Content Creation

Posts is the Mindful CMS term to refer to the various content types collectively. The breakdown of content types (article, news, press release, whitepaper, etc) are still in-use.

Content Creation: From the main browse page, click on 'new post' to access the various content types and create a new post. Creating content in Mindful requires only a title initially.

Inline Styling 🆕 Mindful has inline styling options for titles, decks, and teasers. Anywhere you see </> offers inline styling options.

Highlight the word(s) you want to style and the inline styling box wil appear

Teaser and Deck Fields The teaser field remains unchanged aside from inline styling. 🆕 A "deck" field, previously called "magazine deck," is now optional for display on the website and allows for different text in lists versus on the article page.

Improved WYSIWYG Editor and Image Uploads

Mindful introduces an enhanced WYSIWYG editor, providing improved stability and incorporating advanced multimedia embedding capabilities. It now supports modern image formats such as WEBP and AVIF The first uploaded image is automatically designated as the "featured" image, with the option to modify this as additional images are added.

Image Editing Features The latest image editing tools include inline styling, cropping, fitting, flipping, rotating, and focal point adjustments. The "face area" setting is useful for centering headshots and the "focal point" option allows for precise image focusing. Padding adjustments allow for controlling the space around images.

Publishing and Autosaving Publishing requires selecting at least one topic, with the first selected topic becoming the primary one. When additional topics are chosen, any one of them can be made primary. 🆕 Multi-Sites: A primary topic can be chosen for each site

The system autosaves changes made in each field as the user moves to a new field.

Note the blue 'circle' in the image - that's the autosave doing its job.

Preview and Short URL A preview feature opens a new tab, displaying the article with special URL parameters, preventing the article from being publicly accessible before publishing. The "copy short URL" feature remains accessible, providing a shortened link for sharing on social media.

Click the ... next to the topics

AI-Powered Suggestions 🆕 AI Suggest is available to provide suggestions for SEO titles, meta descriptions, and alternative titles and teasers. This feature is intended to be used after title, teaser and body creation, offering optimization suggestions before publishing.

HTML Editing Capabilities The new HTML editing capabilities allow you to paste HTML into the body. This provides a balance between user control and system stability.

Call-outs (formerly known as Sidebars) can be found by clicking the