the available parameter...

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Updated June 3rd, 2024 by Rachana TR

Push Notification

Specify the Title and Message for the notification that should be sent to readers, when this story is published. The two check boxes indicate which of the notification methods should be used to notify readers. Scheduling additional Social Media Notifications Click the Add Social Media Notification box to schedule a new notification. Each notificatio...

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Updated January 3rd, 2024 by Rachana TR

Handy YouTube Video Links for Bold and Page Builder

How to Create a Collection |   How to create Menu and Menu Groups |    How to Create a Section and Sub-Section | How to Create Magazine and Magazine Issues | How to use Search and Filters | How to Create a Text Story |  How to Create a Photo Story |  How to Create a Video Story |  How to Create a Live Blog |  How to Create a Visual Story |  How to C...

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Updated January 11th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Coupons

Coupons allow you to offer discounts on various plans and subscriptions. Either a fixed price or a percentage value could be offered as a deduction when the user makes use of this coupon. Additionally, there are options to set the validity(start and end date) of the coupon and per-user limit restrictions, and overall usage restrictions. Marketing th...

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Updated November 8th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Types of Subscription groups

There are 3 types of subscription groups available. Standard: A normal group under which you can go and create as many plans as required.  Campaign: When you wish to run a campaign to get subscriptions. You could set a target limit/ amount of subscriptions to be sold post which, the campaign would be terminated. Group access: For creating and sellin...

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Updated July 4th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Visual Settings

This includes: Fonts: You can set the font family used for headings and story text here. Note: Your Breaking news takes the font specified for story text   A colour palette: All your website colours need to be updated here. You ONLY will be able to use the 8 colours added to your palette while building your website.   A logo library: All logos that ...

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Updated January 11th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Payment gateways

An account with the concerned payment gateway is required. The app key and secret key are required to connect the payment gateway with AT dashboard. The required parameters and setup differ for each payment gateway. AT doesn’t handle the transaction- money paid by users never reaches Quintype’s payment accounts. It is directly handled by the corresp...

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Updated October 16th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Release Notes

Page-Builder Release Note - 10th October 2024 Feature to Insert Custom Code on Amp Pages The latest update from the Page Builder team introduces the ability to save AMP custom codes, even if they do not pass validation. Publishers can now save their custom code regardless of its validation status. However, the system provides clear prompts and remin...

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Updated July 15th, 2023 by Rachana TR

My Profile

Enhance Your Online Presence with My Profile's Customization Features! Unleash the power of personalization by utilizing the remarkable capabilities of My Profile. Take charge of your online identity and make a lasting impression by effortlessly modifying essential details, such as your name, communication email ID, and social profiles.  To access t...

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Updated June 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Create A Magazine

A magazine can derive all of its contents from a collection, hence creating a magazine is essentially the same as creating a collection. Create a magazine entity using Bold, please find the steps below: 1. Open your Bold instance 2. Click on Manage and then click on Entities 3. Click on Add Entity 4. Select the entity type "magazine" 5. Enter the na...

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Updated November 15th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Accesstype Release Notes

Release Notes: June 13th, 2023 Webhook Event Configuration Now outgoing webhooks can be configured for two additional events, namely, 'Subscription Attempt Initiated' and 'Subscription Attempt Failed'. These two webhooks will be applicable for all recurring and one-time plans. The 'subscription attempt initiated' webhook will be triggered when a cus...

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Updated April 11th, 2024 by Rachana TR

LinkedIn Autopost Integration with Bold

LinkedIn auto-post refers to the automatic publishing of content from a CMS to LinkedIn. Quintype provides integration with social media platforms like LinkedIn, allowing users to share their content on their LinkedIn pages or profiles easily. In order to set up a LinkedIn auto-post, you need to follow below steps: Go to https://developer.linkedin.c...

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Updated August 14th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Sub-Domain Setup in PB: A Step-by-Step Guide

This feature allows you to have more than one domain within a single Pagebuilder instance. It empowers publishers to customize multiple sub-domains or websites from a single dashboard, providing greater flexibility and efficiency in managing their online presence. How to enable the feature? The feature is automatically enabled for all publishers in ...

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Updated November 15th, 2023 by Rachana TR

How to integrate Google Ad Manager with Page Builder

  Prerequisites: A Google Ad Manager account should be created at https://admanager.google.com/. Setting up Google Ad Manager We have to follow a sequence of steps to set up the integration between Google Ad Manager and Page Builder.    There are 4 important steps in the setup: 1. Create a new Ad unit. 2. Create a new order. 3. Create a line item. 4...

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Updated June 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Sections

Sections are the most fundamental methods for content categorization in Quintype. When you create a Section, two critical things happen: An associated collection is automatically created. A slug with the section name is created. A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a particular page on a website in an easy-to-read form. In other words, it’s t...

