Where: Settings → Site & brand → Set up your site
Open this page: admin.<your-site>/setup (replace <your-site> with your site address)
What is ready for you
Sections. The site starts with India, World, Politics, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Technology, Health, Lifestyle and Opinion. You can rename them or leave some out when you choose them.
Story starters. In the editor, under Start from:
- News story
- Breaking news
- Explainer
- Live updates (needs the Live updates add-on)
- Photo story
- Video story
- Opinion
Switched on for you. Breaking news ticker and flag, quick briefs, live TV, share buttons, bookmarks, dark mode, search and RSS feeds.
Your words. The admin says Breaking news, Live updates, Districts and Reporters to match a newsroom.
Quick actions on your home screen. New story, Breaking news, Start live updates, Photo story, Upload photos, Send an alert and Today's rashifal.
Steps: first hour
- Open Settings and choose Set up your site. See Set up your site.
- Choose your languages. Hindi and English are the first suggestions. Others are available.
- Create your sections. Pick a ready-made set: General news, Hindi, General news, English or General news, regional language. Remove what you don't need. Nothing changes until you apply.
- Pick features for your newsroom. Live updates, short videos, an elections hub, quizzes, data charts and listen are offered. Paid ones are only offered, never bought for you.
- Arrange your home page. Keep the template's layout or change it.
- Invite your team. See Roles. This step is optional.
- Set up push alerts, if you want them. This step is optional.
- Set up ads.
- Publish trust and legal pages. About, Contact, Privacy, Terms and Editorial policy.
- Write your first story. Open Stories, then New story.
You can also add sample stories to see how your site looks. They are drafts that search engines can't see. Delete them all before you go live.
Good to know
- Attribute every claim. The AI helpers on this site are set to attribute claims to a named source. They write drafts only. A person publishes.
- Breaking news. Use Breaking news for the ticker and the alert. See Breaking and live TV.
- Add-ons for this kind of site. Popular ones are live updates, polls, comments, elections hub, push alerts, newsletters, web stories, quizzes, data charts, listen, e-paper and short videos. Some are included in some plans: see your plan on keynate.com.
- Templates. There are many designs for this kind of site. See Choose and compare templates.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Can I have more than one language?
Yes. See Sites in other languages.