Display articles on the homepage in new component

From May 2023, a new article component will allow you to present puffs to articles directly on the homepage of the e-magazine.

The article component allows you to show the visitor more content from the newspaper, giving your visitors the opportunity to discover articles in more ways than by browsing through the e-magazine.

If there are audio files attached to the articles, visitors can have the article read out directly from the home page. The audio can continue to play as you navigate around the e-magazine.

A live example of what the article component looks like can be found on the Danish online newspaper Politiken.

How to create an article component

Go to Prenly Workspace.

Select the appropriate application.

Select "Start page". Scroll to the bottom and select "Add component". Select "Articles".

Enter a name (only displayed internally in Workspace).

Select Source. First the title from which you want to display articles.
Then Publication. If you select "Latest publication", the articles from your latest issue will always be displayed. But you can also select a specific issue.

In the filter menu, you can choose to show only articles that have an audio file attached to them. Here we plan to expand with more filter options.

Under Content you can give the component a Title and Description.

Further down in the component setup, you can select labels and choose settings for article audio.

Then comes the Appearance settings, where you can customize the colors of the different parts of the component.

And at the very bottom, you can choose whether you want to display the component only in certain platforms and only during certain times.

Once you're done with your settings and saved, you can drag the component to any position on the homepage. Activate the component and publish the page.

Article audio in the form of mp3 files is of a higher quality than the built-in speech synthesis and will be available in May 2023 only in the Politiken e-newspaper. Integration with a speech server capable of receiving texts and creating mp3 files is required.
We will work to create a solution that is integrated with Prenly but more on that later.