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Updated November 2nd, 2022 by Rachana TR

Story Performance - Analytics

Use the Story Analytics feature to understand how well your stories are performing. The Analytics feature is available only to users with the required permissions. Data from the last 90 days is used by Quintype to generate these reports. In the Quintype Menu, select Analytics > Story Analytics. You can specify filters from the two drop-down lists...

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Updated June 12th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Invoicing and taxes

1.  Tax rates in AT are determined based on the location. 2. Plans in AT include taxes in their prices. 3. The plan price should be set up to include the taxes.     For example, if the tax rate is $10 and the plan price is $100, it means that $90 is  the plan price and $10 is the tax rate. 4. Invoicing is available for end users when they purchase a...

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Updated September 4th, 2023 by Rachana TR

SEO scores

To activate the SEO score feature, follow these steps: Go to "Settings" and click on "Configure."Navigate to the "Features" section.Enable the "Mandatory SEO Check" option.Once these settings are turned on, you will experience the following when submitting a story: Upon submission, a pop-up will appear, providing an SEO score assessment.You'll be pr...

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Updated December 20th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Dark mode

Now we have the dark mode option available for the website. You can enable dark mode from the header settings. We have this option throughout the website wherever we have a color palette. You will be able to see the preview in the page builder (enable/disable dark mode toggle button). You also have the option to reset the changes to default settings...

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Updated June 10th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Add video on Visual stories

To include videos in Visual stories, publishers can follow these steps using Gumlet as the video file storage: Upload the videos to Gumlet: Utilize Gumlet or any other static file storage service to upload the videos. Gumlet provides a platform for storing and delivering media files securely. Once the videos are uploaded to Gumlet, you will receive ...

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Updated October 29th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Card Sharing

When Card Sharing is enabled, readers can share a part of a story on a card, across their supported social media platforms. When a reader shares a card from your story on their facebook page, the onus is on you to make sure the content on the card can still make sense to readers on the facebook page, when read in isolation from the overall story. Ca...

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Updated August 30th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Embargo

This functionality enables you to set a fixed publishing time for a story, which remains locked for a designated period. Once the embargo period is established, the story cannot be published until that timeframe elapses. Although you can make edits to the story and incorporate additional content such as cards, any attempt to publish the story while ...

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Updated September 6th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Customization of Social Share icons on Page Builder

Story Page General Settings: Customising Social Share The updated Story Share feature now provides a range of customisable settings. Users can modify various elements such as the overall style of social sharing, the text label for the share button, the icon used for sharing, and the specific social media platforms to include. Previously, social shar...

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Updated January 11th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Pay per asset

Apart from live plans, if you publish any special story or article, which cannot be included in the existing plans, then you could add them as an asset. The subscriber who has an active subscription still has to buy this asset to access the content. By default, the asset type would be “story”, but this can be customized.  ...

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Updated May 31st, 2023 by Rachana TR

Listicle stories

A listicle story in Quintype provides a template to write content in the form of a list with extra details for each item in the list. This template allows you to add a series of content elements. The listicle story template starts with 5 cards. The header card (with the title, subtitle, and hero image), the second card is for the introduction and th...

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Updated April 15th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Story Demarcation and Rounded Corner Features

Story Demarcation The story demarcation feature is designed to indicate or provide a hint about the type of story being displayed. For example, if a story is a video story, the publisher can indicate it using a 'video' icon. This feature aims to improve the user experience and drive organic views. To access the story demarcation settings, please fol...

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Updated July 15th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Editor’s Notes

This is a place for you to make notes on a story. Other users collaborating with you can view these notes as well. Any user with the permission to create/edit stories, can add notes here. These notes are not accessible through the Quintype API, nor are they available to readers of the story on your website. Bold Release Notes: 30 January 2020: Edito...

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Updated July 3rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Filters

When you’re in your Workspace, use the Filters option to narrow down the list of stories displayed. Click the Filters option to open the filters panel. In the Filter Options tab, you can specify the following parameters. Story Template: Select one or more appropriate boxes to specify one or more templates to be displayed. Update Date: Filters storie...

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Updated October 16th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Release Notes

Bold Release Note -  8 Oct Bug Fixes/Optimisations: [8 October] Filename encoding in image URLs Bold Release Note -  4 Oct Enhancement: Default Author Publishers can now specify a default author for all user created stories in the CMS. Please get in touch with support@quintype.com in order to implement this. Bold Release Note -  1 Oct Enhancement: H...

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Updated October 31st, 2022 by Rachana TR

Webhooks

Webhooks are a feature that allow third party applications to listen for event notifications regarding story and collection workflows from Bold CMS. You can find the webhooks dashboard under Settings -> Webhooks. Payload When creating a webhook, you specify the URL you would like to be notified on, and the events for which you wish to be notified...

