This past month, we added the ability to better manage a site's navigation. Prior to the update, all News for a given site lived at http://my-conductor-site.nd.edu/news/ and all Events lived at http://my-conductor-site.nd.edu/events/. As of Conductor 2.0.0, this need not be the case.
You can now have your News module at any location. Maybe you want a page called "News and Events", and want the News as a subpage of the "News and Events." So your News module could be at http://my-conductor-site.nd.edu/news-and-events/news.
Why Is This Important?
We were dissatisfied with the way that News and Events were treated as second class citizens in regard to navigation. We firmly believe that an administrator of a site should be able to look at the admin side of their site and see the navigation.
What Do I Need To Do?
If you are happy with your current site and it's navigation, you don't need to do anything.
If you would like your News module named Blogs, or would like to have greater control on the navigation, then you need to contact us to make changes to your template.
Why Does My Template Need Changing?
It doesn't need to be changed unless you want to take advantage of the Custom Navigation. However, if you want the Custom Navigation, there are adjustments that need to be made that we are not comfortable applying without your approval. Unfortunately, this wasn't something we could easily migrate as each template has traditionally been custom made for your site.
What Else Do I Need To Know?
You do not need to name your News module "News". Perhaps you'd prefer "Blog" or "What Is Happening". Take a look at the recently launched Vocation's Blog as an example. The Vocation's blog uses the standard Conductor News module, but has named the News module "Blog".
You can have your primary news at one location and have a news category located somewhere else. For example, I have installed the News module at http://my-conductor-site.nd.edu/news-and-events/news. In the News module, I have defined the Category "Lectures". I could then create a News Category page for "Lectures" located at http://my-conductor-site.nd.edu/faculty/lectures/.
