The Content Model

Scribe organises your content in three levels: Sites, Groups, and Articles. Understanding how they nest together will make everything else in Scribe click into place.

Sites

A Site is a publication — the top-level container for all your content. You have one site per website you want to power.

If you write for two separate blogs on two separate domains, you create two sites. Each site has:

A title and description that describe the publication
A domain (e.g. alice.example.com) that tells connected websites where the content belongs
Its own set of groups and articles

Groups

A Group is a section or category within a site. Groups define the shape of your site’s navigation. Examples:

A personal blog might have groups like “Writing”, “Projects”, and “Notes”
A company blog might have “Engineering”, “Product”, and “Company News”

Groups are ordered — you control how they appear in the navigation of any connected website.

Articles

An Article is a single piece of writing. An article can be assigned to multiple sites, but within each site it can only be placed in one group.

Articles have:

A title and synopsis (optional short summary)
A splash image (optional featured image)
The full content you wrote in the editor

How they nest

Site: alice.example.com
├── Group: Writing
│   ├── Article: My first post
│   └── Article: Six months in
└── Group: Projects
    └── Article: Building a side project

Within a site, each article sits in at most one group. The same article can appear in a different site — useful if you run multiple publications and want to cross-post a piece.

Publication states

Every article is in one of three states:

State	What it means
Draft	The article exists but isn’t associated with any site yet. Only you can see it in Scribe CMS.
Unpublished	The article is associated with a site but not yet placed in a group. It won’t appear on any website.
Published	The article is in a group. It’s live on any website connected to that site.