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Updated May 5th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Google Indexing API

Google Indexing API allows you to notify Google when you add, update or remove pages on your site in order to make Googlebot update its index. This way, Google schedules new crawls, keeping up to date with your content on SERPs, which improves your Website traffic.  Steps required to setup Google Indexing API Configuration Steps: 1. Activating the G...

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Updated October 24th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Visual/Web stories

Web Stories are a web-based version of the popular "Stories" format that blend video, audio, images, animation, and text to create a dynamic consumption experience. This visual format lets you explore content at your own pace by tapping through it, or swiping from one piece of content to the next. Please click here to serve ads on Visual stories Ste...

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Updated July 25th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Collections

A Collection is a group of published stories or collections referencing published stories.You can create a collection - ‘Sports’ as a placeholder for all sports-related stories. Another example could be - All stories of type video (or others) written by a few authors on the topic of Elections 2019. A set of stories can be grouped by Authors, Tags, S...

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Updated May 3rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Make separate card for Custom fields in Subscription Group details page

With this feature, the Accesstype team has introduced "Custom Fields" which allows users to capture metadata such as Name, Phone Number, Email Address, and Address in the Subscription Group details page in AT dashboard.Earlier it used to be only "Add New Field" which has now been elaborated as Custom Fields which can be customized by a publisher and...

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Updated October 28th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Card Reuse

Parts of a published story can be reused while constructing other stories using the card reuse feature. In the Story editor, click the 'Import Card'. Use the search bar to find the previously published content. Find the published story you're looking for; the one from which you want to reuse cards in your current story. In the selected story, scroll...

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Updated June 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Breaking News

Use this feature to announce 'breaking news' to your audience, bypassing the typical workflow a story goes through. You can also simultaneously publish the link to the story on your social media accounts. There are three categories of Breaking News stories. First there is the basic breaking news story, which may appear on your website as part of a n...

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Updated June 1st, 2023 by Rachana TR

How to integrate youtube to Bold

This article helps you understand how to integrate Youtube with platform/bold CMS. We will be able to search for videos directly rather than embedding Youtube video URLs once integrated. Steps to generate the API key for Youtube. This needs to be added to the Platform/CMS. 1. Go to the Google Cloud console 2. Click on the dropdown and select a new p...

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Updated November 7th, 2022 by Rachana TR

How to Set up Teams(Themes) for a publisher?

Current implementation details: 1. Teams is configured for a story attribute (In future, there will be support for section as well)  2. User while working on a story, has to assign the story to a team by selecting the story attribute value from Advanced Inspector - > Attributes tab  3. Teams rule apply to only workspace  4. Creating teams is a DB...

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Updated January 11th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Outgoing webhooks

If you have any third-party integrations which you would like to sync with AT, for example: Zoho CRM or Mailchimp or any such platform, then the webhook has to be set for the AT records to be passed to the third-party software. If Zoho is the third-party tool, then you might get the webhook URL and secret from the Zoho support team and add it here i...

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Updated July 17th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Bold General settings

Learn about the various options and configurations available to customise your environment. Setting up General Options and SEO in BOLD 1. Log into Your BOLD Account: Access your BOLD account to begin the configuration process. 2. Navigate to Settings: Go to the "Settings" section and Click on "General." 3. General Settings Overview: Control the gene...

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Updated January 3rd, 2024 by Rachana TR

Insert Custom Code

You will be able to add some customized code to the website/homepage/story page/magazine landing page/tag page/ search page/ Issue landing page. You just need to copy the code, paste it in the head/body section, and save the changes. Here are the steps: 1.    Login to your Page builder. 2.    Navigate to the general settings section and click on Man...

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Updated November 9th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Subscription list

The subscription lists shows all the subscriptions purchased by clients. We can search based on the email address of end users to see a list of all their subscriptions. Filters to generate reports based on the subscription groups, plans, subscription status, canceled subscriptions, and subscription created date range is possible. Users can either ex...

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Updated June 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

iZooto integration

iZooto is a user engagement and user retention platform that specializes in delivering personalized browser push notifications. It helps marketers effectively engage with their website visitors or subscribers by sending targeted messages directly to their browsers. With iZooto, marketers can create and schedule push notifications that include releva...

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Updated June 16th, 2023 by Rachana TR

How to configure AMP pages in Bold

The AMP refers to a feature that enables the creation and optimization of web pages specifically designed for fast loading and improved performance on mobile devices. AMP pages are stripped-down versions of regular web pages, designed to provide a smooth and engaging user experience for mobile users.To configure AMP pages in Bold CMS, you can follow...

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Updated April 9th, 2024 by Rachana TR

How to implement Custom Ads on Page Builder

  If you want to insert custom ads on your website using a single request, this can be achieved by creating custom code in a specific format and adding it using a widget in the page builder.   To implement this, you need to add the custom scripts in the Head and Body sections of the webpages via the Page Builder, following these steps:   Log in to t...

