What is a Topic?

A Topic is one of several options available as a secondary level to your Site. The primary characteristics of a Topic are:

• Allows child Pages to be created and grouped underneath (at the tertiary level); those child pages will appear in the local navigation menu
• Allows you to use various Card paragraph types

Why Use a Topic?

A Topic is best used when you need to group multiple, related pages together into a section of your website. For example, the “Academic Success” section within the larger “IC Resources” website: https://www.ithaca.edu/resources/academic-success.

A Topic should be set up as a secondary landing page. Content owners should make use of the assorted Card paragraph types available at the Topic level to direct users to the specific Pages set up underneath the topic.

How to Create a Topic

Go to the landing page of the Site to which you want to add the Topic and click “Add Topic” from the edit options above the page content (below the blue header with the site title).

This will bring you to the Topic creation page. Fill in the Title field to name your Topic. (Remember, this will serve as the title of the page, appear in the local navigation menu, and form the URL.)

Add various paragraph types, including Intro, various Cards/Card Collections, Text, etc. using the options available in the “Add ___ to Content” dropdown menu.

Keep the state as “Draft” to save your work without publishing the Topic, or change to “Published” to make the site live.

Click the “Save” button.