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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

Section titled “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

Section titled “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

Section titled “Articles”

An Article is a single piece of writing. An article belongs to at most one site at a time, and within that site it sits in exactly one group.

Articles have:

  • A title and description (optional short summary)
  • A splash image (optional featured image)
  • Tags (optional — freeform labels you add in the CMS to help readers browse by topic)
  • The full content you wrote in the editor

How they nest

Section titled “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 exactly one group. If you run multiple publications, an article can only ever live on one of them at a time — to move it, publish it to the new site and it’s automatically removed from the old one.

Publication states

Section titled “Publication states”

Every article is in one of two 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.
Published The article is assigned to a site and placed in a group, together, in one step. It’s live on any website connected to that site.