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Updated June 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Tags And Adding Tags To A Story

A tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information. Quintype allows your organization to maintain a common repository of tags using the Tag Manager. While creating your story, you can pick one or more tags from this repository and assign them to your story, or create your own tag. Stories related to a common subject can be logically group...

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Updated October 31st, 2022 by Rachana TR

Convert Story Templates

As you’re editing a story based on a certain template, it may be possible to switch the template of that story - provided this feature is enabled on your website. For example, you started creating a video story using the Video story template, but halfway into the story, you decide that you’d rather use the Photo story template for this story. You ca...

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Updated July 4th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Story States

Typically a story in the editor moves from the Open state through Needs Approval and Approved states to the final Published state, before it can be viewed by a reader on your website. Only stories in the Published state are viewable to your readers. When a story is in the Rejected state, click Redraft to move the story back to the Open state. A Retr...

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Updated November 8th, 2022 by Rachana TR

How to create a subscription group

Steps to create a subscription group:  1. Go to  https://www.accesstype.com/subscription_groups  2. Choose the group type you want to create - standard/campaign/group access  3. Fill out the name, description and choose the visibility   Visibility- Private is only visible to admins of AT account   Public groups are visible for end users to purchase ...

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Updated November 10th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Settings

We can actually control Metype comments under settings. Under Configurations below points can be found, and by using the toggle we can enable and disable these features.  Guest Commenting Pre-moderation Images/GIFs in comments Links In Comments Top Pages in Comments Third party login Guest contributions Confidential commenting Guest Commenting: Gues...

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Updated November 10th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Metype Dashbord

When a user Logs in to  https://www.metype.com/admin , they will be seeing options such as Comment Manager, Embed metype, Users and roles, Settings, and My Profile. It will appear as shown below :  ...

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Updated June 12th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Overview

Page-Builder is an intuitive configuration management application that allows you to control the layout of your website seamlessly. This includes atom-level to theme-level details, tailor-made for the publishing industry. Quintype’s page-builder was built in an addendum to Ahead, our front-end app, that allows any publisher to go live in 2 hours wit...

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Updated November 10th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Users and Roles

This section consists of 2 parts: Administrator Banned User 1. Administrator: You will be able to grant the site access to the users and modify the current role or revoke access. Click on Add access and enter the email address to grant access  By default, “Moderator” role is granted to the user. If you want to change the permissions, click on the dr...

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Updated June 14th, 2023 by Rachana TR

AWS Infrastructure maintenance activity

Phase 1 - Quintype Technologies India LtdTime - 13th June, 11:00 pm - 14th June, 2:00 am ISTThis is AWS-mandated maintenance for Application Load BalancersComponents impacted - Front-End sites During the maintenance window, - The website server will face a downtime of maximum of 15 minutes - CDN cached content will be served on the website frontend ...

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Updated October 31st, 2022 by Rachana TR

Lock Story-Edit

Using the Lock Story-Edit feature, multiple users can view a story simultaneously while any one of them can also edit it. Your administrator should enable this option using the settings > Configure>Block Concurrent Story Edit option. Ensure that all users are logged out of the editor when this feature is being switched on. At any single instan...

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Updated October 28th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Author Stories/Collection

Understanding Collections first will make it easier to understand the Author Stories feature. Typically, an author has a portfolio of stories they have written on your website over time. When readers read a story written by a certain author on your website, they can also access a list of other stories written by the same author, by clicking the Auth...

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Updated November 18th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Integrate Ads

Ads Integration   This includes a space for DFP network ID We support Ad manager(DFP Network ID), copy-paste the Network ID from Admanager. If the current website has the Admangager, you will be able to get the Ad manager ID from the site URL/API/v1/config. Ads Layout allow us to select 3 predefined ad/banners type with different size. Leaderboard (...

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Updated November 18th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Comment Plugin

We support Metype and Facebook commenting widgets on the website. Select the commenting widget service from the drop-down. Metype :  Update the fields like Metype Account ID, Host, Primary Color, Background Color, font color, class name, etc.  We can get these details from metype admin section.  ...

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Updated March 27th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Sage AI

Introducing SAGE AI, the latest addition to our suite of features designed to enhance content creation on Bold. Powered by artificial intelligence, Sage offers a range of capabilities aimed at streamlining the content generation process and optimising various aspects of your stories to revolutionise editorial workflow.   Key features of Sage include...

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Updated July 6th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Infinite Scroll

This implies that if a section or collection contains multiple stories, the scrolling will continue until the final story is reached. You have the choice to enable section-based or collection-based display options. Additionally, you can choose between loading the full story continuously (where stories will load one after the other) or using story ca...

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Updated September 28th, 2023 by Rachana TR

How To Create A Menu

You can create a menu to aid users navigate your website. In order to create a menu, you will have to create Menu groups. 1. Go to Manage2. Menu3. Click on the + icon next to Menu4. Create menu groups  Below are the Menu group details: 1. Default: Displayed on the Main Header and sidebar menu. As the name suggests, this is the fallback menu if nothi...

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Updated October 31st, 2022 by Rachana TR

Integrating Your Social Media Accounts

Most 3rd party or social platforms that you integrate your website with require either a secret key or a combination of secret keys. You can integrate from Settings > Integrations in workspace. Bold Release Note - 1 Jul 2020 Facebook app permissions update Bold is now up-to-date with the Facebook's latest permissions to auto-post stories to your ...

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Updated August 1st, 2024 by Rachana TR

Video element in visual stories

Quintype Platform now supports video content in visual stories, enhancing storytelling capabilities across Bold CMS, AMP-lib, Malibu, and Page builder products. Feature Overview Supports video clips in visual stories Designed for short clips (10-15 seconds) Maximum supported: 300 seconds or 60 MB File format: MP4 only Technical Details 1. Bandwidth ...

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Updated October 29th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Story SEO

You can use SEO Metadata for Search Engine Optimization for each story. This ensures the search engines crawl through the story content so that it is displayed in the search results. Smart use of this feature will give your story maximum exposure to search engines, and thereby give you the widest readership. To specify SEO metadata for a story: In t...

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Updated October 14th, 2022 by Rachana TR

ROBOTS.TXT

This is a text file webmasters create to instruct web robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl pages on their website. In practice, robots.txt files indicate whether certain user agents (web-crawling software) can or cannot crawl parts of a website. These crawl instructions are specified by “disallowing” or “allowing” the behavior of cer...

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Updated October 29th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Story Metadata

Metadata is data that describes other data. In our case, story parameters grouped under the metadata tab help define and underpin some of the basic aspects of a Quintype story. Metadata is customized according to each publisher’s needs. The options you see here, are defined by your administrator. Your admin can also make some of these parameters man...

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Updated November 10th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Metype Login

If a user logs in to  https://www.metype.com/dashboard , they will be able to view all the articles of their site where the comment has been posted:   If access has been granted to multiple sites for a user then they can see it in https://www.metype.com/admin under dropdown. Once the User clicks on the dropdown, a pop-up will appear with “Your sites...

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Updated June 22nd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Localisation & RTL

Localisation of MeType commenting widget We have introduced MeType Localization for the publishers. The users would be able to see the MeType widget and other details in their local language. Please send your request to support@quintype.com....

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Updated August 24th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Header Style

Header layouts can be picked from a list of 8 options:   As of today, Page-Builder supports 2 types of headers: A primary header that will stick throughout the website A secondary header that appears topmost on the website Header Style:  Click on the layout icon to change the header style.   Header settings:  Customize the header with the following ...

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Updated March 27th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Sage AI Translation Feature

With Sage AI Translation Feature, stories can be translated from one language to another and created within the same publisher or a different publisher, based on the configuration. Please reach out to support@quintype.com to enable this feature.   Let's see how does translation feature work on Bold within same instance. 1.Create a story in English C...

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Updated June 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Enabling Story Templates, Features, Story Elements, And Others

Administrators can configure the Features, Story Templates and Story Elements available to authors. If these are not enabled by default, you can enable them at the General and the Templates tabs under the Admin menu, for them to be visible in the interface. General Tab Use the General tab to enable product features, different types of Story Template...

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Updated March 27th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Sage AI Content Enhancement Feature

Sage uses a generative AI to suggest headline, sub-headline, meta title, meta description etc for already created content of the story.   Headlines and Sub-headlines suggestions:   Let’s see how to use the AI assistant for generating headlines and sub-headlines.   Navigate to your BOLD. Click on Add New and then Story.   Add the description or conte...

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Updated October 17th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Public Preview

The Public Preview feature of Quintype allows you to share individual stories with people outside the Quintype platform, for example - sharing a story with a sponsor for review. Clicking on the preview icon in the workspace page will open the story preview page in a new tab. Simply share the URL of your current story with someone - over mail or chat...

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Updated August 18th, 2023 by Rachana TR

AMP Pages

What is AMP Pages and how does it work? AMP stands for “Accelerated Mobile Pages”. This is a technology designed to make web pages load faster and provide a smoother experience for users on mobile devices. It simplifies web pages to their most essential elements and saves a faster version on Google's servers. This helps in showing content real quick...

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Updated February 12th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Get Started with Mailer Lite: Sending Newsletters Made Easy

Are you looking for a user-friendly platform to streamline your newsletter-sending process through RSS? Look no further than Mailer Lite! As of 2024, Mailer Lite offers an affordable alternative to other services like MailChimp, making it an attractive option for businesses and individuals alike. With Mailer Lite, you can enjoy a 30-day trial period...

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Updated August 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

CTA

A call to action button (CTA) is a prompt on a website that tells the user to take some specified action. A call to action is typically written as a command or action phrase, such as ‘Follow’, ‘Subscribe’ or 'Sign Up' and generally takes the form of a button or hyperlink (redirection to another page) Steps to add the CTA button: 1. Click on “Add New...

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Updated November 9th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Organizations

Gives a list of all the corporate subscriptions/group subscriptions available along with the plans available under each subscription group. Also, we can see how many licenses have been exhausted by users for each of the plans. Clicking on the user limit achieved, we can see the list of email addresses of end users and their names....

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Updated August 2nd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Empower Your Business with Mailchimp and BOLD CMS!

To set up a Mailchimp account, follow these steps:  1. Go to the official website, https://mailchimp.com/ 2. Click on the "Create an Account" or "Sign Up" button to begin the registration process.3. Enter your required details, such as your name, email address, and any other information prompted by the registration form.4. After completing the form,...

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Updated July 22nd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Layouts with Ads

Here are a few things to remember when selecting a particular layout in Page Builder. Below are the 12 layouts where we can change the slot content from the story to ad or widget. 1. Arrow: Eleven Stories The layout features 11 stories, with two stories prominently highlighted in the center. This design is well-suited for a collection of stories pag...

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Updated November 19th, 2022 by Rachana TR

App Download Links

You can now give the option to download the mobile app from the website as well. All you have to do is to add app links for iOS and Android in the page builder. Once the links are added, it will reflect and can download apps by clicking on the android/iOS logo.   App links can be added in PB>general settings> App download links> android app...

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Updated November 2nd, 2022 by Rachana TR

Section SEO

Apart from the SEO related options that are available as part of a Story- Sections, Tags and Collections can all have SEO metadata associated with them. For Sections From the Admin menu, select SEO Metadata. From the dropdown menu select the Section for which you want to specify SEO metadata. Provide appropriate inputs in the page-title, meta-title,...

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Updated February 7th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Accesstype Integration

Accesstype Integration:   Check accesstype integration button to add details like BridgeKeeper ID, Accesstype key, plan page title, plan page description, plan page layout, etc. You can select Accesstype mode(if it is staging or production)  Note - Accesstype key should be entered of same environment which we are selecting, only then it works. For e...

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Updated November 21st, 2022 by Rachana TR

AMP Configuration

You will be able to opt if an amp page for the story is required or not. You can also select the logo position in amp stories. Ads can be rendered in amp pages. You just need to add the Ad code under AMP configuration in “Web Story Ad Unit Path”. Ad unit path needs to be added in the below format: “/ad unit ID/ad unit name”.    ...

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Updated May 21st, 2024 by Rachana TR

Automatic Time Translation

Enable this feature to automatically translate the published/ updated timestamp on story cards (for timestamp < 24h). The translation will be to the front-end language set in BOLD. To enable this feature navigate to → General Settings > Manage > Time Settings > Automatic Time Translation Languages supported by this feature are listed bel...

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Updated July 19th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Set Bold CMS Language per user preference

Bold CMS allows users to set their preferred language for the admin interface. This article will guide you through the steps to configure the language setting for individual users in Bold CMS. Login to your BOLD instance2. You can change the preferred language for your profile in two ways:  a. From the top right corner click on your profile and sele...

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Updated June 30th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Text stories

In Quintype, a text story refers to a specific template used for creating content in the form of text, paragraphs, and summaries. This template provides a structured framework where you can include various content elements. Within this template, you have the flexibility to add or remove cards according to your preferences and requirements. This enab...

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Updated June 14th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Changes to the default behaviour of Ajax navigation

This is to inform you that we will be making changes to the default behaviour of Ajax navigation for all Publishers. Currently, Ajax navigation is enabled by default for all publishers. However, we have decided to change this default setting and disable Ajax navigation as the new default behaviour. This change will bring about a slight change in the...

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Updated July 15th, 2023 by Rachana TR

How to Create and Manage Users with Administrative Permissions

Administrative users have the ability to create and oversee user accounts. Once a user account is created, it can be assigned specific roles and permissions. Add new user    Option 1: In the workspace, click on 'Add new' to find the option for adding a new       user.    Option 2: Navigate to the main menu and select 'Settings > Users and Roles,'...

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Updated June 12th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Notifications

Once we have integrated push notifications, we need to add details in the page builder as well to show them at the front end. From the drop-down, you can select Izooto, Onesignal, FCM, or others. Based on the type selected, you need to add App Id, server key, or embed code and publish the changes.   Enable Notification: Click on Enable Notifications...

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Updated October 18th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Facebook Instant Articles

The following instructions have been tested and are correct as of December 2018. Facebook does change its processes from time to time and might make changes to this process in the future. If you encounter such a problem, please get in touch with the support team. Also note that the Facebook Team approving the addition of your feed to Facebook Instan...

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Updated October 19th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Analytics - Data Collection

Quintype maintains a log of reader activity on your site. This data set is used by the Story Analytics and Report engines. Various granular events are logged every time a reader connects to your website and browses through the stories there. Each time a user connects afresh to the site, a session view event is logged. When the reader encounters thei...

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Updated August 24th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Story Pages

A publisher can have different types of stories. Story types include: Text Stories Photo Stories Video Stories Live Blogs Listicles Only one story template can be assigned to a story type. You can navigate to any story page from the Global header: A publisher can choose one template from the list of pre-defined templates. For each story type, there ...

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Updated November 8th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Campaigns in Accesstype

Campaigns are similar to normal subscription groups except for the fact that they allow you to set up a target value. You could choose to stop collecting payments once the target is achieved. Campaigns support only one-time subscription plans and not recurring plans. The currency associated with the plans created under the campaign should match the ...

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Updated December 26th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Time Settings

You have 2 options to select the time format for the stories.a. 12-hourb. 24-hour Also, you can choose the format of the time to “X minutes/hours ago” or “Since X minutes/hours”.  ...

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Updated July 28th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Enabling GA4

Google Analytics has forced an upgrade to GA4. This has impacted some features of Bold.Listed below are the features impacted and steps Quintype is taking to migrate to GA4 Analytics for powering its Analytics features in Bold.  Impacted Features on Quintype Bold platform:  - Analytics dashboard in Bold- Automated collections using the 4, 12, 24 hrs...

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Updated October 31st, 2022 by Rachana TR

Story Alternatives

A story can have a Headline and a Hero image that is used on the story page. It can also have an Alternative Headline or Alternative Hero image that are used to represent the same story on the Homepage of your website. This is a handy feature that allows you to perhaps use a more ‘sensational’ alternative title on the Homepage to represent a story t...

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Updated October 31st, 2023 by Rachana TR

Customizing Subscription Pages: Improving User Experience with Page Builder

Page Builder: Customizing Subscription Pages With the new update to our Page Builder (PB), publishers now have more convenience and control over their Subscription User Interface (UI). They can select the UI they want to appear on their website and customize the appearance of their subscriptions page based on their settings in the AT dashboard. Step...

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Updated July 29th, 2023 by Rachana TR

One signal integration

OneSignal is a highly popular and comprehensive platform that provides push notification service for mobile apps and websites. It allows developers and businesses to engage with their users in real-time through notifications, thus enhancing user experience.  OneSignal enables app and website owners to send push notifications to their users' devices....

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Updated July 29th, 2023 by Rachana TR

GA4 support for AMP pages

Tracking AMP page views: 1. We have updated our amp library to send page views to Google Analytics 4 properties2. If GA4 integration is enabled without updating the amp library, then there will be a dip in the total number of page views To implement the GA4 tracking for AMP pages/stories, please follow the steps below: 1. Access the Bold CMS 2. Clic...

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Updated October 29th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Photo Editor

As you insert an image into your story using an image element in a card – the Photo Editor provides editing tools for the image. Focus Point: Images are resized dynamically as your story loads across different reader devices. An image need not appear the same across a mobile phone or a laptop computer. Use the focus point option (the + symbol displa...

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Updated April 20th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Rich Text Editor tool

The Accesstype team has introduced rich text editor tool for subscription groups and plans description. Earlier it used to support only plain text. Until now, only custom clients were able to hardcode this on accesstype subscription page. However, now even Pagebuilder clients would be able to show the description in rich text including text in Bold ...

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Updated June 14th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Accesstype - New Feature - Rich Text Editor

We are glad to inform you about the release of a new feature on Access type - “Rich-text Editor”.  With this feature, we have overcome the limitation of displaying Subscription Group descriptions in paragraphs on the front end. Now, you will be able to provide a well-structured and positive user experience to your readers. You can see the difference...

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Updated August 24th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Landing pages in detail

You can choose your landing page to be created as a page with stories from a single collection, or with stories from multiple collections. A Landing Page with all stories from a single collection Pictorially represented:   A Landing Page with all stories from separate collections from bold. Each row data will take stories from different collections ...

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Updated August 24th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Landing pages

A Landing page is a page that contains a sneak peak of all the information you would like to redirect your end user to. Your homepage is your most prominent landing page, and serves as an introduction to your website and the articles within it. Your section page is similarly a landing page, which serves as an introduction to a particular section of ...

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Updated August 24th, 2024 by Rachana TR

Landing page functions

DELETING A PAGE There is an option to delete a landing page, within page level settings. A default landing page template alone cannot be deleted. RENAMING A PAGE There is an option to rename a landing page, within page level settings. `Page name` and `Page description` are both editable fields.   PREVIEWING A PAGE There is an option to preview a lan...

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Updated October 19th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Sitemap

A Sitemap is an XML file that contains the URLs of all the pages in a website. Search engines use the sitemap as a guide to crawl through each webpage. On the other hand, if you do not want search engines to discover a webpage, the URL of that web page should be removed from the sitemap XML. Quintype generates/maintains multiple sitemaps to help sea...

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Updated November 10th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Embed Metype

From this section, we can get details of metype account and all codes which are required to set up Metype,  Such as for setting metype widget, a code is shared For setting the UGC code is given For adding the live feed widget, the code is shared  This code can be copied and pasted in the desired location such as Bold, or PB to integrate this into th...

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Updated June 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Create A Static Page

Use the Static Pages option in Quintype to create non-story/news pages for your website, that do not change content from time to time or pages that are more or less static over long periods. These pages are typically not part of story pages that your readers access day-to-day. For example, your website's privacy policy, contact us or about us pages....

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Updated June 14th, 2023 by Rachana TR

iZooto maintenance email

This is to inform you that iZooto has scheduled system maintenance that will affect their services on 25th May 2023, from 4 PM to 9 PM IST (12:30 PM to 5:30 PM UTC). As a result of this maintenance, the iZooto dashboard and all associated services, including notifications, user addition, and reports, will be temporarily unavailable. No notifications...

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Updated July 10th, 2023 by Rachana TR

Story Editor

  The Story Editor is where you write/edit the content in your stories. It has the following elements you can use: Story Type: Indicates the type of story you're editing - Text, Listicle, Photo Story etc. . Eye/Live Preview icon: Enables you to preview the story for phone, tablet or laptop. Click this to see how your story will appear on any of thes...

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Updated November 10th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Comment Manager

Whenever any comment is posted on the article, it will show up under the comment Manager. When we go to comment Manager, it will take you to “All” by default. However, you can click on “Pending”, “Approved”, “Trash”, and “Spam” to check these comments and take appropriate action.  For example, if you want to approve a comment, then you can either go...

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Updated October 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Login And Roles

Enhanced User Experience - Access your Quintype Account with Ease!   Discover seamless sign-in options with Quintype!    Simply utilize the username and password set up by your administrator, or leverage the power of your social media accounts like Google, Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Follow these steps to effortlessly log in to your account: Acc...

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Updated October 31st, 2022 by Rachana TR

Story Performance - Reports

Use reports to understand stats about your stories and readers. You can generate two types of reports from the Analytics. Story Analytics Section Analytics Author Analytics In both cases, you need to specify the start and end date of the duration. A report will be generated (as a .CSV file) and mailed to your registered mail id.  ...

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Updated February 8th, 2024 by Rachana TR

RSS Feeds

RSS is a type of internet feed that allows access to online content updates. For examples, readers can use an RSS feed in a news aggregator application to keep track of updates on multiple websites. Quintype has RSS feeds available for different groups of content. For instance, every collection has an associated RSS feed, that can be used to notify ...

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Updated May 10th, 2023 by Rachana TR

How To Create A Section

Sections are the most fundamental methods for content categorization in Quintype.   Please follow the below steps to create a section: 1. In the workspace, go to Manage > Sections2. Click on Create to add new sections3. Specify the following in the "Create Section" dialog.     a. Name -The name of the section.     b. Display name - The name that ...

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Updated November 21st, 2022 by Rachana TR

Custom Labels

You will be able to customize the text appearing for Date and time, paywall, shipping address, buttons and labels, search and filter, errors and messaging, signin/signup, Profile page in the page builder. Go to General settings> Visual > Enable Custom labels.   ...

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Updated August 24th, 2023 by Rachana TR

How To Retract A Story And Set Up A Redirect

In this article we are going to focus on: How retraction of the story worksHow to retract a storyHow to set up a custom redirect to a retracted story How retraction of the story works The option to retract a story shows up when you have published your story once. Use case: When there has been any mistake on a published story that might take some tim...

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Updated November 9th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Subscribers

Gives a list of subscribers along with their email addresses and subscriber created date and status. The subscriber who has at least one active subscription would be termed as an active subscriber here. Subscriber details including the list of subscriptions, their status, create date and end date, payment gateway, and so on can be viewed by clicking...

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Updated June 23rd, 2023 by Rachana TR

Photo Story

A photo story in Quintype provides a template to add multiple photos in a single story, like a photo essay. Images can be selected from your Media Library, or uploaded from your computer. Note that the image you upload will be added to the Media Library. Quintype supports almost all the common image formats, with the exception of .SVG files. Like al...

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Updated November 9th, 2022 by Rachana TR

Invoices

A separate page where we store only invoices- all transactions that happen in AT, will have an invoice. The payment id of the transaction can be used to check for the invoice- handy when there is a discrepancy in the transaction reported by the end user. Invoices can be filtered and downloaded as well- this can be used to integrate payment informati...

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